Home Archive for November 2016

The Month in Review - Ten Most Popular Posts

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Good afternoon from Maine where it feels like the month of November came and went in the blink of an eye. The month started out warm and now...
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Telegraph - Super Simple Blogging

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Alan Levine's Cog Dog Blog is one of my absolute favorite blogs. I skip over many others in my Feedly list to read his posts first. I a...
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HSTRY is Now Sutori

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Over the last couple of years HSTRY has become a popular multimedia timeline creation tool. One of its best features is the option to inclu...
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Flubaroo Adds a New Feedback Option - Stickers & Badges

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Back in June when Google added a scoring option to Google Forms many people wondered if Flubaroo was still a necessary Add-on. The answer t...
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World Population History - An Interactive Map and Timeline

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Last night on the Practical Ed Tech Facebook page I shared a post from Randy Krum that included a visualization of U.S. population growth. ...
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9 Lessons Learned Through Nine Years of Blogging

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Today marks the ninth birthday for this little blog that I started on a Wednesday evening in 2007. Read that first post and you'll see ...
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Quick & Powerful Video Projects - A Wednesday Webinar

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When I was a middle school student (decades ago now) my classmates and I made some videos about the countries that we were studying in our g...
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Get More Room to Work In Google Docs With Just One Click

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One of the complaints that I often hear from teachers and some students about Chromebooks is that the screen is too small. I agree. There ar...
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Wednesday Webinars - A New Professional Development Series

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I teased this earlier in the month, but now I'm ready to officially announce a new series of Practical Ed Tech webinars that I'm cal...
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The Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

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Good morning from Maine where an inch of fresh snow is coating the woods around my house. The fresh snow provides a great canvas on which va...
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How to Use a Whiteboard in Google+ Hangouts

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On Friday I shared three tools that you and your students can use to host online tutoring sessions. One of my suggestions was to try using G...
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Four G Suite Updates You Might Have Missed Recently

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Google is constantly developing new features and sometimes eliminating old features from the tools that many of us use every day. It can be ...
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Three Ways to Host Online Tutoring Sessions

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I recently received an email from a reader who was looking for some tools that she could use for online tutoring/ instruction. The catch was...
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Google Drive vs. Padlet

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Earlier this week I received a message on the Practical Ed Tech Facebook page from a reader who asked, "What do you suggest as the bes...
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The History of Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

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For millions of Americans watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thanksgiving morning is as much a tradition as watching football af...
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Emojis and More Special Characters in Blogger

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This isn't groundbreaking, but you can now use emojis in Blogger . About a week or two ago a new icon appeared in the "compose...
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Analyzing Word Choice in a Presidential Statement

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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on this day in 1963. Later in the same day Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President of the United...
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Apply Now for Early Access to Google Team Drives

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A couple of months ago Google announced the development of a new product called Team Drives. Team Drives is a version of Google Drive design...
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Pic4Carto - Find Creative Commons Images Based on Location

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There are plenty of places to find public domain and Creative Commons licensed pictures on the web. Some of my favorite places were featured...
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A New Facebook Page for Practical Ed Tech Tips

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Many readers of this blog are already familiar my Practical Ed Tech weekly newsletter in which I share my favorite tip of the week and a sh...
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Use Google Earth to Create Narrated Tours of Mars & the Moon

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Last night I published a video about how to make simple Google Earth tours . This morning I was greeted by an email in which a reader asked ...
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Record History on Thanksgiving Day

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For many Americans Thanksgiving is one of the few times, perhaps only time, that extended family gathers together. It can be a great time fo...
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A Quick, Last-minute Thanksgiving Lesson Plan

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American Thanksgiving is just a few days away. Some schools are closed this week while others are open for the first few days of the week. I...
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How to Create Kahoot Games

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For the last eleven months "create Kahoot games" and "Kahoot" have been the most frequently searched terms on this blog....
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A Reminder About Black Friday Electronics

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Sadly, Thanksgiving in the United States has almost become synonymous with the start of holiday shopping season. On the day after Thanksgivi...
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The Week in Review - The Most Popular Posts

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Good morning from Maine where the sun is shining and I'm looking forward to a day of walking in the woods around my home (with orange cl...
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A Brief History of Timezones

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When I signed into Facebook this morning I was greeted by a notice that on this day in 1883 the railroad industry in North America began us...
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How to Collaboratively Create YouTube Playlists - Updated

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Last year I published a video about how to collaboratively create YouTube playlists. Since then the steps for doing that have changed a litt...
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Padlet Now Offers Commenting on Notes

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Padlet is one of my favorite all purpose ed tech tools. With Padlet you can create a place to collect digital exit tickets, a place for coll...
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Protagonist vs. Antagonist - A Student Video

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Throughout the year Next Vista for Learning hosts student video contests. All of the contests ask students to create short lessons about a w...
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G Suite for Education Has a New Templates Option

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On Wednesday Google announced some changes to the Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Sheets templates galleries. The old version of the templa...
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EDpuzzle Offers an Android App for Students

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Thanks to David Kapuler I have just learned that EDpuzzle now offers an Android app for students . The EDpuzzle Android app lets students j...
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C-SPAN StudentCam 2017 - Student Messages for Washington

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C-SPAN's StudentCam contest is an annual event that invites students to produce short videos about current issues related to United Stat...
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Six Ways to Create Videos on Chromebooks - Updated

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Last night on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page someone asked me for recommendations for creating videos on Chromebooks. Back ...
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