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Genius Hour: 3 Strategies for Incorporating it in Your Class
Educators Vicki Davis and John Spencer share tips for effectively incorporating genius hour into the classroom.
Abbott Elementary: 5 Lessons for Teachers
The popular sitcom Abbott Elementary provides laughs–and teaching lessons
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StrikerVR is Launching Its Most Affordable VR Gun Accessory Yet
StrikerVR, longtime maker of haptic VR guns, is launching its most affordable product yet: the Mavrik-Pro. Though still primarily targeting VR attractions, the company says it plans to launch a consumer version of the new gun next year.
StrikerVR makes some of the best haptic VR guns in the biz which can be found at premiere VR attractions. Though the peripheral packs and impressive punch, the pricey product is a tough sell for smaller venues and consumers.
StrikerVR hopes to fix that with its latest haptic VR gun, the Mavrik-Pro which is now available for pre-order by VR […]
Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions – Free Event Tomorrow
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After a summer hiatus Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I will be resuming our Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions webinar series tomorrow evening at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET. Join us for this fun and free half hour event in which we answer all kinds of questions about educational technology stuff.
Register here to join us for tomorrow’s live session. And take a look at past sessions right here. Join us and ask your questions live or send them to us in […]
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A Great Alternative to Quizlet
Three times in the last week I’ve answered emails from readers who were seeking suggestions for alternatives to Quizlet. Each time my answer was to try Knowt.
Knowt is a free tool that I’ve written about a few time in the last couple of years. It’s a tool that you can use to create flashcards from scratch or by importing a document and letting Knowt automatically generate flashcards for you. Additionally, Knowt has a large database of flashcards that you can browse through and add into your own […]
PUSH a Value to Other Sheets
Want to know how to copy a value to other sheets? Push cell value to all sheets by hacking Alice Keeler’s Add-on. Use the feature to push the selected cell in a spreadsheet to the other sheets in the spreadsheet.
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Turn Any Quiz Into a Game With Quizalize Games
Last week I published a blog post about the new games feature of Quizalize. That feature enables you to take any quiz that you’ve written or any of the premade quizzes in Quizalize and turn it into one of six arcade-style games for your students to play individually or in teams. The video demo that I initially made for that blog post didn’t come out quite as well as I would have liked. So this morning I […]
A Quick and Easy Way to Distribute Contact Info During an Open House
I have an open house night coming up later this week. Thinking about that reminded me of the following that I wrote six years ago about using QR codes at open house night. The concept is the same now as it was then. The tools that I recommend for making QR codes have changed a bit.
How to Include Video Feedback in Google Forms
Google Forms is a great platform for creating all kinds of simple quiz and review activities. One of the features of Google Forms that is often overlooked is the “go to section based on answer” setting. When you use that setting correctly you can send students to watch a review video when they answer a question incorrectly in your Form. In the five minute video embedded below I demonstrate how to create a Google Form that prompts students to watch review videos when they answer questions incorrectly.
Another method for prompting students to watch […]
Science Lesson – The Threat of Invasive Species
When you drive into my home state of Maine two of the first signs you’ll notice are a sign to watch for moose and a sign banning the importation of firewood. The reason for the moose crossing sign is fairly self-explanatory. The reason for the ban on importing firewood may not be so obvious. Importing firewood is banned because we are trying to prevent the introduction of invasive insects. The part of the explanation of why we’re concerned about invasive insects can be found in a TED-Ed lesson titled The Threat of Invasive […]
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My Classroom or OUR Classroom??
If you are striving for a student centered classroom does your syllabus indicate that this is MY class or OUR class? Are students afraid to deviate from the directions? Do they think they can advocate for their own learning or are restricted to following the directions?
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Fun With Soda Pop – A Nice Weekend Science Experiment
SciShow Kids recently published an updated video about a “classic” science experiment. That experiment is dropping Mentos candies into a bottle of soda pop. But before doing that and explaining what happens, the video briefly explains how beverages are carbonated and why the bubbles stick to some objects better than others. If you’re looking for something fun and educational to do at home with your kids this weekend, watch this video then do the experiment. I think we’re going to give it a go this weekend.
For some printed directions on […]
Games, Analytics, and Tutorials – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where it’s a brisk 47F. It feels like a classic early fall morning in Northern New England. Later it’ll warm up a bit and be perfect for riding bikes and enjoying the long weekend. I hope that you have a great weekend doing something that you enjoy.
This week I held a webinar for some folks who had recently purchased a copy of my eBook, 50 Tech Tuesday Tips. I’ll host a free one-hour webinar for any school that purchases ten or more copies of my eBook. I’m also happy […]
Meta & Qualcomm Join “Multi-year” XR Chip Partnership to Combat a Common Threat
Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to collaborate on “customized virtual reality chipsets” for future devices.
Qualcomm, a leading provider of smartphone processors, was an early mover in the XR space by pushing variants of its Snapdragon mobile processors as ideal for use in both AR and VR headsets—a play which now sees the company’s product in the vast majority of standalone headsets available on the market today.
Meta has used Qualcomm processors in all of its standalone headsets to date—Go, Quest, and Quest 2—and is expected […]
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Free Webinar and 5 Posters to Help Students Learn to Read Like a Historian
Stanford History Education Group offers lots of great resources for history teachers. They’re hosting a couple of free webinars next week including one designed to help you help your students learn to read like a historian. If you can’t make it to the webinar or webinars just aren’t your thing (after two+ years of virtual meeting, some of us are Zoomed-out, I get it), Stanford History Education Group has some other resources that you can use to teach students how to read like a historian. You can access all of those resources for […]
‘Mixture’ Combines Classic Hack & Slash with First-person Spellcasting, Coming to Quest 2 & PSVR 2
Indie studio Played With Fire announced a new action-adventure game this week called Mixture, which lets you control two characters at once, or what the Poland-based indie calls “self-co-op.” The game is slated to release on Quest 2 and PSVR 2.
In the same vein as Moss (2018), Mixture tasks you with controlling a pint-sized character named Sola, a so-called ‘Moth Knight’, while you take on the role of ‘The Alchemist’, a powerful magician who can cast spells to help Sola along her way.
Sola is equipped with a wing-like cape which lets her perform dashes or spread her wings and […]
10 Innovative Ideas for Integrating Technology from the #NYCSchoolsTech Summit & Beyond
Ideas, strategies, and practices to help shape the future of teaching and learning
Tech & Learning Names Winners of the Best for Back to School 2022 Awards
The best education technology tools and solutions for back to school 2022
My Favorite Fall Video Project
It’s September and here in Maine the leaves on some of the maple trees are already starting to change color. This is my favorite time of year! And it’s time that once again I share my favorite fall video project. The project is to create a time-lapse video of autumn. The outline of my time-lapse of autumn project is included below.
The idea is to take one picture every day to document the changes in the foliage as we progress through autumn from the first few orange leaves to full-blown autumn foliage colors to the drab brown […]
VR Modding Monthly: ‘Stanley Parable’, ‘Raft’, ‘Half-Life 2 VR’ Soon & More – September 2022
Welcome to Road to VR’s first ever ‘VR Modding Monthly’, a series of article to keep you up to date about all the exciting things going on in the wonderful world of the Flat2VR Modding community!
What’s the Flat2vr Modding Community and Why Should You Care?
We are a passionate community of modders bringing our favorite rich flatscreen games (often with thousands of hours of content) into full 6DOF VR. We love games built from the ground up for VR, but we feel that there’s also so much potential in existing games to be played in VR. With VR still […]