Good morning from Maine where everything is covered in snow this morning! The first proper snowstorm of the year rolled in yesterday and it's still snowing as I write this morning. After I take care of shoveling it will be time for fun in the...
By the People is a Library of Congress project that I've written about and featured in my Teaching History With Technology courses since 2018. On By the People teachers and students can contribute to crowd-sourcing transcriptions of thousands of primary source documents. Some of the...
Padlet is a tool that I've been using for over a decade in a wide variety of classroom settings. In fact, I've been using for so long that I've seen it evolve from a simple tool called Wall Wisher in 2009 to the multimedia sharing,...
I like to end the week with something fun. If you do too, head over to Animate from Audio hosted by Adobe Express. Animate from Audio is a fun little tool that matches your spoken words to an animated character of your choosing. The finished...
A few weeks ago I published an overview of some YouTube Studio settings that you should know how to use. This week while helping someone with one of their videos uploaded to YouTube, I realized that my previous post about YouTube Studio should have included...
On Tuesday I published a short overview of ChatGPT which is a free artificial intelligence writing tool. I followed that up with a post on Wednesday morning about Canva’s new artificial intelligence writing tool called Magic Write. In both instances I mentioned that I think there...
The snow remains and to celebrate this unique opportunity for outdoor play and learning is a guest post from Frode Svane.The snow remains and to celebrate this unique opportunity for outdoor play and learning is a guest post from Frode Svane.Early Years Outdoors, Nature Play...
A couple of weeks ago in my Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week newsletter I included a PDF guide to use in determining whether or not you can use a picture you've found on the Internet. To accompany that guide and provide some clarifications...
A little over a month ago I was worried that my days of using the Google Keep Chrome extension to bookmark websites were coming to an end. Based on the number of views of that blog post and the emails that I got in response...
Last week 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...
