Google is constantly listening to teachers and updating Classroom to better meet the needs of many. You do have to remember that this is a free and lightweight service so you should not be expecting full LMS features but this is a great tool to use to help organize and streamline many things. It is…
Tomorrow I will be at the fall conference for ITEC and I will be prepared thanks to being through this all before. I think there are some things you can easily do to be prepared when attending a conference because the learning can happen in many different ways. The following are ways that I am…
After attending the ICTE conference yesterday (Iowa Council of Teachers of English) in Johnston and teaching some physics yesterday and today, I am very much ready for the ITEC conference on Monday. I am a big proponent of going to education conferences as long as you focus on how you can improve as an educator…
Kaizena was updated lasted night and is now accessible as an Add-on through Google Docs. For those that are new to Kaizena, it is a way to leave voice and text comments in a Google Doc as well as include resources and tags related to the learning. Leaving effective feedback should be a goal of…
Throughout my teaching career I have been put into certain situations where I did not have the tools or resources necessary to do what I wanted, or so it would seem. I have found ways over the years to take what I have and turn that into what I want, as best as I could.…
Using a Google Form to get information and data from others is very easy to do. What you do with that information can be a bit tricky but there are simple things to do, like viewing the summary of responses which creates, automatically, graphs and charts of the data. However, you really do not want…
The Autocrat Add-on allows you to use a Google spreadsheet to create files that contain the information from the spreadsheet. You could create a form to give feedback to students using the Add-on by creating a template document first and then placing the information you want into the spreadsheet. Autocrat will take the information in…
October is always a busy time for teachers due to the first quarter ending and parent/teacher conferences starting up but yet we also have another thing to look forward to, educational conferences. At least in Iowa, October is when the educational conferences start up. We have ICTE (english teachers) next week, ITEC (ed tech) the…
Like me, you may have run into a dilemma where you have a lot of information you want to share on a Google Site but no easy way to organize it all. Previously I listed all of my digital tools onto a single page and would try to categorize them and include links to any blog posts I…
One of the things I love the most about being in classrooms in my role as tech integrationist is that I still get to see great examples of learning. Those times when students are so engaged in their learning that they even forget that it is time to leave for lunch. Those times when you…
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