Storytelling is a lost art-form, especially in schools these days where many faculties leave out the A (Art) in STEAM for STEM. While policymakers don’t seem to get it, teachers know that the best path to students’ learning is through emotional motivation; and the best way to appeal to emotions is to tell stories that […]
Biscuit: A Quick Way to Learn Words
Every year Evernote holds a contest called Devcup encouraging Developers to build apps which extend the functionality of Evernote. I’m not sure how, but until recently Biscuit slipped past my ...
Make Your Own Crossword Puzzle
Since the good ol’ days of graph paper (and probably well before that) teachers have gone to meticulous lengths to create crossword puzzles for their students. Crosswords can be great to review vocabulary or reinforce themes in readings. A quick search of “crossword puzzle maker” or “how to make your own crossword” has traditionally left […]
Viz
It used to be that creating charts and graphs on computers took a lot of work or a learning curve or a fairly expensive program. I’m glad that there are more and more “single purpose” apps out there that do just one thing beautifully and simply. Enter Viz from the fine folks at Minisimpli. Viz […]
Google Docs Basics
If ever there was an EdTech 101 course, showing a deep understanding of Google Docs would certainly be the course’s final project. Understanding how to use Google Docs* can become just as important as knowing how to use the whiteboard, depending on how much you choose to take advantage of it. * The terms Google […]
IFTTT for Teachers
The more pessimistic of my colleagues believe that school and bureaucracy go hand in hand, and there is no way to get things done efficiently, and even if there was, nobody would listen. I disagree with these dark-cloud thoughts and I believe that technology is helping us set up better systems everyday that don’t rely […]
Botanicula
Recently I’ve been considering the concept of non-educational games and their implications in education. While some games are simply trash which truly stretch the imagination to figure out any value, there are myriad excellent games which aren’t necessarily designed to help get a single idea across, but may very well work in conceptual applications. I’d […]
Improve your Students’ Typing with Typing Club
“Typing is dead, long live voice recognition!” These are the shouts of the cutting-edge extremists, but as teachers we know better. We know that it would be impossible to write reports with everybody blabbering at their computers around us. We know the value of pensive thinking, and there are still going to be some MASSIVE […]
Better Classroom Storytelling through Comic Life
If you’ve been to any teachers conferences recently or like to float around education websites, you’ll know that “Storytelling” has been a growing buzzword for quite a while. As a student, I remember loving to put together storyboards, dioramas, books, and anything to explain my learning visually. At the time, however, I spent more time […]
Klikaklu
Klikaklu is a clever scavenger hunt app which connects people and gives them clues to solve a puzzle by going to the right location and taking a picture of something. Bear with me, there’s a bit of a learning and explanation curve here. I’ll explain it in terms of a teacher and students, since that’s […]
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Build a Writing Portfolio with Medium
Teachers have no shortage of writing ideas for their classes and are always on the hunt to make things more clear for their students. Many, however, continue to have documents written with MS Word, printed out, and handed in to the teacher. These days, we need to carefully consider whether that is the best way […]
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