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An Old Story About Digital Badges and Why Kids Like Them
Warning! Small humble brag (from 2015) ahead.
This morning I set out on my bicycle to complete a challenge that I had accepted on Strava a couple of weeks ago. (Strava is an app for tracking running and cycling activities. It also has a social networking […]
Rhythm Fit – New Lesson Plans from OPEN Phys Ed
Last spring I highlighted OPEN Phys Ed’s National Field Day activities and lesson plans. For the new school year OPEN has published a new collection of lesson plans, activities, and videos for K-8 students. The new collection is called Rhythm Fit. You can access all of the Rhythm Fit resources right now with a free OPEN Phys Ed account.
Rhythm Fit is a series of physical fitness activities set to music created by Hip Hop Public Health. Don’t let that description make you think that Rhythm Fit is […]
Free Email Etiquette Posters
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I shared a bunch of resources for teaching about digital citizenship. In that newsletter I included a link to two posters about email etiquette that I created last fall. I also mentioned that Canva is running a free poster printing promotion later this month.
You can get PDFs of my email etiquette posters for free right here. Once you’ve downloaded the PDFs you can then import them into your Canva for Education account. Then on August 26th you […]
Valve Adds Bugs in Latest SteamVR Update
Valve this week released the SteamVR 1.23 update which brings with it a new set of bugs.
Dead bugs, that is. The latest update to SteamVR includes a curious addition… a new SteamVR Home destination that includes CT scans of dead bugs “found lying on the ground” outside of Valve’s office.
How to Launch a Flipped Classroom
Flipped classroom enthusiasts say the pandemic has eliminated the technical barriers to flipped learning.
Two Educators Sat in a Bar by @Hedreich
5 steps you can take to ensure civil discussions in your classrooms and even at your holiday tables. Hedreich Nichols of Small Bites and the book Finding Your Blind Spots shares tips.
The post Two Educators Sat in a Bar by @Hedreich appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Jigsaw Explorer- Free Online Jigsaw Puzzles for Students
Book Creator Now Offers Audio, Video, and Text Commenting
Last week Book Creator introduced a great new feature just in time for the start of the new school year. That feature is the option to add video, audio, text, and emoji comments to students’ books. The new feature is still in beta, but you can try it right now. You can add comments to any page within books you’ve created or books that your students have created in your class library.
Watch my short video that is embedded below to see how easy it is to use the new commenting […]
The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – August 2022
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the 20 best rated Oculus Quest games and apps as of August 2022.
Some quick qualifications before we get to the data:
Paid and free apps are separated
Only apps with more than 100 reviews are represented
App Lab apps are not represented (see our latest Quest App Lab report)
Rounded ratings may appear to show ‘ties’ […]
PSVR vs. PSVR 2 – How Far Has PlayStation VR Come Since 2016?
PlayStation VR 2 isn’t here quite yet, but Sony has revealed detailed specs and some features of the headset. Comparing PSVR vs. PSVR 2 specs side-by-side shows us how much has changed since Sony’s first consumer headset released in 2016.
Update (August 15th, 2022): We’ve updated this article and the PSVR 2 spec sheet with the latest info revealed so far.
Among the major players in the VR space, Sony has bided its time on a follow-up to the original headset. Assuming the company’s next-gen VR headset is released this year, around the same time of year as the original, […]
Three Ways to Prepare for and Successfully Land a Student Internship
Internships are an amazing opportunity for students
Landing an internship can be exciting, eye-opening, educational and…even a little daunting. The process of meeting and impressing real-world employers while fighting for limited slots against qualified and competing students can obviously be intimidating the first time around.
So how does one overcome those feelings in order to get the position and prepare for their future? By taking the knowledge they’ve gained in their coursework along with a strong work ethic, great attitude and finally, displaying a very intentional desire to serve in order to be an asset to the organization. Interns who […]
Kikori Offers Free Morning Meeting Planners and SEL Lessons for All Ages!
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Disclosure: Kikori is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.
Kikori is an app and website that I first reviewed back in March shortly after its initial public launch. Since then it has become a popular resource for teachers looking for social emotional learning (SEL) lessons and activities for students of all ages.The free monthly SEL activity calendars, like this one for August, is one of the things that has made Kikori popular.
What is SEL?
Social and emotional learning (SEL) has become increasingly popular in schools. Here is what you need to know about it.
9 Digital Etiquette Tips
Teaching proper digital etiquette to students starts with modeling it
What is Hypothes.is and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Hypothes.is lets you annotate the internet making all information more freely accessible for deeper use.
K5 Learning Offers Helpful Science, Math, Reading, and Vocabulary Worksheets
New Readlee Features for the New School Year
Readlee was one of my favorite new tools in the last school year. The basic concept of Readlee is your students complete assignments by reading to their computers then Readlee uses artificial intelligence to provide you and your students will feedback on their reading. For the new school year Readlee has added some new features.
The biggest update to Readlee for the 2022-23 school year is the addition of a Free Read option. This means that instead of you having to assign something to students to read, they […]
Icebreakers and Exit Tickets – 30 Questions
This post is a combination of my most recent Practical Ed Tech Newsletter and one that I published last fall. Whether you’re using an online platform to conduct icebreakers and exit ticket activities or you’re just reading the questions aloud to your class (AKA the Old Fashioned Way), I hope these help.
Icebreaker Questions
1. Would you rather be too hot or too cold?
2. Where would you go if I gave you a free plane ticket today?
3. Tell a story about the third picture in your phone.
4. Do you put your […]
Sushi Monster- A Good App That Helps Kids Improve Math Fact Fluency
NOAA Sea to Sky – 1000+ Resources for Science Teachers
Earlier this week I was checking my local weather forecast on NOAA.gov when I noticed a back-to-school announcement. The announcement highlighted some lesson plans and multimedia resources for teaching about things like hurricanes, changing sea levels, and climate resilience. The announcement also drew attention to an updated database of resources for teachers. That database is called NOAA Sea to Sky.
NOAA Sea to Sky currently contains 1239 resources that can be used to teach a wide variety of topics in science to students from Kindergarten through college. […]
Airplanes, Screens, and Search – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where the sun is shining and cool breeze is blowing while I drink my morning coffee. It was a long week and I’m going to savor one of the last weekends of the summer by spending today exploring a little beach with my little family. I hope that you also have a coffee in your favorite mug instead of travel mug, go for a walk in the woods, or do something equally fun and relaxing this weekend.
These were the week’s most popular posts:
1. Five Good Resources for Learning […]
4 Excellent Tools to Create Interactive Posters and Visuals
Excellent YouTube Channels That Provide Educational Video Content for Kids
In today’s post, I am sharing with you this collection of YouTube channels that provide educational video content for kids. These channels cover a wide variety of educational topics including math, literacy, geography, science, physics, nature, astronomy, history, among others.
Education In The New Normal- Technologies That Are Driving Remote Learning
