I’m taking the week off to do a bunch of fun things with my kids. While I’m away the most popular posts of the year so far will reappear. Chat tools and polling services provide good ways to hear from all of the students in...
Good morning from Maine where I'm up early (I'm always up early) and getting ready for my neighborhood's annual Founders Day events to support our little library. I'll be helping with the car show. One of my favorite cars that will be on display is...
Microsoft Forms has a lot of features that make it better than Google Forms for classroom use. Those include a built-in timer and embedded use of Immersive Reader. This week Microsoft added another great feature to Microsoft Forms. That feature is a live presentation mode. The...
Fourteen years after shuttering Google Notebook, Google is getting back into the online notebook business with a new tool called NotebookLM.NotebookLM is a new product that utilizes AI to generate summaries, questions, and ideas from the Google Documents that you add into your notebook. It's...
This week Google added a handful of new features to Google Bard including support for many more languages. Two of the new features that jumped out to me were the option to use images as prompts and the option to hear Bard responses read aloud....
Making things with LEGOs is one of my favorite indoor activities to do with my daughters. We've spent many rainy days building all kinds of things LEGOs. Often we follow the directions from a guidebook and sometimes we just make our own things. Every once...
Baseball is my favorite professional sport to watch. The Red Sox have been my favorite team for as long as I can remember which is why I still occasionally look through the baseball cards I collected as a kid. And going to last year's Hall...
The infographic from AI, data, and digital policy expert, Aleksandr Tiulkanov helps us think about the process for using AI-generated content. Essentially, it says that if we are using AI generated content, we must know how to verify and take responsibility for the output. That means...
Earlier today I was looking for a dataset that I could use in a new data visualization tool that I'm testing out. That quest took to me the website of the U.S. Census Bureau. It was there that I went down a rabbit hole of...
