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10 Great Search Engines for History Teachers
The purpose of today’s post is to provide history teachers (and history aficionados for that matter) with a collection of useful history search websites to help them search for, locate, and…
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5 Good Visual Note Taking Apps
Below is a collection of some great visual noting apps. The apps provide a wide variety of interesting features that will enable you to take your visual note taking experience to the next level. For…
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Good Drawing Apps and Websites for Chromebook
Below is a collection of some good drawing websites and tools to use on Chromebook. Students will find them helpful and they can use them to engage in creative activities that involve drawing,…
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3 Awesome Google Docs Lesson Plan Templates for Teachers
The new Google Drive Template Galleries for Docs, Sheets, and Slides embeds some really interesting templates to use for a variety of educational purposes.There are templates for creating resumes;…
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Free Lesson Plan Templates for Teachers
Lesson planning is an essential part of our work as teachers and educators. It is our private lab where we put to work our knowledge of pedagogy, methodology, and learning to create instructional…
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20 Great STEAM Websites for Young Learners
If you are looking for STEAM websites to use with your students in and out of class you are in the right place. Below is a collection of some great websites to start with. For each section I provided…
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Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel Featuring Educational Web Tools
Updated June 30, 2022
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework that classifies human cognition into various levels. Developed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues, Bloom’s taxonomy consists of 6…
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Best Drawing Websites Teachers and Students
The purpose of this post is to share with you this selection featuring some good drawing websites I curated specifically for use with students in or out of class. These educational resources are…
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Ten Good Templates for Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts Activities
At the start of this year ReadWriteThink re-released all of their popular interactive templates for creating all kinds of things including poems, story plots, timelines, compare & contrast maps, and much more. If you haven’t looked at ReadWriteThink in a while, take a look at these updated templates that can be used for lessons in language arts, science, and social studies.
Automatically Forward Important Google Workspace Email to Secondary Email Address
It’s summer (in the northern hemisphere) and for many people reading this blog that means it’s time to cut back on reading work email. Some folks simply turn on a vacation responder for the summer and come back to a pile of email in late August. Others like to occasionally check their email during the summer. And some will selectively forward work email to a personal account so that they only have to look in one inbox for important messages during the summer.
In this short video I demonstrate how to create a filter […]
Enroll in Tract’s Free Virtual Summer Creator Camp
Throughout the school year I published a handful of blog posts and videos about an exciting platform called Tract. Tract is a place where students can learn a wide array of things from other students through a sequence of videos and challenge activities. Some of the things that you’ll find on Tract include lessons on making video games, composing music, and taking better photographs. You’ll also find lots of lessons about things that are “on trend” in the middle school and high school […]
Transforming the Traditional Learning Environment with BookWidgets
BookWidgets is an online tool that you can use to create interactive activities for your students to use in Google Classroom, in Canvas, in Moodle, in Microsoft Teams, and right on the BookWidgets website. I covered BookWidgets in depth back in October. Throughout the year BookWidgets added more features for teachers and students. Those features and more will be highlighted at an ISTE session titled Transforming the Traditional Learning Environment With BookWidgets.
Transforming the Traditional Learning Environment With BookWidgets will […]
Short Lessons About American Independence Day
American Independence Day, the Fourth of July, is one week away. Most of you reading this aren’t in school right now. That said, I can’t help sharing a few video lessons about the Declaration of Independence the celebration of Independence Day. Take a look then bookmark these for your U.S. History lessons in the fall.
History offers the following excerpt from the America: The Story of Us series. The clip is commentary from talking heads like Tom Brokaw and Aaron Sorkin. It could prompt some thought and discussion amongst your students.
Climate Kids Helps Kids Learn About Climate Change
NASA’s Climate Kids website has many excellent online and offline resources for teaching students about climate change. One of those resources is the Big Questions page. The Big Questions page guides students through the basic concepts and issues related to climate change. Six big questions are featured on the page. Students select a question to discover the answers through the exploration of a series of smaller questions. Each question is addressed with a mix of image, text, and video explanations.
The Climate Kids Big Questions are:
What is climate change?Why is carbon important?What is the […]
25 Ideas for Whiteboard Videos
Years ago apps like ShowMe and Educreations helped to popularize creating whiteboard-style instructional videos. Today, screencasting tools like Screencastify and Google’s Chrome screencast tool along with Flipgrid’s whiteboard tool make it easy to create a whiteboard style video in your web browser. Regardless of the tool used, the basic premise is to draw on blank screen while talking at the same time.
Often teachers make whiteboard videos to use as lessons for their students to watch independently. But having students make videos can be a great way […]
50 Ideas for Short Tech Workshop Sessions
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Are you a tech coach, tech integrator, or media specialist who has been asked to run a summer workshop for your staff? Or are you (gasp!) already thinking about back-to-school season workshops. If so, 50 Tech Tuesday Tips is for you!
50 Tech Tuesday Tips was curated from more than 400 editions of The Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. In 50 Tech Tuesday Tips you will find ideas for lots of helpful things that you can teach to your colleagues and to students. Throughout the eBook you’ll find tutorials and […]
Two Ways to Make Your Own Classroom App This Summer
Summer is here in the northern hemisphere and for many of us it’s a time to work on things that we’d like to use in our classrooms when school resumes in the fall. One of those things could be developing a mobile app specifically for your classroom or courses you teach. It might sound like a daunting task, but it’s not if you use either of the following tools.
Glide Apps
Flipgrid is Dead!
If you’re attending the ISTE conference in person this week or you’re following updates from it on social media, you probably heard a thing or two about Flipgrid hosting a big event they called Flipfest. I didn’t go because I wasn’t at ISTE and even if I was there corporate “fests” are generally not my thing (my thoughts about corporate “fests” are something I’ll save for another day). But even though I didn’t go to Flipfest I did learn via Twitter that Flipgrid is dead. That’s right, it’s over, no more Fipgrid.
Microsoft has rebranded Flipgrid as […]
PebbleGo- A Good Kid-friendly Research Tool
PebbleGo is a digital research tool that offers students K-3 access to a wide variety of educational resources including informational articles, pre-designed activities, videos, and many more. These…
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‘Resident Evil 4’ Remake on PS5 is Getting “PSVR 2 content”
Resident Evil 4 is getting a remake for PS5, and although Capcom isn’t ringing the church bells in excitement of full PSVR 2 support, the developer says we should at least expect “PSVR 2 content”.
It’s a marked departure from the full-throated PSVR support announcement for Resident Evil 7 Biohazard when it was first unveiled at E3 2016, which lets you play the game start to finish in VR.
This makes it a bit unclear as to what “PSVR 2 content” really means, as it could either suggest full support, or ‘experience-style’ bonus material, which would frankly be a bit of a […]
Overwhelmed and Stressed: How to Manage and Overcome It
Join Kristi Thompson, former classroom teacher, principal, superintendent to better manage your stress and avoid burnout in education.
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‘No Man’s Sky’ Currently in Development for PSVR 2, Possibly Arriving as a Free Update
The redemption arch for one of the biggest flops in gaming history still isn’t over. Hello Games announced at PlayStation’s State of Play that it’s bringing No Man’s Sky to PSVR 2.
No Man’s Sky has been playable on PSVR for around three years now with the launch of the game’s ‘Beyond’ update in 2019, however now the massive space exploration sandbox is looking to immerse users on PSVR 2 as well.
Hello Games says in a PS blogpost that with the power of PlayStation 5 and the PSVR 2 headset and Sense controllers, that it combines to […]
‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2’ Announced for PSVR and PSVR 2
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution was previously confirmed for Quest 2 and PC VR headsets, however during PlayStation’s State of Play event, developers Skydance Interactive announced the game’s much awaited sequel is also coming to PSVR and PSVR 2.
Playing again as ‘the Tourist’, the Chapter 2 is said to feature an original storyline, more patented freedom of choice, and plenty of visceral combat and opportunities for bone-splitting melee. The game is also set to include new weapons that provide “unique methods of combat not previously available.” Sounds gory.
Skydance says the sequel will include silencers that help you […]
How to Address School Shootings with Your Class
Listening to students and providing a safe space for sharing their concerns is key when discussing school shootings, says Olivia Carter, last year’s School Counselor of the Year.
What Is MIT App Inventor And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks
MIT App Inventor is a code based programming teaching tool that offers simple learning for students.