The Short List of Physical Tech Products That I Recommend
From time to time I am asked for recommendations on the purchase of physical tech products. I generally don’t make recommendations for school-wide or other large scale purchases, but I will make recommendations for small purchases. Here’s the short list of physical tech products that I recommend today. Elegoo UNO Super Starter Kit for Arduino […]
Listen to Padlet’s CEO Explain Recent Changes
This week Padlet announced some big changes to their pricing structure. This came as a surprise to many long-time users of the service. As I mentioned earlier this week, some people didn’t even know that Padlet has had a premium offering for years. That’s a fact that Padlet’s founder and CEO, Nitesh Goel, acknowledged last […]
Getting Out of Your Ed Tech Rut
For the last seven weeks I’ve been making it a point to try out the features of Microsoft’s offerings for teachers and students. See yesterday’s post about Microsoft Forms as an example of that. I have been doing this because it is forcing me to take an honest look at the competitor to G Suite […]
Three Classic Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018
Over the last decade I’ve reviewed thousands of free educational technology tools. Some have been a hit, some haven’t, and some have stood the test of time to become “classics” in the world of educational technology. Here are three classics with which every educational technology specialist should be familiar. Scratch Scratch is a is a free […]
This Ed Tech Blogger’s Dilemma
When I started this blog back in 2007 I didn’t have the intention of it becoming anything more than a way to organize and share the neat Web 2.0 resources that I was trying. Somewhere along the way this blog morphed from a hobby into a full-time job. I’m extremely grateful for the opportunities that […]