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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers
7 Good Google Scholar Alternatives for Academics and Student Researchers
Best Free Constitution Day Lessons and Activities
These free Constitution Day lessons and activities will inspire students to understand, question, and debate the most important issues of our day.
5 Little Things You Can Do To Improve Your Videos
Whether for it is for education or entertainment we are all watching more videos than ever before. We have more tools to record and share videos than ever before. With the tap of an app or click of a link, you and your students can be making videos to tell stories, teach lessons, or to simply entertain. But before your students make their next videos, have them review these five simple things they can do to make their videos better.
1. Make it short and sweet! Two minutes or less.
It’s better to have two videos that […]
225 NASA Infographics
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website contains a large library of infographics that you can download and print for free. The library contains infographics about spacecraft, exploration missions, planets, moons, the solar system, and comets. I downloaded the What is Comet Made Of? infographic that you see pictured below.
Applications for Education
If printed in color, these infographics could make a nice addition to your classroom walls. More importantly these infographics could provide a model for your students to follow as they create their own infographics about topics in space […]
Best Free Online Spinner Wheel Generators
Developing Rich VR Interactions Faster & Easier Using UltimateXR
Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. Toolsets like UltimateXR can speed up the iteration process for VR interactions, bringing more interactivity and immersion to games and experiences.
Guest Article by Enrique Tromp
Enrique is cofounder and CTO of VRMADA, a tech company providing enterprise VR solutions worldwide. With a strong passion for computer graphics and digital art, his career spans 20 years in simulation, video games, and live interactive experiences. These […]
Google Docs: How to Give Emoji Feedback
Feedback is communicating and this can be done in a variety of ways. Emojis are communication and can be used for feedback in a Google Doc. Check out how to give emoji feedback in a Google Doc
The post Google Docs: How to Give Emoji Feedback appeared first on Teacher Tech.
How to Use XLOOKUP in Google Sheets
Do you have a table of student data and need to lookup the guardian name for example? In this how to use XLOOKUP in Google Sheets Alice Keeler shows you how to return values in a table based on a look up value.
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Alleged Quest Pro Unboxing Video Apparently Leaks Meta’s Next VR Headset
As rumored over the past few months, Meta’s upcoming high-end VR headset Project Cambria seems to be named Quest Pro. And an apparent unboxing video has leaked too, which gives us a good look at the company’s next VR headset and controllers.
We saw the exterior box of Meta Quest Pro pop up on Reddit over the weekend, but a new video seems to have completely blown the cover off Meta’s next VR headset. Here’s a look at the box below for reference:
The video was obtained by Spanish language PC gaming streamer Zectariuz […]
Best Websites to Help You Find Academic Books and Journal Articles
Canva Lesson Plan
This Canva lesson plan can help educators integrate the tool into their instruction
What is Kami and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Kami is a digital classroom solution that makes interacting via screens more powerful.
Restoring Hope and Optimism in Schools
Restoring hope and optimism in schools can start with simply creating positive vibes
Good Places to Find Constitution Day Lesson Plans
This coming Saturday is Constitution Day in the United States. If you find yourself in need of some lesson ideas for Constitution Day, C-SPAN, DocsTeach, and TED-Ed all offer either lesson plans or resources for building your own Constitution Day lesson plans.
C-SPAN Classroom offers free lesson plans and Bell Ringers (discussion prompts) that were either designed for Constitution Day or can be used to meet the requirements of Constitution Day. All of the lesson plans incorporate short video clips addressing topics like enumerated and implied powers of Congress, interpretation […]
Try Using Vocabulary Lists to Help Your Students Conduct Better Searches
I’m in the process of updating my Search Strategies Students Need to Know online course. In the process of doing so I revisited a good article that I read a few years ago. That article is Characterizing the Influence of Domain Expertise on Web Search Behavior (link opens PDF) written by White, Dumais, and Teevan at Microsoft Research. They found that domain experts (domain referring to subject matter) conducted searches with more branchiness than non-experts.
Branchiness is defined as “the number of […]
A Short Overview of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – And How I Use It
The Internet Archive can be a great place to find all kinds of old videos, audio recordings (there’s a huge collection of Grateful Dead show recordings), pictures, and books. The Internet Archive also offers a tool called the Wayback Machine that you can use to see what a website looked like on a previous date.
In this new video I provide a short demonstration of how to use the Wayback Machine.
Two Tips to Make Chrome Run a Little Faster
There was a time when Google Chrome was the new kid on the block and promised faster browsing and faster page load time. That hasn’t been the case for many years now. In fact, now when I hear colleagues, students, or others complain about their computers or Chromebooks running slowly the first thing I do is check their Chrome settings.
There are two little Chrome settings that can make it run faster on your Windows computer or on your Chrome book. Those settings are found under “system” in the “advanced” menu. Those settings are:
Continue running background apps […]
How to Become an Online Teacher Abroad
Flashcards, Games, and Phys Ed – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where it is going to be a beautiful early fall day. By the time that most of you read this I’ll be racing my bike on some of the prettiest dirt roads in all of New England. I don’t harbor any illusions of winning the Northwoods Gravel Grind today, I just hope to have fun and go a little faster than the last time I pedaled over those roads. Bonus! There’s a fun Grateful Dead cover band playing at the end. I hope you have something […]
2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map – And Why Leaves Change Color in the Fall
The 2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map is a feature of the SmokyMountains.com website. The map displays a week-by-week prediction of when leaves in the continental United States will be changing colors from now through the end of November. You can see the predictions change by moving the timeline at the bottom of the map.
On the same page as the 2022 Fall Foliage Prediction Map there is a place to report the foliage changes in your area to help improve the accuracy of the map. You’ll also find some succinct explanations of what makes leaves change […]
9 Good Music Apps for Elementary Students
Valve Corrects Steam Survey Data Revealing Latest VR Population Growth
Valve this week updated its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey to fix issues resulting in anomalous VR population data. The corrected figures return the survey to being one of the most useful pieces of public data about the trend of consumer PC VR usage.
If you’ve been following along closely you might have noticed we haven’t reported on the VR data in Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software Survey data in several months. While it has been a largely reliable indicator over the years, starting […]
Best Image Translator Apps to Translate Text from Images
Navigating Personalized Learning’s Many Definitions
Personalized learning means different things to different educators, finds a new survey, but that may not be a bad thing