by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 12, 2020 | Academic Technology
Like many of you, I have to teach students who are online and students who are in my classroom. Sometimes I have to do both at the same time! Getting students to interact and getting a sense of…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 12, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week I shared a tutorial on how to use the new citation generator that is built into Google Docs. One of the complaints I’ve already heard about it is that it only supports a few citation styles….Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 12, 2020 | Academic Technology
Over the weekend I read Microsoft’s announcement that Immersive Reader will soon be available in PowerPoint (“soon” was left undefined in Microsoft’s announcement, that usually means a couple of…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 10, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where it is cold, but clear. The leaves are rapidly changing color and falling to the ground. There is a significant amount of raking time in my near future. The only good…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 9, 2020 | Academic Technology
A few weeks ago Google announced that Jamboard would be integrated into Google Meet. Earlier this week that finally happened in all of my Google accounts. This makes it easier than ever to use…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 9, 2020 | Academic Technology
Since the summer Google has been teasing us with announcements of new features “coming soon” to Google Meet. Some of those features are finally starting to arrive. Two of them that I recently got…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 9, 2020 | Academic Technology
Every Thursday afternoon at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT Rushton Hurley and I get together to host a free webinar called Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. We have fun answering questions…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 8, 2020 | Academic Technology
Yesterday a reader sent me an interesting question about Google Docs and Google Classroom. She wanted to know if there was a way to share just one of a few pages of a Google Doc with her students via…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 8, 2020 | Academic Technology
For years I used the Easy Bib add-on to add citations and create bibliographies in Google Docs. A couple of weeks ago Google added an updated citation tool to Google Docs that makes the Easy Bib…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 7, 2020 | Academic Technology
We’re a full week into October and I haven’t shared any Halloween-themed resources. That’s unlike me. My excuse is that 2020 has been a year unlike any other. And even though we won’t be…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 7, 2020 | Academic Technology
Yesterday, Google announced a rebranding of G Suite. G Suite will now be called Google Workspaces. That change is happening now for some domains, but won’t happen until months from now for G Suite for…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 7, 2020 | Academic Technology
On Monday I shared a couple of tutorials about measuring distances in Google Maps and Bing Maps. Yesterday, I shared a few resources for helping students understand map projections. This morning, I…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2020 | Academic Technology
At about this time last year the Library of Congress hosted a mystery photo contest. They’re hosting another one right now. Just like last year’s contest the challenge is to identify the people in…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 6, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last spring I wrote about Mathigon’s Map Coloring Challenge. That’s not the only map-based math lesson available from Mathigon. Mathigon’s lesson on spheres, cones, and cylinders incorporates map…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 5, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week I hosted a live Practical Ed Tech webinar titled A Crash Course in Making & Teaching With Video. By popular request, I’ve turned that webinar into a self-paced course that is available…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 5, 2020 | Academic Technology
This afternoon I received an email from a reader who was frustrated by how slowly Google Earth loaded on her students’ Chromebooks. She had designed some activities about distance that she wanted her…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 5, 2020 | Academic Technology
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech newsletter I share some ideas for adding some fun educational activities into online and hybrid classrooms. In the newsletter I mentioned that I’m using Kahoot at the…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 4, 2020 | Academic Technology
If you’re like a lot of the teachers I’m hearing from this fall, you’re using Google Classroom more than ever. And if that’s the case you might be feeling like you’re getting overrun with…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 3, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the sun is rising and revealing all of the colors of fall. Fall is my favorite time of year to be outside. Playing outside is what I plan to do with my kids today. My…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 2, 2020 | Academic Technology
For years Canva has been my go-to tool for making things like infographics, video cover images, and social media posts. Increasingly, I’m using it to design slideshows. A relatively new feature in…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 2, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week at the end of one of my classes we were talking about how everyone was adjusting to wearing masks all day and social distancing in school. A couple of my students grumbled about it. That…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 2, 2020 | Academic Technology
Yesterday morning I had a colleague come into my classroom to ask me how she could create a document that had some arrows and boxes in it. Basically, she was trying to replicate and then slightly…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 1, 2020 | Academic Technology
Tonight is the night of the annual Harvest Moon in the northern hemisphere. The harvest moon comes on a different evening each year. If the weather is cooperative, tonight will be a great evening to…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 1, 2020 | Academic Technology
Students in my school district, like students in many other school districts, have more unsupervised time on their hands than ever before. That factor combined with the general “cooped up” feeling…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Oct 1, 2020 | Academic Technology
I’ve written about Google Classroom’s originality reports in the past. I’ve also posted tutorials on looking for matching documents via Google Drive. This week, thanks to Mike Tholfsen, I learned that…Read the whole entry at...
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