10 Pretty Awesome Things You Can do With PowerPoint
When Used With Tact, These Techniques can Help to Make Your Presentations Fun and Engaging It'd easy to bash PowerPoint, especially given the poor uses we see all too often … plain boring slides with...
View Article5 Ways to Share YouTube Videos Safely and Privately (Without the Distractions)
YouTube is a Powerful, Sure bet for Delivering Video Content, but What can you do About all the Distractions, and Privacy? Read on … Do you want to be able to use YouTube in your class, but are...
View ArticleOur Newest 3 Minute Tech Tool Tutorial: Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic Provides Free Screencasting, and Adds Additional Powerful Functionality for Just $15 a Year! This week on the Try-a-Tool-a-Week Challenge, we're checking out Screencast-O-Matic. The...
View ArticlePut the Power Back in PowerPoint With More Images and Less Text!
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words The next time you’re putting together a presentation, ask yourself whether a slide can be replaced with a picture. If you can get your main point across with a...
View Article10 Tech-Savvy Web Teaching Apps Students (& Other Teachers) Will Love
Come Explore 10 Different Fun & Powerful Free Tools With our ‘3 Minute Teaching With Tech' Tutorials! Have you ever peeked in on another teacher and saw them using a tech tool that made you think,...
View ArticleThe Rise of the ‘Youtuber’ and Why Teachers Should Take Notice
Short Form Video is BIG and Getting Bigger. Is Education Putting the Format to Good Use? So, do you know what a YouTuber is? Can you name a few? Your students can probably name lots of their...
View ArticleEdPuzzle 3 Minute TOOL-torial: Add Questions to Videos, Monitor Progress
EdPuzzle is Truly an Awesome Free Tool. See how Easy it is to use in our Newest 3 Minute TOOL-torial. EdPuzzle is a powerful free application that makes it a breeze to embed questions in YouTube and...
View Article10 Different Approaches to Creating Digital Learning Content
Over the past few months, I've written a series of posts over on the Flipped Learning Network web site that offer a wealth of different tools and techniques that can be used to create digital learning...
View ArticleYou’re a Teacher, Not a Video Producer
Technology's expanding role in the classroom has transformed the way instructors teach and the way students learn. As online courses and blended learning environments continue to grow in popularity,...
View ArticleIn a Flipped Learning Environment, Great Visual Content Is Essential
We are living in a golden age of visual communication, and not just because of all the video-streaming services and photo-sharing tools we have at our disposal. In education, compelling visual content...
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