The Week in Review – Halloween Edition
Good morning from Maine where it’s so cold you’d think it was the last day of December not the last day of October. It’s Halloween and my daughters are excited even though trick o’ treating is going to be severely curtailed this year. They’re excited to wear the costumes that they’ve been talking about for […]
Learn About Exploration and Compasses by Making Your Own
Today, many of us just use an app on our smart phones when we need to get directions and navigate from point A to point B. Most of our students have never experienced getting directions in any other way. So they may be surprised to learn that we used to use maps and compasses to […]
How to Create QR Codes to Share Google Forms
Back in September I wrote about and made a video about how I’m using Google Forms as a sign-in/sign-out sheet for my classroom. Some of my colleagues are doing the same thing. One of my colleagues, Erin, had the good idea to create QRs code for the forms that students use the most and post […]
Witeboard – A Simple Online Whiteboard
Last week a reader named Donna sent me an email asking me what I knew about Witeboard. It was a new tool for me so I gave it a try. Witeboard is a collaborative online whiteboard. To use it just head to the site and start drawing. Witeboard has some basic drawing tools and text […]
Five Screencasting Tools Compared and Ranked – Fall 2020
The launch of Vimeo Record earlier this week made me think that perhaps it was time to write a comparison of popular screencasting / screen recording tools. For this comparison I selected the five options that pop into my head whenever I’m asked about screencasting (which has been almost daily since March). With the exception […]
Three Ideas for Stop Motion Video Projects to Make With Cloud Stop Motion
Last month I published a video about how to use Cloud Stop Motion to make a stop motion video. Stop motion provides a good way to make simple animations and time lapse videos. Here are three ideas, including one from a current student of mine, for stop motion video projects for students. Showing Network Activity […]
Time to Fall Back – Short Lessons About Daylight Saving Time and Timezones
This weekend we have Halloween and the end of Daylight Saving Time (in most of the U.S. and Canada). Hopefully, my kids will take advantage of the “extra” hour of time for sleeping. As I do almost every time Daylight Saving Time begins or ends, I have gathered together a handful of short video explanations […]
How to Edit the Captions in Your YouTube Videos – Fall 2020 Update
Last spring I published a video about how to adjust the captions that are automatically generated for the videos that you upload to your YouTube account. Recently, YouTube made some changes to the way that the caption editing process works. Those changes are for the better as they’ve made it easier to adjust the correlation […]
Vimeo Record – Another Screencasting Tool
Vimeo is one of my top alternatives to using YouTube to host instructional videos. Now you can use it to record as well as host your videos. Today, Vimeo launched a new screen recording tool. The new tool is simply called Vimeo Record. Vimeo Record is available as a free Chrome extension that you can […]
Five Last Minute Resources for Teaching About the Electoral College
We’re one week away from the U.S. Presidential election. While citizens cast their votes next week, the final selection happens in the Electoral College in December. That’s a concept that can be tricky for some students to understand. If you’re looking for some last minute resources for teaching about the Electoral College, take a look […]
