Tony Vincent
@tonyvincent.bsky.social
Dad ⭐️ Educator ⭐️ Learning in Hand ⭐️ Speaker ⭐️ Former grade 5 teacher ⭐️ District AI Coordinator ⭐️ Shapegrams
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Tip Tuesday! Both Gemini and ChatGPT have a Deep Research mode that searches the web for you and delivers a detailed, cited report of what it finds. Great for learning about a new topic, product comparisons, and professional learning.
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Tip Tuesday! Both Gemini and ChatGPT have a Deep Research mode that searches the web for you and delivers a detailed, cited report of what it finds. Great for learning about a new topic, product comparisons, and professional learning.
Tip Tuesday! Upload an image and ask an AI chatbot, "Write two versions of alt text for this image." Compare the results and choose the one that works best.
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Tip Tuesday! Upload an image and ask an AI chatbot, "Write two versions of alt text for this image." Compare the results and choose the one that works best.
A good reminder for teachers: AI isn’t a reliable science illustrator.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Sibling shares alarming photo of poster found hanging in younger brother's classroom: 'A teacher printed and laminated that'
"You’re telling me my nose isn’t below my stomach and my trachea isn’t on the back of my head?"
www.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A good reminder for teachers: AI isn’t a reliable science illustrator.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Reposted by Tony Vincent
Tony is tech support for Halloween! 👨💻
Check out the shapes and word art used to draw this comic in #GoogleSlides. 👀 #
EduSky #EdTech #DigitalArt
Check out the shapes and word art used to draw this comic in #GoogleSlides. 👀 #
EduSky #EdTech #DigitalArt
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Tony is tech support for Halloween! 👨💻
Check out the shapes and word art used to draw this comic in #GoogleSlides. 👀 #
EduSky #EdTech #DigitalArt
Check out the shapes and word art used to draw this comic in #GoogleSlides. 👀 #
EduSky #EdTech #DigitalArt
Presenting with Canva today? Special Halloween Magic Shortcuts are here!
While in Present view, pressing...
🕷️ S drops a spider from the top of the screen.
👻 G summons a ghost to float across the screen.
These spooky shortcuts are temporary and will disappear after Halloween.
While in Present view, pressing...
🕷️ S drops a spider from the top of the screen.
👻 G summons a ghost to float across the screen.
These spooky shortcuts are temporary and will disappear after Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Presenting with Canva today? Special Halloween Magic Shortcuts are here!
While in Present view, pressing...
🕷️ S drops a spider from the top of the screen.
👻 G summons a ghost to float across the screen.
These spooky shortcuts are temporary and will disappear after Halloween.
While in Present view, pressing...
🕷️ S drops a spider from the top of the screen.
👻 G summons a ghost to float across the screen.
These spooky shortcuts are temporary and will disappear after Halloween.
Play Halloween Jeopardy in your classroom! Pre-made games on Factile provide team management, buzzers, and score keeping. 👍
Read about it in Issue 46 of Learning in Hand: learninginhand.com/issue46
Read about it in Issue 46 of Learning in Hand: learninginhand.com/issue46
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Play Halloween Jeopardy in your classroom! Pre-made games on Factile provide team management, buzzers, and score keeping. 👍
Read about it in Issue 46 of Learning in Hand: learninginhand.com/issue46
Read about it in Issue 46 of Learning in Hand: learninginhand.com/issue46
Looking for a scary Halloween activity that can connect to any subject? 🎃
Use GHOST WRITER for a quick write, brain dump, rough draft builder, or think-pair-share starter. #EduSky
What's scary about it? One you start typing, don't stop too long, or your words will vanish! 👻
tonyv.me/ghostwriter
Use GHOST WRITER for a quick write, brain dump, rough draft builder, or think-pair-share starter. #EduSky
What's scary about it? One you start typing, don't stop too long, or your words will vanish! 👻
tonyv.me/ghostwriter
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looking for a scary Halloween activity that can connect to any subject? 🎃
Use GHOST WRITER for a quick write, brain dump, rough draft builder, or think-pair-share starter. #EduSky
What's scary about it? One you start typing, don't stop too long, or your words will vanish! 👻
tonyv.me/ghostwriter
Use GHOST WRITER for a quick write, brain dump, rough draft builder, or think-pair-share starter. #EduSky
What's scary about it? One you start typing, don't stop too long, or your words will vanish! 👻
tonyv.me/ghostwriter
Issue 46 is a mix of spooky, creative, and fun #EdTech! Take a look: learninginhand.com/issue46
🧟 Fang-tastic Fun with Factile
🎨 Perfecting Perspective
👻 Creepy Canva
🎬 Fun (and Flawed) Films
✂️ Cricut for Classrooms
💡 Batch of Bests
🧟 Fang-tastic Fun with Factile
🎨 Perfecting Perspective
👻 Creepy Canva
🎬 Fun (and Flawed) Films
✂️ Cricut for Classrooms
💡 Batch of Bests
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Issue 46 is a mix of spooky, creative, and fun #EdTech! Take a look: learninginhand.com/issue46
🧟 Fang-tastic Fun with Factile
🎨 Perfecting Perspective
👻 Creepy Canva
🎬 Fun (and Flawed) Films
✂️ Cricut for Classrooms
💡 Batch of Bests
🧟 Fang-tastic Fun with Factile
🎨 Perfecting Perspective
👻 Creepy Canva
🎬 Fun (and Flawed) Films
✂️ Cricut for Classrooms
💡 Batch of Bests
Tip Tuesday! For perfect alignment, hold Shift while dragging. Your object will only move straight up or straight across. Works in Google Slides, PowerPoint, Illustrator, and others design apps.
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tip Tuesday! For perfect alignment, hold Shift while dragging. Your object will only move straight up or straight across. Works in Google Slides, PowerPoint, Illustrator, and others design apps.
Help students use AI in a way that keeps their own brains doing the learning, practicing, and reasoning.
In Issue 45 of my newsletter, I share a one-pager of prompts designed to put the cognitive load back on students.
learninginhand.com/issue45
In Issue 45 of my newsletter, I share a one-pager of prompts designed to put the cognitive load back on students.
learninginhand.com/issue45
October 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Help students use AI in a way that keeps their own brains doing the learning, practicing, and reasoning.
In Issue 45 of my newsletter, I share a one-pager of prompts designed to put the cognitive load back on students.
learninginhand.com/issue45
In Issue 45 of my newsletter, I share a one-pager of prompts designed to put the cognitive load back on students.
learninginhand.com/issue45
Tip Tuesday! On iPhone and iPad, you can quickly save an image without its background. In Photos, press and hold on the subject of the image, choose Share, then Save Image. The picture is saved to your Photos app as a PNG with a transparent background.
October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Tip Tuesday! On iPhone and iPad, you can quickly save an image without its background. In Photos, press and hold on the subject of the image, choose Share, then Save Image. The picture is saved to your Photos app as a PNG with a transparent background.
In case you're not on the Shapegrams mailing list, this just went out.
See how I drew a glitchy ghost with shapes in Google Slides. 👻
birdsend.page/7854/J2kfJ7W...
See how I drew a glitchy ghost with shapes in Google Slides. 👻
birdsend.page/7854/J2kfJ7W...
New Shapegram → Glitchy Ghost Zipper
birdsend.page
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In case you're not on the Shapegrams mailing list, this just went out.
See how I drew a glitchy ghost with shapes in Google Slides. 👻
birdsend.page/7854/J2kfJ7W...
See how I drew a glitchy ghost with shapes in Google Slides. 👻
birdsend.page/7854/J2kfJ7W...
Ghost Writer 👻 is here! If you stop typing, your words vanish! Read how teachers can use it for quick writes, brain dumps, and more in Issue 45.
learninginhand.com/issue45
learninginhand.com/issue45
October 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Ghost Writer 👻 is here! If you stop typing, your words vanish! Read how teachers can use it for quick writes, brain dumps, and more in Issue 45.
learninginhand.com/issue45
learninginhand.com/issue45
Issue 45 is here! Inside:
👻 Ghost Writer app for flow writing
✏️ 3D printed pencil sleeves
🤔 AI prompts for student thinking
🎩 My favorite hat: Shapegrams!
Read now: learninginhand.com/issue45
#EduSky #EdTech #Teaching
👻 Ghost Writer app for flow writing
✏️ 3D printed pencil sleeves
🤔 AI prompts for student thinking
🎩 My favorite hat: Shapegrams!
Read now: learninginhand.com/issue45
#EduSky #EdTech #Teaching
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Issue 45 is here! Inside:
👻 Ghost Writer app for flow writing
✏️ 3D printed pencil sleeves
🤔 AI prompts for student thinking
🎩 My favorite hat: Shapegrams!
Read now: learninginhand.com/issue45
#EduSky #EdTech #Teaching
👻 Ghost Writer app for flow writing
✏️ 3D printed pencil sleeves
🤔 AI prompts for student thinking
🎩 My favorite hat: Shapegrams!
Read now: learninginhand.com/issue45
#EduSky #EdTech #Teaching
Wakelet is trimming back its free features to stay sustainable and ad-free.
Free accounts will be limited to 3 editable collections and 50 items per collection. All other collections you might have will become read only. Unlimited plans are $90/year. #EduSky
Free accounts will be limited to 3 editable collections and 50 items per collection. All other collections you might have will become read only. Unlimited plans are $90/year. #EduSky
October 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Wakelet is trimming back its free features to stay sustainable and ad-free.
Free accounts will be limited to 3 editable collections and 50 items per collection. All other collections you might have will become read only. Unlimited plans are $90/year. #EduSky
Free accounts will be limited to 3 editable collections and 50 items per collection. All other collections you might have will become read only. Unlimited plans are $90/year. #EduSky
Tip Tuesday! See the emails you have subscribed to in Gmail and easily unsubscribe by opening this link: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sub
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tip Tuesday! See the emails you have subscribed to in Gmail and easily unsubscribe by opening this link: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sub
Curious about AI slideshow tools?
I wrote about my 6 top tools for drafting slide decks and go into detail about the one that works best.
👇
I wrote about my 6 top tools for drafting slide decks and go into detail about the one that works best.
👇
October 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Curious about AI slideshow tools?
I wrote about my 6 top tools for drafting slide decks and go into detail about the one that works best.
👇
I wrote about my 6 top tools for drafting slide decks and go into detail about the one that works best.
👇
ChatGPT helped me code this game: Six or Seven. 😉
Players decide if each falling expression equals 6 or 7, with four modes suited for Grades 3–8.
tonyv.me/sixorseven
Players decide if each falling expression equals 6 or 7, with four modes suited for Grades 3–8.
tonyv.me/sixorseven
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
ChatGPT helped me code this game: Six or Seven. 😉
Players decide if each falling expression equals 6 or 7, with four modes suited for Grades 3–8.
tonyv.me/sixorseven
Players decide if each falling expression equals 6 or 7, with four modes suited for Grades 3–8.
tonyv.me/sixorseven
Tip Tuesday! Got an phone with Apple Intelligence and iOS 26?
Go to Settings → Camera → Lens Cleaning Hints
When turned on, a message displays when the camera lens should be cleaned to improve image quality.
Go to Settings → Camera → Lens Cleaning Hints
When turned on, a message displays when the camera lens should be cleaned to improve image quality.
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Tip Tuesday! Got an phone with Apple Intelligence and iOS 26?
Go to Settings → Camera → Lens Cleaning Hints
When turned on, a message displays when the camera lens should be cleaned to improve image quality.
Go to Settings → Camera → Lens Cleaning Hints
When turned on, a message displays when the camera lens should be cleaned to improve image quality.
Wanna see a cool trick for dividing a slide into even sections? Check out Issue 44 and scroll down to "Page Partitioning." #EduSky #EdTech
learninginhand.com/issue44
learninginhand.com/issue44
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Wanna see a cool trick for dividing a slide into even sections? Check out Issue 44 and scroll down to "Page Partitioning." #EduSky #EdTech
learninginhand.com/issue44
learninginhand.com/issue44
Curious about AI slideshow tools? Check out Gamma for quick, editable decks you can share anywhere.
Gamma.app: AI Slideshow Generator for Teachers — Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent
Curious about AI slideshow tools? Teachers are turning to Gamma for quick, editable decks you can share anywhere.
learninginhand.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Curious about AI slideshow tools? Check out Gamma for quick, editable decks you can share anywhere.
So much to explore in Issue 44! #EduSky
🫴 Six or Seven
🕵 Element Exploration
🔲 Page Partitioning
📲 Transparent Trick
🧠 Slide Smarts
📤 Subscription Shortcut
learninginhand.com/issue44
🫴 Six or Seven
🕵 Element Exploration
🔲 Page Partitioning
📲 Transparent Trick
🧠 Slide Smarts
📤 Subscription Shortcut
learninginhand.com/issue44
Learning in Hand Issue 44
Next month I present 7 sessions at the Georgia Education Technology Conference in Atlanta. This is the conference where I debut new topics each year. My new presentations for 2025 incorporate prompting...
learninginhand.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
So much to explore in Issue 44! #EduSky
🫴 Six or Seven
🕵 Element Exploration
🔲 Page Partitioning
📲 Transparent Trick
🧠 Slide Smarts
📤 Subscription Shortcut
learninginhand.com/issue44
🫴 Six or Seven
🕵 Element Exploration
🔲 Page Partitioning
📲 Transparent Trick
🧠 Slide Smarts
📤 Subscription Shortcut
learninginhand.com/issue44
Tip Tuesday! Chrome can generate captions for any audio or video in your browser.
1️⃣ Play audio or video.
2️⃣ Click the Media Control icon (≡♪) in the top toolbar.
3️⃣ Toggle on Live Captions.
A black box will appear, transcribing the spoken words in real time.
1️⃣ Play audio or video.
2️⃣ Click the Media Control icon (≡♪) in the top toolbar.
3️⃣ Toggle on Live Captions.
A black box will appear, transcribing the spoken words in real time.
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Tip Tuesday! Chrome can generate captions for any audio or video in your browser.
1️⃣ Play audio or video.
2️⃣ Click the Media Control icon (≡♪) in the top toolbar.
3️⃣ Toggle on Live Captions.
A black box will appear, transcribing the spoken words in real time.
1️⃣ Play audio or video.
2️⃣ Click the Media Control icon (≡♪) in the top toolbar.
3️⃣ Toggle on Live Captions.
A black box will appear, transcribing the spoken words in real time.
Tip Tuesday! Got a phone with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26?
1️⃣ Take a screenshot.
2️⃣ Tap Add to Calendar in the smart actions at the bottom.
3️⃣ Preview the event that is drafted from details in the screenshot.
4️⃣ Edit if needed before confirming the event.
1️⃣ Take a screenshot.
2️⃣ Tap Add to Calendar in the smart actions at the bottom.
3️⃣ Preview the event that is drafted from details in the screenshot.
4️⃣ Edit if needed before confirming the event.
September 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Tip Tuesday! Got a phone with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26?
1️⃣ Take a screenshot.
2️⃣ Tap Add to Calendar in the smart actions at the bottom.
3️⃣ Preview the event that is drafted from details in the screenshot.
4️⃣ Edit if needed before confirming the event.
1️⃣ Take a screenshot.
2️⃣ Tap Add to Calendar in the smart actions at the bottom.
3️⃣ Preview the event that is drafted from details in the screenshot.
4️⃣ Edit if needed before confirming the event.
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
www.playfactile.com
#Sponsored #EdTech
September 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
www.playfactile.com
#Sponsored #EdTech