One of the all-time most popular videos on my YouTube channel was about how to add a countdown timer to your PowerPoint slides. Unfortunately, the method used in that video no longer works. I was contacted earlier this week by someone who wanted to know...
A couple of days ago I shared a few resources for helping students learn to tell time. One of those resources that I mentioned, but didn't demonstrate, was Canva's templates for making clocks and their templates for making lessons about telling time. The templates can...
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.Yesterday afternoon I hosted a webinar titled Get to Know Your Students With Tract. I was joined in the webinar by Tract's co-founder Ari Memar. If you missed the webinar, you can now watch the recording of it. The...
ClassroomQ is a neat tool that solves a problem that anyone who has ever had a classroom full of students working on individual or small group projects at the same time has experienced. That problem is feeling like every student is asking for something at once...
The Amazing Race is the only reality game show that I've watched with interest for as long as it has been on television. Years ago I created a classroom game based on the same premise of the show. This spring I updated that game with...
Coworkers can make or break any job. In education, our teaching teams can make our jobs easier and more joyful, or harder and more stressful. I’ve worked with teams where we brought out the best in each other, divided up work efficiently, and enjoyed our work...
The Wordle craze seems to have settled down a bit since its height earlier this year (or at least fewer people are sharing their scores on social media). That hasn't stopped developers from creating many variations on the game. One such variation that I recently...
My oldest daughter got a little analog wristwatch for her birthday a few days ago. So far she loves wearing it (she wanted to wear it to bed last night) and is rather quickly learning how to tell time with it. As you might expect,...
