A Handful of Ways to Publish Audio Recordings
Over the last month, basically since I published this post, I have received a bunch of emails from teachers asking about ways to publish their audio recordings/ podcasts. Here are the methods and platforms that I’ve been recommending. Publishing your podcast through iTunes will probably give it the best opportunity to reach a large audience. […]
Register for Two Free Webinars With Me
People who are subscribed to the Practical Ed Tech newsletter got this information yesterday. I apologize to those who are seeing it as a repeat. This week I am leading some free webinars for teachers. On Tuesday I will be giving two short (30 minutes) presentations as part of Simple K12’s afternoon of webinars on […]
ExamTime Changes Names – Still Offers Good Review Tools
ExamTime is a service that provides a bunch of good study tools for students. Over the weekend ExamTime changed its name to GoConqr. Students will be able to use their ExamTime usernames and passwords on GoConqr. GoConqr will offer the same options as ExamTime did for creating and sharing flashcards, building mind maps, and tracking […]
Convert PDFs to Google Docs to Differentiate Instructional Materials
This is a guest post post from Brenda Doucette (@doucetteb) of EdTechTeacher – an advertiser on this site. Recently, we discovered a feature of Google Drive that has changed how we prepare and access materials and resources for our students. As we attempt to make all curricula digital and thus make it available to all students, […]
Mail Call! – Answers to Questions from Readers
I receive a lot of emails and Facebook messages from readers asking all kinds of questions related to educational technology. Some of those questions are very specific to the writer’s classroom while others have a bit more broad appeal. My answers to the broader questions often end up as blog posts. Here are some of […]
Too Many Updates?
Every Sunday morning FeedBlitz (my RSS and email provider) sends me a report about the number of subscribers to my blog and email updates. That report also tells me the reason people give for unsubscribing. By far the most common reason people give is “too many updates.” So to remedy that problem last year I […]
Dozens of Alternatives to YouTube
Over the last few years I’ve seen more schools opening up access to YouTube, at least to teachers, than I had in the past. YouTube for Schools has partially contributed to that trend. Tools like ViewPure and Watchkin have made using YouTube videos in schools a little less scary too. All that said, there are […]
7 Tools for Building Review Games
This week I received at least a half dozen emails from people who were looking for suggestions for creating review games or practice quizzes for their students. The following are the tools that I suggested in reply to those emails. One teacher’s needs are little bit different from another’s so this list covers a fairly […]
The Week in Review – Keep Calm and Go Skiing
Good morning from the FreeTech4Teachers.com world headquarters in Woodstock, Maine. For a few seconds this morning I thought that this week’s week-in-review post wouldn’t be happening. When I logged into my blog this morning 9000+ posts were missing. It took me a few more seconds to realize that I logged into the wrong blog. That […]
Quick Key Mobile – Now for iOS and Android
For the last 18+ months my former colleague Mike Morrell has raved about Quick Key. Quick Key is an app that turns your iPhone into a bubble sheet scanner. This morning I learned from Mike that Quick Key is now available as an Android app too. Quick Key has two parts to it that when […]
