The Week in Review - Thinking About Summer on the Coldest Day of Winter

Skiing across Moosehead Lake.

Good morning from Maine where the snow flurries are reminding us that winter is still here. Last Sunday we had the coldest day of the year at -17F! It was on that day that I announced that there will be two Practical Ed Tech Summer Camps this year. There will be one tailored to schools that have 1:1 Chromebook programs and one for everyone else. Both Practical Ed Tech Summer Camps will be held in July. You can learn more about them here. Discounted early registration is available now. The Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp has sold out every year for the last three years.

Here are this week's most popular posts:
1. 7 Tools for Creating Multimedia Quizzes Compared in One Chart
2. Quizalize - Create Interactive Review Games to Play Synchronously or Asynchronously
3. 3D Printers in Elementary School
4. PicLits - Inspire Creative Stories Through Pictures
5. 7 Blogging Platforms for Teachers Compared and Ranked
6. How to Create Video-based Quizzes on Blubbr
7. How to Use Find & Replace in Google Docs

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35 Permission Slip Templates

If you have ever organized a field trip, you have probably had to gather permission slips signed by your students' parents. Your school might have a standardized template for permission slips or it might not. Should you find yourself having to create your own permission slips and field trip letters, take a look at the templates available on Template Lab.

On Template Lab you will find 35 permission slip and field trip letter templates. All of the templates are available to download for free. The downloads are Word files that you can edit to meet your specific needs.

Before you start writing a permission slip or field trip letter from scratch, take a look at Template Lab.

A Crash Course on Philosophy

Last fall I shared more than 100 animated lessons about philosophy. This week, through Open Culture, I learned about a new Crash Course in philosophy. The new video course stars Hank Green talking about the origins of philosophical thinking. As I've come to expect with Hank and John Green there is a fair amount of sarcasm in the videos. So far two segments of the course have been published. Both segments are included in the playlist embedded below.


H/T to Open Culture.