Epic offers free activity calendars

Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.

Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.
Older beats younger when it comes to correcting mistakes Findings from a new study challenge the notion that older adults always lag behind their younger counterparts when it comes to learning new things. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that older adults were actually better than…
Source: SheetHacks: Discover the best tips and tricks for Google Sheets and Excel. Sometimes, you don’t know the problem you are having until you see the solution. Using spreadsheets fall into this category. There are things that you don’t know are possible with a spreadsheet, so you never ask or search for them. That’s where…
A Principal’s Reflections: Waving Goodbye to Drive-By PD There has been a great deal of knocks on professional development as of late and rightfully so. More often than not, professional development is something that is done to educators as opposed to an experience that they truly value for growth. For many, district professional development is…
Source: One More Try! Here’s a great practice app for various skills that you can learn through repetition. Once you click start, record yourself doing the skill you want to work on. The video is delayed, so you won’t see yourself doing the skill. When finished, click the replay button. The website will loop your…
Source: Carrd – Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything Carrd is a web application that you can use to create one page websites. Scenarios for classroom use include resume pages and getting to know you activities. The free account lets you set up sites at a subdomain of carrd.co, such as…
In 2018, more than 31 million people took virtual courses offered through GCFGlobal – a Goodwill Community Foundation initiative – and their online portal, offered in English, Spanish and Portuguese. This is an astounding number that would rank it just behind Coursera’s reported 37 million registered users in 2018 and more than both Udacity (10 million) and edX (18 million)…