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A Large Collection of Free Printable Christmas Math Worksheets
The purpose of this post is to provide you with a handpicked collection of free printable Christmas math worksheets and activities to use with your kids and students in class or at home. The worksheets contain various math activities, games, and puzzles to help kids learn math and develop key arithmetic skills, all while having fun.
A Free Smithsonian Webinar Tomorrow
Some of my high school history students often took a while to understand the idea that just because a document is an old primary source it doesn’t automatically mean that source is infallible or even an accurate representation of events. They still needed to account for context and the potential for an author’s bias among other factors that could impact the value of a primary source. Tomorrow at 4pm ET Smithsonian Education is hosting a free webinar for teachers who want to help their students become better at evaluating primary sources.
The webinar is […]
Two EdTech Guys Take Questions – The Grand Finale!
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020 Rushton Hurley and I have held a regular series of live Q&A sessions. This week we’re wrapping it up with one last live session of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff. We’d love to have you join us as we answer your questions about all things education, technology, and life 🙂 Register here!
The final live episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff will be held at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT […]
How to Find and Download Your Old Canva Projects
Last week a reader emailed me to ask for help with Canva. Specifically, he wanted to know where all of his videos had gone. He wasn’t the first person to send me that question so I decided to make a short video to show three ways to find your old Canva projects and then download those projects. The video is embedded below.
Video – How to Find and Download Your Old Canva Projects
This is the 51st video in my playlist of Canva tutorials. Some of the most popular […]
Learn Spanish with TV and Movies
Long gone are the days when learning a foreign language meant boring classes and what seemed like endless repetition of words and phrases. The internet made learning anything much easier and more accessible. But with so many language learning websites, apps and programs out there it can be difficult choosing the best option.
Why not try one of the most fun and entertaining alternatives?
In this article we will show you that learning Spanish through TV and movies is not only possible but recommended!
50 Canva Tutorials for Teachers
Other than Google Workspace tools, Canva is the tool that I’ve published the most tutorials about on my YouTube channel. In fact, with the publication of my latest Canva tutorial video I’ve now published 50 tutorials about using Canva’s many features for making videos, presentations, timelines, posters, greeting cards, worksheets, and many other graphics. All of those videos are available in one playlist that you can find and bookmark right here on my YouTube channel.
You can view my updated Canva tutorials playlist right here. A handful of highlights […]
Posters, Pictures, and Leftovers – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where yesterday it felt like winter and today it feels like spring. My family is supposed to go see the Christmas lights display at the Boothbay Botanical Gardens this evening, but the rain might dampen our plans. So we might end up spending the day making Christmas cookies. Either way, we’re going to have a fun weekend and I hope that you do too.
This week marked the 15th anniversary of Free Technology for Teachers. On Monday I published some thoughts about what’s happened in the world of edtech, blogging, […]
Free Printable Christmas Crossword Puzzles for Kids and Adults
Christmas is upon us! Wherever you go you can feel its spirit filling the air and you can see its colors, red and green, decorating our physical environment. Christmas is a time for love, joy, gratitude, fun, and also learning. In Christmas resources for teachers, for instance, I featured a wide variety of resources to help you create Christmas themed learning experiences for kids and students.
To these resources I add this collection of Christmas crossword puzzles that you can use with kids (as well as adults) to help them learn about all aspects of […]
Two Ways to Make Timelines With Adobe Express
A couple of days ago I read a Book Widgets blog post about fun ways to use timelines in your lessons. Reading that blog post inspired me to create a new video about another tool that students can use to create timelines. That tool is Adobe Express.
In Adobe Express there are two ways that students can create timelines. The first is to use one the more than 250 timeline infographic templates that Adobe Express offers. Students can customize those templates by changing the font, color scheme, and […]
Image Candy – A Free Suite of Image Editing Tools
Image Candy is a free set of image editing tools that you can use without having to register for any kind of account. In all there are thirteen free image editing tools included in Image Candy. All of them are quick and easy to use.
Some of the free image editing tools that you’ll find on Image Candy include a background remover, watermark tool, meme generator, and image file-type converter. In the video that is embedded below I demonstrate a few of the easy-to-use features of Image Candy.
Free Printable Christmas Worksheets for Kids and Students
The purpose of this post is to share with you a handpicked collection of platforms where you can access a wide variety of printable Christmas worksheets to use with your kids and students during this holiday season. Most of these materials are available for free download in PDF format.
Resolution Games to Host VR Games Showcase December 15th, Promises “major game announcements”
Resolution Games, the XR studio known for a spate of popular VR titles including Demeo, Blaston, and Ultimechs, announced it’s hosting its first-ever games showcase later this month which the Stockholm-based studio promises will reveal “major game announcements, updates and timely surprises for VR and MR games enthusiasts.”
The Resolution Games Showcase is slated to go live on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday, December 15th at 12PM ET (local time here).
Resolution Games founder and CEO Tommy Palm along with other members of the team are set to show off games, updates and more in what Palm calls “the single-largest […]
Best Gaming Systems for School Esports Programs
The best gaming systems for school esports can change a student’s education experience for the better.
The True Costs of Owning a Car – A Lesson Plan for High School Students
I paid $1500 for my first car. That was a hefty sum for me back in the fall of 1996. That car needed a little bit of brake work to pass the state’s safety inspection and then it needed about a dozen other little repairs over the next two years. Fortunately, I had someone in my life who taught me a lot about working on cars and saved me lots of money in the process. I made the same mistake that many young people make in believing that saving money to purchase the car was all […]
How Airplanes Fly – And Other Good Resources for Learning About Flying
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I’m currently reading Bill Bryson’s book, One Summer: America, 1927. The book is centered around significant events of that summer including Charles Lindbergh’s crossing of the Atlantic. Airplanes have come a long way since Lindbergh flew in the Spirit of St. Louis, an airplane that he couldn’t see out of when looking forward. The physics of how an airplane gets airborne and stays airborne are still the same as they were 1927. A newly released video SciShow Kids uses excellent visuals to explain how an airplane flies today. The video […]
Computer Coding for Kids- 13 Great Guides
What is Book Creator? Tips & Tricks
Book Creator is a free tool that allows users to create multimedia ebooks
November’s Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers
Good evening from Maine where the sun has set on the month of November. At this time of year sunset is a rather early 4:04pm and it feels even earlier than that. Ice is forming on the ponds around my home and I hope that we get some more snow soon because my daughters and I are itching to go skiing.
As I do at the end of every month, I’ve compiled a list of the most popular posts of the last thirty days. Take a look and see if there is anything interesting that you missed […]
Free Christmas Card Templates and Presentation Slides
Christmas brings so many memories and delightful experiences. It is the time of year when everybody winds down and enjoys time with their family and loved ones. For us in education, Christmas is also a time for creating engaging and fun learning experiences for our kids and students.
Indie VR Hit ‘Gorilla Tag’ is the Most-rated Quest Game Ever, and Only Just Coming to the Main Store
Indie VR hit Gorilla Tag has been staggeringly popular despite only being available thus far on Quest’s App Lab. Now set for release on the main Quest store on December 15th, it will launch as the most-rated game on the entire store, even surpassing Beat Saber, one of VR’s best known apps.
App Lab is Meta’s ‘unlisted’ app store for Quest, which allows developers a way onto the platform but precludes them from being promoted or easily found through the main Quest store that most customers see.
Still, we’ve seen apps find success on App Lab, and none more so than Gorilla […]
How School Social Media Accounts Put Student Privacy at Risk
New student privacy research shows that school social media accounts have posted millions of photos of students and other identifiable information, which might be dangerous
Free Webinar Next Wednesday – Best of the Web 2022
Tomorrow the calendar turns to December and many of us will start to think about the year that was. One of the things that I do every December is take a look back at all of the new and updated educational technology tools that I tested throughout the year. I’ll put all of my favorite ones into one presentation that I’ll share with all of you.
Join me one week from today for a free webinar titled Best of the Web 2022. I’m hosting it live at 3:30pm ET on December 7th.
How to Make Custom QR Codes With Adobe Express
Yesterday afternoon I published a video and blog post about using Canva to create custom QR codes that include your own images and graphic designs. The Adobe Express suite of tools also offers a QR code creation tool. QR code creation tool in Adobe Express doesn’t let you use pictures in your codes like Canva does, but you can customize the color scheme and format of your QR codes. It’s a nice option for those who are already using the Adobe Express suite and need to quickly create a QR […]
The 20 Best Christmas Movies of All Time
Celebrate the holiday spirit with these amazing Christmas movies. For the boomers among you some of these movies,especially the classic Christmas movies, will definitely arouse old memories and stir up feelings of nostalgia to an era where there were no mobile phone, Internet or social media, and where everybody would gather around the single TV set at home to watch Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone, or A Christmas Carol. Yes, those were old good times.
This post is motivated by a personal communication with a fellow educator in which we talked about our favorite Christmas movies. Out of […]
Indie VR Gem ‘COMPOUND’ Set to Release on Quest 2 Next Week
First released in early access on Steam in 2018, VR roguelite COMPOUND hit its 1.0 release on PC VR earlier this year and is now set to launch on Quest 2 for the first time next week on December 8th.
Compound is a VR roguelite with a unique pixel-art style and an arsenal of fun weaponry with which to experiment. And though little-known, it’s something of a cult hit as the 6th best-rated VR game according to Steam (with an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ 97% rating) and the 9th best-rated according to Steam250 (which uses its own algorithm to determine rankings).
Created by one-man indie developer Bevan “NotDead” […]