ICYMI – Two EdTech Guys Take Questions – Webinar Recording
Last week Rushton Hurley and I resumed our Two EdTech Guys Take Questions webinar series. If you missed it, you can watch the recording right here or as embedded below. Rushton does a great job of sharing links to all of the resources that we mention in the webinar. That list of resources can along with the slides from […]
Free Webinar Next Thursday
Next Thursday at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I are hosting the sixth episode of the second season of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff! We’d love to have you join us! You can register for the session right here. In every episode we answer questions from readers […]
Webinar Recording – Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions – Season 2, Episode 3
Last Thursday Rushton Hurley and I hosted the third episode of this season of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. As we alway do we answered a some interesting questions from readers and viewers including questions about Google Slides add-ons, finding copyright-friendly and classroom-friendly pictures, and connecting classrooms. We also shared […]
ICYMI – Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff – Episode 36
Every other week my pal Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I get together to host the plainly-titled Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff webinar. Earlier this week we hosted the 36th episode in the series. If you missed it, the recording is now available to view here or […]
Webinar Recording – Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff – Episode 34
On Thursday afternoon Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I co-hosted the 34th episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. It was another fun half-hour of answering all kinds of questions. We also shared a couple of cool tools including one that isn’t available right now, but at […]
ICYMI – Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions – Episode 30
Last week Rushton Hurley and I hosted the first 2021 episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff (we’re seeking suggestions for a better name). In case you missed it, the recording and slides are now available to view here or as embedded below. Some of the highlights from episode 30 of […]
Stanford Offers a Free Workshop About Online Instruction
This coming weekend Stanford Continuing Studies is hosting a free workshop about online instruction. The workshop, Teaching Your Class Online, will be facilitated by three instructors from Stanford Online High School. The workshop is intended for middle school and high school teachers who would like to learn more about strategies for supporting online students, effective […]
Three PD Opportunities With Me Starting Tomorrow!
Every week Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning and I host a free webinar called Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. It’s a fun 30-ish minute webinar in which we have fun answering all kinds of interesting questions about educational technology and share some interesting things that we’ve found around […]
Join me Tomorrow for Two EdTech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff
After a one week break Rushton Hurley and I are resuming our weekly webinar series Two EdTech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. The webinar is tomorrow (November 5th) at 4pm ET/ 1pm ET. Register here, for free! Like the title implies, in every episode we answer questions from teachers like you and share […]
Activities Across Grade Levels – Free Weekly Webinars
Every week I mention the free webinars that I do with Rushton Hurley on Thursday afternoons. But that’s not the only free webinar that Rushton facilitates through Next Vista for Learning. He also runs a series called Activities Across Grade Levels. Activities Across Grade Levels is a weekly webinar series that Rushton Hurley and Susan […]
Two Free PD Webinars Tomorrow
Every Thursday at 4pm ET I join Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning for a free webinar called Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. We’re doing it again tomorrow. It’s always a fun conversation and I hope that you’ll join us. You can register for it right here. And if […]
Using DocsTeach to Create Online Lessons – Free Webinar Next Week
DocsTeach is a favorite resource of mine for U.S. History teachers and students. I used it and it’s predecessor fairly regularly when I was teaching U.S. History. DocsTeach provides an online space where you can create primary source based lessons for your students to complete online or offline. Last fall I published a detailed tutorial […]
Two Ed Tech Guys Return to Answer Questions – Free Webinar Next Week
This past spring Rushton Hurley and I hosted a weekly webinar series called Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff. We went on hiatus in June and July, but we’re going to be back and better than ever in August! And we want you to join us! We’ll be recording live at […]
Four Free Webinars to Check Out This Week
As we head into summer many of us start to reflect on the last school year (it was one we’ll never forget) and what we want to incorporate into the next school year. If you’re looking for some new ideas to incorporate into your practice, consider attending one of the following free webinars this week. […]
Two Free Webinars Later This Week
Later this week you’ll have the opportunity to join me in two free webinars. On Thursday at 3pm ET I’m hosting an encore of A Framework for Using Educational Technology. In that webinar I’ll explain the simple framework that I use for deciding what tools to use in my classroom and recommend to others. Register […]
Free Course – A Teacher’s Guide to Creating Common Craft Style Videos
For more than a dozen years Common Craft videos have been used by teachers to help students understand topics including digital citizenship, personal finance, and many big technology concepts. One of the things that makes Common Craft videos popular is the clear and concise manner in which information is presented using a whiteboard, simple cutouts, […]
Free Webinar – Making Multimedia Social Studies Lessons
Tomorrow at 11am ET I’m partnering with my friend Greg Kulowiec from EdTechTeacher.org to host a free webinar titled Making Multimedia Social Studies Lessons: Audio, Video, and More. Greg taught middle school social studies for many years and is now a leading expert on the use augmented reality and virtual reality in education. I taught […]
Free Webinar – Three Steps to Encourage Technology Integration
Next Monday at 4pm ET I’m hosting a free webinar for tech coaches, instructional coaches, tech directors, and anyone else who is responsible for helping teachers use technology in their classrooms. The webinar is titled Three Easy Steps to Encourage Technology Integration. In the webinar I’ll layout my framework for helping teachers use technology in […]
Three Free PD Webinars Today!
The Practical Ed Tech Creativity Conference starts this afternoon at 3pm ET. There is still time to register here. Today’s presentations and times are listed below. Easy Ways to Make Your Own Apps 3pm ET – Richard Byrne Not that long ago creating a mobile app required extensive coding skills and knowledge of programming. Today, […]
Join Me on Wednesday for a Live Q&A
I get a lot of emails from readers who ask all kinds of questions related to educational technology. I try to answer as many of them as I can. This Wednesday, I’m going to attempt to clear out the backlog of questions by hosting a live Q&A session. The live session will be broadcast on […]
Free Webinar – How to Make Your Own Common Craft-style Videos
If you have followed this blog for more than a few weeks, you’ve probably seen me make references to Common Craft videos. More than ten years ago Common Craft pioneered a unique style of online video that has since been imitated, but never quite duplicated by others. That style uses paper cut-outs on blank white […]
Free PD Webinar – Article a Day With ReadWorks
ReadWorks is a free service that I have been writing about for the last few years. It offers free reading lesson plans aligned to standards for all K-12 students. Tomorrow, at 4pm Eastern Time ReadWorks is offering a free webinar on how to use their Article a Day feature in your classroom. The webinar will […]
Free Webinar – Behind the Scenes at Common Craft
When it comes to producing clear explanations of tricky topics, no one is better than Lee and Sachi LeFever at Common Craft. Their videos, featuring paper cutouts and flat white backgrounds, have helped millions of people understand topics like RSS, copyright, cyberbullying, and much more. In fact, their style has come to be known as […]
This Looks Like a Great Hands-on PD Experience
FireWorks is an educational program, sponsored in part by the U.S. Forest Service, designed to teach students about the science of wildfires. This morning I received an email about a free two day professional development workshop centered around the FireWorks educational curriculum. The hands-on workshop is in Missoula, Montana this June. It appears to be […]
Free Webinar – Inquiry-based Learning and the Fire Lab
Join on Monday at 3pm EST for a free webinar about inquiry-based learning. The webinar, sponsored by Xplorlabs by Underwriters Laboratories, will feature strategies for using inquiry-based learning, the role of the teacher in inquiry-based learning, and research on the benefits of inquiry-based learning. We’ll take a look at how Xplorlabs’s Fire Forensics: Claims and […]
Free PD for Teachers
All teachers love learning and there is nothing better than when we can learn for free! This is a collection of resources that will help quench you thirst for learning. Whether you prefer to read online, watch webinars, or listen to podcasts you are sure to find something on here that will fit your needs. […]
Differentiated Professional Development with BloomBoard
BloomBoard was founded in 2010 as a teacher coaching platform that would serve as a way to provide teachers with differentiated instruction. BloomBoards are curated by content area experts and cover a variety of topics from using Twitter for Professional Development to ways to teach math through music and everything in between. Each board has a […]
7 Ways to Help Kids Discover & Analyze New Information
Today’s students have grown up with ubiquitous access to the Internet. That means that many of them think that because they can type something into Google they know how to search. Of course, we know that’s not the case. On October 17 I will be hosting a free webinar designed to help you help your […]
Making Connections – Free Webinar Next Monday
Too often our students look at the subjects they study in school as isolated sets of facts to be learned. This is due in part to the traditional formatting of textbooks. It’s partly due to the nature of all print resources. That’s why tools like Kids Discover Online’s Discover Maps were created. Next Monday at […]
Free Webinar – Telling Stories & Illustrating Concepts With Storyboards
This Thursday afternoon at 4pm EST I am hosting a free webinar all about using storyboards to tell stories and illustrate concepts. In this webinar sponsored by Storyboard That you will learn how students can use storyboards to: Create comic strips. Design presentations. Illustrate processes and concepts. Analyze literature. Tell their personal stories in a […]
Virtual Reality in Education – A Conversation With Greg Kulowiec
Virtual reality has the potential to provide our students with great learning experiences. It is still in its early stages of adoption in schools and there are lots of questions about how it works and how it can be used in classrooms. On February 27th Greg Kulowiec from EdTechTeacher and I will host a Google […]
Launching Innovation in Schools – An edX Course
Launching Innovation in Schools is a free edX course that is starting next week. It grabbed my attention because one of the instructors is Dr. Justin Reich who I had the opportunity to work with six summers ago at an EdTechTeacher.org event. This six week course is designed for teacher-leaders and school administrators. The course […]
Free Webinar – Digital Storytelling With Storyboards
Next Tuesday evening (September 13th) at 7pm Eastern Time I will be hosting a free webinar sponsored by Storyboard That. The webinar will focus on designing and delivering stories through the use of storyboards. In particular, we’ll be spending time looking at using storyboards to have students to tell stories about themselves, their interests in school, and favorite […]
Join Me at a Free PD & Networking Event in Chicago
A few months ago the folks at Otus reached out to me about speaking at a professional development and networking event in Chicago. I’m happy to announce that everything has come together nicely and on April 29th I’ll be speaking in Chicago at the Aloft hotel. I will be speaking about how we can help […]