by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 17, 2021 | Academic Technology
A couple of days ago I Tweeted my video about how to find public Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. That Tweet prompted a couple of people to ask me about publishing Google Docs compared to sharing Google Docs and why you’d use one option versus another. To...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 17, 2021 | Academic Technology
Earlier this week when I was checking the weather forecast on NOAA.gov I noticed a banner announcing that this week is Sea Turtle Week. Prior to that I didn’t know that there is a Sea Turtle Week. None-the-less it reminded me of the time that I witnessed sea...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 17, 2021 | Academic Technology
Last week Padlet implemented four important updates. This week two more updates have been rolled out. Both of this week’s updates address previously common concerns about multimedia notes added to Padlet walls. The first update to note is the implementation of...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
It is just five days until the first session of the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp begins. If you haven’t registered for the session of your choice, you can do so up until the day before it starts. While the early-bird discount has passed, you can still...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
Turn on CNBC or any business/ financial news channel today and you’re likely to hear about Bitcoin. Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies. If you’re not familiar with how blockchain works or you’re looking for a simple...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
CodePen is one of my favorite sites for helping students learn how web apps are constructed. In fact, I like it so much that I’ll be featuring it in one of next week’s Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp webinars. The concept of CodePen is that people...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
It is going to be warm and sunny here in Maine today. That temperature will make it feel like summer a few days before the summer solstice. Many refer to the summer solstice as the “longest day of the year” when they really mean “longest period of...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 16, 2021 | Academic Technology
The Library of Congress houses the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive. That archive contains nearly 12,000 photographs of interesting roadside attractions all over the United States and eastern Canada. The collection includes pictures of things like...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 14, 2021 | Academic Technology
This past weekend we took our daughters to Living Shores Aquarium in Glen, New Hampshire. We all enjoyed learning about marine life and watching the otters play. My youngest daughter especially loved the touch tank in which little fish nibbled on her hand. My oldest...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 14, 2021 | Academic Technology
On Sunday morning I was writing in a bit of a hurry and failed to notice a mistake in the title of my post about using the netstat command to see the connections a computer is making to external sites and devices. The mistake I made (I’ve since corrected it) was...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 13, 2021 | Academic Technology
Knowing just a few commands to use in the command terminal can be quite helpful in diagnosing problems with your computer and or the network that your computer is using. (Bonus, it’s an easy way to make yourself look “super techy” in front of...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 13, 2021 | Academic Technology
Connecto is the latest game template published by Flippity. The template lets you use Google Sheets to create a digital version of Connect Four in which students shave to correctly answer a series of questions to connect a line of grid spaces. I wrote about the game...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 12, 2021 | Academic Technology
The Redwood National park is one of the natural wonders that I hope to share with my daughters in a few years. While the tall trees are the “stars of the show” there is much more to the redwood forest than just the trees. SciShow Kids recently released a...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 12, 2021 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the sun is rising on what should be a nice summer Saturday. At this time last week I was riding my bike across the gravel roads of Emporia, Kansas for the Unbound Gravel 200. Today, will be a little less physically demanding. We’re...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 11, 2021 | Academic Technology
This morning I saw an interesting Tweet from a company called Ziplet. The Tweet is what prompted me to write this blog post. Ziplet’s Tweet this morning was an interesting exit ticket prompt. Here’s the prompt:”Imagine a classmate is absent from...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 11, 2021 | Academic Technology
Last fall Google added options for blurring your background in Google Meet and using your own pictures as backgrounds in Google Meet. This week another background option was added to Google Meet. You can now use videos as virtual backgrounds in Google Meet. Right now...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 10, 2021 | Academic Technology
If you’re like me and you still have another week or two until summer break, you might be looking for some resources to share with students and their parents to help prevent summer slide. In fact, a few readers emailed me this week looking for suggestions for...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 10, 2021 | Academic Technology
Summer is here in the northern hemisphere. If you find yourself looking for some summer reading that you can give to elementary and middle school students, ReadWorks has you covered. Once again this summer ReadWorks is offering free summer reading packets that you can...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 10, 2021 | Academic Technology
For more than a decade I’ve been using Padlet to facilitate online brainstorming sessions, create KWL charts, to make multimedia timelines, and to host many more online activities for more my students. Just like any well-loved tool, Padlet has gone through some...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 9, 2021 | Academic Technology
Flippity recently published a new game template for Google Sheets users. The new template is called Connecto. Connecto is probably best described as a digital version of the classic Connect Four game. Connecto lets you create a game board as large as forty-two cells...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 9, 2021 | Academic Technology
Now that the summer break is here for those in the northern hemisphere, hopefully you will have a bit less email in your school account. But if you want to keep up with the few emails that you do get during the summer, you can do so without having to log into your...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
I regularly field emails from readers who are experiencing problems with web tools not working as they expected. Here’s my short check list of things that you should check when a website doesn’t work as you expected it to work. Nine times out of ten, one...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
Sadly, at the end of June Google is closing the doors on Tour Creator. I’m bummed about it because it is one of my favorite creation tools. Fortunately, there are some companies working on making alternatives to Google’s Tour Creator. One of those...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
The first session of the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp is less than two weeks away! If you haven’t registered for the session of your choice, you can do so up until the day before it starts. While the early-bird discount has passed, you can still get...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jun 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
Canva has become my go-to presentation design tool over the last few years. Even when I know that I’m going to end up giving my live presentations from PowerPoint or Google Slides, I still use Canva to design the presentation. In the last year Canva has added...
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