by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 20, 2020 | Academic Technology
As mentioned earlier this week, at 1pm ET today Rushton Hurley (founder of Next Vista and all around great guy) is hosting a free webinar about online learning activities. I’ll be dropping into the…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 19, 2020 | Academic Technology
Like I’m sure many of you are, I’m getting lots of requests from colleagues and readers for help with Google Classroom. I have a bunch of short tutorials here on my YouTube channel. But I made the …Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 19, 2020 | Academic Technology
Canva has been my graphic design tool of choice for the last five years. Lately, I’ve been using it to create slideshow presentations and videos in addition to simple graphics like the featured image…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 19, 2020 | Academic Technology
Yesterday afternoon someone wrote on my Facebook page that she was going to stop following the page because I had too many videos and not enough written tutorials. The fact of the matter is that I’ve…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 18, 2020 | Academic Technology
Yesterday I shared the time-saving tip of scheduling emails in Gmail. Today, I have another time-saving Gmail tip. Creating a contact group or a contact label in Gmail makes it possible to simply type…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 18, 2020 | Academic Technology
This morning I got an email from a reader who was looking for a screen capture tool that included tools for drawing straight lines, arrows, boxes, and generally making screen captures look a little…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 18, 2020 | Academic Technology
If you’re looking for an offline activity that you can recommend to parents for their students to do at home, take a look at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Color Our Collections website. The site…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 17, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week Rushton Hurley hosted three webinars about transitioning to online teaching and learning. Those webinars addressed a lot of questions about planning. You can watch the recording of his…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 17, 2020 | Academic Technology
In my webinar about quickly transitioning to teaching online (recording available here) I mentioned that I would using the scheduling feature in Gmail to send messages to students and parents on a…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 17, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last night I hosted a free webinar in which I shared what I’m doing to transition to quickly transition to teaching my high school classes online. I also shared some advice from my colleague Dr. Wendy…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 16, 2020 | Academic Technology
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is closed to the public right now and thousands (millions?) of kids are home from school right now too. That’s why the zoo has announced that they’re hosting…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 15, 2020 | Academic Technology
In the latest episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast I mentioned that EDpuzzle recently updated their user interface and that I was going to make a video about it. Well I started to make a video…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 14, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week I published a series of screenshots illustrating how to schedule and host Google Hangouts Meet events. For those who would like to see the whole process in a video format, I recorded the…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 14, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the wind is howling outside. Spring seems to be coming a little early this year as almost all of the snow in my yard has melted and the stream behind my house is running…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 14, 2020 | Academic Technology
More schools are closing every day, my superintendent told us to make two week’s worth of online lesson plans, and school sports in Maine have been suspended until the end of April. Almost every ed…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 13, 2020 | Academic Technology
MonkeyLearn is a new tool for creating word clouds from text that you supply. As you can see in my video that is embedded below, MonkeyLearn lets you customize the display of your word clouds before…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 13, 2020 | Academic Technology
There are tons of free webinars about remote learning that have been offered in the last week and are scheduled for the coming days. Many of those appear to be vendor-specific. Rushton Hurley, former…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 12, 2020 | Academic Technology
In amongst a wave of email related to COVID-19 I found a message from my local Cisco contact (my school licenses their NetAcad program) that Webex is now free to any school that needs it to conduct…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 12, 2020 | Academic Technology
Slido for Google Slides was one of my favorite new tools in 2019. That’s why I’m excited that it’s now available for PowerPoint and Zoom too! As part of Slido for Education Slido now lets you create…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 11, 2020 | Academic Technology
Google has introduced a new Gmail feature that could be helpful to anyone who has ever struggled with choosing what to put in his or her email signature. Gmail will now let you create multiple…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 10, 2020 | Academic Technology
Google Docs has offered handy image editing tools for years. But until this week Google Docs hasn’t offered a good way to fix images in place. On Monday Google announced an update to the image editing…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 10, 2020 | Academic Technology
Teamimg is a free tool that is a bit like Thinglink and Classtools’ Image Annotator without the hyperlinks. Teamimg lets you upload an image and share it. Once uploaded you can click on the image to…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 10, 2020 | Academic Technology
As I wrote on Saturday, Watch2gether is a nice tool to use to have students share observations, ask questions, and answer questions while watching video clips in your classroom or as part of a flipped…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 9, 2020 | Academic Technology
In my previous post I mentioned Rushton Hurley’s Emergencies and Switching to Online Learning. Later this week Rushton is going to host three free webinars on the topic. The webinars are Wednesday at…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Mar 9, 2020 | Academic Technology
Last week and again this morning I published my top tips and tools for teaching remotely if your school closes due to COVID-19 outbreak. And as I mentioned on my podcast, Larry Ferlazzo has a good…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
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