Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Searching Twitter for Educational Content

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Searching Twitter for Educational Content

Twitter can be a great place to find great resources and ideas to use in your classroom. During a Twitter chat like #edchat many great ideas and resources are exchanged between educators. What a lot of people don’t know is that you can glean a lot of information from Twitter even if you don’t have…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Use Google Docs Offline
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Use Google Docs Offline

Google Drive is what I use for creating nearly all of my documents and I always encourage others to use it too. The one drawback to using Google Drive used to be that you had to be online to create or edit your documents and presentations. That drawback doesn’t exist if you enable offline use…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Getting Started With Remind (101)

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Getting Started With Remind (101)

Remind (formerly Remind 101) is a great service for keeping students and their parents informed of important class and school news. Through Remind students and their parents can sign-up to receive text messages from you. Through the service you can send messages from your computer or mobile device without students or parents seeing your personal cell…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 33 Ed Tech Tools Demonstrated in One Playlist
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 33 Ed Tech Tools Demonstrated in One Playlist

Over the last few months I’ve created quite a few how-to videos for some of my favorite apps and websites. This week I finally started to organize my YouTube channel and put my how-to videos into two playlists. One playlist is just about Google Tips and Tricks. The other playlist contains how-to videos for my…