The Month in Review – Ten Most Popular Posts
Good afternoon from Maine where it feels like the month of November came and went in the blink of an eye. The month started out warm and now is ending in a snowy, icy glaze. In November I had the pleasure of working with teachers in Georgia and Connecticut. Next week I’ll be in Tennessee […]
Receive Email Notifications from Google Forms
In the past I have shared instructions on how to use the Form Notifications Add-on for Google Forms. Lately, that Add-on hasn’t worked as well as I would like. So I recently started using a similar Add-on called Email Notifications for Forms. This Add-on lets me receive not only a notification in my email when […]
How to Share Google Docs With People Who Don’t Have Google Accounts
A couple of nights ago in my G Suite for Education class I shared the following quick tip about sending Google Docs to parents who don’t have Google Accounts. Rather than downloading your document as a Word file or as a PDF then sending it as an attachment from your email client, you can simply […]
Telegraph – Super Simple Blogging
Alan Levine’s Cog Dog Blog is one of my absolute favorite blogs. I skip over many others in my Feedly list to read his posts first. I almost always learn something new when I read his blog. Yesterday, I learned about super simple publishing tool called Telegra.ph Telegra.ph gives you a simple place to publish […]
HSTRY is Now Sutori
Over the last couple of years HSTRY has become a popular multimedia timeline creation tool. One of its best features is the option to include quiz questions in the timelines that you share with your students. Over the weekend HSTRY rebranded itself as Sutori. Other than the name, nothing else has changed on the platform. […]
Flubaroo Adds a New Feedback Option – Stickers & Badges
Back in June when Google added a scoring option to Google Forms many people wondered if Flubaroo was still a necessary Add-on. The answer to that is yes for anyone who wants to grade quizzes that have multiple correct responses, fill-in-the-blank questions, and for those who who want do more advanced grading tricks like case-sensitive […]
World Population History – An Interactive Map and Timeline
Last night on the Practical Ed Tech Facebook page I shared a post from Randy Krum that included a visualization of U.S. population growth. Watching that visualization led me to a related visualization about world population growth. World Population History is an interactive map and timeline of the world’s population growth from 1 C.E. to […]
9 Lessons Learned Through Nine Years of Blogging
Today marks the ninth birthday for this little blog that I started on a Wednesday evening in 2007. Read that first post and you’ll see that I didn’t have much in the way of goals or expectations for this blog. It was just something I was doing to help other teachers. Back then I didn’t […]
Quick & Powerful Video Projects – A Wednesday Webinar
When I was a middle school student (decades ago now) my classmates and I made some videos about the countries that we were studying in our geography class. Those projects took us weeks to complete because our video creation tools were limited to the one video camera that we had to use. Today, that same […]
Get More Room to Work In Google Docs With Just One Click
One of the complaints that I often hear from teachers and some students about Chromebooks is that the screen is too small. I agree. There are times when even on my full-size laptop I wish that I had a bit more room to work. That’s why when I am writing in Google Docs I often […]
