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For many years teachers from all over the world came to Maine join me for the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp. Last year I had to shift to a virtual model. While I was hoping to return to an in-person …
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Last fall Google announced that Expeditions and Tour Creator would be shut down at the end of June, 2021. Last week they sent out reminders of those impending closures. If you're looking for some …
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April 17th through 25th is National Parks Week in the United States. This is a good time to share that the U.S. National Park Service hosts thousands of videos and pictures about the various parks and …
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e-Comments is a Chrome extension that lets you add canned comments to Google Docs, Word documents, Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, and just about any page that has a commenting feature. …
If your students are anything like mine, at this point they've had about enough of breakout rooms in Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams to last them a lifetime. Live breakout rooms are good for …
For the last year or so I've used Canva to create and deliver the majority of my slideshow presentations. In addition to great templates and customizable stock art work, Canva has some "hidden" …
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