Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Create Your Own iPad Games

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Create Your Own iPad Games

TinyTap is a fantastic free iPad app and Android app through which you can create educational games. To create a game on TinyTap you upload pictures or take new pictures and arrange them into a set. Then select each image to create questions about it. To create your question press the record button and start…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Quadblogging
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Quadblogging

One of the challenges teachers face when starting new classroom blogs is getting enough comments on students’ posts to keep them excited about writing blog posts. QuadBlogging can help teachers tackle that challenge.QuadBlogging is a free service that matches four classrooms together to follow and comment on blog posts. Register your class for QuadBlogging and you will be…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Multimedia Collages to Review the Year
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Multimedia Collages to Review the Year

The end of 2014 is quickly approaching. This is a great time to review 2014 or at least the first semester of the 2014-2015 school year. Creating multimedia collages is a great way to have students review the year. They could create collages about the year in politics, science, entertainment, or other news. Your students…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Gmail+1
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Gmail+1

Elementary school and middle school teachers often ask me how their students can use services that require email addresses when the students don’t have email addresses. The solution is to use Gmail+1. Here’s how Gmail+1 works. Let’s say there’s a new service that I want my students to use but my students don’t have email addresses that…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Jeopardy-style Games in Google Sheets
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Jeopardy-style Games in Google Sheets

Flippity is a service that was originally designed to help you create flashcards through Google Spreadsheets. Last week Flippity released a new option to use the service to create Jeopardy-style gameboards through Google Spreadsheets. In the video embedded I demonstrate how to use Flippity to create a Jeopardy-style gameboard. Here are this week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com:1. How…