During winter break I caught up with my friend Tom Richey to record an episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast. Tom is a high school history teacher (AP Euro) and the producer of fantastic YouTube videos covering lots of topics in AP Euro, World, and U.S. History. He has more than 150,00 subscribers to his YouTube channel. Tom also produces videos covering AP test taking strategies and hosts live online review sessions for students.
I always enjoy talking with Tom and I hope that you enjoy this episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast. You can listen to the episode here or on your favorite podcast network by searching "Practical Ed Tech Podcast."
Making a timeline is a "classic" history class assignment. When I started my teaching career my students made timelines on big sheets of paper. Later I had them use some online programs that let them include some pictures and links. Eventually, we got to a place where true multimedia timeline creation tools were readily available. Today, there are plenty of ways to create multimedia timelines. In the following chart I highlight the features of my favorite tools for making multimedia timelines. A copy of the chart can be acquired in Google Docs format here.
Ecoregions 2017 is an interactive map produced by Resolve for the purpose of showing the ecoregions and biomes of the world. When you visit the map you can choose to display either ecoregions or biomes. After you make that selection you can then click on any location on the map to discover the ecoregion or biome of that location. An associated image of that location and some brief details are also displayed when you click on the map.
Applications for Education
The Ecoregions 2017 interactive map could be a good little reference to add to a Earth Science course website, OneNote notebook, or Google Classroom section.
Good morning from Maine where the snow that blanketed us earlier in the week is still here and will be here until April. I'm not complaining at all because at our house snow equals skiing. And that's what we're going to do after the sun comes up and we wrangle our toddlers into their snowsuits and boots.
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Import questions is one of the many useful, yet often overlooked functions in Google Forms. The import questions function lets you draw questions from your existing forms to use in a new form. In the following video I demonstrate how you can use the import questions function to combine questions from multiple Google Forms to create one new one.
Applications for Education
One of the things that I typically do at the end of the semester is create practice quizzes for my students by compiling questions from quizzes that they have already taken. Usually, I focus on including the questions that were most frequently answered incorrectly earlier in the semester. Google Forms makes this easy to do. By using the import questions function in Google Forms I can quickly create a new form that is just a compilation of questions from prior forms. The determination of which questions to pick is done by looking at the summary data from the prior quizzes.
