The best way for students to avoid any copyright issues when creating slideshows or other multimedia presentations is to use images they’ve taken themselves. Another good option is pull images from a classroom gallery that everyone has contributed to for the purpose of sharing and re-using with classmates. You and your students could build such […]
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Taking Better Pictures With Mobile Phones
Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Formatting Tables in Google Docs & Slides
The table tool is one of the Google Docs tools that tends to get overlooked. It’s a useful tool for quickly creating charts within a document. I have long used it to give organization to group notes during jigsaw reading activities. I do that by creating a table in a Google Document then assigning a […]
Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 33 Ed Tech Tools Demonstrated in One Playlist
Over the last few months I’ve created quite a few how-to videos for some of my favorite apps and websites. This week I finally started to organize my YouTube channel and put my how-to videos into two playlists. One playlist is just about Google Tips and Tricks. The other playlist contains how-to videos for my […]
Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Browser Choice
One of the things that I’ve learned through introducing new web tools to thousands of students and teachers is that if something can go wrong, it probably will. So when I’m setting up a workshop or setting up a lesson for students, I try to eliminate as many opportunities for things to go wrong as […]