I'm going to Philadelphia next week. I'm going to attend the ISTE Conference, but while I'm there I'm also going to visit a few historic landmarks that I've not visited in a long time. One of those landmarks is The Liberty Bell.While looking up the...
Like I do at this time every year, in the last few weeks I've fielded a bunch of questions from readers who are moving into new jobs at schools that use Google Workspace for Education. And while I have a lot of Google Workspace tutorials...
Tomorrow is my oldest daughter's last day of Kindergarten. We're going to celebrate with ice cream! We might also stay up and play outside a little later tomorrow. We can do that because it won't get dark until late in the evening as it will...
It's no secret to those of you who have followed my blog for long, I love exploring in Google Maps, Earth, and Street View. I can spend hours just lucky dipping around the world. When I was a kid I enjoyed looking at maps in...
I shared this in my newsletter about a week ago. This year I'm going back to the ISTE conference for the first time in six years. This year I'll be attending on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. My trip is being sponsored by the folks at Canva....
Teachers are coming out of the fog that has blinded and consumed education for the past two or so years. This wretched “covid state” finds teachers almost permanently in the disillusionment phase often prescribed to first-year teachers in the winter months. Yet, here we are washed...
Good morning from Maine where we're having another overcast morning. For the last month we've been stuck in a pattern of having rain for at least part of every day. Fortunately, there have been enough breaks to get outside to ride my bike alone and...
One of the most popular webinars and courses that I've hosted over the years have been about search strategies and how to teach them to students. This summer I'm offering a new Practical Ed Tech course on that topic. 25 Search Strategies You Need to Know...
A couple of days ago I shared 22 lessons that have been inspired by my daughters' questions. Here's another one that popped-up yesterday, "why do we have to wear sunscreen?" It's the question both of my daughters asked when I told them they had to...
There is a new version of Adobe Express. The new version is still in a beta phase, but you can try it out right now and go back to the old version if you want to. I've been trying out the new version for about...
