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New Course - How to Create & Sell Your Digital Products in 2023
Best of 2022 - Can I Use That Picture?
Best of 2022 - Overlooked Google Docs Features
Best of 2022 - Five Good Resources for Learning About Airplanes and Airlines
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New Course - How to Create & Sell Your Digital Products in 2023

Two weeks I hosted a webinar about creating and selling digital teaching materials. After the webinar a handful of people reached out to ask if I could go into more depth on the topics covered in the webinar. I certainly can, but it's hard to do in just one webinar. Therefore, I've created a new four-part course titled How to Create and Sell Your Digital Products in 2023.

The format of this new course is email-based. Starting on January 10th every week for four weeks you'll get a new lesson delivered to your inbox. The lessons include written material, digital handouts, and video tutorials. You can work through the lessons on your pace and reply to each lesson to get feedback and or ask questions.

In the course you'll learn:

The types of digital products you can create.
How to make the a variety of digital products.
The pros and cons of using platforms like TPT.
How to market and sell your products.
My $100 email strategy.

Register here to join me for this new course in 2023!

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Best of 2022 - Can I Use That Picture?

As I do at this time every year, I'm taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year.

A couple of weeks ago in my Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week newsletter I included a PDF guide to use in determining whether or not you can use a picture you've found on the Internet. To accompany that guide and provide some clarifications I then recorded a short video presentation in Canva.

In this short video I provide a high-level overview of determining whether or not you can re-use a particular picture that you've found on the Internet. For a list of good, classroom-friendly places to find pictures for your projects, take a look at my guide to finding media for classroom projects.

Video - Can I Use That Picture? A Short Presentation About Copyright

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Best of 2022 - Overlooked Google Docs Features

As I do at this time every year, I'm taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year.

As Google Docs has improved and added more features over the years some of those features get forgotten or just plain overlooked. Just because those features don't jump out, doesn't mean they're not helpful to students and teachers. In this new video I highlight ten of my favorite "overlooked" Google Docs features for students and teachers.

Tables.

These are great for organizing group notes.

Special Characters.

These provide an easy way to add accent marks, math symbols, arrows, and emojis to documents.

Checklists.

This relatively new feature is great for group project management.

Task lists.

These are different from checklists and are accessible regardless of which Google Doc you're currently viewing in your account.

Changing Default Text.

Tired of the standard 11 point Arial font? Change the default font to anything you like.

Table of Contents.

This is a great way to link and jump to sections of long documents. The table of contents works even if you export the document to PDF.

Substitutions.

Change the default substitution settings so your name is never misspelled again. Or change the settings to disable some of the automatic features in Google Docs.

Dictionary

Teach kids where this is so they can find definitions and synonyms without leaving Google Docs.

Camera

Students can use the built-in camera option to add pictures of handwritten work to their Google Docs.

Watermarks

Mark a document as confidential or draft.

Are you a tech coach or media specialist looking for some new ideas to share with your colleagues? If so, 50 Tech Tuesday Tips is an eBook you need. You can get it right here.

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Best of 2022 - Five Good Resources for Learning About Airplanes and Airlines

As I do at this time every year, I'm taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year.

We're planning a little trip this fall to visit some family that we haven't seen since before the start of the pandemic. When we told our daughters that we're going to fly they got very excited about it. We've now been answering questions about flying seemingly nonstop for a few days. Those conversations prompted me to compile this list of resources for teaching and learning about the science of flight.

Turbulence: One of the Great Unsolved Mysteries of Physics is a TED-Ed lesson that explains what turbulence is and the forces that create it. The lesson explains that even though we typically associate turbulence with flying in airplanes, turbulence exists in many other places including oceans.

The Wright Brothers - The Invention of the Aerial Age offers timelines for teaching about the developments made by the Wright Brothers. Dig into the Interactive Experiments section of the timeline and you'll find Engineering the Wright Way. Engineering the Wright Way offers interactive simulations in which students learn about wing design by joining the Wright Brothers for test flights in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

How Things Fly hosted by the Smithsonian features an interactive module in which students design their own airplanes. The activity starts with a simple and slow airplane that students have to modify until it reaches a target speed and altitude. As students modify the wings, fuselage, and engines of their airplanes they are given instant feedback on the effects of those modifications. In some cases the feedback includes the airplane crashing and the students having to start over again.

TED-Ed offers a lesson about breaking the sound barrier. The lesson is called The Sonic Boom Problem and it explains how a sonic boom is created and how math is used to predict the path of a sonic boom in the atmosphere.

Here's some archival footage of Yeager's flight in the Bell X-1.

If you have ever wondered why airlines sell more tickets than they have seats on an airplane, the TED-Ed lesson Why Do Airlines Sell Too Many Tickets? is for you. In Why Do Airlines Sell Too Many Tickets? you can learn about the mathematics that airlines use to maximize the revenue that they can generate from each flight. That math includes calculating the probability that everyone who holds a ticket for a flight will actually show up for the flight. The way that probability is calculated is explained in the video. Finally, the lesson asks students to consider the ethics of overbooking flights. Watch the video below or go here to see the entire lesson.

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