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Nitro Type- Learn Typing through Competitive Racing Games
Nitro Type is a free online car racing game that helps players enhance their typing skills through competing with other players in real-time. Each player has a race car whose speed is determined by…
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Cool Math Games- Free Online Math Games for Kids and Students
Cool Math Games offers access to a wide range of free math challenges that help students sharpen their mathematical skills. These include free thinking, strategy, and logic games. Cool Math…
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8 Excellent Books on Discourse Analysis for Research Students
Discourse analysis and more specifically critical discourse analysis is the analytic framework I used in my doctoral research and is also the topic of a number of my peer-reviewed research…
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Five Concepts You Can Teach Through Geocaching
Geocaching is one of the things that I spend a good bit of time talking about in both my workshop and in my webinar about blending technology into outdoor learning. Geocaching is a great activity to do to get kids outside for hands-on learning experiences. Here are five things that you can teach through geocaching activities.
Geospatial Awareness
The core of geocaching activities is locating hidden caches. This can be done through the use of GPS (either on a phone, a smartwatch, or on a dedicated GPS unit) or in an “old school” method of using maps. […]
History, Book Reports, and the Great Outdoors – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where a light drizzle is providing a damp start to the weekend. Despite the weather we’ll still have fun at our Tinkergarten class this morning because it’s always fun to explore nature. I hope that you also have something fun planned for your weekend.
This week I announced that I will be hosting Teaching History With Technology in June. That proved to be the most popular post I wrote all week. If you teach history, I hope you’ll join me in the course.
These were the week’s most […]
Two Ways to Quickly Turn Writing Into Videos
Last week I shared some observations from evaluating the websites of a handful of relatively large school districts. In that blog post I mentioned that the better websites put recent and relevant information on the homepage and don’t rely solely on social media to disseminate news about their schools and their districts. That’s because when you rely on social media, you’re hoping that parents and students notice your posts in sea of all the other social media updates they see in a day.
If you do choose to use social media to share updates […]
How to Archive Google Classroom
The end of the school year is here or at least very near for most of us. Google Classroom users will probably want to archive their classes at the end of the year. Archiving a class prevents students from accessing it so that you can go on summer vacation without any worry that a student is going to write something in it without you noticing it.
If you’re not sure how to archive a Google Classroom class or how to recover it if you accidentally archive the wrong one, watch this short video on
Improve Your Typing While Reading Classic Literature
There is no shortage of typing games available on the web (find 700 of them right here). Most of those games are based on rote practice and patterns. That’s why I was intrigued when the Support Real Teachers Twitter account tagged me in a post about a new typing practice site that wasn’t just a big collection of animated games. That site is called TypeLit.io.
On TypeLit.io you can develop your typing skills while reading classic literature. The way it works is that you pick a classic work in TypeLit’s […]
What is Lightning? – Another Question from My Daughter
On Saturday we had the first thunderstorm of the summer at our house. I made it back from a bike ride just as the thunder and lightning started to crack overhead. The storm prompted my five-year-old to ask, “what is lightning?” We tried to give my daughter a short explanation that lighting is electricity traveling between clouds or between clouds and the ground. That, of course, led to the questions of “how does electricity get in the clouds?” Both were good questions that prompted me to turn to a couple of my old, reliable YouTube channels […]
How to Quickly Remove and Replace Image Backgrounds
At the start of the month I featured four tools for removing image backgrounds. To end this month I have one more cool tool to share with you. That tool is called Strip Background. It does exactly what the name implies and a little more.
Strip Background lets you quickly remove the background from any image that you own. Simply upload your image and let Strip Background do the rest. If the background isn’t removed exactly as you hoped, there are some touch-up tools that you can use […]
Menus, Backgrounds, and Videos – The Month in Review
The month of May has come to a close. I can tell by the traffic patterns on my blog that many of you have started summer vacation. And the rest are ready for vacation. I hope that everyone has something fun to do this summer (or winter for my southern hemisphere friends). One of the fun things we’re excited about at our house is our garden boxes and all of the veggies that hopefully spring from them in the coming months.
At the end of every month I take a look in my Google Analytics account to […]
Fun Science Lessons for Students and Parents to do This Summer
Today is the first day of June and even though it was only 44F when I woke up this morning, summer is on my mind. I’m sure it’s on the minds of many of you, your students, and their parents as well. If you have students whose parents are asking for some things they can do to keep their kids engaged in learning this summer, Discovery Education and 3M have you covered.
Discovery Education and 3M host the Young Scientist Lab in which you will find science experiments that students can complete at home […]
Games for Students to Play to Improve Their Typing Skills
A few days ago I published a short video about an interesting way to improve your typing skills while reading classic literature. That video prompted one reader to send me an email this morning to ask if I had suggestions for typing practice sites for elementary school students. The following are the things that I recommended to her.
TypeTastic is a site that offers more than 700 free typing games for students of all ages. TypeTastic is designed for students to work through units of games. Before each game there is […]
Team-based Combat Game ‘World of Mechs’ Coming Exclusively to Quest 2 May 26th
A new squad-based online battle game called World of Mechs is coming exclusively to Meta Quest 2 on May 26th, and it’s promising a bevy of mechs to pilot.
Developed by Studio 369 and funded by Meta’s Grant Program, World of Mechs lets you choose from 32 different mechs for online team battles that pits you against teams of four. The game is also said to include five maps, four multiplayer modes, and a 20-mission single player campaign.
The developers say the game will include missiles, jump jets, radar jammers, landmines, and the ability to physically ram other players. […]
Broadcast Google Slides Directly to Your Students’ Computers
A few weeks ago I wrote about and published a video about using Display Note to broadcast your computer screen directly to your students’ screens. This week Display Note published some updates that teachers who use Google Classroom and Google Slides are sure to appreciate.
Display Note now offers a free Chrome extension that you can use to broadcast your Google Slides directly to your students computers. With the extension installed not only can you broadcast your slides directly to your students computers, you can […]
What Is Duolingo And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks
Duolingo makes learning a language fun for students and useful for teachers.
Best Educational Technology Websites for Teachers and Educators
Effective technology integration in education requires an evidence-based teaching pedagogy where technology practices are informed by a strong teaching philosophy (the why part). The goal is not to…
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‘Deep Rock Galactic’ VR Mod Gets Developer Approval, Nearing Open Beta Release
Deep Rock Galactic is a cult-favorite PC co-op game where teams of up to four players dive into perilous caverns in search of precious minerals while battling hordes of alien bugs along the way. And now the game is soon to see the first release of a mod that makes DRG fully playable in VR.
The Deep […]
Report Details Apple MR Headset Design Challenges & Internal Hurdles
Apple is a notorious black box when it comes to internal projects, although sometimes details based on supply chain rumors shed a sliver of light on what might be happening with the company’s AR/VR headset behind closed doors. Much less common coming from Apple are direct internal leaks, however a report from The Information alleges that 10 people on Apple’s mixed reality headset project team have detailed some of the past design challenges and possible direction the headset may take moving forward.
The report (via 9to5Mac) details some anecdotes reaching back as far […]
An Interactive Map of the Roman Empire
A few years ago I wrote about a must-bookmark resource from Stanford University for history teachers and students. That resource is called ORBIS and it has been updated since the last time that I wrote about it. ORBIS is Stanford University’s Geospatial Network Model of the Roman Empire.
On ORBIS students can calculate the distance and travel times between hundreds of settlements in the Roman Empire. The calculations happen according to the modes of travel that would have been used during the time of the Roman Empire’s greatest height. For example, I calculated the time […]
BETTER – Print Google Form Quiz
Have more control over how your Google Form™ Quiz prints. Sometimes you need your Google Form on paper and this solution will help you to do it better! Print Google Form Quiz to a Google Doc and customize!
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New Google Docs Features You Might Have Missed
This spring (fall for my friends in the southern hemisphere) Google has added some new features to Google Docs. I’ve written about a couple of them in the last month. There are others that I haven’t covered until I published this new video.
Watch Five New Google Docs Features You Might Have Missed to learn about the following:
Responding to documents and comments with emojis.How to add a dropdown menu into a document.How to use the new table formatting options. How to change page orientation for sections of documents. The new extensions dropdown menu.
‘The Last Clockwinder’ Coming to Quest 2 & PC VR Next Month, New Gameplay Trailer Here
Fixing up an old tower without tools sounds like hard work, but much less so when you have an army of robotic clones at your disposal. That’s the idea at least behind The Last Clockwinder, a VR automation-puzzle game from Pontoco which is slated to hit Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets next month.
The Last Clockwinder […]
Students Less Likely to Be Suspended by Teacher of Same Race
New research finds that Black, Latino, and Asian-American students in New York City were about 3 percent less likely to be suspended if their teachers shared their racial or ethnic background.
Preview: ‘Shores of Loci’ is a Gorgeous 3D Puzzler Coming to Quest 2 & SteamVR Next Week
First time VR studio MikeTeevee is soon to release Shores of Loci, a 3D puzzle game backed by gorgeous and fantastical visuals. The game is set for an Early Access release on Quest 2 via App Lab and SteamVR on May 24th.
Though production company MikeTeevee has been around since 2011, the studio has never released a VR game before Shoes of Loci. Along with the game’s initial release on App Lab (also coming to SteamVR), you might expect the studio’s debut project to be rough around the edges. On the contrary, after previewing the game myself I found a […]