Good morning from the O'Hare Airport Hilton where I'm hoping to be able to fly home today. Yesterday, after a great day of presenting at the North DuPage Connections Conference I looked at my phone and discovered that my flight home was cancelled. I'm hoping...
Artificial Intelligence was the theme of February in the educational technology world. That theme is continuing as we begin the month of March. On that note, I've found another new tool designed to try to detect writing generated with AI tools like ChatGPT. Crossplag AI Content...
More than a decade ago Tom Barrett's Maths Maps inspired me to start thinking about how Google Maps and Google Earth can be used in mathematics lessons. Since then I've developed some of my own math activities that incorporate measuring in Google Earth. If you'd...
One of the many "hidden" features of Google Slides is found in the view menu. It's there that you'll find the option to turn on and turn off gridlines (Google calls them guides). Not only can you turn on or turn off the guidelines, you...
Last weekend a reader reached out to me for advice on helping her students write equations in Google Docs. The add-ons she had tried were either too confusing or too expensive to use with all of her pre-Algebra and Algebra I students. My suggestion was...
Earlier this week I published a tutorial for making your first presentation in Canva. After you and or your students feel comfortable with the basics, you may want to start exploring some of the advanced features available within Canva. One of those is the ability...
Yesterday morning when I checked my YouTube Studio account I noticed that my little channel had passed the 45,000 subscriber mark. Despite publishing videos on YouTube since at least 2009, I've never had a viral hit and probably never will. Instead of worrying about that...
Creating videos with students is one of my favorite things to do with students. Over the years I’ve helped students and their teachers create animated videos, green screen videos, mini documentaries, and instructional videos. In my new Practical Ed Tech course, Five Video Projects for...
Imagine a thick rubber band being pulled steadily in 4 directions. The tension grows until someone holding the rubber band lets their fingers slip or gets snapped by the breaking rubber band’s pent-up strength. This is what I imagine “Book Choice” looks like, from curricular choices...
Google Maps is one of the tools that I always list as a must-have for history and geography teachers. It provides an easy way to show students multiple, detailed views of the significant natural and human-made landmarks they're learning about in your classroom. Projecting them on...
