Home Archive for January 2017

The Best of Free Technology for Teachers in January

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Sunset over Casco Bay. Good evening from Maine where the sun is setting on the first month of 2017. It has been a busy month here at the Byr...
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Access All Google Drive Templates From One Place

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Using Google Documents, Sheets, Slides, and Forms templates can save you time when you need to create something that many other teachers als...
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WriteReader Presents the Most Popular Topics Amongst Student Authors

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WriteReader is a great multimedia writing tool for elementary school students and their teachers. On WriteReader students can create multim...
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Old PCs to Chromebooks, Tiny Houses, and More Chromebook Love...

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Here are three fun new (slightly quirky) projects! FIRST , we'll start with a "curation blog" I've started that has  daily...
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Three Themes to Brainstorm About for Your Classroom Blog

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Maintaining any kind of regular posting schedule on a blog requires some planning. To that end, one of the things that I do on a regular bas...
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Quick Key + Google Classroom = Great Way to Conduct Formative Assessments

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Quick Key is an excellent platform for creating and conducting formative assessments. I often include Quick Key in my presentations about f...
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Make Your Own Virtual Reality Headset

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On Saturday afternoon I saw Hall Davidson give the closing keynote for the Fort Worth ISD Technology Conference. In his presentation he spok...
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Three Reasons to Maintain a Photo Gallery With Your Students

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We are all taking so many more pictures today than we did fifteen to twenty years ago. Thanks to cloud storage we can save and share thousan...
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The Week in Review - The Texas Edition

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When it Texas, wear cowboy boots. Good evening from Fort Worth, Texas where I am relaxing after a great day at the Fort Worth ISD Technology...
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Three Alternatives to Google Classroom

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Last week I received an email from a reader who was looking for an alternative to Google Classroom. This is not an uncommon request. A coupl...
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5 Ways Students Can Earn Money Without Flipping Burgers

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One of the talks that I give from time to time is titled Preparing Students to Work and Learn Independently . The focus of the talk is to h...
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5 Good Elementary School Activities from the Smithsonian

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The Smithsonian offers wonderful online resources for students of all ages. The Smithsonian's Learning Lab lets teachers create collecti...
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Three Things to Brainstorm Before You Search

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One of the things that I ask students to do before they begin any research activity is to take some time to brainstorm. They might groan abo...
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A Great Example of Using Google Maps in Science

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At almost every conference that I attend I offer a session about Google Maps and Google Earth. Most of the people that come to those session...
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The Climate Time Machine

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Crafting my previous post about 40 years of snow data reminded me of a neat climate change demonstration for kids. NASA's Climate Time ...
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Wednesday Webinars Resume Next Week

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In December and January I hosted a series of professional development webinars on Wednesday afternoons. A couple of those webinars sold out...
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40 Years of Snow Data

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The Snow Guardian is an interesting short film featured on National Geographic's YouTube channel. The film features billy barr (he choo...
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New Google Docs & Sheets Features for Mobile Users

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If you frequently use Google Docs and Sheets on your phone or tablet, you may be happy the next time you update the Docs and Sheets apps. As...
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Text2VoiceOver - Type to Create Video Voice Over Files

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Text2VoiceOver is a service that will let you type the words that you want to hear spoken over a video. You can use Text2VoiceOver to creat...
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Use Google Maps to Tell a Story Within a Story

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Google's My Maps platform lets anyone who has a Google Account create their own multimedia maps. One of my favorite features within the...
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