Good morning from Maine where the sun is rising as I sip my coffee and listen to the birds begin to chirp. The benefit of having a puppy that wakes up just before sunrise is getting to hear the birds as they wake up for...
In an earlier post I explained and demonstrated how to use Google Takeout to save all of the data from your Google account. If you only want or need a handful of files, there is an easier option than using Google Takeout. That option is to...
Picture this: the sun is shining, you're wearing your favorite summer casual clothes (an old Phish t-shirt in my case), but you're going to miss a great day of outdoor play because you have to go to school for a summer PD day. What if...
It's that time of year when I start to get lots of questions from readers about what to do with files in their Google Workspace accounts before they leave one school for another. In fact, just yesterday I answered that question three times. My answer...
Breaking News is one of the many great tools available on Russel Tarr's ClassTools.net. Breaking News is a template for creating fake breaking news screens like those that you might see on CNN or BBC News. Through the template you can add a news headline, a...
One of my most popular Google Slides tutorials is a video about how to use Google Slides to create a timeline. A follow-up to that video demonstrates how to use the animation tools in Google Slides to add animations to a timeline. In the following video...
Have you struggled to find books that aren’t too babyish for below-grade-level readers? Or, have you been worried about recommending books with overly mature content to young readers who need more challenging texts? I can relate. When I taught 6th grade, at times I had English learners...
Loopy is a free tool for creating your own animated simulations or illustrations of a concept. This free animation tool is designed to showing relationships between two or more parts of a system. It's perfect for showing cause and effect or for showing a workflow...
In a webinar I recently hosted I incidentally showed a quick way to show or hide the bookmarks bar in Chrome. The webinar was not about Chrome or anything Google-related so I was surprised when someone asked me to show the trick again. There is...
