For as long as Google Slides has existed one of the problems with it has been collaborators accidentally editing over each other's work. In the early days of Google Slides, before I put collaboration protocols in place, I broke up a few "fights" between students...
Focusable is the first thing listed in my Best of the Web 2022 presentation. Since the first time that I tried it back in September, I knew that Focusable was a tool that could do a lot of good for teachers and students. It does...
One of the ways that I'm able to keep Free Technology for Teachers going is through the support of generous people like you who purchase my digital products like 50 Tech Tuesday Tips and my Practical Ed Tech courses like Animated Explanations. None of those...
Good morning from Maine where it's a cold and breezy December morning. It was a busy and sad week here at the Free Technology for Teachers world headquarters (AKA, my house). This week I hosted or co-hosted a couple of webinars including the last live...
Felt is a new digital mapping tool that I've featured a few times in the last month because I think it is fantastic alternative to Google's My Maps and the web version of Google Earth for creating custom maps. In fact, I like it so...
On Wednesday I published a short video about how to create image revealing effects in Google Slides. Shortly afterwards a viewer emailed me with a question about doing something similar in PowerPoint. I was happy to help by recording this new video to demonstrate how...
On Tuesday evening Rushton Hurley and I hosted the final live presentation of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. We'll be back in 2023 with a similar series but not in a live format. If you missed our final live episode...
Over the last few weeks I've fielded a lot of emails from readers who are wondering if they should stay on Twitter. Most of those emails have included requests for where to go next to keep up with ed tech. My answers have basically been,...
About a week ago a reader reached to me to ask for a suggestion on how to create an image revealing effect without the use of proprietary interactive whiteboard software. My first thought was to give TinyTap a try because that platform does include a...
Yesterday afternoon I hosted a free webinar in which I shared my favorite new edtech tools of 2022 and some old favorites that had significant updates in 2022. Nearly 200 people registered for the webinar but only 25 actually joined the live session. That told...
