Last week a student in my Google Earth & Maps Crash Course emailed me with a question about using Google Images for a classroom project. Specifically, she wanted to know about licensing and whether or not students could use the images they found through Google...
Some of my high school history students often took a while to understand the idea that just because a document is an old primary source it doesn't automatically mean that source is infallible or even an accurate representation of events. They still needed to account...
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020 Rushton Hurley and I have held a regular series of live Q&A sessions. This week we're wrapping it up with one last live session of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff. We'd love...
Last week a reader emailed me to ask for help with Canva. Specifically, he wanted to know where all of his videos had gone. He wasn't the first person to send me that question so I decided to make a short video to show three...
Good morning from Maine where yesterday it felt like winter and today it feels like spring. My family is supposed to go see the Christmas lights display at the Boothbay Botanical Gardens this evening, but the rain might dampen our plans. So we might end...
Other than Google Workspace tools, Canva is the tool that I've published the most tutorials about on my YouTube channel. In fact, with the publication of my latest Canva tutorial video I've now published 50 tutorials about using Canva's many features for making videos, presentations, timelines, posters, greeting cards, worksheets,...
The approach aims to promote discussion and create links and understanding between children's lives and the place that they live.The approach aims to promote discussion and create links and understanding between children's lives and the place that they live.Literacy Outdoors, RME Outdoors, Social Subjects Outdoors,...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in November 2022… Annotation, Remi Kalir & Antero Garcia (writing) A Search for Common Ground, Rick Hess & Pedro Noguera (education) Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (sci fi) Brother John, Rutledge Etheridge (sci fi) Qalea Drop, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Ceephay Queen, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) The Thousand...
A couple of days ago I read a Book Widgets blog post about fun ways to use timelines in your lessons. Reading that blog post inspired me to create a new video about another tool that students can use to create timelines. That tool is...
Image Candy is a free set of image editing tools that you can use without having to register for any kind of account. In all there are thirteen free image editing tools included in Image Candy. All of them are quick and easy to use. Some...
