by Free Technology for Teachers | May 12, 2019 | Academic Technology
Six weeks ago Google announced the introduction of native support for audio in Google Slides. Unfortunately, the roll-out of that feature seems to be taking longer than was initially promised. I have…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 11, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where this week the weather was finally nice enough for bike rides, flip-flops, and lots of yard work. And this weekend’s forecast has lots of sunshine in it which is perfect…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 11, 2019 | Academic Technology
Formative is a one of the tools that I regularly feature in my workshop on Fast & Fun Formative Assessments. I like it and use it because of two outstanding features. The first is the ability to…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 11, 2019 | Academic Technology
YouTube, like many social networks, has a little for creators that notifies them of old video postings and significant moments for their older videos. This week YouTube notified me that one of the…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 11, 2019 | Academic Technology
As many of you know, I’ve spent the bulk of the last two weeks dealing with a slew of copyright issues and technical issues. Those have kept me from doing a lot of the things that I normally do every…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last week I published 5 Ways to Quickly Create Audio Slideshows for End-of-Year Events. In that post I mentioned using the Google Slides add-on called Photo Slideshow. Over the last week I’ve answered…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
Back in January I learned about a great alternative to YouTube called BoClips. BoClips offers millions of educational videos from well-known producers. In the last five months it has quickly become…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
This time of year always feels exceptionally busy as the end of the school year nears while at the same time many of us are planning for summer activities like camps and summer enrichment programs….Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
According to President Woodrow Wilson’s proclamation in 1914, the second Sunday in May is Mother’s Day in the United States. As the second Sunday in May is approaching, the U.S. National Archives…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 10, 2019 | Academic Technology
In yesterday’s post about English Heritage’s Map of Myth, Legend, and Folklore I included a mention of using StoryMap JS to create interactive maps. That prompted a response from Cindy Rudy who…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 8, 2019 | Academic Technology
The sun is shining and I had my first flip-flops sighting of the year this morning. That means the end of the school year can’t be too far away. This is a time when many of us will be looking to make…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 8, 2019 | Academic Technology
Otus is a learning management system that I’ve watched evolve from a relatively simple iPad app into a full-fledged LMS that can be used on any device. When I first wrote about Otus in 2014 I wrote,…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 8, 2019 | Academic Technology
Thanks to the Maps Mania blog I just learned about English Heritage’s Map of Myth, Legend, & Folklore. The interactive map feature a couple of dozen historical sites that under the care of …Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 6, 2019 | Academic Technology
The sun is shining, the weather is warming, and kids are getting antsy. That combination means that the end of the school year is drawing near. Last week I shared five ways to quickly create audio…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 6, 2019 | Academic Technology
Having a calendar page on your classroom blog is a good way to help keep your students and their parents informed about upcoming events and due dates. Google Calendar is the tool that I prefer for…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 4, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where I’m looking forward to a fun day of playing outside with my daughters. Earlier this week I took a day off to take them to the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, Maine. They…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 3, 2019 | Academic Technology
Around this time every year I start to field a bunch of emails from readers who are looking for advice on how to quickly create audio slideshow videos for end-of-year events. Here are five options…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 3, 2019 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: Newlearn.io is currently an advertiser on this blog.Last week I wrote about a newer service for finding and sharing standards-aligned teaching materials. That service is called …Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 2, 2019 | Academic Technology
Google Earth is currently available in a few different versions. There is the web browser version that was built for use in Chrome and Chromebooks. There is an iOS version and an Android version for…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 2, 2019 | Academic Technology
This is the last thing that I’m going to publish about this ridiculous copyright infringement debacle I’ve been dealing with for a week. But as I said earlier today, I am going to try to make the best…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 2, 2019 | Academic Technology
In my previous post I detailed the copyright debacle that has consumed way too much of my mental energy and way too much of time over the last week. As I mentioned in that post, I am trying to make…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 2, 2019 | Academic Technology
I frequently deal with websites that are plagiarizing my work. Usually, I deal with sites that are plaigiarizing my work by simply sending them a notice that they’ve been caught and that they should…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 1, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the sun is shining on the first day of May. After an extremely stressful five days of dealing with a copyright infringer I’m taking the day off to take my daughters to…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 1, 2019 | Academic Technology
From the department of, “Google’s always changing something,” yesterday Google announced that Team Drives are going to be renamed as Shared Drives. Depending upon the device you’re using and your…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | May 1, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last night a reader named Melissa emailed me with the following question, “Is there a way to get rid of scores on a Google Form so that it can reused as if it were just created?” The answer is yes,…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
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