Earlier this month, Google released a great update to Classroom to help keep Parents/Guardians informed of class assignments and announcements for their students in Classroom. Teachers can enter the Parents/Guardians email address in the Student section of classroom where it says to “Invite Guardians”. You should easily see if their email address is already in…
Google released some great updates this week to get ready for the new school year. You can easily annotate assignments in the mobile Classroom app, add parent/guardian emails to send weekly reports from Classroom, create Topics for sorting in Classroom, and add images to options in multiple choice or similar questions in Google Forms. You…
Another new update to Google Apps this summer was the introduction of the new Google Sites. The new Sites will be the standard Sites sometime in the next year or so but you can still use the old Sites for the time being. The new Sites are very simple and easy to use, which is…
Over the summer Google added a Quiz option to Google Forms, similar to what was available before using Flubaroo. This new feature allows you to easily mark questions correct or wrong when using a selected response question. This is a great feature for quick checks, exit tickets, or any other type of quick formative assessment.…
Recently I was given the chance to test out the Expand Lens by Swivl for free. I have been a big proponent of the Swivl robot for a while now and was very pleased to be one of their Swivl Video Pioneers. I think that teacher reflection using video is something we should be promoting…
ISTE 2016 was held in Denver last week and this was my third time attending ISTE, first time presenting there. As usual there was a ton of sessions and my favorites this year were the poster sessions as you get to talk more with the people sharing their information than you do during a regular…
(This is just the first blog post in a series as I work on my Innovation Project. I will have more reflections to post in the future but I wanted to post something to get the big ideas out first.) Last week I got to participate in what should be a career altering experience at…
ISTE 2016 is just weeks away and as part of my preparation for this great conference, I have created a new Flipboard magazine for the event. For those of you that do not know, Flipboard is a great tool for resource curation – at least that is how I use it. You can easily flip…
One of my favorites hobbies is golfing. I started golfing in high school and still go out and play 18 holes when I get the chance. I come from a family of golfers as my dad and grandpa both played. When my grandpa started golfing he had to use wooden clubs, because that was the…
Last Friday I received an email that was the best email I have received in quite a while. I got the acceptance email from the Google Innovator Academy and I will be taking part in the Boulder Cohort this June, right after ISTE. This was my 4th time applying which just goes to show that…
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