How to Make an Interactive Graphic With Canva
One of the many neat things that you can do with Canva is create interactive infographics. In fact, you can use nearly any design template in Canva to create interactive graphics. In the following video I demonstrate how you can make interactive graphics in Canva and then publish those graphics on your blog. Applications for […]
The Twelve Most Popular Posts on Free Tech for Teachers in 2019
It’s the end of the year. For me it’s the end of my twelfth year of blogging about educational technology. Do I have twelve more years in me? We’ll find out… In the meantime here are the twelve most popular posts that I published in 2019. 1. How to Add Audio to Google Slides – […]
Ten Blogging Activities for Kindergarten Through High School Classrooms
Whether your students are just learning how to type or they’re aspiring journalists, there are lots of ways to use blogging as a classroom activity. Edublogs offers a nice directory of active classroom blogs. Take a look through that directory to find some good examples of how teachers are using blogs in all grade levels […]
My Ten Most Watched Ed Tech Tutorial Videos in 2019
In 2019 I created and added more than one hundred new ed tech tools tutorial videos to my YouTube channel. That brought the total for my channel to more 1,000 videos. This morning I sat down and looked at the analytics for my channel. According to the YouTube analytics these were the ten most watched […]
The Week in Review – The Most Popular Posts
Good morning from Maine where it’s cold and dark at the moment. Fortunately, sunshine is in the forecast and we’re going to play outside in some fresh air after a day of being stuck inside because of sleet and rain. There’s nothing worse than a sleeting, raining day during school vacation week. But I probably […]
Practical Ed Tech Podcast Episode 25 – The Last Podcast of the Decade!
This afternoon I recorded my last podcast of the decade! I resisted the urge to use REM’s End of the World as bumper music for the episode. Instead, I just went with the usual bumper music then jumped into some news and notes from the week followed by answers to questions from readers and listeners. […]
Teaching History With Technology 2020
The primary means through which I’m able to keep this site running is through revenue from speaking engagements and sales of my Practical Ed Tech professional development courses like Teaching History With Technology. For 2020 I’ve updated the course to include new things like making your own history apps, creating green screen videos, and using […]
How to Find, View, and Download Thousands of Historical Maps
There are some good historical map collections available in Google Earth. But you can also import your own historical maps into Google Earth. topoView is a good place to find historical maps that you can import into Google Earth. topoView is a USGS website that provides historical maps dating back to 1880. You can download […]
My Favorite New & Updated Tools in 2019
The end of the year is just five days away so I’ve put together a short list of my favorite new and updated tools in 2019. You can watch my video overview of these tools, take a look at the slides, or read more about them below. This is a highly subjective list not subject […]
Burning Vocabulary – A Chrome Extension for Expanding Your Vocabulary
Burning Vocabulary is a new Chrome extension that is designed to help users learn new words while browsing the web. Users of the Burning Vocabulary Chrome extension can mark and save any words on a page that are new to them. Definitions of saved words are provided by Burning Vocabulary too. Whenever a word saved […]
