Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Historical Facebook Profiles in...
Creating a fake Facebook profile for a character in a book or of a famous person in history could be a good way to get students interested in writing about that person. Doing that on Facebook.com is a...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Quickly Dictate Notes on MicNote
MicNote is a free Chrome and Android app that allows you to create voice recordings, text notes, and image-based notes on one concise notebook page. The notes that you record with your voice can be...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Four Options for Creating & Using Rubrics...
A good rubric can help students understand what is expected of them and it can help teachers score students’ assignments consistently and efficiently. If your students are submitting assignments to you...
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Screencasts on Chromebooks
As I’ve written many times over the years, Screencast-o-Matic is my favorite tool for creating screencast videos on Mac and Windows computers. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on Chromebooks. In the past...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Tips for New Chromebook Users
Whenever you get a new computer there is a bit of an adjustment period while learning the nuances of that new computer and or operating system. If you find yourself with a new Chromebook for the...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Use Images as Answer Choices in Google Forms
For years I’ve been showing people how to put images into Google Forms to be the basis of a quiz question. Almost every time I show that they ask if the same can be done with answer choices. Until last...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 5 Google Slides Features Every Student...
This is the time of year when many teachers and students start to use Google Apps for Education for the first time. It’s also the time of year when people who have used Google Apps before discover that...
View ArticleThree Online PD Opportunities With Me
With the new school year underway it can be hard to find time for professional development. Fortunately, online courses can make it a bit easier to find time for PD as you can join classes from home,...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 5 Neat Things Students Can Do With Google...
Google Drawings is one of the tools in the Google Drive suite that often gets overlooked by students and teachers. It can be a handy tool if you know how to use it. In the short video embedded below I...
View ArticlePractical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Insert Videos Into Google Slides Without...
For years one of the most common complaints about Google Slides has been that you can only use videos from YouTube in your slides. This week Google finally made it possible for you to use videos in...
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