Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Padlet for Task Management

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Padlet for Task Management

Padlet is one of my favorite web tools because it can be used in many ways for many purposes. Yesterday, I used it to have teachers share the things that they created during a workshop. In the classroom I have used it as a digital KWL chart. This afternoon I noticed that Padlet offers a wallpaper…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Creating Multimedia Timelines

Timeline JS is one of my favorite tools for creating multimedia timelines. In the video embedded below I provide a short demonstration of how to create a multimedia timeline on Timeline JS.  Here are this week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com:1. Two Browser-based Noise Meters That Show Students How Loudly They Speak 2. Three Places to Find and Download Public…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 5 Tips for Getting Your Blog Started
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 5 Tips for Getting Your Blog Started

Over the last five years I’ve had opportunities to help hundreds (possibly thousands) of teachers, librarians, and administrators get their blogs started. Here are five important things that I try to share whenever I help educators start or re-start blogs. Five important lessons I’ve learned about using blogs in school: 1. Just ship it. Don’t…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Importing Quizzes Into Socrative

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Importing Quizzes Into Socrative

Socrative is a popular service for delivering polls and informal assessments to your students through laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. Last week Socrative published a spreadsheet of more than 1,000 quizzes that teachers have created and made available for others teachers to use. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to add one of those…