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 Greetings from Rock Valley, Iowa, the land of cows and corn! As we wind up our school year this week, I have begun reflecting on just how much our approach to educating kids has changed since becoming 1:1 in our middle and high schools.

Google Play for Education
Google held its annual developer conference this week, and during Wednesday’s keynote, the company touted its work in education, including the growing adoption of Google Apps for Education (some 25+ million users worldwide) and Chromebooks (engineering exec Chris Yerga highlighted its recent country-wide imp

If you haven’t ever used Google Forms before, it is a fantastic way to gather data, manage surveys and assess students online. Recently, the fine folks at Google added another feature to make this platform more robust: embedded images. You can now insert images from your computer or online into your forms with ease!

This is a shamelessly promotional video for Google Glass, but it shows the possibilities this tool opens up for learners. Andrew Vanden Heuvel teaches advanced physics online to high school students...

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Want to know what I did all weekend? I spent an obnoxious amount of time playing GeoGuessr - and I’m seriously addicted. Created by Anton Wallén, this game plops you down somewhere in the world, and it is your task to figure out exactly where that might be!

Google recently released a artifacts from a project that helps demonstrate changes to the Earth’s surface–both man-made and natural–over time. Details from their blog post: “Today, we’re making it possible for you to go back...The post 7 Animations That Reflect Rapid Environmental Change appeared first on TeachThought.

While many teachers embrace the chaos of digital research (it is the “real world,” after all), for others setting students loose on Google is a recipe for a research project chock-full of Yahoo! Answers and...The post How To Create A Custom Search Engine For Your Students appeared first on TeachThought.

This morning Google, NASA, USGS, and TIME released new timelapse imagery that depicts how the E

Concept-mapping–or mind-mapping, idea-mapping, or some other variation that makes sense to you–is the practice of demonstrating the relationship between ideas in a map-like form. Concept-mapping allows creators to articulate nuance, context, and interdependence between ideas...The post 25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

I recently found this presentation by Graham Attwell that describes 79 different ways to use Google Forms in an educational setting and thought it was worth sharing. From using it to collect assessment data to reaching out to parents and even creating Mad Libs style stories with students, Attwell provides a host of ideas that would work well in my classroom, and hopefully in yours too!