Last week while looking for a Canva template to create the copyright guide that I distributed in my Practical Ed Tech newsletter I came across an interesting template titled George Washington's Biography. It's a relatively simple template that students could easily modify to create a...
Last week I read a Book Widgets blog post about fun ways to use timelines in your lessons. Reading that post inspired me to make a new video about making timelines with Adobe Express. It also prompted me to update my list of good tools for...
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...
