Professor Word is a neat tool that can help students learn new SAT and ACT vocabulary words. Professor Word operates as a browser bookmarklet in Chrome and Firefox. With Professor Word installed in their browsers whenever students are reading a webpage they can click on the Professor Word bookmarklet to quickly identify SAT and ACT vocabulary…
Many readers of this blog and newsletter have asked if there is a corresponding Facebook page. Until last week there wasn’t one. There is now a Practical Ed Tech Facebook page. On the Practical Ed Tech Facebook page I am sharing a few things that I have produced, but mostly I am using it to…
Earlier this year Padlet introduced a new user interface for teachers then followed that up with a series of small enhancements like post attribution. Last week Padlet added perhaps the best feature yet, comments. The new Padlet comments option lets you add comments to the notes that your students add to Padlet walls. The new comments…
Last week the most popular post on Free Technology for Teacher featured a table in which I compared six tools for creating quiz games. That table was created in Google Documents. A table was the best way to show a lot of information at a glance. Google Documents and Google Slides make it easy to…
Flippity is a great place to find Google Sheets templates for creating educational activities. In the past I’ve featured Flippity’s templates for creating Jeopardy-style games and for creating random name selectors. Recently, Flippity added a new template for creating MadLibs-style story starters. Take a look at the demo then read on to learn how you…
I wasn’t planning to offer a new section of my course on G Suite for Education until January, but I’ve had a lot of requests from folks who want to take it before the end of 2016. Therefore, I got in touch with the Midwest Teachers Institute (my partner for graduate credit offerings) and we…
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