Last week’s selection of great blog posts:
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Free Technology for Teachers: Snoopy in Space – Lesson Plans About Space and More
From a very young age I’ve enjoyed Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and all of the characters in Peanuts. Watching Charlie Brown specials and reading the Peanuts comic strip is something my uncles did, my sister and I do, and now my daughters do.
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Minecraft Education Edition Lesson Plan/Unit Template
Students will be able to… Prior Learning: What will the students do in class prior to playing the game?
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The Perfect 5-Minute Exercise Break For Students And Teachers – Smart Classroom Management
To be most effective, however, it must be purposeful. It must be targeted in a way that increases your heart rate yet stimulates every muscle in the body.
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Good Video Series for Introducing Arduino
Earlier this week I shared how I used Tinkercad to introduce my students to key concepts in Arduino design and programming. One of the supplementary materials that I posted in Google Classroom for that course is a series of introductory videos produ…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Dotstorming Gets an Updated Look and Easier Navigation
Dotstorming is a multimedia collage tool that has some neat voting and discussion features built into as well. I used it for a few years but haven’t written about it since 2018. This morning I got an email from the developer of Dotstorming.
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Alpine plants at risk of extinction following disappearing glaciers
“Our results indicate that plant diversity will ultimately decrease once the glaciers disappear—and up to 22% of the species we analyzed may locally disappear or even go extinct once the glaciers are gone,” says lead author Dr. Gianalberto Losapio o…
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Science Subject Kit | Minecraft: Education Edition
Can you win a bridge building competition?
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Once a month we will send 10 best examples of similar interactive media content that has been hand-picked by ThingLink team.
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Getting to Net Zero – and Even Net Negative – is Surprisingly Feasible, and Affordable
Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S.
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These Are the Highest Resolution Photos Ever Taken of Snowflakes |Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine
Photographer and scientist Nathan Myhrvold has developed a camera that captures snowflakes at a microscopic level never seen before The first chill of a winter storm is enough to send most people indoors, but not Nathan Myhrvold.
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Google Sites/Forms Mashup – Classroom Powerups
As I was developing my Hero’s Journey based quests I wanted to use Google Sites as the main hub for my missions. There were two reasons – 1) I am comfortable with Sites and 2) our students are already in the “Google” system with school based log-ins.
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5 ways that Google Jamboard can save your Social Studies bacon | History Tech
I know that Google will eventually rule the world. And right now I think I’m okay with that. Because, especially in the last ten months, Google tools have been a life saver. You’ve got Classroom.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Book Creator Now Offers More Templates and Themese
At the end of last year Book Creator introduced a new couple of new features (new fonts and new color options) and hinted that something bigger was on the way. That new thing is here! Book Creator has just introduced eighteen new templates and theme…
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Control Alt Achieve: Google Meet Attendance Template (Non-Enterprise Version)
Google Meet does have a built-in feature to collect attendance but that is only available for people who are using the Enterprise version of G Suite, which means schools that pay for the Google tools.
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Control Alt Achieve: Google Meet Attendance Template (Enterprise Version)
The Enterprise version of Google Meet has a built in option to collect attendance for any session as long as you have five or more participants.
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Digital campaign aims to counter COVID-19 conspiracies, misinformation | CBC News
But that misinformation has shifted in the past 10 months, says Timothy Caulfield, Canada research chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. Canadians are becoming more polarized, and ideology and personal identity have become big…
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20 Schoology tips to save you time – Ditch That Textbook
With all of the features that Schoology boasts as a learning management system (LMS), you can be well on your way to creating some exciting learning opportunities. You can also be well on your way to something else …
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New Resources On The Holocaust | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on January 27th. It marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
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20+ tips for using Canvas LMS – Ditch That Textbook
Canvas is a full-featured learning management system, and when I say “full featured”, I really mean FULL featured. In fact, to illustrate the point …
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Map Projection Game, Video, and Lesson Plans
Last week I shared a new Crash Course about geography.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Save Your Zoom Meeting Annotations
Last week a colleague asked me if there was a way she could save the sketches that she made for students during her Zoom calls. Since we work in the same building I just walked to her room and showed her how to save the annotations.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Muted Notifications During Google Meet Calls
There’s a new Google Meet feature that those who utilize pop-up notifications will probably like. Now when you’re sharing your screen in a Google Meet call, Chrome will automatically mute and hide pop-up notifications from things like Gmail, Google …
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Road of Trials – Hero’s Journey and the Monumental Challenge – Classroom Powerups
These semester long Hero’s Journey quests take a while to construct. Having gotten the students started with these quests I am finding that there are a lot of moving pieces that students are helping me fix.
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Study: Weakening Unions Increases Gender Gap in Wages | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Barbara Biasi, assistant professor of economics at the Yale School of Management, recently published a study that concluded that eliminating unions increases the gender gap in wages.
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STEM Global Educator Workshop – Washington Global Health Alliance
Join fellow STEM educators for Washington Global Health Alliance’s virtual STEM Global Educator Workshop. This interactive and engaging session is designed to give you free activities and curriculum resources centered around COVID-19 to integrate in…
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Teaching K-12 Science & Engineering During a Crisis | Science for All
The National Academies Press (NAP) has a free online resource titled Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis. The report describes what effective STEM education can look like during turbulent times such as shifting to distance learning…
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Ask 20 teachers what scientific inquiry is and it’s possible you’ll receive 20 different answers. From a series of proscribed steps to a lab-based free-for-all, conceptions have shifted over time.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Citizen DJ – An LOC Tool for Remixing Music and Spoken Audio
Citizen DJ is a free tool for remixing and creating new songs from audio files that are in the public domain. The tool was developed by Brian Foo who is an Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Tips to Help Busy Teachers Get and Stay Fit
This article originally appeared on one of my other blogs, EdTechFitness.com.In December of 2018 I was the biggest I’ve ever been in my life. The nice suits that I’d purchased just a year before no longer fit and I was down to just one pair of jeans…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Edit Your Videos by Typing in Type Studio
On Friday morning I published a blog post about a new video editing tool called Type Studio. At the end of the blog post I mentioned that I’d be publishing a tutorial video about Type Studio on my YouTube channel. That video is now available.
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As teachers navigate online learning, hybrid schedules, or the demands of the concurrent classroom, I’ve recommended the station rotation model.
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Flash Is Dead—but Not Gone | WIRED
On January 12, just after 8:15 am local time, computers started to malfunction at the Dalian Train Operation Depot in northeast China. The dispatcher’s browsers weren’t loading train schedule details. Six hours later, dispatchers also lost the abili…
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The urgency of fighting climate change becomes more apparent every year, and it will be the youth of today who experience its effects most profoundly. Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) wanted to give secondary school students the chance to e…
