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Fun with a Holiday Fliphunt
Add some fun to your holiday season and learning by completing this holiday fliphunt. You’ll find a variety of options so you can start with any of the tasks. All you need is the Flipgrid app on a...
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Create Your Own Amazing Font
If you are like me, you enjoy getting and sending handwritten notes, so much so that, for several years, I had a side business where I did calligraphy for people. I scripted wedding invitations,...
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Let Patent Illustrations Upgrade Your STEM Classroom to STEAM
You may not think of patent illustrations as a way to connect students to content they are learning. But they might actually help some of your students who otherwise might not be interested in STEM....
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Digital Resources for MLK Day
Monday, January 20, is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a commemoration of the life of the civil rights leader on the occasion of his birthday. Signed into law in 1983 and first observed in 1986,...
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Four Features to Make Better Use of Flipgrid
You have probably already heard of Flipgrid and perhaps even started using it, at least to some degree. It definitely seems to be the perfect tool to support students in many ways, not to mention...
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Resources for the Raspberry Pi Enthusiast
What can be better than a computer designed to inspire children? That was the motivation for creating Raspberry Pi even as early as 2006 when it was just a concept. At the end of 2011, 25 Raspberry Pi...
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Supporting Staff While Working Remotely
While it may be commonplace for finance or IT workers to work remotely, it is definitely not usual to have school teachers and district employees working remotely. That is, until now. Working remotely...
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Distancing without Disconnecting: Zoom Games
Whether you are a teacher working with students or are just trying to work from home during this strange time, it’s important to social distance without disconnecting. Social and emotional support is...
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Creating Virtual Backgrounds for Zoom
If you happen to be using a PC or Mac (not a Chromebook) to connect with Zoom, then you may have noticed that you have the ability to do virtual backgrounds (assuming it has been enabled in the...
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Five Resources to Help with Remote Teaching
Remote teaching has its challenges. Though you may be able to tweak many of your classroom lessons to work in a remote learning situation, you may discover that the learning activities have to be...
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Closing Out Your Virtual Year
I think it is safe to say that this has been a very different school year than what we are used to. Social distancing, sheltering in place, last-minute remote learning, it’s enough to make everyone...
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Are You a Victim of Typosquatting?
Educators have made great strides in teaching digital citizenship to students. Many students now know the value of a strong password (that is, not shared with anyone), common phishing scams via email,...
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Teaching Students About Artificial Intelligence
Though the term “artificial intelligence” (AI) can be traced back to the 1950’s, it really didn’t start getting much traction until recently. Before we talk about ways that you can teach students...
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Declutter Your Inbox the Easy Way
My inbox seems to keep growing. With interesting offers appearing and different websites I come across, I seem to subscribe to a lot of sites. They are great at the moment. But I’ve noticed that,...
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Remote Learning: How Parents Can Help
With schools about to start back up, many parents are already looking to see how they can prepare themselves and their kids to have the most positive and impactful year possible. This past spring was...
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Leadership in Times of Chaos
Maybe you, like me, have thought multiple times, “Oh, if we could just go back to the way things were before COVID-19.” Even that thought itself could end with an exclamation mark at times. But things...
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Student Accommodations in Canvas
I can’t believe it is already September. School has started and some things, though not normal, are moving forward. If you find yourself teaching online in Canvas, you may have encountered the same...
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Make Online Presentations More Engaging
We should go ahead and anticipate that “Zoom fatigue” will soon be added to the Oxford English Dictionary. One way to help diminish the agony of staring into your computer screen for another meeting...
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Learning on the Go with Podcastle AI
It is easy to create assignments for students that involve a lot of text. And, unless it is a reading comprehension or fluency assignment, your main goal is that they learn from the text. But, as we...
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Using Wakelet to Create Infographics
Infographics allow students to share a lot of information in a visually-pleasing but concise way. While there are lots of tools that you can use to create and publish infographics, you might want to...
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