by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 31, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where I’m sitting in my home office waiting for students to join into a Google Hangouts Meet for virtual office hours. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the month…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 30, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week Maps Mania shared a collection of online and printable map activities for kids and adults. At the bottom of that collection was a link to Mathigon’s map coloring challenge. The challenge is…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 30, 2020 | Academic Technology
C-SPAN Classroom is a free resource that anyone who teaches U.S. History or civics should have bookmarked. I’ve written about many of their great resources and programs over the years including their…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 30, 2020 | Academic Technology
A couple of weeks ago when I got the notice that my school would be closing I made a video about how to use EDpuzzle to create video-based lessons without having to create your own recordings. I first…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 29, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last Friday Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I held the first episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions (if you have a better idea for a title, please tell us). Lots of people came and…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 29, 2020 | Academic Technology
A few days ago I got an email from a reader asking me what it looks like when a student tries to join a Zoom meeting on an Android phone. It was a good question because it is important to have an…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 29, 2020 | Academic Technology
On Friday I recorded the 39th episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast. You might be saying, “but Richard, last week wasn’t last week the 39th episode?” You would be right because I called it that,…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 28, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the birds are chirping and it feels like spring as I sip my coffee. We’re going to spend the day playing in the yard. Spring has come a little earlier than normal here in…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 28, 2020 | Academic Technology
Whether it’s the basics of how the technology works or “features” right now we’re all learning a lot about hosting online meetings. For example, this week I learned about sharing system audio in…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 27, 2020 | Academic Technology
For more than a dozen years Common Craft videos have been used by teachers to help students understand topics including digital citizenship, personal finance, and many big technology concepts. One of…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 27, 2020 | Academic Technology
Anchor is the service that I have been using since last August to produce my weekly Practical Ed Tech Podcast. I use Anchor because Anchor makes it incredibly easier to record, edit, and publish my…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 27, 2020 | Academic Technology
On Tuesday I wrote about the new version of Knowt that will let you import any of your Google Docs, Word docs, or any public webpage into a notebook. Once in your notebook it just takes one more click…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 26, 2020 | Academic Technology
Arduino programming was one of the things that we were really starting to get rolling on just before school closed. Now that my school is closed and we’re doing remote teaching and learning, I’m using…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 26, 2020 | Academic Technology
For the last few weeks Rushton Hurley, founder of Next Vista for Learning and a former virtual school principal, has been hosting free webinars all about making the transition to online teaching and…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 26, 2020 | Academic Technology
Regular users of Google Slides are probably familiar with the process of adding images to the backgrounds of their slides and changing the background color. There is one little background color option…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 25, 2020 | Academic Technology
Yesterday afternoon a friend texted me to ask if there was a way to check to see if students have looked at announcements or assignments in Google Classroom. Unfortunately, there isn’t a “read…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 25, 2020 | Academic Technology
Every day I’m hearing from teachers who can’t get back into their classrooms because their school buildings are completely closed. My own school building has very limited access and only by…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 24, 2020 | Academic Technology
Over the last week I’ve spent a lot of time helping some of my colleagues get up and running with Google Classroom. One of the things that they’ve asked about is what a student sees when he or she…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 24, 2020 | Academic Technology
Tomorrow at 11am ET I’m partnering with my friend Greg Kulowiec from EdTechTeacher.org to host a free webinar titled Making Multimedia Social Studies Lessons: Audio, Video, and More. Greg taught…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 24, 2020 | Academic Technology
Knowt is a great service for turning notes and documents into practice quizzes. When I wrote about last summer you could only use notes that you either wrote in Knowt itself or imported from Google…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 24, 2020 | Academic Technology
On Friday morning I started having problems with every Zoom meeting that I tried to launch or join on my Windows 10 computer resulting in the annoying “application not responding” message. I didn’t…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 23, 2020 | Academic Technology
A friend of mine who teaches phys ed had the idea to have his students submit pictures as evidence of doing phys ed activities at home. He asked me for advice on how to best collect and organize those…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 23, 2020 | Academic Technology
WriteReader is a great tool for creating multimedia stories that I’ve featured a half dozen times or more over the years. The last time I wrote about it they had just added some new page styles. Last…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 22, 2020 | Academic Technology
Online lessons and virtual meetings with students and parents can be good, but at a certain point students are going to want to do more than just look at their screens and answer questions. That’s why…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 21, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where school is closed until April 27th and I’m practicing social distancing. On a brighter note, the sun is shining and I’ll be playing outside with my kids today.I’m…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
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