ExamTime – Create & Share Flashcards, Mind Maps, and Quizzes
ExamTime is a new service that middle school, high school, and college students can use to prepare for tests. I tend to like any service that offers a mind map option for students and ExamTime does so I had to try it out. When students signs into their ExamTime accounts they can create flashcards, mind […]
Climate Commons – An Interactive Map of Climate Change Stories
Climate Commons is an interactive map developed by the Earth Journalism Network. The map features weather data and emissions data related to climate. The map allows you to compare baseline weather data with anomalies and extreme weather events. The map also features articles about climate change. The articles are displayed on the map according to […]
Explore 20th Century World History Declassified
The Wilson Center Digital Archive recently published a new set of 73 collections of declassified historical documents. The documents contain memos and transcripts of communications between diplomats and country leaders. The collections are arranged into topics and themes. You’ll find collections of documents related to the construction of the Berlin Wall, the origins of the […]
Wonderville – Collections of Digital Materials for K-5
Wonderville.com, not to be confused with Wonderville.ca, is a new site that is organizing educational videos, ebooks, pictures, and quiz sets into pre-packaged lessons for K-5 students. Teachers can register on the site for free to find these materials arranged by grade level and content area. The TechCrunch article that I read about Wonderville made […]
New Webinar Course – Blogging for Teachers and School Leaders
Blogging isn’t new and it isn’t as flashy as say iPads in the classroom, but it is a very valuable activity for students, teachers, and school leaders. In fact, I think that too often it is under-utilized by teachers and school leaders. One cause of that under-utilization is due in part to not having a […]
A Nice Cheat Sheet for Gmail Shortcuts
If you rely on Gmail for personal or professional use (including Google Apps for Education email messages) take a look at this nice little guide to Gmail shortcuts. These shortcuts, highlighted on one page, could save a few minutes or more the next time that you face a backlog of email messages. Applications for Education […]
A Quick Round-up of New Google Drive Features
This week Google Drive received a few new updates. One of them is fairly obvious if you collaborated on a document this week. The others were not as obvious, but are none-the-less significant. Now if when you collaborate on a Google Document you will see the Google+ profile picture of your collaborators. Click the image […]
Week In Review – Deep In the Heart of Texas
Good morning from Maine where I’m home after a week of presenting at conferences in South Dakota and Texas. Thank you to all who came out to attend one of my workshops or keynotes. It’s truly a privilege to get to work with so many teachers, librarians, and school leaders. I very much appreciate the […]
Reminder – Posterous Is Shutting Down – Here’s What To Do Next
Like many others this morning I received a reminder from Posterous that the service will close on April 30th. If you don’t export your content from Posterous by April 30th it will be gone forever. So if you have anything on a Posterous blog that you want to save, take action now. In this post […]
Three Good Ways to Use Socrative In Your Classroom
The last part of the short presentation about backchannels and informal assessment that I gave at the Texas Library Association’s conference was spent on Socrative. Just as I did for Padlet and TodaysMeet, I shared three ways that Socrative can be used in school. Those ways are outlined below. Use Socrative to gather anonymous questions […]
