For many of us virtual meetings and online classes aren't going away anytime soon. Google has responded to that by steadily adding more features to Google Meet over the last eighteen months. The latest features improve handling of Google Meet within Google Classroom. Now when you...
At the end of August I shared a couple of neat ways to explore newspapers of the world through interactive maps. Over the weekend, thanks to Larry Ferlazzo, I learned about another interactive map of newspapers from around the world. Today's Front Pages is an interactive...
Disclosure: Taskade is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Taskade is a flexible, collaborative project planning and task management tool. The thing that I appreciate about Taskade is that it can be used for things as simple as a daily, personal to-do list or as complex as...
Google Forms and Microsoft Forms can be used to accomplish a lot of common school tasks like creating self-grading quizzes, managing sign-out/sign-in sheets, and collecting survey data. But there are some tasks that Google Forms and Microsoft Forms can't do or can only do in...
Last week I shared a couple of updates to Google Docs, including watermarking documents, that teachers and students should find helpful. There was also a small update made to Google Slides last week. That update was to replace the "Present" button with a "Slideshow" button. If you...
C-SPAN Classroom is a must-bookmark for anyone who teaches U.S. History. The large collection of free lesson plans is one of the things that keeps C-SPAN Classroom on the top of my list of go-to resources for more than a decade. And if you're a...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jay Benedith. During my first year of teaching, I was fueled by my passion to close the opportunity gap and my excitement to make it happen. Many people enter the teaching profession with similar high hopes and...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jay Benedith. During my first year of teaching, I was fueled by my passion to close the opportunity gap and my excitement to make it happen. Many people enter the teaching profession with similar high hopes and...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2021… Serpentine, Jonathan Kellerman (thriller) A Time of Courage, John Gwynne (fantasy) The Dragon’s Path, Daniel Abraham (fantasy) The King’s Blood, Daniel Abraham (fantasy) The Tyrant’s Law, Daniel Abraham (fantasy) The Widow’s House, Daniel Abraham (fantasy) The Spider’s War, Daniel Abraham (fantasy) Hope you’re reading...
