Two Free Webinars Today and Tomorrow
Rushton Hurley, founder of Next Vista for Learning, has been hosting some great webinars over the last couple of months. One of those is every Thursday at 5pm ET and the other is every Friday at 1pm ET. Today, at 5pm ET Rushton is hosting Activities Across Grade Levels. Susan Stewart is the co-presenter for […]
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, […]
Spend July in Washington DC as a C-SPAN Fellow
Every year C-SPAN hosts an educators’ conference and hosts a summer fellowship program. A friend of mine was selected for the conference a couple of years ago and he said it was an amazing experience! Both the fellowship program and the conference are held at C-SPAN’s headquarters in Washington D.C. C-SPAN’s Summer Fellowship program is […]
Practical Ed Tech Creativity Conference Schedule
The Practical Ed Tech Creativity Conference is next week. It is a free event that anyone can attend online. Register here or through the form below and you’ll be enrolled in all of these free webinar presentations. Here’s the line-up of presentations. Easy Ways to Make Your Own Apps December 10 at 3pm ET – […]
More Free Webinars from the Council for Economic Education
The Council for Economic Education has recently published their schedule of free professional development webinars that they are hosting in the first five months of 2019. The series begins next week on January 15th and runs weekly (mostly) through May 28th. All of the webinars are scheduled for 7pm Eastern Time. You can register for one […]
Learning About Microsoft’s Tools for Inclusive Classrooms
Yesterday Mike Tholfsen Tweeted about Microsoft’s Teacher Training Packs. Teacher Training Packs are collections of resources that are designed to help IT administrators, technology specialists, and curriculum directors lead professional development workshops centered around various Microsoft tools (most of which are completely free for educators). There are three categories of Teacher Training Packs. Those categories […]
For the Love of Lit – Four Free Webinars for ELA Teachers
This week PBS Education is hosting the first webinar in a four part virtual professional development series called For the Love of Lit. This series features free webinars designed to help ELA teachers engage their students in learning about literature. The four webinars in the series are as follows: Inspiring Young Authors, with NaNoWriMo founder […]
Free Webinars from the Council for Economic Education
The Council for Economic Education has recently published their fall schedule of free professional development webinars for teachers. The series begins next week on September 18th and runs weekly through December 12th. All of the webinars are scheduled for 7pm Eastern Time. You can register for one webinar or all of the webinars. There is […]
Lessons to Help You and Your Students Become Better Researchers
If you’re looking to improve your search skills this summer or you want to find new ideas for teaching search skills, check out Power Searching With Google. Power Searching With Google was hosted by Google back in 2012. With the exception of the live Hangouts on Air that were held during the course, all of […]
How to Create Staff Notebooks in OneNote
Early this year I was finally convinced that Microsoft’s OneNote is a product that I should be using more often. In fact, I’ve moved all of my bookmarking and digital note-taking into OneNote and now use Google Keep just for reminders and shopping lists (yes, I know you can do that in OneNote too, but […]
The Library of Congress Seeks a Teacher-in-Residence
The Library of Congress has a great opportunity for a performing arts or visual arts teacher in the 2018-19 school year. The LOC is seeking a performing arts or visual arts teacher to be a teacher-in-residence at the LOC in Washington, DC. The selected teacher will be able to do some or all of the […]
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 […]
Cool Fellowships for Teachers
One of the coolest professional development opportunities that I know of is the Grosvenor Teacher Fellow Program. It is an annual program administered by National Geographic. This unique professional development program, open to teachers in the U.S. and Canada takes teachers on field work expeditions to interesting places all over the world. Some of the places teachers […]
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. […]
The Past, Present, and Future of AR in Classrooms
Nearly two hundred of you have registered for my free webinar titled The Past, Present, and Future of Augmented Reality in Classrooms. The webinar was originally scheduled for tomorrow. I have had to reschedule the webinar for next Thursday (October 26th) instead of tomorrow. The reason is that we’re having a baby (about a week […]
Copyright for Teachers – Webinar Recording
Last night Beth Holland and I hosted a free webinar in which we talked about copyright concerns that frequently appear in schools. As you can see the video of the webinar (embedded below) it was a casual conversation during which we shared some stories, fielded some questions, and shed some light on common misconceptions about […]
Next Week is Free Webinar Week!
Next week I am hosting three free professional development webinars. I hope that you can join me for one, two, or all three of them. Help Kids Discover New Information On Tuesday at 4pm ET I am hosting 7 Ways to Help Kids Discover and Analyze New Information. In the webinar you will learn how […]
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 […]
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 […]
Spend the Summer in Washington D.C. as a C-SPAN Fellow
Summer might be six months away, but it’s already time to start thinking about summer professional development opportunities. Social studies teachers should take note of C-SPAN’s 2017 Summer Fellowship Program. The C-SPAN Teacher Fellowship Program brings together teachers and media specialists to work together for four weeks in Washington, D.C. The fellows work together to […]
PBS LearningMedia’s Digital Innovator Program Seeks Applicants for 2017
PBS LearningMedia is hosting their Digital Innovators program again in 2017. The program recognizes K-12 teachers who excel at using digital media in their classrooms. There is also a leadership component of the program as PBS is searching for people who can be leaders in helping other teachers utilize digital media. Teachers selected as PBS LearningMedia Digital […]
Coming Soon – Discovery Education’s Annual Fall VirtCon
Every fall Discovery Education hosts a virtual conference that is open to the world. The DEN Fall VirtCon is a blended online and physical conference. This year’s event is happening on October 22nd. You can participate virtually as I did last year or attend one of the physical events organized in locations all over North […]