In this Digital Pedagogy Lab Workshop, we’ll explore some of the common rhetorical techniques companies who create ed tech use to sell their products. We’ll ...

Six cool apps and websites that are worth a look this year. (Plus two more!!)

It’s a new year and it’s a great time to try out a few new tech tools. Here’s my annual round-up of apps and sites I think are worth a look, plus two more extra just for the heck of it. The 2020 Teacher’s Guide to Tech is now available at

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a ...

A new book offers advice for instructors looking to further integrate technology in their classrooms.

Ben Williamson raises significant questions for teachers and school systems to consider when apps such as ClassDojo are permitted entry into our classroom…

h/t michelle miller

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One of the things I’ve come to appreciate is how challenging it can be for an institution to grapple with online learning and ed tech. Leadership is so important and yet the top layer of an …

Tour Creator makes it easy to build immersive, 360 tours right from your computer.

Virtual field trips allow us to take our students where the bus can’t. Students can make connections with locations, concepts or people through the power of virtual field trips. What are the best virtual field trips out there? And how can we take the learning even further? Here are 20 ideas and activities.

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As regular readers know, it’s time for me to begin posting my mid-year “The Best….” lists. There are over 1,900 regularly updated lists now. You can see them all here. As usual, in order to…

If you’re going to procrastinate on your phone, you might as well download these while you’re at it

The Evergreen School District in Washington has told its teachers to stop using Donors Choose to raise money for classroom supplies and projects. According to KATU2, “The Washington State Aud...

Boy, there sure are a lot of web applications that let you make free slideshows. Because of this glut, I thought it would be helpful to my students, readers of this blog, and me to do a quick revie…

A funny thing happened on the way to academic integrity.

As regular readers know, I’ve begun posting my end-of-year “The Best….” lists. There are over 1,600 regularly updated lists now. You can see them all here. As usual, in order to make this li…

Video is a wonderfully visual medium that opens up new opportunities for teaching and learning. Here's how to extend the shelf-life of your course videos.

maha, lee skallerup and autumm in chronicle linked to this. schottish map.

Engagement and participation have all become the 'buzzwords' of presenting, but what moves should a presenter make to create an interactive slideshow?

A 21st century educational system must educate all students in the effective and authentic use of the technologies that permeate society to prepare them fo…

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