Make PicMonkey Collages to Pique Kids’ Interest in Books
This week I am away on an offline vacation. Rather than let the blog be dormant or rerunning old posts I decided to give some other people a chance to share their experiences and ideas with you. I hope you enjoy the posts. I am excited to be here today to let you know that […]
Connecting as a New Principal
This week I am away on an offline vacation. Rather than let the blog be dormant or rerunning old posts I decided to give some other people a chance to share their experiences and ideas with you. I hope you enjoy the posts. Having just completed my first year as building principal, I continue to […]
The Week in Review – A Day Early
Good evening from Boston, Massachusetts where I’m waiting for a flight to jet me away on a mountain biking vacation. Since I committed to “no computer” vacation I will not be able to write this post tomorrow. Therefore, I’m sharing the week in review a day early. Next week I have a bunch of guest bloggers making […]
How to Use Google Docs Offline in Two Steps
Earlier this evening I mentioned the new iPad apps for Google Drive and for Chrome. Another, and perhaps more important, announcement from Google today deals with Google Docs offline. Google Docs now works offline on your laptop or desktop if you have Google Drive installed. You can now create and edit documents offline then have […]
Chrome Comes to iPads
In more big news from Google that I missed earlier today while I was teaching. Chrome is now available on the iPad. This means that you can now take continue your syncing from your laptop to your iPad. I personally use Chrome because I love being able to sync my tabs and bookmarks just by […]
Google Drive Comes to iOS
While I was teaching at Ed Tech Teacher’s summer workshop today big news came from Google today. You can now install Google Drive on your iPad or iPhone. The app will allow you to view your documents and files on your iPad. You can use Google Drive for iOS to make your documents available offline […]
Animated Video – What is a Flame?
I’m on a bit of an animated explanatory video kick this evening. This marks the third mention of an animated video in a post today. What is a Flame? recently won The Flame Challenge hosted by Stony Brook University. The challenge required entrants to explain to 11 year olds what a flame is. The 11 […]
Virtually Cycle the Tour de France
The Tour de France kicks-off on Saturday. This year you and your students can virtually cycle along with the world’s best cyclists. Cycling the Alps which I reviewed in May has developed maps for all twenty stages of the tour. You can zoom in on the course, see the elevation profiles of the stages, and […]
PowToon Looks Like a Great Tool for Creating Explanatory Videos
PowToon is a new service for creating explanatory videos through what appears to be a simple drag and drop process. PowToon provides drawings of people and objects that you can arrange on blank canvas. After adding your narration to the arrangement you can publish your video. I used the phrase “what appears to be” in the preceding […]
What Are Cookies? And What Do They Do?
Image Credit: No, this is not about those delicious-looking cookies to the left. This is about the kind of cookies that are captured when you browse the web. Last year I shared an Explania video that illustrated and explained browser cookies. Yesterday, Common Craft released an explanation of their own. Watch both videos and I […]
