When editing a video there are visuals that make it relatively easy to know where to cut. The same is not true when editing audio for a podcast unless you use the "clap and pause" trick. That trick, demonstrated in the short video that is...
Russel Tarr, owner of Classtools.net, has developed and published a bunch of great tools over the years. One of my favorite of those is the Fake SMS Generator which Russel developed almost a decade ago and is still going strong.The Classtools Fake SMS Generator is free...
A couple of weeks ago I published a post about two ways to add an image search tool to your website. One of those methods is to build your own search engine. Thanks to Google's Programmable Search tool it's much easier to create your own...
One of the questions that I often get asked after giving a keynote is "has anyone told you that you sound like Ray Romano?" I never thought that I did until people started asking me that. A dozen years later I've come to accept that...
I nominated one of my doctoral students here at the University of Colorado Denver for a national award. And… she was selected! Congratulations, Shane Saeed, for being named to the 2022 Class of ASCD’s Emerging Leaders. Well deserved! Related Posts Top 50 P-12 Edublogs? – June 2008 Does ASCD...
Good morning from Maine where we're going to enjoy a nice long weekend of riding our bikes, raking some leaves, and visiting Storyland one last time before it closes for the winter. I hope that you have a great weekend!If your weekend plans include catching...
Monday is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. It's about six weeks earlier than it is here in the United States. I've celebrated both versions of Thanksgiving and I can tell you that there are a lot of similarities between the two. There are also some differences...
Having students create timelines has been a standard in the playbooks of history teachers since the beginning of history. Writing a timeline is a good way for students to chronologically summarize sequences of events and see how the events are connected. When I was a...
Monday is Indigenous Peoples' Day here in Maine. In other states it is still referred to as Columbus Day. The Daily Bellringer offers a good video that explains the history of Columbus Day and why some cities and states are now celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2022… The Blacktongue Thief, Christopher Buehlman (fantasy) Drysine Legacy, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Kantovan Vault, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Defiance, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Knighthood of the Dragon, Chris Bunch (fantasy) The Last Battle, Chris Bunch (fantasy) Helm, Steven Gould (fantasy) Highly possible that The Blacktongue Thief will...
