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Instructional Audio: 4 Benefits to Improving It
Ensuring every classroom has instructional audio capabilities helps all students hear what the teacher is saying.
A Great Place to Find Free Images for School Projects
Photos for Class is one of my favorite sites for students to use to find free images to use their projects. The best feature of Photos for Class is that it automatically adds attribution information to the footer of the images that students download. Recently, Photos for Class was updated to provide stricter image filtering. I thought this would be a good time to create an updated video about how to use Photos for Class.
In this short video I demonstrate how to find free images on Photos for Class. In the second half of the […]
11 Steps to Creating a Minecraft Lesson
11 steps to creating a Minecraft Lesson. Get started with engaging students in learning by using Minecraft Education Edition. Alice Keeler shows you how.
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Brush Ninja- A Great GIF Maker for Teachers and Students
Brush Ninja is an animated GIF maker that is suitable for kids and students of all ages. Using the platform’s integrated tools (e.g., brushes, colours, marker, pencil, etc), students can draw their own animations, turn them into animated GIFs and share them with others. The process is simple and easy and does not require any log-in or software download.
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Simply open Brush Ninja’s online editor from the homepage and start drawing your animated GIFs. You can type in or handwrite text, add shapes and lines, upload images to use as background, change colour, add captions […]
High-end Haptic VR Glove Company HaptX Raises $23 Million Investment
HaptX, which makes-enterprise focused haptic VR gloves, has announced the closure of a $23 million investment. The company says it will use the cash to accelerate the rollout of its next-gen products.
HaptX has been enhancing and refining its enterprise-focused haptic VR gloves for several years now. In addition to force-feedback, the company also touts its micro-pneumatic haptics which push against your skin to mimic the feeling of an object pushing back when you grip it. Though bulky and expensive, HaptX has the most convincing haptic VR gloves I’ve tried yet.
Following the early […]
Meta is Adding Private Homes to ‘Horizon Worlds’ for Hangouts with Friends
Horizon Worlds, Meta’s social VR platform for Quest users, has featured its own ‘Personal Space’ zone for a while now, however now the company is rolling out a more social version to more users that will let you better flesh out your home area for others to visit.
‘Personal Space’ used to be a floating island where you’d customize your avatar and view updates and events in Horizon Worlds, making it essentially the first place you’d go before jumping into the growing number of social VR rooms and live events offered through Horizon Worlds. It was personal though, as in, only you could […]
What is GoNoodle and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks For Educators
A free tool for educators, GoNoodle is designed to help keep students moving and active while at school.
Free Webinar – Believe In You Student Leadership Program
Last spring I wrote about OPEN’s Believe In You Empowerment Program and its accompanying digital journals for students. Building upon the success of that program, OPEN and Varsity Brands has launched a new initiative called the Believe In You Student Leadership Program.
The Believe In You Student Leadership Program is a twenty week program designed to help you help your students develop leadership skills that they can use in school and beyond. The program includes weekly activities for students to complete on their own, with classmates, and with […]
Five Google Search Products Students Overlook
The advanced search menu on Google.com offers some great search results refinement tools that students should know how to use. Once students have become familiar with those tools, they should start exploring some of the other search products that Google offers that aren’t found by just searching on Google.com. In this new compilation video I provide an overview of five Google search products that can be helpful to students (mostly high school and college level).
In Five Google Search Products Students Overlook I demonstrate how to use the […]
What is Gradescope and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Gradescope helps to make work submission, grading, and tracking a digital delight.
Lessons to Answer Common Questions About Fall
Yesterday morning my youngest daughter and I were walking one of our dogs when she asked a question that her older sister asked a couple of years ago. That question was, “why do we have fall?” I did my best to explain it to her (she’s four, five next month) in terms that she could understand. I think she got it the gist of it.
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Hands-on: ‘Resident Evil Village’ on PSVR 2 is a Visual Feast of Unprecedented Detail
Resident Evil Village is one of the best looking games on PS5 to date, and its forthcoming VR version will be one of the best looking games in VR to date. During a hands-on with RE8 on PSVR 2 I found myself entranced by the game’s world which offers up unprecedented levels of detail among VR titles.
Earlier this month I visited Sony’s PlayStation headquarters in San Mateo, CA to see PlayStation VR 2 in person for the first time. Among the four demos I got to play was Resident Evil Village which is being fully ported to the headset.
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My Ten Top Tools for Social Studies Teachers and Students
A few years ago I published a list of my favorite tools for social studies teachers and students. Since then a few things have changed, namely Google has shuttered a couple of cool tools, so I think it’s time to update the list. In no particular order, here are my top ten tools for social studies teachers and students.
Timeline JS
Timeline projects as as old as history classes themselves. It used to be that timelines were only made on paper. Today, students can build timelines that include videos, audio recordings, pictures, and interactive maps.
Pico Teases New Headset Announcement Coming This Week
Pico is gearing up to launch its next VR headset, which may very well be the previously spotted Pico 4 series of standalone headsets. The company says to stay tuned to an official announcement coming on Thursday, September 22nd.
The China-based company says it’s indeed announcing a new standalone headset this week, which looks to be the very one that’s hoping to take on Meta in its home turf.
While unconfirmed at this time, the announcement is likely to be centered around the Pico 4 and Pico 4 Pro headsets first spotted in regulatory filings back in […]
Kapwing- Create Amazing Video Tutorials and Interactive Visuals
What is Grammarly and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Grammarly is a writing tool that can be helpful for students when used in the right way.
What 4 Atypical Shocks Are Coming in Education?
Preparing for a potential wild ride in education over the next few years
What is Cyberbullying?
Cyberbullying involves an imbalance of physical or emotional power and an intent to cause harm, like traditional bullying, and is not limited to the school day or school grounds.
The Physics of Soccer Kicks
My daughters have started playing soccer this fall. For the first time in my life I have a real interest in watching the game. Before yesterday’s practice there were some high school students on the field who were making some long kicks which amazed my youngest daughter who wanted to know how they did it. While a bit too complex for a five-year-old, TED-Ed does have a nice physics lesson about soccer kicks.
How to Create PDFs in Google Classroom
Last weekend a reader reached out to me to ask if I could create a video about the relatively new option to create PDFs in Google Classroom. I was happy to oblige.
Writer’s Toolbox: Stephen King’s Tips to Enhance Your Writing
9 Great Books to Help You Write Your Dissertation or Thesis
Academic writing is not easy and can be extremely challenging. As a research student, you get to do a lot of academic writing from writing your term paper to working on peer-reviewed journal articles, you definitely need a robust academic writing style to survive the popular motto in academia: publish or perish.