by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 8, 2020 | Academic Technology
For teachers working in schools that use Office 365, Microsoft Forms is a great tool for creating online assessments. Branching logic is one of the features of Microsoft Forms that is sometimes…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 6, 2020 | Academic Technology
During winter break I caught up with my friend Tom Richey to record an episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast. Tom is a high school history teacher (AP Euro) and the producer of fantastic YouTube…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 6, 2020 | Academic Technology
Making a timeline is a “classic” history class assignment. When I started my teaching career my students made timelines on big sheets of paper. Later I had them use some online programs that let them…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 5, 2020 | Academic Technology
Ecoregions 2017 is an interactive map produced by Resolve for the purpose of showing the ecoregions and biomes of the world. When you visit the map you can choose to display either ecoregions or…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 4, 2020 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where the snow that blanketed us earlier in the week is still here and will be here until April. I’m not complaining at all because at our house snow equals skiing. And that’s…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 4, 2020 | Academic Technology
Import questions is one of the many useful, yet often overlooked functions in Google Forms. The import questions function lets you draw questions from your existing forms to use in a new form. In the…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 4, 2020 | Academic Technology
This afternoon I recorded the 26th episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast. In this episode I shared some important news about how I’m publishing new content in 2020, highlighted some “decade in…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 3, 2020 | Academic Technology
About five years ago I assembled a series charts that compared the features of ed tech tools that served similar purposes. Some of the charts I made were about video tools, animation tools, timeline…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 3, 2020 | Academic Technology
I posed this question on Practical Ed Tech and I’m going to pose it here too. What do you want to learn in 2020? It could be learning to code or it could be a new instructional strategy or it might be…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 3, 2020 | Academic Technology
Now that Canva offers an education version that provides all of the pro features for free to teachers and students, there is a ton of neat things that students and teachers can make. One example of…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 2, 2020 | Academic Technology
Some days it feels like I’m playing the world’s longest game of whack-a-mole in my inbox. If this sounds familiar to you and you’re a Gmail/ G Suite user, there are some things that you can do to tilt…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Jan 1, 2020 | Academic Technology
For the new year I have updated my popular Practical Ed Tech course, Teaching History With Technology. The course begins next Wednesday. I announced the course about ten days ago and I’ve answered a…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 31, 2019 | Academic Technology
One of the many neat things that you can do with Canva is create interactive infographics. In fact, you can use nearly any design template in Canva to create interactive graphics. In the following…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 31, 2019 | Academic Technology
It’s the end of the year. For me it’s the end of my twelfth year of blogging about educational technology. Do I have twelve more years in me? We’ll find out… In the meantime here are the twelve most…Read the whole entry at...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
Whether your students are just learning how to type or they’re aspiring journalists, there are lots of ways to use blogging as a classroom activity. Edublogs offers a nice directory of active…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com » Related...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 30, 2019 | Academic Technology
In 2019 I created and added more than one hundred new ed tech tools tutorial videos to my YouTube channel. That brought the total for my channel to more 1,000 videos. This morning I sat down and…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 28, 2019 | Academic Technology
Good morning from Maine where it’s cold and dark at the moment. Fortunately, sunshine is in the forecast and we’re going to play outside in some fresh air after a day of being stuck inside because of…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 27, 2019 | Academic Technology
This afternoon I recorded my last podcast of the decade! I resisted the urge to use REM’s End of the World as bumper music for the episode. Instead, I just went with the usual bumper music then jumped…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 27, 2019 | Academic Technology
The primary means through which I’m able to keep this site running is through revenue from speaking engagements and sales of my Practical Ed Tech professional development courses like Teaching History…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 27, 2019 | Academic Technology
There are some good historical map collections available in Google Earth. But you can also import your own historical maps into Google Earth. topoView is a good place to find historical maps that you…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 26, 2019 | Academic Technology
The end of the year is just five days away so I’ve put together a short list of my favorite new and updated tools in 2019. You can watch my video overview of these tools, take a look at the slides,…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 24, 2019 | Academic Technology
Burning Vocabulary is a new Chrome extension that is designed to help users learn new words while browsing the web. Users of the Burning Vocabulary Chrome extension can mark and save any words on a…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 24, 2019 | Academic Technology
Anchor is the service that I am using and have been recommending to anyone who wants to quickly start a podcast. Anchor does all of the work of submitting your podcast’s feed to all of the major…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 23, 2019 | Academic Technology
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech newsletter I included a seven page handout containing tips and tutorials for improving the accessibility of documents, slides, websites, and videos. In that handout…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
by Free Technology for Teachers | Dec 23, 2019 | Academic Technology
The school that I am teaching in this year draws students from multiple school districts who come to us for technical/ vocational classes, but take their traditional academic classes in their home…Read the whole entry at FreeTech4Teachers.com »...
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