My daughters are very excited for Santa and his reindeer to visit our house tonight. We'll be leaving out snacks for him and his reindeer. Last year they spent weeks asking if reindeer are real. Since then they've learned that reindeer are real, but only...
My oldest daughter is super excited to start her third year of ski lessons this winter. I'm also very excited about it because I'm going to be giving ski lessons at our local ski mountain. While we've had some snowstorms this winter, we wouldn't have...
My kids are home from school today as this is the first day of their winter vacation. The level of anticipation for Santa's arrival is quite high (my kids are five and six). One of the things they may do today is track Santa and...
Last week Padlet released an update to their notification system. The updated system gives you more control over which notifications receive and how you receive them. You can receive them via email or through push notifications. In this short video I demonstrate how to change...
A couple of weeks ago Canva opened the public beta of their new Documents tool. I've previously highlighted Docs to Slideshow conversion tool within it and the AI writing feature within Canva Docs. Those are two of my favorite features of Canva Docs. In this new...
How do you re-use your trees?How do you re-use your trees?Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play & Learning, Christmas, den building, recycling, trees, XmasRead More...
Ideas for parents to encourage outdoor learning in schools.Ideas for parents to encourage outdoor learning in schools.Community Involvement, Health & Wellbeing, Whole School, parents, parents outdoorsRead More...
Last week I hosted a webinar about creating and selling digital teaching materials. After the webinar a handful of people reached out to ask if I could go into more depth on the topics covered in the webinar. I certainly can, but it's hard to...
ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, has the potential to revolutionize the way we teach and learn. It can provide personalized feedback and support to students, helping them to better understand and retain information. As an innovative educator, it's important to understand the capabilities...
While writing yesterday's blog post about electricity, portable generators, and the power outage in my town, I jumped on Amazon to look at the prices of portable generators. To my surprise, free shipping was available for many of them including the Ryobi 6500 watt generator...
