Next week is my favorite academic week of the year. It's Geography Awareness Week! On Sunday I'll be publishing a big list of resources for teaching and learning about geography. In that list you'll see me mention some uses Google Earth and Google Maps. If...
Bitly is a convenient tool for creating short URLs to share in place of long URLs. I've used it for years to create customized URLs that are easy for my students to type. Unfortunately, some people use Bitly to try to mask URLs to try...
One of the questions we answered during this afternoon's session of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions was, "I want to be able to translate my class discussions into Spanish in real-time and project that to a small group of students in my music class...
The activity dashboard is one of the "hidden" or overlooked features of Google Docs that I use on a fairly regular basis. It's a handy little feature to use whenever you're sharing a document, but is particularly useful when sharing with more than one other...
Padlet is one of the most versatile ed tech tools you can put in your digital toolbox. Creating multimedia maps is one of the many things that you can do with Padlet. In fact, there are two ways that you can create multimedia maps in...
Original title: Using Teacher Evaluations to Move You Forward, Not to Tears Social media caption: How to make your evaluation work for you, rather than be worked by it. Being evaluated feels personal because you care deeply about what you’re doing. How could you not? You spend countless...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Cindy Shapiro. Being evaluated feels personal because you care deeply about what you’re doing. How could you not? You spend countless hours working on lesson plans, grading, PLCs and data — not to mention the time you...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Cindy Shapiro. Being evaluated feels personal because you care deeply about what you’re doing. How could you not? You spend countless hours working on lesson plans, grading, PLCs and data — not to mention the time you...
This post was inspired by an old colleague who sent me a note on a couple of days ago seeking some advice about getting his students to watch the videos he shares with them. It's a topic that I'm asked about fairly regularly so I...
