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Last week I went through the results of a survey of more than 500 teachers in a school district that I’m working with later this summer. The most popular topic in that survey was “help creating instructional videos....
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Understanding how to play the ‘count to 10’ team-building game is about rules, timing, and sequence. Engaged students should pick the game up quickly. The post How To Play The ‘Count To Ten’ Team-Building G...
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A couple of weeks ago I explained five features of YouTube that teachers should know how to use. Since then a bunch of people have asked me about ways to host and share their instructional videos without using YouTube. Some people...
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There are lots of neat things that you can do with Google Sheets if you know how to get started. Getting started is often the hardest part. Fortunately, there are sites like Flippity that offer great Google Sheets templa...
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Are you making some this summer or helping others make and publish videos this summer? If so, here are some YouTube settings that you should know and or pass along to your colleagues. Privacy and Comments Settings You can publish ...
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This week on Free Technology for Teachers I published a series of posts featuring videos that demonstrated need-to-know features of Google Slides. The posts covered what you need to know about using images, audio, and video in Goo...
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Last week I posted a guide to finding copyright-friendly media to use in your classroom projects. One of the first things that I mention in that guide is to try use your own pictures, videos, and sounds whenever possible. What I f...
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How To Help Your Students Develop A Growth Mindset contributed by Jackie Gerstein, usergeneratededucation For professional development around growth mindset, contact TeachThought Professional Development to bring Jackie Gerstein...
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Teaching is hard. 16 Ways To Reduce Your Teacher Workload by Terry Heick There are many ways to reduce your teacher workload–to work smarter and not harder as a teacher. Working ‘less hard’ may seem counter-intui...
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A few weeks ago Screencastify introduced a new feature called Screencastify Submit. I was able to try it out with some of my students last week. It turned out to be a great way for students to send short videos to me without their...