A Quick Comparison of Five Popular Backchannel and Informal Assessment Tools

During yesterday's webinar on backchannels and informal assessment tools Poida suggested that I create a chart comparing the key featur...

A Short Guide to Creating and Grading Quizzes Through Google Forms

One of the things that I always do in my Google Apps workshops and webinars is teach people how to create self-grading quizzes through Googl...

How to Enable Offline Use of Google Documents

Just a few minutes after I published my post about writing blog posts while offline I received an email from someone needing assistance usi...

September Webinar Series - How To Use Google Drive In School

How To Use Google Drive in School is a three part series designed for teachers and school administrators that are new to using Google Dri...

7 Ways to Create and Deliver Online Quizzes

Creating and delivering quizzes and tests online offers a number of advantages over paper-based quizzes and tests. Many online quiz services...

How to Create Your Own Custom Search Engine

I've posted directions for creating your own Google Custom Search Engine in the past. Since the last time I published those directions G...

How to Create Placemarks and Tours in Google Earth

One of last month's most popular posts was 18 Google Earth & Maps Lessons for K-12 . In response to that post I received a bunch of ...

Best of 2013 So Far...Tips for Managing Academic Blogs

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

Best of 2013 So Far...Picking The Best Platform For Your Classroom Blog

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

Tips for Securing Your WiFi Network

Google's Good to Know site hosts a lot of good information about web technology basics. Good to Know covers topics like preventing ide...

Google+ Is Two, Have You Tried It Yet? You Should

Google+ turned two this week. Many teachers (and many others) have ignored it even though it has some great features. I outlined my favorite...

Three Google Sheets Scripts That Help Teachers Save Time

One of the great things about technology is that it can help use do things more efficiently which in turn means we get to spend more time on...

Icelandic & 17 Other Languages Added to Google Drive

This afternoon on the Google Drive blog it was announced that 65 languages are now supported in Google Drive. That total includes 18 langua...

Haiku Deck Now Supports Speaker Notes

Since I first saw it last fall, Haiku Deck , the free iPad for creating presentations, has impressed me. The app makes it easy for anyone to...

How to Screencast On a Chromebook

I've reviewed a lot of screencasting tools over the years (a list of seventeen can be found here ). The problem with most screencasting ...

90 Videos That Will Help You Make Better Videos

Last week I featured the Vimeo Video School's series about stillmotion video creation. YouTube also has an extensive collection of vide...

Create Slowmotion Videos Using the YouTube Video Editor

Want to understand why my dogs make such a mess when they drink water? Watch a slow motion video of the process and you'll see why right...

Harvest of History Helps Students Understand Farms

Harvest of History is a website produced by the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York (also the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame )....

Tips for Leading Google Apps Trainings - Part 3

Yesterday, I shared a couple of tips for leading successful Google Apps training activities. Here's the third installment in my series o...

Tips for Leading Google Apps Trainings - Part 2

As the school year winds-down many of us are planning summer PD sessions. If you're going to be leading a PD session about Google Apps ...