Creating Templates With Explain Everything
This is turning into a bit of a series of posts to properly cover templates in Explain Everything. I’ve just finished writing a post on how to share these types of resources in a centralized location. Once I had created that centralized space, I realized I needed to create a template to test out the…
Sharing Templates from Explain Everything
We refer to them as “templates”. Explain Everything refers to them as “projects” in the export page. You could refer to them as .xpl files. Regardless of the label, once you start to consider Explain Everything as an application with its own file format, rather than merely a vehicle to create screencasts, some additional super-powers…
iMovie Isn’t Redefinition
Tim Kivell and I presented today at the Hamilton Wentworth Principals Conference, summarizing lessons learned after three years orchestrating PD plans for the schools directly involved in the technology facet of the Transforming Learning Everywhere initiatives here at the school board. These are the slides we presented, but slides can only tell half the story,…
Liberating “Liberating Genius”
Angela Maiers and Mark E. Moran have written a fantastic guide for implementing Genius Hour in the classroom. The guide walks you through the first 20 days of exploration, plotting out in an easy to follow guide, how best to prepare students to think deeply, explore their passions, and launch into what will be a…
Google Slideshow Templates on iOS
Google has come out with some snappy new templates that you can use in the different tools within Google Drive. The problem is that they are quite difficult to get at from an iOS device. On a laptop, in a browser, they pop up as an option when you create a new slideshow, but in…