International Ed Tech Guy

            Are you ready for the new wearables?  Here is the prototype for the Cicret Bracelet.

Are you looking for a safe and easy way to find images for school reports? Just search and download properly attributed, copyright free images. G Rated Images – Photos for Class uses Flickr safe search, and we do a little filtering of our own to help it out – Read More Easy Attribution – When…

​ With Chrome making browsing difficult on Macs – many of you have switched to Firefox.  This week I am recommending an old favorite of mine in Firefox – StretchClock.  This is a great tool for keeping yourself fresh and making sure you take care of yourself during these stressful times.  StressClock puts a visible clock…

​ Ever print a website page and get everything but what you want?  Me too!  Try PrintWhatYouLike.com.  This is a free app and Chrome Add on which helps you tell the printer what you want and don’t want.  If you use the Chrome Add-On (which I highly suggest) it produces another window for printing with options to remove,…

​ It is a good time to provide students with some extra tools for highlighting, annotating and general note taking.  Introducing Texthelp Study Skills.  This is a simple Add On for Chrome.  It is an extremely helpful tool for students.  It provides a suite of tools for highlighting and annotating on Google Docs.  Added to this…

  I used to be a Social Studies teacher and I loved timelines.  Kids used them for presentations, for note-taking and we created whole class built timelines.  They are a great way to synthesize a lot of information in linear format.  Introducing Tiki-Toki!  This is an AWESOME time-lining tool.  With your free account you can build…

​ Backchannels are a great way to start discussions, gather questions, give everyone a voice or to create group thinking.  There are two really good ones that I suggest.  The first is Padlet.  It creates a great open space where anyone can post any question or answer any question.One of the best features of Padlet is that it can…

  Today is just a fun one.  ClassTools.net is full of cool apps that can add to ANY classroom.  There are timers, educational video games, QR Code creators and much, much more!  I know I tend to want to ‘Spice up’ classes around this time of year.  So take a few minutes, play with something fun and…

The Learning 2.014 Conference was this weekend and it was amazing!  Great presenters, great site and great info! I presented on Advanced Google Apps – looking specifically at Scripts and App for Education.  Thought I would share out my presentation and resources.  There is a toolbox of Apps and Scripts we investigated for educators.  Enjoy!…

September 29, 2014 Resources! Looking for good articles to share with students?  How would you like to be able to pick articles by reading level?  Newsela is a great tool for this.  Real World Articles that have been Lexile Leveled for teachers.  Added to this there are no distracting advertisements and with some articles there is…