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...
Advance lesson planning is the first and main step in reducing my work hours, and I believe it is the only way to end the cycle of falling behind on other work because there’s always urgent planning for the following day. And yet when I coach teachers...
Canva's new documents tool has a bunch of great features that I highlighted in a video last month. One of those features is the ability to embed just about anything into the body of your document. In the demonstration that I gave last month I...
Last week a reader reached out to me for some guidance on how to handle a Google Form that had more than one hundred submissions. He was looking for a way to quickly find the most information submitted in the most recent entries. My solution...
Birds are brilliant to watch, identify and learn from.Birds are brilliant to watch, identify and learn from.Early Years Outdoors, Gardening, Nature Play & Learning, bird friendly schools, bird ideas EYFS, bird ideas KS1, bird ideas KS2, birds, RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch, RSPB outdoor learningRead More...
[Disclaimer: Kim Cofino is a friend of mine and I highly respect her work!] Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Not in person – Kim...
Unclutter is a free and open-source Chrome and Firefox browser extension that anyone can use to remove the clutter from a web page. That's not all that Unclutter does. It also lets you save articles to read later, highlight and annotate articles that you save,...
