If you've been thinking about creating a podcast, this is the time to do it. If you've been thinking about having your students create podcasts like Tony Vincent's students did way back before podcasting was trendy, this is the year to do it. Creating a...
If you've been following my blog for a while, you've probably noticed that I make a lot of videos. On average I publish about 25 videos per month. Some of my videos have gotten hundreds of thousands of views. But those videos are the outliers...
Art and literacy outdoors with a flock of words and birds!Art and literacy outdoors with a flock of words and birds!Art & Music Outdoors, Literacy Outdoors, art, Gordon Young, KS! outdoor literacy, KS2 outdoor literacy, literacy, outdoor art, reading, word play groundRead More...
Google Documents has been around so long now that some of us who have been using it from the start may have forgotten about some features. I did that just the other day when I "remembered" to use the version history to go back and...
A couple of days ago I helped a reader who needed a quick way to sort Google Forms responses so that the most recent submission was always easy to find. I'm guessing that there's probably a Microsoft Forms user out there who would like to...
Coloured feathers, wild bird feathers, tickly feathers galore!Coloured feathers, wild bird feathers, tickly feathers galore!Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning, answer feathers, circle time, feathers, RSPB, talking feathersRead More...
Last month I wrote about going back to basics with email and RSS. The main point of that article being that email and RSS are good ways to follow your favorite websites without having to rely on the vagaries of social media algorithms. Since that...
Lillie Marshall is an English teacher, writer, and artist whose work I've seen on social media for many years. So when she reached out to me last week to tell me about her new project called Drawings Of...
In this week's Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I featured a fun tool from Adobe called Animate from Audio. Based on the responses that I received to the newsletter, Animate from Audio is going to be used in a lot of classrooms over the next couple...
Learning about birds - lots of play and practical challenges.Learning about birds - lots of play and practical challenges.Nature Play & Learning, Science Outdoors, bird games KS1, bird games KS2, outdoor activities birds KS1, outdoor activities birds KS2, RSPB big school birdwatch gamesRead More...
