Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Find Creative Commons Images
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – How to Find Creative Commons Images

Earlier this month Creative Commons released a new image search tool. When you use the new Creative Commons image search tool all of the images that you find will include all of the image attribution information that you need. The attribution information is formatted for digital and printed use. In the video embedded below you can…

Learning, Lobsters, and Lighthouses

Learning, Lobsters, and Lighthouses

This afternoon I was going through a bunch of Tweets that I have saved during the last year. In doing so I came across this one from Jen Thomas that summarized what the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camps represent to the many teachers who have come over the years have experienced. Day 2 of Practical…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 11 Great Google Sheets Templates
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 11 Great Google Sheets Templates

Flippity is a great resource for G Suite users that I have been sharing with readers for a couple of years now. Flippity provides teachers with eleven handy Google Sheets templates for creating things like quiz games, audio flashcards, bingo boards, and progress trackers. Toward the end of 2016 Flippity released a Google Sheets Add-on that…

FAQs About the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camps

FAQs About the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camps

A few weeks ago I announced the dates for the 2017 Practical Ed Tech Summer Camps. Registrations have already started to come in for both the BYOD Camp and the Chromebook Camp. I’ve also fielded some questions about the July events. And over the last few years I’ve gathered a handful of other frequently asked…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Insert Videos Into Google Slides Without Using YouTube
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Insert Videos Into Google Slides Without Using YouTube

For years one of the most common complaints about Google Slides has been that you can only use videos from YouTube in your slides. This week Google finally made it possible for you to use videos in Google Slides without the videos having to be hosted on YouTube. You can now insert videos from Google Drive…

Join Me On Wednesday for Search Strategies Students Need to Know

Join Me On Wednesday for Search Strategies Students Need to Know

Last month I hosted a Wednesday afternoon webinar all about the search strategies that students need to know. The webinar sold out and many people asked in the days after it if I would host it again. So this coming Wednesday I will be hosting Search Strategies Students Need to Know. In Search Strategies Students…