Padlet has been one of my go-to tools for more than a decade. That staying power is due in large part to the flexibility of the tool and that the team and Padlet continues to add more and more helpful features for teachers. The latest...
Setting access expiration dates is one of the many "hidden" or frequently overlooked features of Google Documents. This is a feature you can use when you want to share a Google Document with a person or group of people for a limited time. By setting...
Big outdoor musical instruments are a lot of fun.Big outdoor musical instruments are a lot of fun.Art & Music Outdoors, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, music, outdoor music, outdoor music early years, outdoor music KS1, outdoor music KS2, outdoor musical instruments, outdoor science sound...
A child-centred approach to developing a music area.A child-centred approach to developing a music area.Art & Music Outdoors, Early Years Outdoors, music, nursery, outdoor music EYFS, outdoor music wall, outdoor musical instruments, outdoor nursery, pre-schoolRead More...
Last week I wrote a blog post titled Two Lessons for a Wicked Cold Day. After publishing that post it occurred to me that readers who are not familiar with New England may be wondering why I chose the word wicked. Sure enough, someone emailed...
If you haven't heard, AI writing tools are the hot edtech topic of the year so far. Your students are probably using them whether you know it or not. And if your middle school or high school is trying to ban them, your students are...
Tomorrow night President Biden will give the annual State of the Union Address. C-SPAN Classroom offers more than one hundred resources for teaching and learning about The State of the Union Address in historical and current contexts. If you don't have time to review all...
In late 2021 I published 50 Tech Tuesday Tips. A huge thank you to everyone who purchased a copy. Sales of that eBook helped me keep Free Technology for Teachers going throughout 2022. Unfortunately, like almost all books about educational technology, 50 Tech Tuesday Tips was...
In this week's Practical Ed Tech newsletter I wrote about preparing for some workshops that I'll be leading this spring and summer. Creating resource pages is one of things that I always do in preparation for leading workshops. Those resource pages always include some video...
