More summer plans #comic

How often are you opening a tab to go to a link or bookmark? What if I told you there was a way to open up links and bookmarks automatically in another tab, without creating the tab first? What’s that worth to you? Well, I’m going to tell you and it won’t cost a thing!…
Today’s enthusiasm for project-based learning (PBL) fits into the paradigm-shifting category, helpfully emphasizing that we learn best by doing. As a complete educational philosophy or strategy, however, it falls short on many fronts. Source: Project-based learning needs more learning Wow, I don’t think the author understands what Project Based Learning is. I mean, I find very little…
Here’s how to embed a spreadsheet into a Google Doc, and how to keep it up to date. Open the Google Sheet Open the Google Sheet that contains the information you want to embed. Click and drag over the cells that you want to include in your Google Doc. In this example, I included the…
Attend a Maker Faire is part 10 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Last year we were in Detroit for a family vacation. One of our planned stops was the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. As we were driving to the museum, we noticed how busy it was which seemed odd. And then,…
Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of using an editorial calendar to plan out your blog posts and help you come up with ideas for posts that you want to write. Although there are many different ways of keeping an editorial calendar, I chose to use a plugin for WordPress called, coincidentally enough, Editorial Calendar….
For the past three months I’ve been using the Asus Flip Chromebook as my main mobile device, and you know what? It works pretty well. I bought the Flip on a whim back in May when Google announced that Android apps were coming to Chrome OS. Since then, Google has released Android apps on a…