by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 14, 2021 | Academic Technology
After Google announced the closure of Google Expeditions earlier this year Google Arts & Culture became the place to go to find much of the virtual imagery that was available in Expeditions. The library of imagery and stories in Google Arts & Culture has...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 13, 2021 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: this article was written as a paid partnership with Google for Education. Over the years I’ve always recommended creating your own lesson plans as much as possible. However, the reality is that sometimes we just run out of ideas and need to borrow some...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 13, 2021 | Academic Technology
Halloween is just a couple of weeks away. My daughters are getting excited to wear their costumes (they’re going to be Winnie the Pooh and Tigger). Their excitement reminded me that it’s time for me to publish my annual list of Halloween-themed lesson...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 13, 2021 | Academic Technology
One of my top time-savers when creating a new Google Form is to import questions from other forms that I’ve previously created. For example, if I’m making a quiz for my current students I will import questions from quizzes that I made the year before. I...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 13, 2021 | Academic Technology
Earlier this week a reader sent me a question about re-using the same Google Form multiple times per week or month. The idea being that students would answer the same questions multiple times throughout the week or month and the teacher would be able to see all of the...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 12, 2021 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: Tract is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comGenius Hour or 20% time in a classroom provides students with an opportunity to pursue topics and projects of their choice. Rather than the teacher telling students what project they should complete...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 12, 2021 | Academic Technology
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Stop.Think.Connect. has a large collection of posters, tip sheets, and videos that you can use to promote good online safety practices in your school or office. You can find all of them in this gallery which can be...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 11, 2021 | Academic Technology
By the People is the Library of Congress project that was formerly known as the Crowd project. The name changed at some point in the last year, but the purpose of the project remains the same. That purpose is to enlist the help of the public to transcribe historical...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 11, 2021 | Academic Technology
Last Thursday Rushton Hurley and I hosted the third episode of this season of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. As we alway do we answered a some interesting questions from readers and viewers including questions about Google Slides add-ons,...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 10, 2021 | Academic Technology
Subscribers to my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter received their free copies of the 2021-22 edition of The Practical Ed Tech Handbook at the start of the school year. It’s a 75 page PDF that features my favorite tools, tips, and strategies for using a wide variety...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 9, 2021 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where we have enjoyed a great week of beautiful fall weather. The nights have been cool, the days have been warm and sunny, and the leaves are turning into vibrant shades of red, yellow, and orange. My daughters can’t wait for me to make...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 9, 2021 | Academic Technology
The Library of Congress has a great collection of activities suggestions and resources for parents who are looking for educational activities they can do at home with their kids. The collection is called Resources for Family Engagement. Within this collection you will...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
While I was reviewing videos about Canadian Thanksgiving YouTube displayed a suggested video from CBC Kids News. The video is simply titled The Word Indigenous and it provides an animated explanation of what the word indigenous means when referring to people. The...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
Thanks to one of Kevin Hodgson’s blog posts, earlier this week I learned about the National Writing Project’s Write Out 2021 campaign. This is a two week initiative beginning on Sunday, October 10th. The idea is to inspire writers through outdoor settings,...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
Monday is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. It’s about six weeks earlier than it is here in the United States. I’ve celebrated both versions of Thanksgiving and I can tell you that there are a lot of similarities between the two. There are also some differences...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 8, 2021 | Academic Technology
Yesterday, during Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions Rushton and I answered a question about how teachers can find other classroom to connect with for collaborative learning. We came up with three suggestions. Those suggestions are explained...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 7, 2021 | Academic Technology
One of the questions that I received this week for Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions was a rather broad question of, “do you have any favorite Google Slides add-ons for high school students?” That’s kind of a hard question to answer without having more...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 7, 2021 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: Make Beliefs Comix is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comDeveloping an idea for what to write about is often a hard first step for student writers. Fortunately, there are resources like the Make Beliefs Comix journaling ebooks filled with ideas for...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 7, 2021 | Academic Technology
From telling personal stories to summarizing historical events to illustrating creating writing over the years I’ve shared a bunch of ideas for using comics in classrooms. And I’ve shared a bunch of tools for creating comics (resources linked at the bottom...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2021 | Academic Technology
Tomorrow at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I are hosting the third episode of the second season of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff! We’d love to have you join us! You can register for the session right...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2021 | Academic Technology
If you ask my five-year-old what she wants to be when she grows up she’ll say, “a cake maker!” She’s been helping decorate cookies and cakes since before her third birthday. She loves it when we let her watch clips of The Great British Baking...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2021 | Academic Technology
Disclosure: Spaces is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comSpaces is a free digital portfolio tool that launched earlier this year and has quickly become one of my top recommendations for teachers and students who want to bring Portfolio-based assessment...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2021 | Academic Technology
Mike Tholfsen is a product manager for Microsoft Education and the producer of some excellent Microsoft product tutorial videos for teachers. I recently mentioned one of his videos in my weekly newsletter. For those who missed it, the video I mentioned was 20 Outlook...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2021 | Academic Technology
For many of us virtual meetings and online classes aren’t going away anytime soon. Google has responded to that by steadily adding more features to Google Meet over the last eighteen months. The latest features improve handling of Google Meet within Google...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 5, 2021 | Academic Technology
At the end of August I shared a couple of neat ways to explore newspapers of the world through interactive maps. Over the weekend, thanks to Larry Ferlazzo, I learned about another interactive map of newspapers from around the world. Today’s Front Pages is an...
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