Today is the home opener for my beloved Boston Red Sox. Hope springs eternal for a great season. So until at least the first pitch is thrown I'll set aside the pessimistic New Englander in me and get excited because this is the year! On...
A home-made nature-based game of pairs. Simple and effective.A home-made nature-based game of pairs. Simple and effective.Early Years Outdoors, Maths Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning, nature memory game, nature pairs, nature-based game, outdoor memory gameRead More...
In 2019, Angela Watson hosted an incredible podcast episode with Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger. I read this book in slow bits as the pandemic unfolded, finishing it in July 2020. It has become a familiar touchstone as...
PhET was one of the resource that I featured in this week's Practical Ed Tech newsletter. Shortly after hitting send on that newsletter I learned about a new simulation that PhET now offers. The latest PhET simulation is about the greenhouse effect. The simulation can be...
Hello History is a new AI app that I wrote about last week. Almost immediately after I published my blog post about Hello History I started to get questions about it. To address a bunch of those questions, I created the short video overview that...
A memorable foraging experience for children.A memorable foraging experience for children.Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Health & Wellbeing, Nature Play & Learning, Technologies, foraging snack early years, foraging snack EYFS, Forest School foraging ideas, Forest School snacks, outdoor activities nettlesRead More...
Microsoft Designer is a new AI-powered tool that enables users to quickly generate many variations of a graphic design with just a few clicks. The purpose of Microsoft Designer is to give you a gallery of designs based on your input. You can then choose...
Last week I was looking through my YouTube Studio analytics when I noticed that one of the most-searched phrases was "add audio to Google Slides." I took that as a sign that it was time to create a new video about how to add audio...
A mouthwatering range of suggestions and examplesA mouthwatering range of suggestions and examplesGardening, container gardening EYFS, container planting in schools, EYFS gardening, gardening in schools, KS1 gardening, KS2 gardening, planters in schools, raised beds EYFS, raised beds in schoolsRead More...
Last week Canva made waves on social media with all of their announcements about their new AI-powered design tools. While those tools look great and I plan to use them, I think it's still important for students to learn some basic design principles instead of...
