Ten Topics in Teaching History With Technology
My popular Teaching History With Technology course begins next week. There is still time to register right here. There are ten big topics that will be covered in the course. All of the lessons in the course can be applied to elementary, middle, and high school settings. These are the ten big topics in the course: Search Strategies […]
Teaching History With Technology – Online Course Starting in June
This summer I’m not hosting the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp. I am, however, hosting a some online courses for those who are interested. The first one that I’m hosting starts in June. That course is Teaching History With Technology. Teaching History With Technology is a five-part course that will meet via Zoom at 4pm […]
Ten Topics Covered in Teaching History With Technology
The next session of my popular Teaching History With Technology course begins tomorrow. There is still time to register right here. There are ten big topics that will be covered in the course. All of the lessons in the course can be applied to elementary, middle, and high school settings. These are the ten big […]
ICYMI – Intro to Teaching History With Technology – Webinar Recording
Earlier this week I hosted a free webinar titled Intro to Teaching History With Technology. In the webinar I introduced my Discovery, Discussion, Demonstration framework and how it can be applied to developing interesting history and geography lessons. More than 100 people joined the webinar. If you missed it, you can watch the recording right […]
Free Webinar – Intro to Teaching History With Technology
As announced just a few moments ago during Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff, next week I’m hosting a free webinar titled Intro to Teaching History With Technology. In this free webinar on April 6th you’ll learn about my Discovery, Discussion, and Demonstration framework for using educational technology and how to […]
Webinar Recording – Intro to Teaching History With Technology
Yesterday afternoon I hosted a free webinar titled Intro to Teaching History With Technology. This webinar featured my Discovery, Discussion, Demonstration framework in the context of history and geography lessons. As the name implies, the webinar provides an introduction to some of the key topics in my online course, Teaching History With Technology. If you […]
Ten Topics in Teaching History With Technology
This summer I’m hosting two sections of my popular Teaching History With Technology course. The first section meets every Monday afternoon in June. The second section will be conducted on five consecutive days in July. Both sections will cover the same material. There are ten big topics that will be covered in the course. All […]
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 With Me That You Can Join This Week
This week, as I did last week, I’m hosting or co-hosting two live webinars. On Thursday at 3pm ET I’m hosting a thirty minute Intro to Teaching History With Technology. On Friday at 1pm ET I’ll be co-hosting Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff with Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for […]
FAQs About Teaching History With Technology 2020
For the new year I have updated my popular Practical Ed Tech course, Teaching History With Technology. The course begins next Wednesday. I announced the course about ten days ago and I’ve answered a handful of emails about it. Here are those questions and answers. 1. Will the sessions be recorded? Yes. Every live webinar […]
Teaching History With Technology 2020
The primary means through which I’m able to keep this site running is through revenue from speaking engagements and sales of my Practical Ed Tech professional development courses like Teaching History With Technology. For 2020 I’ve updated the course to include new things like making your own history apps, creating green screen videos, and using […]
How to Find, View, and Download Thousands of Historical Maps
There are some good historical map collections available in Google Earth. But you can also import your own historical maps into Google Earth. topoView is a good place to find historical maps that you can import into Google Earth. topoView is a USGS website that provides historical maps dating back to 1880. You can download […]
Two Online PD Courses I’m Hosting in June
The primary support for Free Technology for Teachers comes from folks like you who enroll in my Practical Ed Tech webinars and workshops. This spring and summer I’m hosting a series of professional development webinars and workshops. The next webinars are starting in June. In June I’m hosting Teaching History With Technology and Getting Going With G Suite. […]
17 Lessons in Teaching History With Technology
This coming Monday evening (7pm ET) I am hosting Teaching History With Technology on PracticalEdTech.com. This course meets five times (once per week). There are seventeen concepts that are covered in the course. Each concept can be applied to the creation of technology-infused history lessons. The concepts covered in the course are listed below. Using […]
How to Share Your Google VR Tours With Students
Over the last few weeks I have received a lot of emails from readers who had made virtual reality tours in Google’s VR Tour Creator but then ran into difficulty sharing those tours with their students. To answer those questions I made the following video that demonstrates how you can share your VR tours with […]
FAQs About Upcoming Practical Ed Tech Courses
This weekend I have answered a bunch of questions about the two Practical Ed Tech courses that are starting next week. I figure that if even one person asks there are probably a few others who are curious about the same topic too. Here’s a list FAQs about the Practical Ed Tech courses that are […]
Sheets, Math, and Timelines – The Week in Review
Good morning from Key West, Florida where I have spent the week working with the great staff of Sigsbee Charter School. And while it is great to be in the sunshine state, it’s also hard to be away from my little family for so long too. Thanks to Skype we’re able to see each other […]
Lessons in Teaching History With Technology
Next week I am hosting my Teaching History With Technology course on PracticalEdTech.com. That five week course covers seventeen concepts for infusing technology into social studies lessons. Those core concepts are outlined below. Using technology to help students analyze historical/ primary source documents. Making artifacts interactive. Hosting online history discussions The importance of structure and […]
Two Online PD Courses Starting Next Week
Throughout 2018 I have offered various one-hour professional development webinars through PracticalEdTech.com. Those have proven to be popular, but some people have been asking if I plan to go back to offering full, live PD courses like I did from 2013 through 2017. I’m happy to announce that I am offering live, online courses through […]
Two Interactive Copies of the Constitution for Constitution Day
Next Monday is Constitution Day in the United States. By law all schools that receive federal funds have to offer some instruction on on the Constitution. If you’re looking for some activities to do with your students on Constitution Day, consider having your students explore one of the following interactive displays of the Constitution. The […]
New Artifact Collections Added to DocsTeach
DocsTeach is one of my go-to recommendations for anyone who teaches U.S. History at a middle school or high school level. The site offers a dozen tools that you can use to create interactive history lessons based on primary and secondary sources. To help you build those lessons DocsTeach provides thousands of primary and secondary […]
5 Good Resources for Teaching and Learning About the American Revolution
This coming Monday is Patriots’ Day. It is an official state holiday here in Maine, in Massachusetts, and in Wisconsin. The day commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord. As a New Englander this is a good day to review some good resources for teaching and learning about the American Revolution. History Animated has an […]
Seward’s Folly Lesson Plan
Thanks to this Tweet from the Library of Congress I was reminded that today in 1867 was the day that the United States purchased Alaska from Russia. At the time it was referred to as Seward’s Folly. The discovery of gold thirty years later changed that perception. The Library of Congress offers a free lesson […]
ICYMI – 5 Video Projects for Almost Every Classroom
Last week over on PracticalEdTech.com I hosted a webinar titled 5 Video Projects for Almost Every Classroom. Nearly 100 teachers joined that live webinar. If you missed it, the recording of the webinar and all of the associated handouts are now available on-demand. Register to access the recording today and your access to the recording […]
Important News About Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is a great tool for making videos, storytelling websites, and simple graphics. It has been popular since its launch a few years ago. Also since its launch there have been many questions about whether or not it can be used with students under the age of 13. For while Adobe’s guide for educators […]
Eight Lessons in Teaching History With Technology
A couple of month ago I launched an on-demand version of my popular Teaching History With Technology course. So far more than 50 people have completed the course. The question that almost everyone asks before they enroll in the course is, “what’s covered in the course?” That’s a fair question to ask so I published […]
5 Ed Tech Tools Social Studies Teachers Should Try This Year
On a regular basis I receive emails from teachers that go something like this, “we recently got new (insert hardware here) for our students and I was hoping you could tell me which tools I should try in my (academic area X) class.” To answer that request for social studies teachers I put together the […]
One Day Left to Save 30% on Two Practical Ed Tech Courses
Providing online professional development courses is one of the ways that I am able to fund Free Technology for Teachers. I offer those courses through my Practical Ed Tech website. All month long I’ve offered a 30% discount on two on-demand courses. Those discounts will expire tomorrow night at midnight (Eastern Time). Teaching History With […]
Social Studies Teachers, This Is For You!
Back in November I released my popular Teaching History With Technology course in an on-demand format. It has proven to be a popular format as more people have participated in the on-demand course in December than in all of the combined live versions of the course offered earlier in the year. If you would like […]
Ancient Egypt 101 – A Six Minute Primer
Ancient Egypt 101 is a new video produced by National Geographic. The video doesn’t reveal any new information or go into any great detail. What it does provide is a concise overview of the history of ancient Egypt and how some aspects of ancient Egyptian culture are still present today. Applications for Education One of […]
October’s Most Popular Posts on Free Technology for Teachers
Good evening from Maine where we just finished giving out candy to more than 500 trick o’ treaters. Halloween marks the end of October and as I do at the end of every month, I have compiled a list of the most popular posts of the month. Take a look and see if there are […]
The Week in Review – Leaves Everywhere!
Good evening from Maine where the leaves that are still on the tree are beautiful. The leaves on the ground, however, are just a nuisance that I had to spend all morning moving into piles for removal. As I shared earlier on Facebook, my record with small engines is not good as evidenced by my […]
Teaching History With Technology – On-demand PD
Teaching History With Technology is my most popular Practical Ed Tech course after Getting Going With G Suite. In the last year more than 100 people participated in the course. Previously, I have only offered it as a live course that required participants to join weekly webinars. This fall I’m going to offer it in […]
Teaching History With Technology – Expanded to Four Weeks
This afternoon at 3pm EST I am starting the latest version of my Practical Ed Tech online course Teaching History With Technology. I’ve hosted this course six times this year and the last two times I had to schedule additional sessions to cover all of the content and questions. So I finally decided to just […]
Google Earth Is Now a Component of G Suite for Education
Earlier this year Google released a Chromebook-friendly, browser-based version of Google Earth. This week at ISTE 17 Google announced that the new version of Google Earth is now a component of G Suite for Education. This means that your students will be able to use Google Earth with the same account that they use for […]
Teaching History With Technology Begins Today
Now that summer is here in the northern hemisphere many of us have time for the things that we couldn’t do during the school year. That’s why summer can be a good time to take an online course. I’m offering a handful of online courses over the summer. One of those courses is Teaching History […]
Practical Ed Tech Webinar FAQs
Starting in May and running through the end of August I will be hosting five different professional development webinars for teachers and school administrators. I recorded the video embedded below to answer some of the questions that are most frequently asked about my Practical Ed Tech webinars. Watch the video and you’ll get the discount code […]
Teaching History With Technology Begins on Monday Night
Last summer twenty-five middle school and high school teachers joined me to learn about tools and tactics for teaching history with technology. So far another 15 are registered for the next offering of the course which begins on Monday night. Registration is still open. The three week course begins on January 9th at 7pm Eastern […]
15 Tools for Teaching History With Technology – Best of 2016
As I usually do during this week, I’m taking some time off to relax, ski, and work on some long-term projects for the next year. This week I will be re-publishing the most popular posts of 2016. One of the things that teachers often ask me for is a set of tools to get them […]
More Than 100 Sets of Primary Source Documents for Students – Best of 2016
As I usually do during this week, I’m taking some time off to relax, ski, and work on some long-term projects for the next year. This week I will be re-publishing the most popular posts of 2016. A few years ago I wrote a post about searching through the Digital Public Library of America to […]
Teaching History With Technology – An Online PD Course
Last summer twenty-five middle school and high school teachers joined me to learn about tools and tactics for teaching history with technology. During the fall quite a few people expressed interest in participating in the next offering of the course. Registration is now open for the January section of Teaching History With Technology. The course […]
Spend a Few Fall Evenings Learning New Tech Skills To Use In Your Classroom
Next week I’m starting three sections of my popular Practical Ed Tech online courses. On Monday Blogs & Social Media for Teachers & School Leaders begins. On Tuesday Getting Going With GAFE begins. Graduate credits are available for completing both of those five week courses. Teaching History With Technology is a three week course that […]
7 Good Tools for Creating Timelines
Timeline creation is a go-to project for many history teachers. When I made timelines as a student and in my first year or two of teaching, timelines were made on paper. Today, there are better ways to have students create timelines. In their web browsers and in stand-alone iPad and Android apps students can create […]
15 Tools for Teaching History With Technology – A Handout
One of the things that teachers often ask me for is a set of tools to get them started on using technology in their classrooms. This is a common request because it can be overwhelming to look at a website or a read a stream of emails with tips and try to figure out where […]