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Ways To Reduce Math Anxiety in Students
Jeanette Nicholas, a math teacher at Belle Fourche Middle School in South Dakota, shares strategies for reducing students’ math anxiety
Webinar Tomorrow! – A Framework for Technology Integration
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Are you new to the role of tech coach or tech integrator this fall? If so, I have an eBook and webinar for you!
Tomorrow at 3pm ET I’m hosting A Framework for Technology Integration. Anyone who purchases a copy of my eBook 50 Tech Tuesday Tips between now and midnight (Eastern Time) tonight will get a link to join the webinar. And if you previously purchased a copy and want to join this webinar, just send me a note and I’ll register you.
In A Framework for Technology Integration I’ll share my framework for helping teachers use […]
What is Vocaroo? Tips & Tricks
Vocaroo is a voice recording tool that is designed to make creating and sharing recordings easy for educators and others.
Bringing Joy Back to the Classroom
How to get that joy, joy, joy back in our teaching
Control Your Google Slides Remotely Using Remote for Slides
Why Do We Get Dizzy? – Another Question from My Daughters
We’re going to Storyland today for the sixth or seventh time this summer (it’s one of our favorite family activities). My daughters love to go on a ride called the Turtle Twirl. I don’t love it because it makes me quite dizzy and feel a bit of nausea. I’ve seen many other parents gingerly walk away from the ride. The last time we went to Storyland one of my daughters asked, “why do people get dizzy?”
If you have children who are also wondering what makes people feel dizzy, SciShow Kids […]
Two Alternatives to Kami for Annotating PDFs
Last week a reader emailed me to ask about some alternatives to Kami for annotating PDFs. She didn’t ask because she didn’t like Kami. She asked because her school was cutting back on what they would spend for software licensing. I gave her two suggestions which you might also consider if you find yourself looking for an alternative to Kami for annotating PDFs.
OneNote has lots of neat features built into it. One of those neat features is a tool for annotating PDFs. In this short video I demonstrate how you can do […]
Chrome Music Lab- Learn Music Through Fun and Hands-on Activities
‘Transformers: Beyond Reality’ Single-player Shooter Releasing on PSVR September 1st
The Transformers were set to take their first big step into VR earlier this year on PlayStation VR and PC VR headsets, however developers Meta4 and publisher Hasbro put an indefinite hold on its first-person shooter Transformers: Beyond Reality. Now the studio says it’s launching the game on PSVR on September 1st.
Update (August 27th, 2022): Meta4 announced that Transformers: Beyond Reality is set to launch on PSVR on September 1st. The studio currently doesn’t have plans to bring the game to PC VR as previously mentioned, stating that, for now, the studio is “working with our friends at Sony as a […]
How to Use PowerPoint Cameo
Cameo is a relatively new feature in PowerPoint that lets you insert your live camera feed into any and all of the slides in your presentations. Cameo is a different feature from the video insertion option and the presentation recording options that you may have previously used in PowerPoint. Cameo displays your live camera feed so that your face (or other objects in your camera) appears on your slides throughout your presentation.
As you can see by watching my short video that is embedded below, PowerPoint Cameo lets you position your camera feed anywhere […]
Reading, Searching, and Fixing – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where the sun is shining on what should be a nice and sunny weekend after a few days of much-needed rain. We’re going to have a little backyard camping adventure this evening. Tomorrow, we plan to have a fun day at Storyland! I hope that you also have some fun things planned for your weekend.
This week I hosted a free webinar titled Get to Know Your Students With Tract. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here. Next week I’m hosting another webinar titled a Framework for […]
Here is How to Easily Recover Lost or Deleted data from Hard Drive
7 Great iPad Apps To Introduce Kids to Coding and Programming
Ready-made Back-to-School Templates for Teachers
Free PDFs for Lessons on Telling Time
A couple of days ago I shared a few resources for helping students learn to tell time. One of those resources that I mentioned, but didn’t demonstrate, was Canva’s templates for making clocks and their templates for making lessons about telling time. The templates can be used as is or you can modify them to fit your needs before downloading them as PDFs.
In the short video that is embedded below I demonstrate how to use Canva to create PDFs that you can use for lessons about telling […]
How to Add a Timer to Your PowerPoint Slides
One of the all-time most popular videos on my YouTube channel was about how to add a countdown timer to your PowerPoint slides. Unfortunately, the method used in that video no longer works. I was contacted earlier this week by someone who wanted to know if I could suggest another way to add a timer to her PowerPoint slides. I made this new video to answer that question.
In the new video that is embedded below I demonstrate how to add the Breaktime timer to your PowerPoint slides.
For […]
Using the Metaverse to Help Students With Intellectual Disabilities
Award-winning educator Phil Hintz is studying how metaverse technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality can help students with intellectual disabilities build life and occupational skills
Tons of Ready-made Google Slides and PowerPoint Templates
Zuckerberg: Next Meta Quest VR Headset Confirmed for October Release
Although Meta previously confirmed it would launch Project Cambria sometime this year, it wasn’t clear exactly when we’d be seeing the release of what many hypothesize could be dubbed Meta Quest Pro. Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is releasing its next headset in October, which likely means Cambria/Quest Pro is right around the corner.
“For the next device that’s coming out in October, there are a few big features,” Zuckerberg said, speaking to Joe Rogan at the beginning of the nearly three-hour podcast.
The Meta CEO was careful […]
And You Get Teacher Pro
Schoolytics Teacher Pro helps you to get even more out of Google Classroom! Sign up by September 6th 2022 and receive free access to Teacher Pro!!
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Pre-made Google Slides and PowerPoint Templates for Teachers
‘NERF Ultimate Championship’ Team Shooter Releases Today on Quest 2
NERF Ultimate Championship, a 4v4 VR arena shooter, releases today on Meta Quest 2, bringing with it wall-jumping parkour action to go along with the game’s 10 authentic NERF blasters.
Created by Blasters of the Universe (2017) developers Secret Location, the studio plans on releasing multiple post-launch seasons, with Season Passes granted to all players for free.
Before the first season begins though, NERF Ultimate Championship is kicking off a four week-long 10-level pre-season, something the studio says will give players “a chance to hone their skills ahead of the first and second seasons, which have already been […]
How to Create a Spreadsheet in Google
Spreadsheets can be made using Google tools. If you wan to know how to create a spreadsheet in Google here are some tips from the Queen of Spreadsheets Alice Keeler
The post How to Create a Spreadsheet in Google appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Webinar Recording – Get to Know Your Students With Tract
Yesterday afternoon I hosted a webinar titled Get to Know Your Students With Tract. I was joined in the webinar by Tract’s co-founder Ari Memar. If you missed the webinar, you can now watch the recording of it. The recording is embedded below along with links to resources highlighted during the webinar.
To create a free Tract account go to teach.tract.app and use the code BYRNE.
How to Create an Around the World With Google Earth Tour
The Amazing Race is the only reality game show that I’ve watched with interest for as long as it has been on television. Years ago I created a classroom game based on the same premise of the show. This spring I updated that game with some new graphics and new challenges and then published it as a PDF on PracticalEdTech.com.
Recording a Google Earth tour is the capstone activity in Around the World With Google Earth. There are a couple of ways that students can do that. Students who are using […]