(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog. I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Thursday, November 13 Welcome to the third AHS Tech Times newsletter. Self-paced Google Apps…
(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog. I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Friday, October 31 Welcome to the second AHS Tech Times newsletter. Add-ons in Google…
Yesterday I presented a session about “Differentiation Using Google Apps” at TIES in Minnesota and it was another good presentation, but yet I feel I can be doing better. During the #MNLead chat on Twitter Sunday night I shared out the phrase, “Live life in beta”. I have heard that phrase a lot over the…
I have become less and less of a fan of textbooks as technology has made it even easier to find resources that are better suited to help our students learn. A textbook is as far away from differentiated resources as you can get as it is written in one way and written for students who…
Google has come out with another update to Google Apps, which it does with regularity, and this one appears to be one that could seem small to many but according to my Twitter stream, it was a big one. You can now finally merge table cells in a Google Doc. Now I know many people…
One very important aspect of the learning process is how feedback is used to help guide the learner to improve and grow. We must focus on giving effective feedback otherwise we will not be continuing the learning process. When the only feedback that we give is a grade or a percentage, that is not going…
As we get ready to start our shortened week due to Thanksgiving, I thought I would reflect on something I am very thankful for. I would not have survived my first couple of years of teaching if it wasn’t for other teachers sharing with me everyday. I worked with a great bunch of teachers during…
While many people fear what kids will do when given an iPad or other piece of tech on break, there is a lot more you can do than just sit there and consume. While this has nothing to do with high school tech integration, many high school teachers have kids who are young and needing…
Google has done some updates to Drive recently and one that I really like is that you can now open your Drive files from in the browser into desktop applications. You can open a photoshop file from your Drive in your browser, edit it, hit save and it will be saved in your Drive automatically.…
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