Good morning from Maine where spring has finally sprung! All week the weather has been fantastic and today is forecasted to be another gorgeous spring day. I've been riding my bike outside all week and I'll be doing that again today. Last week I was sick....
Next Saturday is Earth Day 2023. Here's a handful of resources to consider using if you find yourself looking for some resources to help your students understand the origins of Earth Day, its significance, or celebrating Earth Day.Discovery Education has some new resources for Earth Day...
A couple of years ago I published a video and blog post about how to find image metadata. Since then the tool that I featured in that video has gone offline. Today, I recorded a new video that features two other methods for finding image...
The last two days have been the first truly warm and sunny spring days of the year here in western Maine. While playing with our puppy and soaking up the sunshine yesterday afternoon I said to myself, "self, it's time to host your technology and...
Earlier this year I published 29 Google Sites tutorials. I'll soon need to add a 30th tutorial to that list because this week Google released three helpful updates to Google Sites. The latest updates to Google Sites give you more design control and improve the collaboration...
On Wednesday I passed along a great resource that Gary Stager shared with me. Today, I have another announcement from Gary that you should note right now. That is a free webinar he's hosting on April 27th. Coding in the Age of AI is a two-hour,...
QuestionWell is a new AI tool that will generate reading comprehension and guiding questions for just about any article that you specify. Questions created by QuestionWell can be saved in a document or exported to a handful of popular quiz apps including Kahoot and Quizziz. There...
“That’s it, Ms. Brinkmeyer? This is all we have to do?” One of my proudest teaching moments happened the day I helped three students simultaneously write their own short stories. They’d been referred to me for academic support. The rest of their class was done writing,...
Pratyeka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Many moons ago when I was in elementary school, using Logo Writer on an Apple IIe was my introduction to programming. Since then and still today I think that Logo and it's offspring like Scratch and Turtle Art are powerful...
As I wrote in my previous post, there are two things that I write about at this time every year. One of those is income taxes. The other is Patriots' Day and the American Revolution. That's what this post is about. Patriots' Day here in Maine,...
