Earlier this week a reader emailed me to ask for my suggestions for online mind mapping tools for her students to use this fall. My preference is often to draw mind maps by hand and then digitiz...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/seven-mind-mapping-tools-to-try-this.html
Most of the time I like Google Workspace tools better than the equivalent tools from Microsoft. There is one exception to that rule. That exception being forms. When it comes to making and pu...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/five-great-microsoft-forms-features-for.html
The start of the school year is when many of us are excited to try new and different things. If you're looking for something new to try this year, take a look at my Around the World With Goog...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/five-tutorials-on-google-earth-basics.html
Storyboard That is a great tool that can be used for creating cartoons, flowcharts, timelines, and wireframes in addition to typical storyboards. Storyboard That also offers a huge library ...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/lesson-plans-for-setting-smart-goals.html
Good morning from Maine where it's overcast and drizzly, again. It has been that kind of summer. Nonetheless, it has been a good summer filled with fun things for me and my family (my miserab...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/keep-books-and-canva-week-in-review.html
Earlier this week I shared a handful of ways to use Book Creator this fall . At the bottom of that blog post I mentioned Book Creator's #clearthelist campaign. If you missed it, it's a free o...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/have-your-list-cleared-by-book-creator.html
Last Friday I published a video in which I demonstrated the teacher view and student view of Google Classroom . A lot of people replied to ask if I had a similar one about the parent view of ...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/google-classroom-overview-for-parents.html
It's that time of year again when many of us are thinking about ways for our students to get to know each other and us. One popular way of doing that is through short video introductions. Mic...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/how-to-use-microsoft-flip-teacher-and.html
This morning my YouTube subscriptions included a notification of a new TED-Ed lesson that caught my attention. That lesson is titled How the Water You Flush Becomes the Water You Drink . As t...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/how-wastewater-gets-recycled.html
This morning when I checked my YouTube Studio account I noticed that my little channel had passed the 47,000 subscriber mark. Despite publishing videos on YouTube since at least 2009, I've ne...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/47000-people-get-their-educational.html
A few days ago while driving home from seeing a community theater's musical production of The Little Mermaid one of my daughters asked me "why does Venice have canals instead of roads?" It wa...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/all-about-venice-another-post-inspired.html
Along with Google Workspace tools, Padlet is one of the educational technology tools that I've used the most consistently over the last fifteen years. I've used it for everything from hostin...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/five-new-padlet-features-to-try.html
Disclosure: Book Creator is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Book Creator has been one of my go-to multimedia creation tools for nearly a decade. For back-to-school season they’ve cre...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/bring-joy-back-to-school-with-book.html
A couple of weeks ago I published a short tutorial on how to use Google Keep to scan and search handwritten notes . Publishing that tutorial prompted me to update my playlist of tutorials on ...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/18-google-keep-tutorials-for-teachers.html
Just like I do with my weekly newsletter , C-SPAN Classroom sends their weekly newsletter on Sunday evenings (Eastern Time). When I read it last night I learned about a new C-SPAN series that...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/ten-books-that-shaped-america.html
In the winter of 2021-22 my kids and I conducted a winter bird survey at our house . Because my kids were little and because I thought it would be fun, I made a little observation journal th...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/how-to-create-and-share-canva-templates.html
Tools like Canva , Adobe Express, and even good ol' PowerPoint make it incredibly easy to quickly create good looking graphs. But as Randy Krum points out in his book, Cool Infographics , a g...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/dont-let-graphs-fool-you.html
Good morning from Maine where the sun is rising on what should be a great summer day. Fortunately, I'm feeling much better than I did throughout the week as a struggled with a miserable cold ...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/audio-assessments-and-summer-cold-week.html
As the new school year approaches it's a good idea to review some of the easily overlooked, but important features of some of the tools we use the most. Google Slides is one of those tools th...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/three-google-slides-accessibility.html
Twice this week readers emailed me to ask if I had any tutorials about how students join Google Classroom. I didn't have a current one so I made one. In my new video that is embedded belo...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/by-request-teacher-and-student-views-of.html
In case you haven't heard, AI is the buzzword of the year in education and technology. If you haven't tried any AI tools yet, Google Slides has one that it's easy to use and that you might ac...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/how-to-use-ai-in-google-slides.html
Last year I wrote about the qualities of a good school district website . Unfortunately, the school district in which my kids go to school didn't read that blog post or didn't take any action...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/dont-rely-social-media-for-distributing.html
Earlier this week I shared directions for creating appointment slots in Google Calendar. After doing that it occurred to me that I've made a lot of Google Calendar tutorials over the years. A...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/18-google-calendar-tutorials-for.html
Over the last sixteen years I've used Google Docs and had students use Google Docs for lots of activities besides just writing essays. I've used Google Documents to facilitate analysis of pri...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/five-uses-for-google-docs-besides-essay.html
In one of yesterday's posts I shared directions on how to create an online reservation system by using Google Calendar's appointment slots feature. If you don't have a Google Workspace accou...
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/how-to-create-online-reservation-system.html