If you’ve played classroom buzz-in games, you know one team can dominate. Factile’s new Buzz-In Sequence Randomizer lets teachers shuffle the order of who buzzed in, giving every student a fair chance to shine. www.playfactile.com #Sponsored #EdTech

Go from a PDF to a complete classroom Jeopardy experience! Upload a PDF to Factile, and its AI will generate Jeopardy questions and answers straight from your material. www.playfactile.com #Sponsored #EdTech

Go from a PDF to a complete classroom Jeopardy experience! Upload a PDF to Factile, and its AI will generate Jeopardy questions and answers straight from your material. www.playfactile.com #Sponsored #EdTech

New tools and ideas are waiting for you in Learning in Hand Issue 43: 🤩 Fantastic Factile 🎯 Targets that Tie to Tomorrow 🖨️ Piece by Piece Posters 💬 Chrome’s Captions 🔗 URL Upgrades 🍁 Fall Fonts learninginhand.com/issue43 #EduSky #EdTech

Tip Tuesday! You can suggest meeting times right inside Gmail. When you’re writing an email, click ⋮ → 🗓️ Set up a time to meet → ✅ Propose times you’re free. Then enter the dates and times that work for you. The recipient chooses a slot and a calendar event is added for both of you.

I'm sharing low-prep activities that tap into the brain's natural desire to make predictions, resolve uncertainty, and discover what comes next. #EduSky Join me Tuesday, September 16 at 3pm Central Time. Register for free: figma.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Want AI to draft a series of slides about any topic for you? You've got options... learninginhand.com/blog/2025/ai...

Listen to my 5 minute chat with Carl Hooker on The Idea Spark (a mini-podcast series, from EdSurge Solutions Studio). We chat about AI, deep work, and getting into a flow state. #EduSky

Tip Tuesday! Triple-click text to select the entire line or paragraph. It's faster than dragging your mouse to select the text.

If you want more clever teaching tips, tricks, and tools, I highly recommend subscribing to Matt Miller’s Ditch That Textbook newsletter. Check out the Ditch That Textbook Archive, where you can read issues going back two years!

🔴 Most Shapegrams require a membership, but not this new one! 🟢 Maybe this is your signal to give my digital art challenges a try?

Brisk Teaching is always a crowd-pleaser in my workshops. Teachers love the extension that streamlines tasks. But have you tried Brisk Next? It’s a teacher’s hub for insights, resources, activity management, and next instructional moves. 👉 Read more in my newsletter: learninginhand.com/issue42

Brisk Teaching is AI teachers can use for free. It can do a lot, and it helps to see it broken down into 6 core tools: 📝 Create 💬 Give Feedback 🔎 Inspect Writing 📖 Change Level 🎒 Brisk Boost 🏠 Brisk Next www.briskteaching.com #Sponsored #EdTech #AIinEducation

Brisk Teaching is always a crowd-pleaser in my workshops. Teachers love the extension that streamlines tasks. But have you tried Brisk Next? It’s a teacher’s hub for insights, resources, activity management, and next instructional moves. 👉 Read more in my newsletter: learninginhand.com/issue42

New issue of Learning in Hand is live, complete with its signature alliterative headings: learninginhand.com/issue42 🔀 Directional Differences 🌟 Next-Level Teaching with Brisk 🗓️ Calendar of Curiosity & Creativity 📺 Cord-Free Confidence 📖 So-So Stories 💁🏼 Helpful Handout

I wrote a book! It's a 92-page PDF full of one-pagers about making digital art in Google Slides and Drawings. The only way to get it is to be a Shapegrams member for $35. 🙃 #EduSky #EdTech shapegrams.com/pdf

Tip Tuesday! Have a GIF that plays too fast? Upload it to EZGIF and lower the speed to under 100%. #EduSky ezgif.com/speed

Everything mentioned in Learning in Hand Issue 41 is free! 👉 learninginhand.com/issue41 👥 AI Summit 🛟 AI Unit Builder 🆕 Google Slides Update 📖 Guided Learning in Gemini 😎 Thinking "covertly" 💻 Digital Norms Notebook 💬 AI Lingo Explained 🚸 EdTech Tools Webinar

Did you know Google Slides and Drawings work a little differently now? Check out 3 updates that affect nudging and scaling. #GoogleEdu #EduSky

I’m presenting a free webinar! Join me for “The Curiosity Effect: Irresistible FigJam Activities” Tues, Sept 16 at 3pm CDT. Learn about FigJam while exploring how surprise, anticipation, and prediction can help students stay focused and excited to learn.

Keep answer short and sweet OR make students write more in Google Forms. Use Response Validation to set a minimum or maximum character count for a response. The form won't submit unless the response fits the rule. #EduSky #GoogleEdu

Tip Tuesday! Set up keyboard shortcuts like /rubric, /sva, or /commas to instantly paste your full rubric or your most common comments with the Text Blaze extension for Chrome. (via Donnie Piercey) #EduSky chromewebstore.google.com/detail/text-...

I used TeachAid to generate a week-long AI literacy unit, complete with daily lessons, interactive slides, activities, exit tickets, and assessments! It’s customizable, and it can differentiate everything it generates. See how it works → teachaid.ca #Sponsored #AIinEdu

One of my favorite back-to-school traditions: a New Year’s party on day one! ✨ My 5th graders wrote and shared toasts to celebrate the start of our year together. #EduSky

✨ Teacher tech tips, every two weeks. @tonyvincent.bsky.social Learning in Hand newsletter is so good, you’ll wish it came daily. Free signup: learninginhand.com/newsletter

Everything mentioned in Learning in Hand Issue 41 is free! #EduSky #EdTech 👉 learninginhand.com/issue41 👥 AI Summit 🛟 AI Unit Builder 🆕 Google Slides Update 📖 Guided Learning in Gemini 😎 Thinking "covertly" 💻 Digital Norms Notebook 💬 AI Lingo Explained 🚸 EdTech Tools Webinar

Tip Tuesday! Presenting with Canva? You can use your phone as a clicker! In Present mode, tap More ⋮ in the bottom corner and select Share remote control. Scan the QR code with your phone to open controls in your browser. Use the arrows to change slides and even access Magic Shortcuts.

With TeachAid, you can generate an ENTIRE UNIT in minutes, with lessons, assessments, and materials that match your curriculum. ✔ Input your grade, subject, and topic ✔ Review and approve the description ✔ Teach with ready-to-use, editable resources 📚 Try it free → teachaid.ca #Sponsored

Notice anything different about Google Slides? The selection box now has corner circles and side handles. Even better: resizing multiple objects scales borders and text proportionally. No more fixing after shrinking or enlarging! #EduSky #EdTech #GoogleEdu

Book Creator’s Back to School Resources Hub now includes Digital Norms notebooks! Each digital book features pages for a class pledge, responsible AI use, fixing toxic comments, being a great collaborator, and more. hubs.la/Q03zH3Lh0

Gamma is one of the best AI presentation makers, but you don’t get much for free. Each generation costs 40 credits. Use my link to get 200 free credits (and I’ll get 200 too): gamma.app/signup?r=d97...

The first issue for August has landed! 🛬 #EdTech 🪜 Student Support Settings in Wayground 🚀 Fueling Fascination with FigJam 🎤 Microphone Magic 😜 Grab and Go Goodies 😢 Farewell to a Favorite 🪑 Smart Seating 🙌 Fantastic First Five 👋 Goodbye for Good Goo․gl learninginhand.com/issue40

Tip Tuesday! Want your AI chatbot (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) to better match your expectations? Paste or upload examples to give it context for a stronger response. Not all prompts need examples, but it's handy for when you're having it draft something similar to what you already use.

The hours I spent washing bottle caps were totally worth it to see this 4th grader crush her first engineering build on day one! Here’s to a year of creativity and problem-solving! 💡 ♻️ #STEM #EduSky

Dr. Natasha Rachell shares spellbinding insights on AI in education. #EduSkyAI #AIinEdu "AI isn’t a magic wand. It’s a mirror. It reflects how we choose to use it." natasharachell.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...

The first issue for August has landed! 🛬 #EduSky 🪜 Student Support Settings in Wayground 🚀 Fueling Fascination with FigJam 🎤 Microphone Magic 😜 Grab and Go Goodies 😢 Farewell to a Favorite 🪑 Smart Seating 🙌 Fantastic First Five 👋 Goodbye for Good Goo․gl learninginhand.com/issue40

From "Making Discoveries" to "Pixel Paws" to "Birds of a Feather," I’ve seen how branding a class builds identity and community. #EduSky Read about the value of co-creating the brand with students: tonyv.me/brandnl

First Five from EdTomorrow gives teachers free daily activities that foster fun and connection in the first 5 minutes of class. #EduSky Along with versions for Grades 2–5 and 6–12, there are now options for PK–1 and Spanish! www.edtomorrow.com/today/

Tip Tuesday! Know your dashes... #EduSky 👉 Hyphen (-) joins words (student-made project) 👉 En dash (–) shows ranges (Aug 5–9) 👉 Em dash (—) adds emphasis (Humans used em dashes—long before AI learned them)

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Google shut down their link shortener in 2019. Links made with goo.gl have continued to work ever since. But that’s about to change. On August 25, goo.gl links will stop working and show a 404 error. #EduSky #EdTech developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ur...

It's a new month, and Book Creator has an activity book with a page for every day in August.

ChatGPT remembers details about my work, writing style, and projects—so I asked it, “What am I best at?” Its response made me smile and got me thinking about other prompts that tap into AI’s memory for personal insights.

I Love PDF is a collection of 26 tools to modify, enhance, and convert PDFs. ☯️ Merge PDFs ↔️ Split a PDF ✏️ Edit a PDF 🔄 Rotate a PDF ✒️ Sign a PDF 🌊 Watermark a PDF 📉 Compress a PDF 🟧 PDF to PowerPoint 🔐 Password a PDF www.ilovepdf.com

Tip Tuesday! Press the zero key on your keyboard to instantly restart a video on YouTube. #EduSky

Burst mode on iPhone and iPad is incredibly handy for capturing action shots or quick poses. #EduSky #EdTech

Can your students solve this symmetry puzzle? YES, yes they can (but it might take a while). 🆓 Get this challenging digital activity for Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Bring harmony to your slides—recolor SVGs to match your theme! Check out my quick how-tos for PowerPoint, Keynote, Canva, and Google Slides.

I made three FigJam templates for classrooms: #️⃣ Tic Tac 15 🤣 Learny Libs: Jupiter 🃏 Select and Reflect Read more about these collaborative activities: tonyv.me/3figjams

Tip Tuesday! Insert a checklist into Google Docs by clicking the Checklist button in the toolbar. Clicking a box adds a check and a strikethrough. Don't want the item to be crossed out? Go to Format → Bullets & Numbering → Checklist menu and toggle the strikethrough off.