Last fall Google added options for blurring your background in Google Meet and using your own pictures as backgrounds in Google Meet. This week another background option was added to Google Meet. You can now use videos as virtual backgrounds in Google Meet. Right now the...
If you're like me and you still have another week or two until summer break, you might be looking for some resources to share with students and their parents to help prevent summer slide. In fact, a few readers emailed me this week looking for suggestions for...
Summer is here in the northern hemisphere. If you find yourself looking for some summer reading that you can give to elementary and middle school students, ReadWorks has you covered. Once again this summer ReadWorks is offering free summer reading packets that you can send home with your...
For more than a decade I've been using Padlet to facilitate online brainstorming sessions, create KWL charts, to make multimedia timelines, and to host many more online activities for more my students. Just like any well-loved tool, Padlet has gone through some changes over the year....
Flippity recently published a new game template for Google Sheets users. The new template is called Connecto. Connecto is probably best described as a digital version of the classic Connect Four game. Connecto lets you create a game board as large as forty-two cells (7x6) and...
Now that the summer break is here for those in the northern hemisphere, hopefully you will have a bit less email in your school account. But if you want to keep up with the few emails that you do get during the summer, you can...
I regularly field emails from readers who are experiencing problems with web tools not working as they expected. Here's my short check list of things that you should check when a website doesn't work as you expected it to work. Nine times out of ten,...
Sadly, at the end of June Google is closing the doors on Tour Creator. I'm bummed about it because it is one of my favorite creation tools. Fortunately, there are some companies working on making alternatives to Google's Tour Creator. One of those companies is...
The first session of the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp is less than two weeks away! If you haven't registered for the session of your choice, you can do so up until the day before it starts. While the early-bird discount has passed, you...
