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...
A couple of weeks ago one of the most popular posts of the week was A Cute Series of Videos About Engineering. That post was about a SciShow Kids series containing a lesson about what engineers do and two lessons about using engineering to solve...
Disclosure: Tract is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com“Real world projects have to be projects that matter to kids” is something that I say whenever I give my presentation, Connecting Kids With Projects That Matter to Them. When the problem they’re tackling matters to them, students...
This Thursday at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I are hosting the fifth episode of the second season of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff! We'd love to have you join us! You can register for the session...
Disclosure: Lumio is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comLumio is a new online learning platform that you can use to create and deliver engaging lessons wherever you are and wherever students are. I’ve spent the last two weeks testing it out and I can confidently say...
