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As I wrote last week, I'm jealous of today's high school students who don't have to rely on consulting books like The Student Writer to...

Good morning from Maine where today it's going to snow, but tomorrow is going to sunny and will be almost spring-like. It's going to be...

Good evening from Maine where we had a cold and rainy late August day. It was a good day for making cookies (oatmeal chocolate chip) and...

The Tour de France begins tomorrow, about two months after it was scheduled to begin. As an avid cyclist I enjoy watching it and I find...

As the new school year gets going there is going to be a lot more Zoom calls in our future. At my school students are going to be on Zoom...

As the school year begins you might find yourself looking through a lot of YouTube videos that you'll share with your students throughout...

On Monday I featured three ways to explore the news through maps . I like the idea of using maps to give students some geographic context...

The new version of Google Sites has been out since 2016 and since 2016 Google has continually told users that the "new version" would...

Last week I got an email from a reader who was looking for a means to stream or broadcast from multiple sources. Zoom, Google Meet, and...

It's hard for me to believe that it's the last day of July. It feels like just last week I was hosting end-of-year Google Meet sessions...

DocsTeach is a favorite resource of mine for U.S. History teachers and students. I used it and it's predecessor fairly regularly when I...

Good morning from Maine where I'm sitting on my back porch drinking coffee and watching the fog clear out of the valley below me. The...

This morning the power was out at my house so I sat on my porch drinking coffee (brewed before the power went out) and brainstormed a list...

Good morning from Maine where the temperature only reached 62F yesterday, but today is supposed to reach 90! These wild fluctuations in...

Believe it or not we're closer to the start of the new school year than we are to the end of the last one. Whether we're going back into...

This past spring I published a video about using PDFs in Google Classroom and a video about converting PDFs into Google Docs . One of...