Recreating Pop Hits as Content-Related Lyrics Videos
Never gonna go to war, never gonna drop a bomb Never gonna shoot a gun and hurt you Switzerland is never gonna say let’s fight Never gonna tell a lie, Neutrality These are not lyrics by Rick Astley....
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Google Slides Flash Cards
There are plenty of flash cards sites, apps and ideas out there. And many of them are great. But… it’s nice to not have to add another tool to your classroom, another site to your list of resources,...
View ArticleWe can’t take offense to them ignoring it before if they hear it NOW!
In a past school year, a colleague and I were trying hard to sell the teachers in our building on a certain technology tool. The name of the tool doesn’t really matter. All that mattered is, we...
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TodaysMeet
Never judge a book by its cover. Because, if you did, TodaysMeet would seem like a boring, unimpressive tool from at least a decade ago. But, “open the book” and you’ll realize that TodaysMeet is a...
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Schoology – Requiring Assessment Mastery Before Moving on
In Sal Khan’s phenomenal TED Talk Let’s Teach for Mastery – Not Test Scores, he illustrates the lack of focus on mastery in most classrooms with this metaphor: To appreciate how absurd [teaching based...
View ArticleScreencastify, Paper & Math: Spin It Around, Write It Down, Explain with Sound!
This post originally appeared on the Screencastify blog, here. We all know how important it is for students to demonstrate their understanding of a particular subject or problem by “showing their...
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Captain Doofus & the Traffic Circle
We all have our irrational pet peeves. Our things that are “small potatoes” but make us want to gouge someone’s eyeballs out. One of mine is people who don’t know how to drive in a traffic circle....
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Screencastify to FlipGrid
This post by Meghan Zigmund calls App Smashing “The art of imaginatively using multiple apps to create an enhanced project.” Two of my favorite edtech tools right now are Screencastify and FlipGrid....
View ArticleComparing GIF Creation Options
In February of 2017, I found my niche in the online #edtech world – and a new passion – creating #eduGIF’s. In the time since then, I’ve been asked dozens, if not hundreds, of times how I create them....
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Tips for Creating Stop-Motion Slides
I’ve posted about #StopMotionSlides before and there are others out there (I think that Eric Curts’ and Matt Miller’s are both pretty definitive), but as usual – I like to encapsulate all good Googley...
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The Ultimate App Smash Lesson
Recently, I was fortunate to be a guest on the awesome Google Teacher Tribe Podcast. Not only are Matt & Kasey rockstars, but their show is my favorite education podcast. It was an honor and a...
View ArticleTop 5 Posts of 2017
Happy New Year! Before we look forward to all of the awesome learning that 2018 holds for us, I’m going to get all nostalgic for a quick sec…. here are my 5 most viewed posts from 2017: Adding Captions...
View ArticleFlipGrid One vs. Recap
(Note: This is as of 2/12/18 – I fully expect this to change in the future, as these 2 companies will likely continue adding features) “I want my students to record their opinion and then respond to...
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Enhanced Sharing Settings on New Google Sites
As soon as it came out, I thought the New Google Sites made a pretty awesome Digital Portfolio tool. However, there was one important feature missing – sharing settings that allow you to choose to not...
View ArticleNupedia
Nupedia was a revolutionary idea. Ever heard of it? I didn’t think so; because I had never heard of it either. It was started by Jimmy Wales, who later started . . . Wikipedia. I bet you’ve heard of...
View ArticleSAMR ain’t *That* Simple
I’ve developed a new pet peeve recently. It’s handy-dandy graphics that tell you exactly which educational technologies match up with the different levels of the SAMR model (or Bloom’s or DoK, etc.)....
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Translate in Google Sheets
Living in a new country where a different language is spoken is something that I can barely fathom. Doing it as a child just blows my mind. Our schools are often ill-equipped to support these kiddos,...
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GIF Creation with Screencastify
Screencastify isn’t the best screencasting tool, but it might be the easiest one for in the classroom. And the numbers prove that: 22 million videos were recorded in Screencastify during the 2017-18...
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Lunapic – Create Images with Transparent Backgrounds
When presenting about #StopMotionSlides, someone inevitably asks about cutting the background out of a picture so that it has a transparent background. Up to this point, my answer has been Microsoft...
View ArticleUpdates to my GIF Creation Options Post
I made an update to my Comparing GIF Creation Options blog post to include some options that I’ve discovered over the last 9 months as well as a conclusion where I make recommendations based on your...
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