Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Two Ways to Create Online Whiteboards

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Two Ways to Create Online Whiteboards

Online whiteboards can be a fantastic aid to students when they’re trying to help each other work through problems or tutor each other. Online whiteboards are also helpful to teachers who are crafting visual explanations for students. Sketchlot and Stoodle are excellent online whiteboard tools. Both will work in the web browser on your laptop,…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – A Registration-free Video Editor

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – A Registration-free Video Editor

One of the challenges associated with using many web-based tools is that they require students to register for accounts or require teachers to manage their students’ accounts. The process of registering and then remembering user names can take up a lot of instructional time. Therefore, whenever it is possible, I try to use tools that…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 3 Ways to Map Stories
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 3 Ways to Map Stories

Creating mapped stories is one of my favorite activities to help history students see the significance of location in historical events. Most of the time I have students include dated placemarks on the mapped stories that they build. Here are three free tools that students can use to map stories. The Google Earth Tour Builder…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Three Google Docs Format Settings
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Three Google Docs Format Settings

The transition from Word or Pages to Google Documents often prompts a lot of questions about formatting settings. In the video embedded below I address three formatting questions that I am frequently asked about in my email and in my workshops. Here are this week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com: 1. Create Stop Motion Animations…