Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Use Google Keep to Track Steps Toward Goals
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Use Google Keep to Track Steps Toward Goals

Google Keep is a fantastic tool for taking notes, creating bookmarks, making task lists, and creating reminder alerts for yourself. Within Google Keep there is an option to set daily reminders for yourself. I have three of them in my personal account. At 7am, 9am, and 11am every day those reminders pop-up on my desktop and…

Fun With Formative Assessments – Webinar This Wednesday

Fun With Formative Assessments – Webinar This Wednesday

As good teachers know, gauging your students’ understanding of the topics you teach is a process that involves discussion, a bit of intuition, and some formative assessment activities. In this webinar you will learn how to use free tech tools to create and conduct fun, engaging, and informative formative assessments. Whether you teach elementary school,…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Try Pixiclip for Creating Instructional Videos

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Try Pixiclip for Creating Instructional Videos

Last week I received an email from a reader who was looking for a suggestion for a free alternative to Educreations to use on a Mac or Windows computer. The tool that immediately came to my mind was PixiClip. PixiClip is a good tool for creating simple instructional videos in your computer’s web browser. PixiClip provides a whiteboard…

Teaching History With Technology – An Online PD Course

Teaching History With Technology – An Online PD Course

Last summer twenty-five middle school and high school teachers joined me to learn about tools and tactics for teaching history with technology. During the fall quite a few people expressed interest in participating in the next offering of the course. Registration is now open for the January section of Teaching History With Technology. The course…