Good morning from Maine where it’s a brisk 4F outside. My dogs wasted no time coming back to the house when I let them out this morning. The good news is that the forecast calls for warmer (relatively) temperatures and snow. I’m looking forward to helping my daughters learn to ski this weekend. I hope that you have something fun planned for the weekend, too.
This week my school went back to 100% online instruction for the fourth or fifth time this year. We’ve also had a few periods of hybrid instruction and a couple of 100% in-person periods. The frequent transitions are hard on teachers and students. We’re all doing the best we can for our students, but we could all use a snow day at this point. I hope that things are a little better at your school.
These were the week’s most popular posts:
1. How to Create Your Own Online Board Game
2. Tips to Help Busy Teachers Get and Stay Fit
3. Book Creator Now Offers More Templates and Themes
4. How to Save Your Zoom Meeting Annotations
5. Citizen DJ – A Free Tool for Remixing Music and Spoken Audio
6. Muted Notifications During Google Meet Calls
7. How to Edit Your Videos by Typing in Type Studio
- A Crash Course in Making & Teaching With Video.
- Ten Search Strategies Students Need to Know
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- BoomWriter is hosting a unique creative writing contest for kids. Check it out!
- Pixton EDU is a great tool for creating comics and storyboards.
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