Last week I shared the disappointing news that Tract is closing down at the end of the year. Sadly, this morning I learned that another service that I really liked is also closing down. That service is Stash 101 Classroom (formerly known as PayGrade). Stash 101...
Last week a former colleague of mine reached out to me for help setting up a system to collect profile information to put into a printed event program. He was looking for a convenient way for people to submit a profile picture and brief biographies...
The new Canva Documents has a bunch of neat tools including the AI writing tool that I highlighted last week. Continuing on that theme of artificial intelligence, Canva now has a feature that lets you quickly turn a document into a slideshow presentation. When you viewing...
Last week there was a spike in traffic to my blog post about using whiteboard and brainstorming templates in Canva. Seeing that spike reminded me that it was probably time to update my list of good tools for creating mind maps and flowcharts. Here's my updated...
This morning when I logged into my YouTube account I noticed that my little channel now has more than 44,000 subscribers for the first time. I've never had a video go viral nor have I tried to make one for that purpose. Instead, all of...
Good morning from Maine where everything is covered in snow this morning! The first proper snowstorm of the year rolled in yesterday and it's still snowing as I write this morning. After I take care of shoveling it will be time for fun in the...
By the People is a Library of Congress project that I've written about and featured in my Teaching History With Technology courses since 2018. On By the People teachers and students can contribute to crowd-sourcing transcriptions of thousands of primary source documents. Some of the...
Padlet is a tool that I've been using for over a decade in a wide variety of classroom settings. In fact, I've been using for so long that I've seen it evolve from a simple tool called Wall Wisher in 2009 to the multimedia sharing,...
I like to end the week with something fun. If you do too, head over to Animate from Audio hosted by Adobe Express. Animate from Audio is a fun little tool that matches your spoken words to an animated character of your choosing. The finished...
