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...
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I paid $1500 for my first car. That was a hefty sum for me back in the fall of 1996. That car needed a little bit of brake work to pass the state's safety inspection and then it needed about a dozen other little repairs...
I'm currently reading Bill Bryson's book, One Summer: America, 1927. The book is centered around significant events of that summer including Charles Lindbergh's crossing of the Atlantic. Airplanes have come a long way since Lindbergh flew in the Spirit of St. Louis, an airplane that...
Good evening from Maine where the sun has set on the month of November. At this time of year sunset is a rather early 4:04pm and it feels even earlier than that. Ice is forming on the ponds around my home and I hope that...
Talking with folks in coffee shops or even while in line at Target, the MOMENT it comes out of my mouth that I am a teacher…within 60 seconds, they mention salary. “I don’t know how you do it! I know they don’t pay y’all enough.” What I...
Yesterday afternoon I published a video and blog post about using Canva to create custom QR codes that include your own images and graphic designs. The Adobe Express suite of tools also offers a QR code creation tool. QR code creation tool in Adobe Express...
Tomorrow the calendar turns to December and many of us will start to think about the year that was. One of the things that I do every December is take a look back at all of the new and updated educational technology tools that I...
