iTeach and iLearn

In the age of COVID-19, I'm struggling with keeping up with email. (I mean, I'm struggling with other things too, but this is one sp...

File this under the "how could I use this for a lesson" file... (with thanks to my twitterfriend, Kyle Calderwood , for sharing......

One of my most-viewed posts to date is titled " Eight Helpful Resources for Teaching Geography ." I'm glad this was--apparentl...

Imagine the scene: you've found this excellent video on YouTube that is perfect for illustrating a concept for your students. You decide...

The internet has changed almost everything about almost everything. A bold claim? Perhaps. But think about the mission statements of some ...

Hey, it's Digital Citizenship Week! (Yeah, I didn't know that either, but Twitter told me. I checked...it is!) As an EdTech fanati...

I love Twitter. If I had to pick one tool as the linchpin of my PLE , it would have to be Twitter. It's such a great way to learn about ...

I've been thinking lately about digital footprints , and I'm thinking about how to manage mine. (You could safely say that the class...

Think with me for a moment about footprints. Footprints in the sand wash away when the tide comes in. We sometimes place handprints or foo...

I came across this graphic today--might be a good one for the elementary teachers especially? (If you can get beyond the cutesiness, I think...

A couple weeks ago I was doing an EdTech workshop with some 4th grade teachers and the topic of teaching kids to cite sources came up. How s...

Image by Gavin Llewellyn  CC BY 2.0 Do you remember the first time you were on the World Wide Web? I do. It was 1995, and I was a soph...

I recently came across this site, and I was pretty amazed by the perspective shown here. It's worth taking 30 seconds to check it out: O...

I love  geography. I was that weird kid in 7th grade who would not be reading along with the class because he was looking in the back of his...

I love trivia. Random facts are just good fun! If you feel the same way, may I suggest you check out Mental_Floss ? I've been getting ...

The topic of helping students develop good citizenship (especially online) came up in one of the discussions in a class I'm taking. I...

Teaching can be a lonely profession. That sounds odd, doesn't it? We spend all day with other people! But there is often an isolation th...

I recently posted a helpful graphic for fixing your own computer . I admit, I'm geeky, and I love technology, and people often comment...

My good friend  @DanBeerens  asked me to tag-team a presentation in his Issues in Education course last week. We shared some of our ideas ab...

I want to encourage you to check out FreeRice.com sometime soon. This site has been around for quite a while (since 2007, I believe), but...