Bad actors can try to try to steal your login credentials here at FeedBlitz by faking a “your account has been suspended” or similar scary sounding email, which takes you to a copy of our login screen. We’re also seeing some new spins on this, where...
Once taught through traditional methods, the fundamental skill of reading has become much easier to acquire via the use of technology. Technology provides an exciting opportunity to enhance literacy in a way that's personalized, engaging, and accessible to all. This post delves into three technologies...
I’m going to start posting some quotes here from John Holt’s How Children Fail, which is a classic education text about student learning (that most educators have never read?)… The bad things we assume about other people tend to become true, become “self-fulfilling prophecies.” Many people...
About ten years ago when I was in Iowa, a middle school principal decided that her students weren’t trying hard enough on the state tests. So she set up a fun end-of-year field trip to the amusement park and told the students that whomever didn’t...
My teacher language has changed over the past decade. This is partly because of my own professional development around different classroom management philosophies, partly from my own mental adjustment in response to student misbehavior, and also partly from listening to the way other teachers and myself...
Earlier this week a reader emailed me to ask for my suggestions for online mind mapping tools for her students to use this fall. My preference is often to draw mind maps by hand and then digitize them by taking pictures with either the Google...
Most of the time I like Google Workspace tools better than the equivalent tools from Microsoft. There is one exception to that rule. That exception being forms. When it comes to making and publishing online forms, Microsoft Forms has more features that I like than...
A warm, colourful and sustainable approach to portable seats for outdoor use.A warm, colourful and sustainable approach to portable seats for outdoor use.Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors, Technologies, Comenius Courses, felt, outdoor art felting, outdoor felt seats, seating, Sweden, Swedish outdoor felted seats,...
The start of the school year is when many of us are excited to try new and different things. If you're looking for something new to try this year, take a look at my Around the World With Google Earth activity. It's loosely based on...
