by Free Technology for Teachers | Feb 5, 2019 | Academic Technology
Google Scholar can be an excellent place to find articles from academic journals. Articles from academic journals aren’t the only things that students can search for on Google Scholar. Google Scholar provides search tools for locating court decisions and tools for...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Feb 4, 2019 | Academic Technology
One of my favorite ways to reinforce the use of good search strategies to students is to show interesting pictures and have students try to make a long list of questions about what they see. Then I let the students try to find the answers to those questions. When they...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Feb 2, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where I’m not doing anything particularly exciting other than brewing up a batch of chili to have during the Super Bowl tomorrow night. Between stirs of the chili I’m working on materials for a bunch of workshops and keynotes that I...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Feb 1, 2019 | Academic Technology
Students often think that because they can type a phrase into Google or saying something aloud to Siri they know how to search. Of course, any teacher who has heard a student say “Google has nothing on this” or “there’s no information about my...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 31, 2019 | Academic Technology
Taskade is a task management tool that you can use on your computer, phone, or tablet. The service is collaborative because you can invite other people to join you to work on lists and notes in the same online space. The best part of Taskade is the selection of...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 31, 2019 | Academic Technology
The other day I saw a meme that read, “a teacher never realizes how much they do until it’s written down in sub plans.” Many of the the comments written under that meme said things like, “that’s why I go in when I’m sick” and...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 31, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from frigid South Paris, Maine. As I posted in an Instagram story, this morning it’s so cold that even in my office I’m wearing a down jacket. Like every January in Maine we’ve had a lovely mix of frigid days and snowy days. I like the...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last fall TED-Ed started publishing a series of lessons titled “Why Should You Read…” The series features TED-Ed lessons that explain the significance of classic works of literature. When I last wrote about the series it contained seven lessons. The...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
CleverPDF is a free service that anyone can use to convert a PDF into a Word document, a Pages file, or an ePub file. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of what’s on offer from CleverPDF. The service can be used to create PowerPoint slides, Keynote slides,...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
The Super Bowl is this weekend. My prediction is that the Patriots will win. I’m guessing that my American readers have a student or two who has an interest in the game too. Try one of the following resources to turn your students’ enthusiasm for the Super...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
The development of easy-to-use podcast production tools like Anchor and Synth have contributed to the proliferation of podcasts in the last few years. The ways that we can find and listen to podcasts has also increased substantially in the last few years. That’s...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
The Super Bowl is happening this weekend. If your students have an interest in football, you might be interested in a virtual field trip that the NFL and Discovery Education are hosting tomorrow. NFL Play 60 Kids Day Live is happening tomorrow at 12pm Eastern Time....
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 29, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last year Google announced a timeline for the shutdown of the classic version of Google Sites. That announcement called for the classic version of Google Sites to come to an end at then end of this year. It appears that Google has listened to user feedback because...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 29, 2019 | Academic Technology
One of the participants in my current Getting Going With G Suite course asked me about how to change the layout of her Google Docs dashboard. In this case we’re using dashboard to refer to what you see when you visit docs.google.com. In particular, my...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 29, 2019 | Academic Technology
Since I’ve just returned from a trip to London, I figure it’s a good time to revisit one of my favorite geography videos. That video is The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained. The video explains name refers to, the...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 29, 2019 | Academic Technology
This afternoon I received an email from a reader who had watched one of my YouTube videos about Google Forms. She wanted to know if it was better to manually place the link to her Google Form into Google Classroom or if she should make the Form within Google...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 29, 2019 | Academic Technology
On Friday evening after spending the day at the 2019 BETT Show I recorded a video of my observations of walking through the maze of vendors. If you didn’t see the video on my YouTube channel, you can now watch it as embedded below. This post originally appeared...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 29, 2019 | Academic Technology
After putting it on hiatus last year, I’m happy announce that the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp is returning this July! Registration is now open for this two-day, hands-on learning experience. This year’s workshop will be held at the historic Bethel Inn...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 26, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good evening from terminal five in Heathrow airport. I’m waiting for my flight home after spending a couple of days in London for the annual BETT Show. For my U.S. readers who might not be familiar with BETT, it’s a bit like ISTE without all of the...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 26, 2019 | Academic Technology
I get what feels like zillions of emails every day from companies that I have never heard of. 90% of them go straight to the trash bin after a three second glance. But then every once in a while I get one that is useful. Today’s random, but useful email came...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 26, 2019 | Academic Technology
Last night I shared the great news that Verizon has reversed their policy on the fee that they were going to start charging Remind to deliver free text messages. That means that the 7 million Remind users who were due to stop receiving texts via Remind will not...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 26, 2019 | Academic Technology
Today at the BETT Show Bethany Beaudrie introduced me to a new educational video provider called Boclips for Teachers. Boclips hosts more than two million educational videos from more than 100 vetted video producers. You’ll probably recognize many of the names...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 26, 2019 | Academic Technology
Eleven days ago Remind announced that they would be discontinuing delivery of text messages to students and parents who were on Verizon wireless plans. That change was due to a change in the way that Verizon was classifying Remind messages and a huge increase in the...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 25, 2019 | Academic Technology
Immersive Reader is one of my three favorite Microsoft products (the others others are Hacking STEM and Flipgrid). Today at the BETT Show I got to try a new implementation of Immersive Reader. That implementation is in virtual reality. Immersive Reader in VR is a beta...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 25, 2019 | Academic Technology
Today at the BETT Show I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Charlie Miller. You might not know his name, but you probably know the company he founded, Flipgrid. In our conversation I mentioned the Ed Tech Fitness Flipgrid that I created and how I would love it if they...
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