by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 18, 2019 | Academic Technology
Properly citing Creative Commons licensed works can sometimes be a confusing, multi-step process. ImageCodr makes that process easier.ImageCodr generates properly formatted Creative Commons…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 18, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last week Google announced the release of an updated version of the Socratic app. Socratic is now owned by Google and is therefore called Socratic by Google in the app store. The free iPhone and iPad…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 18, 2019 | Academic Technology
A few weeks ago I Vicki Davis invited me to be a guest on her fantastic 10 Minute Teacher Podcast. As the title implies, in the podcast I shared an overview of eight educational technology tools that…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 17, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good afternoon from rainy South Paris, Maine. Even though the weather was less than ideal for a bike ride I went out for ride to exercise this morning. Along the way I saw a red leaf on a maple tree….Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 17, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last spring a reader named Tiffany asked me if I would ever consider publishing my Practical Ed Tech Live episodes as podcasts instead of just on my YouTube channel. It was a good idea. Thanks to…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 17, 2019 | Academic Technology
Twitter can be a good place to connect with other educators to exchange ideas and resources. The trouble is that it is not always easy to filter through all of the accounts that Twitter automatically…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 16, 2019 | Academic Technology
One of the questions that I answered during today’s Practical Ed Tech Live episode was, “is there a way that I can just take the audio out of the videos to publish it as a podcast?” There are a few…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 16, 2019 | Academic Technology
This morning I hosted a new episode of Practical Ed Tech Live on my YouTube channel. I hadn’t held one of these sessions since the last school year ended. For the new school year I’m adding a new…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 16, 2019 | Academic Technology
For many years Post-it has offered a free iPhone and iPad app that you can use to turn a collection of physical sticky notes into digital ones. This morning I discovered that Post-it now offers an …Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 16, 2019 | Academic Technology
This afternoon I received an email from a reader who had watched my video about adding timers to PowerPoint slides. My video features a timer with a digital countdown display. She wanted to know if…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 16, 2019 | Academic Technology
Whenever I have a webpage that I want a group of students or colleagues to go to at the same time, I use a URL shortener to turn long URLs into things that are easy to copy and spell. Sure, I could…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 16, 2019 | Academic Technology
Seesaw recently released an updated Chrome extension that makes it easy for students to save and annotate articles in their digital portfolios. With SeeSaw’s free Chrome extension installed students…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 14, 2019 | Academic Technology
Today, in what they’re spinning as a feature to “help students turn in their best work,” Google announced the addition of an originality checker to Google Classroom. Google is calling this new feature…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 14, 2019 | Academic Technology
Earlier this week the Library of Congress launched a new crowdsourcing campaign to transcribe more than 20,000 primary source documents related to the women’s suffrage movement in the United States….Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 14, 2019 | Academic Technology
One of the things that people sometimes forget about Google Drive is that you can use to share just about any kind of file that you have stored on your computer. This includes video files. In fact,…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 14, 2019 | Academic Technology
This Friday at 9am ET I’m bringing back my Practical Ed Tech Live series in which I answer batches of questions that readers like you send to me throughout the week. I’ll be broadcasting this live on …Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 13, 2019 | Academic Technology
A few weeks ago I published a video about how to add alt text to pictures in Google Slides. That video was prompted by a friend’s request for help. This morning a reader asked me about using alt text…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 13, 2019 | Academic Technology
Unsplash is one of my go-to recommendations for finding public domain pictures for classroom projects. Thanks to Rushton Hurley’s latest Next Vista for Education newsletter I just learned that…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 13, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last year the Library of Congress introduced a new online project called Crowd. The project invites teachers, students, and anyone interested in history to contribute to the transcription of primary…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 12, 2019 | Academic Technology
Every Thursday afternoon in August I’m hosting a different Practical Ed Tech professional development webinar. Last week’s was all about Google Classroom, Calendar, and Keep. This week’s webinar is…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 12, 2019 | Academic Technology
The comment bank feature in Google Classroom is nice for quickly adding text comments to your students’ Google Documents. But there are times when hearing your voice and or seeing your face can make…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 12, 2019 | Academic Technology
Certify’em is one of my favorite Google Forms add-ons. It lets you automatically distribute personalized certificates to students when they pass a quiz in Google Forms. I use it at the end of all of …Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where it is a beautiful morning for a bike ride. That’s what I’m going to do as soon as I finish writing this week-in-review.This week I hosted a professional development…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
Try This! is a series of videos produced by National Geographic Kids. Each of the videos in the series presents a hands-on science lesson or experiment that elementary school and middle school kids…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Aug 9, 2019 | Academic Technology
e-Comments is a Google Chrome extension that offers three great ways to add comments to Google Documents. You can use e-Comments to add canned text comments, you can use it to add audio comments, and…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
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