Earlier this year I published 29 Google Sites tutorials. I'll soon need to add a 30th tutorial to that list because this week Google released three helpful updates to Google Sites. The latest updates to Google Sites give you more design control and improve the collaboration...
On Wednesday I passed along a great resource that Gary Stager shared with me. Today, I have another announcement from Gary that you should note right now. That is a free webinar he's hosting on April 27th. Coding in the Age of AI is a two-hour,...
QuestionWell is a new AI tool that will generate reading comprehension and guiding questions for just about any article that you specify. Questions created by QuestionWell can be saved in a document or exported to a handful of popular quiz apps including Kahoot and Quizziz. There...
“That’s it, Ms. Brinkmeyer? This is all we have to do?” One of my proudest teaching moments happened the day I helped three students simultaneously write their own short stories. They’d been referred to me for academic support. The rest of their class was done writing,...
Pratyeka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Many moons ago when I was in elementary school, using Logo Writer on an Apple IIe was my introduction to programming. Since then and still today I think that Logo and it's offspring like Scratch and Turtle Art are powerful...
As I wrote in my previous post, there are two things that I write about at this time every year. One of those is income taxes. The other is Patriots' Day and the American Revolution. That's what this post is about. Patriots' Day here in Maine,...
There are two things that I always write about at this time of year. One of those is Patriots' Day and the American Revolution. The other thing is income taxes. In this post I'll share some resources for teaching and learning about income taxes in...
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The Smithsonian Learning Lab hosts a regular series of free professional development webinars for teachers. The next one is titled Using Rockets to Investigate Forces and Motion. The free webinar will be on Tuesday, April 11th at 4pm ET. The Smithsonian hosts the webinars on YouTube...
