Good morning from Maine where the rain keeps coming down. It feels like it has been more than a week since we've seen the sun. That's because it has been that long since we didn't have a rainy day. We're going a bit stir crazy,...
In my previous post about how to create a story map I featured a tool called StoryMap JS. That tool is great for making story maps that have no more than about twenty scenes. Any more than that and the process becomes a bit cumbersome...
A couple of days ago I published a post about a story map titled 1,001 Novels: A Library of America. That post is already one of the most popular things I've published this year! Viewing 1,001 Novels: A Library of America reminded me of a free...
This morning on LinkedIn I saw a post by Gary Stager (embedded below) in which he linked to a collection of Logo resources that he's compiled on The Daily Papert. Reading Gary's post and looking through the resources reminded me of two things. First, as I wrote...
A couple of weeks ago I published an all about Mars post that included a video from SciShowKids titled Meet the Mars Rovers! SciShow Kids has published a follow-up to that video. The follow-up is titled How to Design a Mars Rover!How to Design a...
A day ago I published a big list of AI tools and resources for teachers. This morning I tried another AI tool that is worth noting. That tool is the new AI-powered assessment generator that is now built into Formative. Formative's new AI-powered assessment generator is...
Summer break is here or nearly here for many of us. With that break comes time to drink our coffee out of our favorite mugs at home instead of a travel mug at school. I love the feeling of sipping coffee in the warm morning...
1,001 Novels: A Library of America is an ESRI story map developed by Susan Straight. The story map features short reviews of 1,000 American novels. Each novel is geolocated on a map of the United States. The story map is divided into geographic regions. You...
The Internet Archive's USC Optical Sound Effects Library is a collection of hundreds of sound effect recordings created for Hollywood studios in the beginning in the 1930's through the 1980's. The recordings were donated to USC and have now been digitized for playback and download...
