Good morning from Maine where the ground is once again blanketed with six inches of heavy, wet snow. We had a big storm on Thursday night that knocked out the power to more than a third of the homes, including mine, in my county. So in the midst of remote learning we had a snow day.

Earlier in the week we were notified that we are not going back to school this year. That wasn’t a complete surprise, but it was somber confirmation of what we all kind of thought would happen even though we didn’t want it to happen. It’s a weird incomplete feeling to have the typical “last day of school” activities replaced by the “have a nice weekend” that we said to each other on March 13th. I wonder how many of you feel the same way.

I’ve been going like a man with his hair on fire for a month now. My school inbox and my personal inbox have been a non-stop stream of help requests. Some of those requests end up being addressed in blog posts, but most are addressed directly (even if it takes a few days). I explained how I’m handling those inboxes in the free webinar I hosted on Thursday. That said, I’m taking the weekend off from my inbox. I’m going to play outside with my kids, hide Easter eggs on Sunday morning, and try to relax. I hope that you can have a relaxing weekend too. If reading about educational technology is relaxing for you, take a look at these week’s most popular posts.

These were the week’s most popular posts:
1. An Option for Making Sure Students Know They Have Google Classroom Assignments
2. Three Ways to Share Docs in Google Classroom – When to Use Each
3. 5 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers – Things You Might Have Overlooked or Forgotten
4. Now You Can Use Flipgrid to Make Screencast Videos
5. Video Puppet Turns Your PowerPoint Presentations Into Narrated Videos
6. How to Use PDFs in Google Classroom
7. Three Ways to Make Whiteboard Videos on Your Chromebook

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• My most popular webinars are available on-demand right here. 
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