When it comes to creative writing assignments, the hardest step for many students is coming up with things to write about. Fortunately, there are many good tools and websites that teachers can use to generate writing prompts for students. Likewise, there are lots of good...
Last week Rushton Hurley and I hosted the fourth fall installment of our Two EdTech Guys Take Questions series. In the episode we answered questions about making green screen videos, questions about collecting audio-only responses from students, and questions about making ebooks. We also answered...
National Geographic MapMaker is a nice mapping tool that I've been using and recommending for years. It was recently updated with an improved user interface, additional data sets, and more annotation tools. With NatGeo MapMaker you can create custom maps to display datasets, to compare datasets,...
Original title: 6 Essential Mindset Shifts for Teachers to Thrive in Difficult Times Social media caption: 6 Essential Mindset Shifts for Teachers to Thrive in Difficult Times Teacher burnout. A problem before the pandemic, and then we suddenly found ourselves swimming furiously in circles navigating the ever-changing currents...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Kelly Rao. Teacher burnout. A problem before the pandemic, and then we suddenly found ourselves swimming furiously in circles navigating the ever-changing currents of remote and hybrid learning. Now we are desperately trying to make sense of...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Kelly Rao. Teacher burnout. A problem before the pandemic, and then we suddenly found ourselves swimming furiously in circles navigating the ever-changing currents of remote and hybrid learning. Now we are desperately trying to make sense of...
This fall I've been seeing a lot of people Tweet about how much they like the new Reading Progress feature in Microsoft Teams. Not being a regular Teams user myself, I didn't give it a good look until this week. I wish I had looked...
Last weekend I was talking with a friend about Christmas presents for our kids when I sarcastically said, "just give them savings bonds, that's what every kid wants." A day later I was still thinking about that conversation when I wondered if kids even know...
For a few years I recommended EasyBib's Google Docs add-on for creating citations and bibliographies in Google Documents. I got away from it when it started to get glitchy. What I always liked about it was that it had an integrated resource search that made...
Certify'em is a Google Forms add-on that I've been using for the last few years whenever I need to distribute personalized certificates. Certify'em will automatically send certificates to students when they get a minimum score on a quiz conducted with Google Forms. You set the...
