From magnetic poetry to collaborative brainstorming sessions to mapping activities, there are lots of ways to use Google's Jamboard in online and in-person classes. One way that I like to use Jamboard is to have students annotate images that I share with them. In particular,...
Flickr's The Commons has been one of my go-to resources for historical imagery since I first wrote about it nearly fourteen years ago. That's why my heart sank a little bit when I visited The Commons earlier this week and saw a note that read...
Earlier this week a loyal reader named Judith sent me a question about embedding Google Sheets into websites. I was happy to answer her question and made this short video to explain how to include a Google Sheet in Google Sites and in Blogger. In the...
Even though it has been cold and snowy here in Maine for the last week or so, the start of winter is still eleven days away. The winter solstice is always welcomed as it does mean the shortest day of the year (in terms of...
Yesterday afternoon I was playing outside in the snow with my five-year-old daughter when she asked, "why do we have winter?" She didn't ask in a complaining way (she loves playing the snow), but in a genuinely curious way. My short answer was that where...
Blackbird Code is one of my favorite new educational technology resources launched in 2021. For Computer Science Education Week they've released two new self-paced, self-directed lessons through which students can learn a bit about JavaScript. The new Blackbird Code lessons are Tether Game and Screen Saver....
This week Google added a handful of helpful new features for customizing tables in Google Documents. A couple of the new features are things that I've wanted for years. The first new feature that I'm excited about is the option to specify that a table row...
Blackbird Code is one of my favorite new educational technology resources launched in 2021. For Computer Science Education Week they've released two new self-paced, self-directed lessons through which students can learn a bit about JavaScript. The new Blackbird Code lessons are Tether Game and Screen Saver....
Yesterday afternoon I was playing outside in the snow with my five-year-old daughter when she asked, "why do we have winter?" She didn't ask in a complaining way (she loves playing the snow), but in a genuinely curious way. My short answer was that where...
