Luke Edwards

Luke Edwards is a freelance writer and editor with more than two decades of experience covering tech, science, and health. He writes for many publications covering health tech, software and apps, digital teaching tools, VPNs, TV, audio, smart home, antivirus, broadband, smartphones, cars and much more.

Articles by: Luke Edwards

What is Hypothes.is and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 15 August 22

Hypothes.is lets you annotate the internet making all information more freely accessible for deeper use.

What is Yellowdig and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 10 August 22

Yellowdig is a social higher ed work and grading system that works with an existing LMS.

What is TeachingBooks and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 8 August 22

TeachingBooks is a collection of resources about books and authors for use by students and teachers.

What is OER Commons and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 3 August 22

OER Commons is an open source of free resources for educators to use as they need.

What is Kibo and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 29 July 22

Kibo is a robotics and coding specialist that is ideal for education.

What is Blackbird and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 27 July 22

Blackbird is a coding platform that works across the curriculum for effective use in education.

What is Knight Lab Projects and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 22 July 22

Knight Lab Projects offers ways to tell digital stories in new and innovative forms.

What is Pixton and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 20 July 22

Pixton is an easy to use comic book creator tool designed for use by students.

What is Imagine Forest and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 18 July 22

Imagine Forest is a story writing platform that's easy to use and full of helpful activities and challenges.

What is Plotagon and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 14 July 22

Plotagon is a video story creation tool that makes bringing narratives to life easier than ever.

What is Newsela and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 12 July 22

Newsela is a news reading platform that's built for students to work on literacy skills.

What is Microsoft Sway and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 11 July 22

Microsoft Sway is a presentation tool that works really well for teaching.

What is Swift Playgrounds and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 8 July 22

Swift Playgrounds is the Apple specific coding platform for learning and building.

What is Ready Maker and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 5 July 22

Ready Maker is a simple game design tool that helps teach coding basics and more.

What is Planboard and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 30 June 22

Planboard makes lesson planning, grading and tracking straight forward with lots of useful features.

What is Common Curriculum and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 28 June 22

Common Curriculum is a digital lesson planning tool with lots of useful features for teachers.

What is Mural and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 22 June 22

Mural is a digital whiteboard that's useful for connecting students and teachers.

What is Prezi and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 17 June 22

Prezi is a powerful presentation system that uses lots of media types making it very versatile as a teaching tool.

Best Coding Kits 2022

By Luke Edwards published 13 June 22

The best coding kits let students take code into real world experiences.

What is Google Maps and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 13 June 22

Google Maps in schools is a powerful learning tool with lots of education potential.

What Is Kahoot! Kids And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 8 June 22

Kahoot! Kids is an app that offers a digital learning playground for younger children to get started.

What Is MIT App Inventor And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 3 June 22

MIT App Inventor is a code based programming teaching tool that offers simple learning for students.

What Is Unity Learn And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 31 May 22

Unity Learn is a place to learn code for gaming and more, in a course led format.

What Is Code Academy And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 27 May 22

Code Academy is a text coding site for students and teachers to learn real code.

What is Flip and How Does it Work for Teachers and Students? Tips and Tricks

By Luke Edwards published 23 May 22

Flip is the video discussion tool from Microsoft that opens up the classroom.

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