The Month in Review Featuring the Revival of Some Classics

Good evening from Maine where the sun has set on the month of January. I hope that the first month of the year was a good one for you and that all of your New Year's resolutions are still on track. 

The first month of the year saw the return or revival of some "classic" tools and topics in the world of educational technology. Wordle, something many of us remember as a Web 2.0 tool of the late 2000's, is now a game. ReadWriteThink brought back many of their popular student interactives this month. And QR codes are popular again. Take a look at the list of my most popular posts of the month to learn more about all of those things. 

Thank you to the advertisers that helped keep the lights on this month. If you haven't tried Volley, Lumio, or TinyTap, give them a look and tell them I sent you. 

These were the most popular posts of the month:
1. Read Aloud in Edge and Other Immersive Reader Uses 

2. Read Aloud in Chrome 

3. Good Resources for Remote Math & Science Lessons 

4. How to Create and Publish Your First Podcast 

5. QRToon - Cartoons in Your QR Codes 

6. Five Tools for Making Wordle Word Clouds 

7. The Science of Winter Olympics Sports 

8. Volley - Video, Audio, and Text Messaging for Learning 

9. Add Audio to Almost Anything in Google Workspace 

10. ReadWriteThink Interactives Now Work Without Flash!

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