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Dad ⭐️ Educator ⭐️ Learning in Hand ⭐️ Speaker ⭐️ Former grade 5 teacher ⭐️ District AI Coordinator ⭐️ Shapegrams learninginhand.com/newsletter

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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 57m
Just landed on Teacher Hive! 🪙 Treasure Match: Switch-access matching 🔤 Spin n’ Spell: Build words 🧪 pH Test: Test substances with indicators 🌉 Spaghetti Bridge Challenge: Test bridge strength 🎟️ Scratch Ticket: Reveal questions, challenges & brain breaks! teacherhive.app/buzz/new-app...
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
Treasure Match, Spin n' Spell, pH test, Spaghetti Bridge Challenge, Scratch Ticket Reveal
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 23h
Teacher Hive is hosting an educational app challenge! Build and share an app with a Halloween, spooky, or fall theme. Read all about it... #EduSky teacherhive.app/buzz/2026-ha...
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The Teacher Hive Halloween App Challenge — Teacher Hive
Here’s an excuse to build a new, creative app! From now through Sunday, October 18, tag your app Halloween and you’ll be entered in the Teacher Hive Halloween A
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scott Meech writes about how play can look different in the upper grades. Simulations, challenges, games, creative experiments, and opportunities to build something and see if it works can all be forms of play. www.ideaillinois.org/why-should-p...
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Why Should Play Disappear as Students Get Older?
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A shorter-than-usual Learning in Hand is here! There’s still plenty packed in, including: ⚡ Quick digital games 🍂 Fall fun with Shapegrams Junior 🤫 A word that might make you suspicious of AI 🔗 A handy iOS 27 trick for opening links 🐝 Fresh apps on Teacher Hive learninginhand.com/issue67
Graphic showing thumbnails of the contents of Issue 67 of the Learning in Hand Newsletter
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Five new Teacher Hive apps. Five very different ways to get kids thinking, talking, noticing, and creating. 💬 Tell Me More... 🎨 DoodleMate 🌌 Galaxy Lab 🔍 Which One Doesn’t Belong? 🚸 Name That Sign See what’s new: teacherhive.app/buzz/new-app...
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
Tell Me More..., DoodleMate, Galaxy Lab, Which One Doesn't Belong?, Name that Sign
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm thrilled to be featured at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (#GAETC) in Atlanta, Georgia November 4–6. Register by October 5 to get a discounted rate. conference.gaetc.org/attend-gaetc
Speaker lineup graphic announcing keynote speaker Malcolm Mitchell alongside featured speakers Kristen Brooks, Jennifer Hall, Lauren Mobley, Dr. Keith Osburn, Dr. Joe Phillips, Dr. Adam Phyall, Dr. Tyler Tarver, and Tony Vincent.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tip Tuesday! Give AI your initial prompt, then tell it: “Interview me. Ask one question at a time until you have what you need.” It’s a simple way to get a better result.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teacher Hive is hosting an educational app challenge! Build and share an app with a Halloween, spooky, or fall theme. Read all about it... teacherhive.app/buzz/2026-ha...
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The Teacher Hive Halloween App Challenge — Teacher Hive
Here’s an excuse to build a new, creative app! From now through Sunday, October 18, tag your app Halloween and you’ll be entered in the Teacher Hive Halloween A
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New teacher-made apps have landed! #EduSky #EdTech teacherhive.app/buzz/new-app...
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
Beeline, One Hand Keyboard Quest, Face Off Live!, Executive Skills Questionnaire, States of Matter Lab, Estimate and Extrapolate
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For my latest issue, I tried to write fewer words while still including lots to explore! learninginhand.com/issue67 ⚡ Quick digital snack games 🍂 Shapegrams Junior fall puzzles 🤫 AI’s favorite adverb 🕵 Investigating AI images 🔗 Open links from videos 🐝 New on Teacher Hive
Graphic showing thumbnails of the contents of Issue 67 of the Learning in Hand Newsletter
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I made the ultimate link shortener for teachers! youtu.be/g2IRQXuCFsk?...
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Beeline Link Shortener for Teachers
Meet Beeline, a link shortener made for teachers. Short links, QR codes, printable posters, classroom display mode, timers, visit stats, editable destinations, and more, all in one teacher-friendly…
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guide students through 4 steps to plan a sincere apology. teacherhive.app/info/make-it...
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Let's Make it Right - Teacher Hive
Sometimes sorry isn't quite enough. Let's Make It Right guides students through four steps to plan a sincere apology, with gentle coaching along the way, preparing them to talk face-to-face.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
10,000 free AI-generated icons in a consistent isometric style. www.thiings.co/things
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Thiings — AI-Generated 3D Icon Collection
A growing collection of 10000+ icons, generated with AI. Perfect for designers and creative projects.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sharing a couple table tent templates in Canva. Double-click the QR codes to change their URLs. link.apphive.us/qr-tents
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tip Tuesday! See one of those TikTok videos that starts with “Powerful websites you should know” and flashes a URL on the screen? With iOS 27, you can pause any video when a URL appears on screen, then ask Siri to open the page. No screenshots, no memorizing, no typing required!
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just landed on Teacher Hive... Tools that to help you use and think about technology. #EduSky #EdTech teacherhive.app/buzz/new-app... ⚖️ Digital Balance Scale 🧑‍💻 The Algorithm Game 🔗 QR Schoolhouse 🤖 Model Match 🎯 Bee There
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
Digital Balance Scale, The Algorithm Game, QR Schoolhouse, Model Match, Bee There
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fun Friday! A pangram is a clever sentence that uses every single letter of the alphabet! Can you write one using emojis as inspiration? ##EduSky #EdTech teacherhive.app/info/pangram...
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Pangram Slam - Teacher Hive
A pangram is a clever sentence that uses every single letter of the alphabet! Can you write one using emojis as inspiration?
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lab Safety CSI from Kim Watson → Investigate Room 404 as a CSI Safety Inspector! Click interactive hotspots on the classroom cartoon map, analyze safe vs. hazardous student behaviors, and generate your official lab safety report now. #EduSky teacherhive.app/info/labsafe...
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Lab Safety CSI - Teacher Hive
Investigate Room 404 as a CSI Safety Inspector! Click interactive hotspots on the classroom cartoon map, analyze safe vs. hazardous student behaviors, and generate your official lab safety report now.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Squishy Search & Rescue from Mr. Whaley → Students learn to read latitude and longitude by rescuing lost squishies. Each round gives a set of coordinates to find on the map. Click the right spot to make the rescue. #EduSky teacherhive.app/info/rescue
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Squishy Search & Rescue - Teacher Hive
Students learn to read latitude and longitude by rescuing lost squishies. Each round gives a set of coordinates to find on the map. Click the right spot to make the rescue.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New apps have popped up on Teacher Hive! #EduSky #Teaching ✨ LessonSpark 💰 The Change Heist 📊 The Guess Machine 🐉 Fiery Factors #1 🔗 Linking in Hand teacherhive.app/buzz/new-app...
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
LessonSpark, The Change Heist, The Guess Machine, Fiery Factors #1, Linking in Hand
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tip Tuesday! Having a difficult time positioning an element exactly where you want it in Canva? Hold down Ctrl or ⌘ while dragging. This prevents automatic aligning.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Quick memory and probability game! Pick a tile in each column and light your path from start to finish. Choose green to keep going. Hit red and you're sent back to the beginning. teacherhive.app/info/tile-an...
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Tile and Error - Teacher Hive
How good is your memory? Pick a tile in each column and light your path from start to finish. Choose green to keep going. Hit red and you're sent back to the beginning.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wow! Last week 5,381 picture puzzles were completed on Shapegrams Junior! The most played picture? The Cardinal. #EduSky apphive.us/shapegrams
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Shapegrams Junior
Picture puzzles that help young learners practice dragging, rotating, resizing, and coloring shapes while learning how shapes can be combined to create something new.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Issue 66 is all about QR codes and short URLs! learninginhand.com/issue66 🌈 Colorful QR designs in Canva 🆕 URL shortener for teachers 💻 Classroom QR code scanner 🛠️ Google Shareable link modifier 😲 QR code trivia
Graphic showing thumbnails of the contents of Issue 66 of the Learning in Hand Newsletter
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fresh ways to scan and share links in Issue 66! learninginhand.com/issue66 💡 QR code trivia 💻 Browser scanner for student laptops 📲 Scanning codes directly from screens 🛠️ Google Shareable link modifier 🔗 URL shortener for teachers 🎨 Colorful QR designs in Canva
Graphic showing thumbnails of the contents of Issue 66 of the Learning in Hand Newsletter
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fun Friday! Take a brain break and get the class laughing with The Reverse Card. Draw a word or phrase card, tap Record, and try to say it backwards. Then play it in reverse to hear the hilarious result and rate how close it sounds to the original. link.apphive.us/reverse-card
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The Reverse Card - Teacher Hive
Think you can talk backwards? Draw a card, give it a try, then hear the hilarious results in reverse.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love a well-designed, thoughtful one-pager! Check out visual education guides from Jamie Clark and Med Kharbach. link.apphive.us/one-pagers-26
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Check out these teacher-made apps! 🟧 Sixteen Tiles 💡 Come On Up! 🟩 Tile and Error 🐍 Snake Eats Nouns 👥 Group Maker teacherhive.app/buzz/new-app...
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
Sixteen Tiles, COME ON UP!, Tile and Error, Snake Eats Nouns, Student Group Maker
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🆕 🆓 Shapegrams Junior! Picture puzzles that help young learners practice dragging, rotating, resizing, and coloring shapes while learning how shapes can be combined to create something new. apphive.us/shapegrams
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Shapegrams Junior
Picture puzzles that help young learners practice dragging, rotating, resizing, and coloring shapes while learning how shapes can be combined to create something new.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I vibe coded a classroom-friendly QR code scanner that works on Chromebooks and other devices. Let me know what you think. teacherhive.app/buzz/bee-the...
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Bee There: A QR Scanner Made for the Classroom — Teacher Hive
QR codes aren’t just for phones and tablets. Chromebooks, MacBooks, and PCs with cameras can scan them too. It’s just not built into the camera app like it is o
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tip Tuesday! Make a Google Slides document open in Present view by changing /edit in the shareable link to /present.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Paste a Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings link and get back a preview, copy, template, PDF, or auto-play slideshow link, copied instantly. Coded with Claude. apphive.us/linking
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Linking in Hand
Paste a Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawings link and get back a preview, copy, template, PDF, or auto-play slideshow link, copied instantly.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Find back-to-school tools and handy one-pagers in Issue 65! learninginhand.com/issue65 🏷️ AI attitude stickers 🖥️ Presenter View instructions 📄 Visual edu guides 🟩 Tile and Error game 🚀 Back-to-school EdTech 🎛️ HomeRoom on your classroom screen 📺 A 1973 Super Friends AI lesson
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fun Friday! Say It Like You Mean is a silly whole-class activity where you reveal surprise prompts that transform the same phrase into five unique performances. Input your own phrases or use sample ones. teacherhive.app/info/sayit
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Say It Like You Mean It - Teacher Hive
A fun whole-class activity where students reveal surprise prompts that transform the same phrase into five unique performances.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Find back-to-school tools and handy one-pagers in Issue 65! learninginhand.com/issue65 🏷️ AI attitude stickers 🖥️ Presenter View instructions 📄 Visual education guides 🟩 Tile and Error game 🚀 Back-to-school EdTech 🎛️ HomeRoom on your classroom screen 📺 A 1973 Super Friends AI lesson
Graphic showing thumbnails of the contents of Issue 65 of the Learning in Hand Newsletter
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One right-click can reveal a lot about an AI-built app. teacherhive.app/buzz/ai-app-...
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Right-Click That App. What’s Hiding in the Code? — Teacher Hive
Here’s a quick test for any single-page web app you’ve built or are using. (Single-page web apps are the kind of apps an AI chatbot can code for us in HTML.) Af
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Vibe coding makes it really easy to add features to an app. But more features can also mean more buttons, choices, and decisions for the user. I wrote about reducing cognitive load and designing apps that get out of the user's way. teacherhive.app/buzz/dont-ma...
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Let Your App Get Out of the Way — Teacher Hive
One thing I've learned from building a lot of vibe-coded apps and watching teachers and students use them is that adding features can sometimes make an app hard
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tip Tuesday! Quickly enter today's date into a Google Doc by typing @today and pressing Enter/Return. @yesterday and @tomorrow work in the same way. @today → Aug 18 @yesterday → Aug 17 @tomorrow → Aug 19 Click the inserted date and click the ⚙️ to change the format.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Have you heard about Shapegrams Junior yet? Pictures turn into puzzles where young learners drag, rotate, resize, and recolor shapes to rebuild the pictures. Teachers can easily create puzzle playlists for their students. No accounts. No ads. shapegrams.com/hi-shapegrams-junior
Screenshot of a Shapegrams Junior playlist with a rubber duck, strawberry, dinosaur, and house
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Navigate the grid by remembering the green tiles you uncover, using your memory to progress further with each attempt. See if you can earn a spot on the global leaderboard! apphive.us/tile-and-error
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Tile and Error
How good is your memory? Pick a tile in each column and light your path from start to finish. Choose green to keep going. Hit red and you're sent back to the beginning.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Design is everywhere. Yes, even on ketchup packets. #EduSky Explore that and several other curiosities in Learning in Hand Issue 64. learninginhand.com/issue64
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you're building apps with an AI chatbot and want to include images or other files, Teacher Hive's File Locker gives you a place to host them. You can upload multiple files, label them so your AI knows what they are, and copy a batch of file URLs all at once. teacherhive.app/buzz/meet-fi...
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Meet File Locker: Your Vibe Coding Superpower — Teacher Hive
If you've been vibe coding apps, you've probably discovered that getting your own files into an app isn't as easy as it sounds. "Use this picture." "Add this so
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thoughtful design brings joy, belonging, and creativity to the classroom. learninginhand.com/issue64 🧩 Shapegrams Junior 🏷️ Building a class brand 🤪 Funny AI fails 🚫 Hiding Google AI Overviews 💬 ChatGPT usage limit updates 📱 Textreme keyboard game 🙌 Better meeting starters
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Vibe coding makes it easy to build educational apps. Building good educational apps is the hard part. teacherhive.app/buzz/evaluat...
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What Evaluating Educational Apps Teaches Us About Building Them — Teacher Hive
I recently read an informative Edutopia article, A Checklist to Evaluate Educational Apps for Distractions by Liz Kolb, Thomas Drake, Heidi Bennett. It's writte
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Fun Friday! Neal does it again! Cursor Camp is a simple, no-chat multiplayer game where you and visitors from around the world explore a virtual campsite. neal.fun/cursor-camp/
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Cursor Camp
A campground for your cursor
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Are you ready for the Textreme 2000 Back to School challenge? Use numbers to type on an old fashioned phone.
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Textreme 2000
Think you can text like an old-timer? Tap number keys to spell words on a retro cell phone. Beat the clock and claim your spot on the leaderboard!
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Skip the eye-rolling icebreaker. If you're leading PD or a meeting, check out Caitlin Cloyd's collection of 29 activities for connecting, collaborating, reflecting, celebrating, welcoming new people, sharing ideas, and bringing energy to the room. betterthanbingo.org
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Better Than Bingo
Educator-focused community building without the collective groan.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Turn one phrase into five hilarious performances! Students reveal surprise speaking challenges one at a time. Perfect for class rules, vocabulary, or anything you want students to remember. #EduSky #Teaching teacherhive.app/info/sayit
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Say It Like You Mean It - Teacher Hive
A fun whole-class activity where students reveal surprise prompts that transform the same phrase into five unique performances.
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🐝 Just landed on Teacher Hive! 5 new teacher-made apps for your classroom. Explore tools for AI literacy, seating charts, SEL support, and historical adventures. #EduSky teacherhive.app/buzz/6ua63zcm
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Just Landed — Teacher Hive
AI Mode Detective, Seating Chart Designer, Cozy Cuppa, Adventure Storybook Creator, HOUSE OF STONE
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Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Big announcement! The new twist on Shapegrams comes in a junior size. #EduSky #EdTech
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