The Practical Ed Tech Newsletter
Between social media and email it can be hard to keep up with everything going on in the world of ed tech throughout the week. That’s why nine years ago I started the Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. Every Sunday evening/ Monday morning I send out my favorite tip of the week and summary of my […]
Three YouTube Features Every Teacher Should Know How to Use
In last week’s Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I detailed a few features of YouTube Studio that every teacher who uploads videos to YouTube should know how to use. The video included in that newsletter can be seen here. Chances are that even if you don’t upload videos to YouTube, you probably use YouTube to find […]
Free Email Etiquette Posters
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I shared a bunch of resources for teaching about digital citizenship. In that newsletter I included a link to two posters about email etiquette that I created last fall. I also mentioned that Canva is running a free poster printing promotion later this month. You can get PDFs […]
Fifteen Exit Ticket Questions for Almost Any Classroom
This is an excerpt from this week’s Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. The newsletter is sent every Sunday evening (Eastern Time) and it includes my tip of the week and summary of the week’s most popular posts from Free Technology for Teachers. You can sign up for the newsletter right here. Whether an exit ticket is […]
My Top Five Productivity Tips
This is an excerpt from my weekly Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week Newsletter. The newsletter is sent out every Sunday evening (Eastern Time). In my newsletter you’ll find my favorite tip of the week as well as a list of my most popular posts of the week. You can register for the newsletter […]
A Simple Trick to Make Audio Editing Easier
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I featured five podcasting tips for students and teachers. One of those tips was to “clap and pause.” That tip is demonstrated in the short video that is embedded below. Editing an audio recording is much easier if you make a loud clap before a brief pause and […]
20,000 Teachers Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
About seven years ago I noticed that “too many updates” was the most common reason for people unsubscribing from the emails from this blog. To remedy that I created the Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week Newsletter. What started out small now has more than 20,000 weekly subscribers. The Practical Ed Tech Tip of […]
More Than 18,000 Teachers Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
Five years ago I started the Practical Ed Tech Newsletter as an alternative to the daily email digest that is automatically generated from Free Technology for Teachers. The Practical Ed Tech Newsletter is not automatically generated. It’s something that I write every weekend and send on Sunday evenings. In the newsletter I share my tip of the week […]
More Than 17,000 Teachers Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
Over the last ten years the most common reason that people give me for unsubscribing to the blog is “too many updates.” That is why five years ago I started the Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. This is a newsletter that I send out once a week on Sunday evenings. In the newsletter I share my […]
Important Changes for Those Who Follow in RSS and Email
Those of you who follow this in an RSS reader like Feedly or Flipboard may have recently noticed a change in the way that the articles are displayed. Likewise, those who subscribe to the daily emails may have noticed a change in the content display this morning. The change is that from beginning yesterday afternoon […]
Join 16,000+ Who Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
Every Sunday evening I send out the Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week. I started doing that four years ago as a way to provide people who want to get their ed tech tips in weekly format instead of a daily format. In the weekly mailing I include my tip of the week (usually […]
The Practical Ed Tech Newsletter
Over the years I have had the good fortune of having tens of thousands of educators like you subscribe to the Free Technology for Teachers daily email newsletter. Many people forward it to their colleagues on a regular basis too. But for some people a daily email leads to information overload. That’s why I created […]
10 Good Options for Creating Digital Portfolios
Yesterday’s Practical Ed Tech weekly newsletter featured ten tools that your students can use this year to create digital portfolios. A copy of the handout that was included in the newsletter is embedded below.
More Than 13,000 People Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
A few years ago I realized that while many people like to get ed tech news and tips every day, there are just as many people who would prefer to get to get that information at a slower pace. That’s why I created the Practical Ed Tech Newsletter. Once per week I share via email […]
Nearly 19,000 People Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
The reason that I read more often than any other for people unsubscribing from Free Technology for Teachers is “too many updates.” That’s why over the last two years I’ve offered two other ways to find my ed tech tips and news in a less frequently updated fashion. Those options are the Practical Ed Tech […]
7 Highlights of the Practical Ed Tech Handbook – Get Your Free Copy
Last week I published an updated version of The Practical Ed Tech Handbook. It has been downloaded more than 1,500 times in the last four days. Combined with the previous version The Practical Ed Tech Handbook has been downloaded more than 30,000 times. I hope that many of you who have downloaded it have also […]
More Than 11,000 People Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
Keeping up with changes in the educational technology landscape can feel like a daunting task. Heck, even keeping up with the blog posts that I publish on Free Technology for Teachers can feel like a lot to do. That’s why in January of 2014 I launched the Practical Ed Tech weekly newsletter. The Practical Ed […]
9,500 Teachers Get Their Ed Tech Tips This Way
Every month I hear nice compliments from readers of FreeTech4Teachers.com and the FreeTech4Teachers Facebook page followed by, “I don’t always have time keep up with it.” To solve that problem I started the PracticalEdTech.com newsletter. More than 9,500 people now receive that newsletter in their inboxes on Sunday evening or Monday morning depending on where […]
Resources from #TCEA16
Over the last two days I had the privilege to give six presentations at the TCEA conference in Austin, Texas. As I always do, I put the slides and other resources from my presentations online at Practical Ed Tech. The six presentations that I gave were: Classroom Uses for Google Books Ten Common Challenges Facing […]