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2022 Was a Plateau Year for VR, Here’s What to Expect in 2023
The end of 2022 marks more than a decade since the Oculus Kickstarter sparked the modern era of VR. While the space has undoubtedly grown tremendously since then, 2022 felt largely like a plateau year, with Meta standing unchallenged as the dominant player in the space—while progressing disjointedly in too many directions at once. But with new headsets, promising new content, and a looming heavyweight positioned to challenge Meta all on the horizon, 2023 could big a much bigger year for the VR space.
The 2022 Plateau
2022 wasn’t a bad year for VR by any means, but for the […]
What is Edublogs and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Edublogs is the website building system designed by teachers, for teachers.
Best Infographic Creation Tools for Teachers
Infographics are visual representation of data. Infographics can help communicate your ideas in a clear and concise format. You can leverage the communicative strength of infographics to boost your students understanding and increase their engagement.
TypingClub- Learn Touch Typing Through Interactive Games
10 Great Typing Games for Kids
1. Typing Rocket
Dozens of PowerPoint Tips & Tricks
On Saturday I shared my playlist of Google Slides tutorials. This morning I have a PowerPoint tips playlist to share with you. Over the years I haven’t made nearly as many PowerPoint tutorial videos as I have Google Slides tutorial videos. That said, my PowerPoint tips playlist still includes more than two dozen tutorials.
Some of the highlights from the playlist are featured below.
Create a storyboard template in PowerPoint
The Four Levels of Reading Explained
7 Great YouTube Channels for Social Studies
Looking for some good social studies YouTube channels to use in your instruction? The collection below has you covered. It features channels that offers educational video content covering major areas of social studies including economics, history, geography, civics, as well as sociology. I invite you to check them out and share with us on our social media websites if you have other suggestions to add to the list.
1. CrashCourse
CrashCourse is an amazing educational YouTube channels that offers educational video content covering a wide range of topics from biology to history. […]
20 Excellent Math YouTube Channels
How about teaching math through videos? The YouTube channels below are some of the best math channels to help your students and young learners explore the world of Math and develop mathematical thinking. These channels provide a wide variety of videos, tutorials and animated courses covering different mathematical concepts from algebra to geometry.
Google Sites Easily Build Websites for Your Classes
9 Tips Every Teacher should Know about Google Scholar
Google Scholar is definitely a great academic search engine for research students and academics. Besides searching for academic literature such as journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, books, reports…etc, Google Scholar also enables you to create your personal library where you can save and organize your materials. And if you are an author, you can use its metrics to learn about who cites your search and where it was cited.
Here is How to Search for PPT Presentations
If you are looking for PPT search engines here are two options to consider. Keep in mind that there are no real quality search engines that are entirely dedicated to PowerPoint presentations. I mean quality search engines because you will find some out there but not worth mentioning here. I tried many platforms and I landed the two options below.
This Is How to Do A Reverse Image Search on Google
Forms, Games, and Images – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where the sun is rising on what should be a nice winter day. It’s nice to see the sun after a couple of days of clouds, snow, and a bit of rain. We’re headed out to take and teach ski lessons this weekend. I hope that you also have something fun scheduled for the weekend.
This week I started my first course of the new year. I have more scheduled for later this year. Subscribe to my Practical Ed Tech newsletter to be notified when my next course opens for […]
Dozens of Google Slides Tutorials
Earlier this week after publishing An Important Tip for Using Image Search in Google Slides it occurred to me that I should probably start to organize all of the Google Slides tutorials that I’d made over the years. As I started to search through my YouTube channel I discovered that I’ve made more than eighty Google Slides video tutorials over the years. Some of them are a bit outdated now, the rest are still relevant. All of the relevant ones are now organized into one playlist.
In my playlist of Google Slides tutorials […]
The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher
I come from a family of teachers. Three of my sisters are teachers (including my twin sister) and my two younger brothers are teachers as well. I often think that teaching has come to me and not the other way around. And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field and a whole new set of skills have come to the fore. Web technologies are now part and parcel of the teaching pedagogy and since the pandemic they have even […]
Free Online Book Libraries for Kids
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay
1- Epic library
Which Creative Commons Licence Should I Use?
US Congress Halts Orders of Microsoft AR Combat Goggles Amid Reports of Headaches & Eyestrain
In 2021, Microsoft won a United States Army defense contract worth up to $22 billion which would support the development of an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on HoloLens 2. Now Congress has rejected the Army’s request for $400 million to buy as many as 6,900 more of the AR combat goggles this year, a Bloomberg report maintains.
The rejection cites rocky tests conducted last year. Testing was done over a three-week period ending June 18th, where the Army assessed Microsoft’s IVAS with a cadre of 70 Army […]
Education RE-solution
Synonyms for the word resolution could serve as guidance for solving education problems in the year ahead
A Quick Tip for Using the Same Color in Multiple Adobe Express Projects
A couple of days ago I shared a tip for duplicating colors in Canva design elements. A similar thing can be done in Adobe Express.
When you find or create a color scheme in Adobe Express that you want to use in multiple projects, there is an easy way to make sure you get all of the shades exactly right. The way to do that is by using color hex codes instead of using the color selection tool. By using color hex codes you can be certain that you’re using the exact shade of […]
How to Use Voice Typing in Google Slides
Google recently improved the voice typing function in Google Docs and Google Slides. The tools work in the same way as before, but the voice recognition and accuracy is better than it has been in the past. If you’ve never tried voice typing in Google Slides, watch this new video to see how it works.
Video – How to Use Voice Typing in Google Slides
It’s important to note that you still have to give verbal commands to start new lines and add punctuation when voice typing in Google Slides and Google […]
Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?
Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, always falls on a date between January 21 and February 20. In 2023, Chinese New Year will fall on Sunday, January 22. Besides China, several other Asian countries celebrate the Lunar New Year including Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, as well as Asian communities all over the world.
A traditional custom associated with the Chinese calendar states that one’s personality is determined by the year they were born in. Each year in the Chinese calendar is represented by an animal known as the Chinese zodiac sign. […]
Best TED Ed Videos for Middle School Students
Looking for some intellectually engaging video content for your middle school students? The list below has you covered. It features 10 great TED Ed video lessons to use with you middle school students from tips to improve critical thinking skills to learning the art of listening empathically.
1- 5 tips to improve your critical thinking – Samantha Agoos
“Every day, a sea […]
17 Best TED Ed Talks on Language Learning
Language is amazingly mysterious. It has been the centre of contentious debates dating back to ancient Greek philosophers and even before. One particular topic that has stirred a lot of discussion in linguistic and non-linguistic circles is that of nature vs nurture. That is, whether language is an innate universal capacity humans are born with and are predisposed to automatically acquire or whether it is a learned competence that requires some sort of formal/informal instruction.
