Today is the first day of Geography Awareness Week. In the following videos I provide an overview of five map-based geography games that your students can play this week or any other time they need to practice identifying places around the world. All five games...
Last week a reader emailed me to ask the following question:Do you have any recommendations for a live translation during a keynote address or conference? For example, if the speaker is doing their presentation in English but we have Spanish speakers in the audience. They...
Poll Everywhere is a polling tool that I've used off and on throughout the past decade. It's a great tool for gathering questions from an audience, polling an audience, and seeing word clouds of sentiment from an audience. People can respond to your poll questions from...
The whole point of maths outside is that it is real and relies on practical activities.The whole point of maths outside is that it is real and relies on practical activities.Early Years Outdoors, Maths Outdoors, counting, maths, nature maths, urban activitiesRead More...
I’ve spent this fall co-creating a brand new course with Dr. Rebecca Branstetter of the Thriving School Psychologist. It’s called Reverse Educator Burnout: 10 Shifts to Help Educators Enjoy the Journey and Stay the Course, and it’s designed to support EVERYONE who works in K-12 schools...
About a week ago Larry Ferlazzo mentioned a new mapping tool in one of his blog posts. That tool is called Felt. I tried it a few days ago and I have to say that I like it a lot. Felt offers a lot of...
Many of us lamented the loss of Google Expeditions because it was a great tool for leading students on virtual reality tours of all kinds of interesting places around the world. Similarly, many of us were disappointed when Google shuttered Tour Creator because it was...
Good evening from Banner County, Nebraska! I'm here for the next few days to visit my good friends Kris and Beth Still. Those of you who have followed by blog since its early days may recall that Beth is the person who organized the NECC...
Making wooden spoons into characters for writing and display outside.Making wooden spoons into characters for writing and display outside.Art & Music Outdoors, Literacy Outdoors, KS1 literacy character ideas, KS1 outdoor art, KS1 outdoor technology, outdoor art, outdoor drama, outdoor learning, outdoor technology, The Coombes School,...
