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...
Canva has become my go-to presentation design tool over the last few years. Even when I know that I'm going to end up giving my live presentations from PowerPoint or Google Slides, I still use Canva to design the presentation. In the last year Canva...
While getting caught up on my reading in Feedly this morning I came across a new comic from The Oatmeal. The comic addresses the question, "how tall can a LEGO tower get?" (It's a copyright-protected work so you'll have to view it on The Oatmeal...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers contributor Mary Beth Kester. Aww, summer. It’s been quite a year, and I’m excited to have some time to spend with my family and kids. I’m ready to enjoy lounging around, recharging in a hammock, and rereading a...
Science in the Classroom is a free resource for teachers from Science Magazine. On Science in the Classroom you will find research papers containing interactive annotations to help students understand the content of the papers. In the right hand margin of each paper you will...
