There are a few features that many teachers want to be added to Google Forms to increase their effectiveness as an assessment tool, both formative and summative, in the classroom. One of these, which can make it a little bit more difficult to cheat, is the ability to randomly rotate the choices in a question.…
Something gaining a lot of speed with those that use iPads in schools is App Smashing. App Smashing is when you use multiple apps to complete an activity or task, that there is no one app to do all of which you want to do. A fun one to see is when a student uses…
Using video to give directions or to explain something can be really useful in a classroom. However, you may not always have the bandwidth or time to deal with a video, especially if you only want a small clip of that full video. The Google Chrome extension MakeGIF can convert a section of a YouTube…
In the classroom I would always make sure that all levels of my students were able to show growth. I realized early in my teaching career that you can not just focus on one level or you will lose the rest. The same can be applied in my role as technology integrationist. As the year…
One of the biggest comments from our last full day tech professional development day was the appreciation to learn from other teachers about what they are doing in their classrooms. This is a common comment from many teachers about how we like to learn from each other especially about what each person is doing in…
Remind101 is a free service that allows teachers to easily connect with both students and parents using text messages. The beauty is that the teacher never has to give out their phone number and the students never have to give their number to the teacher. Everything is done through the Remind101 service. The teacher…
I was working on a couple of papers for my Masters classes this weekend when I decided to give the Easybib Add-On for Google Docs a try. It allowed me to easily create a list of the resources I was using for my paper and then inserted them where I wanted. They were in proper…
For the first 5 years of my teaching career I would save every file I collected or created onto a flash drive. I had to occassionally upgrade to a larger flash drive each year as I created more and more files. I backed these files up to my home computer every so often, but only…
What was a useful tool before is now even more useful. Lucidchart is a concept map, venn diagram, chart creating tool that works very similarly to a Google Doc and can be connected to your Google Drive. There is a collaborative feature to Lucidchart where multiple students, or teachers, could be working on the same…
With the addition of Add-Ons to Google Docs and Sheets, Flubaroo has been now made into an Add-On. This is nice since it means that once you download it, it will be available in any Sheet that you use. There are no big changes to Flubaroo other than it is a little quicker to use.…
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