Earlier this month I created a new site (https://gamifyschool.com/) as part of my Google Innovator Project. My original goal was to develop a teacher learning gamification model using feedback from teachers but as I got deeper into the project, I discovered that there is a very large variety of different gamification models out there. Gamification…
Project Falcon is not really the name of this project, it just sounds cooler than Gamification Model of Technology Teacher Learning. Earlier this year when I applied to the Google Innovator Academy, I had to decide on a project related to education that I would want to work on. Over the last year we have…
UPDATE! – It looks like you can’t publish Chrome Extensions for free anymore if you are just doing it in your school district accounts. The developer fee is $5. If anyone has a way around this, please feel free to tweet at me @donovanscience. I will add that the new interface for publishing extensions is…
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.…
(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…
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