Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Easy Creation of Data Visualizations

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Easy Creation of Data Visualizations

Silk is a free service that offers some fantastic tools for creating and sharing data visualizations. To create a visualization on Silk you can upload data in a spreadsheet, manually enter data, or use one of data sets that Silk provides in their gallery. Once you’ve uploaded data or selected it you can use it to…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Physical Records of Your Students’ Blogs
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Physical Records of Your Students’ Blogs

One of the great things about having students blog for a semester or a full year is that they create a great record of their thoughts and experiences. At the end of the school year take some time to show students just how much they’ve written.  Saying, “you wrote 35 blog posts” doesn’t have the…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Privately Sharing Videos Through YouTube
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Privately Sharing Videos Through YouTube

I’ve previously used this space to show you how to use Google Drive to privately share videos. It is also possible to privately share videos through YouTube. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to privately share videos through YouTube. As the end of the school year approaches there will be…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create a Multifaceted Backchannel on Tozzl

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create a Multifaceted Backchannel on Tozzl

For a long time I was a supporter of using TodaysMeet to host backchannel conversations during classes and during conference presentations. Then eight week ago I had this horrendous experience with TodaysMeet during a conference presentation. As a result I have switched to using Tozzl for most of my backchannel needs. I used it during a…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Good Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Good Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images

Yesterday, on FreeTech4Teachers.com I published a summary of best practices for using images in blog posts. In that post I shared a couple of places to find images that are either in the public domain or have a Creative Commons license attached to them. Here are my go-to places for images that are in the…