This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jennifer Brinkmeyer. How we start the school year communicates who we expect students are and how we expect students will act. Informed by our prior experiences in the classroom, these expectations become a form of bias that...
Making online educational games used to be the domain of those with specialized coding and programming skills. Today, there are free tools that anyone can use to create their own educational games for students. Likewise, there are now some excellent free tools for creating online...
Throughout the 2020-21 school year Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I hosted a series of webinars titled Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff. We're going to do it again this year! We've settled on hosting the webinars on...
Good morning from Maine where we're hoping that the forecasted rain showers will bring a respite from the high heat and humidity we've experienced all week. How humid was it? On Wednesday I leaned my bike against the house while I ran in to get...
Earlier this week I shared directions for an icebreaker activity in which students complete the sentence, "where I'd like to go...
This is an excerpt from the 2021-22 version of The Practical Ed Tech Handbook which will be released on Sunday evening (Eastern Time). If you're subscribed to my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter, a copy of the handbook will be sent to you on Sunday. Google’s Jamboard...
Rushton Hurley, my pal from Next Vista for Learning, is starting a new webinar series called Fascinating Folks: Educators Engaging Entreprenuers. In Rushton's words, "The idea is to find interesting people creating tools for the education world, and talk to them in a far more...
This blog post is an excerpt from the updated 2021-22 version of The Practical Ed Tech Handbook which will available this weekend. Subscribe to my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter to have a PDF copy sent directly to you on August 15th. Whether your students...
Seven years ago I published the first version of The Practical Ed Tech Handbook. Every year since then I've published an updated version. The new version for the 2021-22 school year is almost done. It's free and will be sent to everyone who subscribes to...
