A friendly robot greets me on Facebook. He’s dressed like a doctor, stethoscope and all, here to do a security checkup. So for the next 5 to 10 seconds, I wait as he pokes and prods my account. “He’s really taking good care of me!” I think, when I start to wonder: Are Facebook’s servers…
Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream?Heavy questions. One researcher believes that writing down the answers can be decisive for students. He co-authored a…
There doesn’t seem to be a shortage of graphical tools available online, and the latest that I’ve found is FotoJet. FotoJet has tons of built in templates to design almost everything you need. I found the site when I was looking for an easy way to create a photo collage. Once I started digging into the…
I’d love to do [fill in the blank with some creative idea or activity], but I just don’t have time. My classes are only 50 minutes.” I hear this lament frequently when I lead professional development. Teachers get super excited about integrating technology or want details about a project, assignment, or routine I do with…
Calculator apps are funny, you don’t think about them until you need them, and then you want them to work fast and then get out of your way. Calculator for Google Chrome works well for that. Once installed, Calculator adds an app that you can launch from Google Chrome that does what it says it does, and…
We asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to activists and parents—to look beyond laws, politics, and funding and imagine a utopian system of learning. They went back to the drawing board—and the chalkboard—to build an educational Garden of Eden. We’re publishing their answers to one question each day this week. Responses have…
For Google Classroom Google account is required for guardian summaries. Guardians will need to associate their email with a Google account Source: Google Classroom: Guardians Who Need a Google Account – Teacher Tech I had totally forgotten that someone can have a Google account with their current email address and not use Gmail.
I’ve been using PDF Escape to mark up PDFs when I’m on a Chromebook, and Kami is a fantastic entry into the mark up PDFs market. You can access Kami in any browser by visiting https://web.kamihq.com/, and it supports Google Logins, so students can start using it right away. The free plan should probably be enough for…
It is common from time to time for connected colleagues to send me questions that they would like my input on. Usually it is motivated by one or more of these factors: curiosity, wanting to inform their practice, or maybe information for a paper or book they are writing. One such request came yesterday and…
As Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble launched their respective eBook readers in 2007 and 2010, there were many who rushed to predict that the printed book would soon be meeting an untimely end. New data from the Pew Research Center now suggests that your standard paper, ink, and glue novel has considerable staying power with…