About once a week I get a spammy email from someone trying to sell me domain names related to online spelling games and spelling apps. I got another one of those this morning. I took it as a sign that I should put together a...
A couple of weeks ago Mike Tholfsen published a video highlighting new Microsoft Word features for teachers to note. This week he published a video highlighting eight new Microsoft Teams features for teachers to note. Some of the new Teams features demonstrated in Mike's video include...
On the way to school this morning my older daughter pointed out that it was 62 degrees Fahrenheit. Her younger sister responded by asking, "what's Fahrenheit?" To that her older sister said, "it's the temperatures we use in America." The conversation between my daughters prompted me...
Yesterday I was in charge of making dinner for my family. My plan was to make fish tacos. I've made them before so I knew that I needed a lime. But I wasn't sure of all of the other ingredients that I needed. So I...
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The Museum of New Zealand offers more than 60,000 images of art and artifacts to download and re-use for free. The images are a mix of public domain images and images labeled with a Creative Commons license. The museum makes it easy to determine how...
On Friday afternoon when I picked up my youngest daughter from preschool she promptly informed me that she now only likes 2% milk and not whole milk. That was her reason of the day for not drinking milk. My daughter's proclamation reminded me of a lesson...
The first virtual event entirely focused on saving teachers TIME! And the best part? It’s totally FREE! The 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program is an online course first created in 2015 (with a total update in 2020), and we’ve now had tens of thousands of teachers...
Good morning from Maine where the rain keeps coming down. It feels like it has been more than a week since we've seen the sun. That's because it has been that long since we didn't have a rainy day. We're going a bit stir crazy,...
In my previous post about how to create a story map I featured a tool called StoryMap JS. That tool is great for making story maps that have no more than about twenty scenes. Any more than that and the process becomes a bit cumbersome...
