Tech Tips and Tutorials on tools that can be used in the classroom.
There is an ever increasing list of digital tools that can be used in the classroom to assist students when it comes to reading and comprehension. These tools allow for there to be assistance built into the texts and resources made readily available to assist students as they become better and better readers. …
Due to my own scheduling issues this week, I was not able to meet with a teacher to do the Tech Time 2.0 episode like I have been doing lately. Instead I decided to do my own Google Hangout on Air and talk quickly about the 4Cs. The reason being that I wanted to have…
One of the biggest fears for many teachers heading into a 1:1 environment is the effect on classroom management. The problem is that the classroom management that happened before the 1:1 is going to be very similar after the 1:1. If you have good classroom management before, you will most likely have good classroom management after. If…
While Google+ has not been a huge hit with the general public, it has been used extensively in the classroom environments. Using Google+ you can increase communication and collaboration in and out of the classroom. You can connect with other educators or groups of educators to share and collaborate or you can even create your…
Social media usually gets a bad rap from many as being distractive or harmful but it is a tool that has a lot of potential and is very powerful when used correctly. Many teachers become better by using social media to connect with others and to share/collaborate across great distances. I have used Twitter to…
We just finished the latest Tech Time 2.0 Google Hangout on Air. These are just a way I thought we could have teachers share out what they are doing with technology that is effective in their classrooms. This is just another way to support collaboration between teachers. If you look at the topics of the…
I was trying to be proactive and start working on a big paper for my Masters class early the other day and of course, I got distracted. I started thinking about how I could make it easier for people to search through my tech tips and tutorials to find what they are looking for. For…
Copying text from an image or a PDF can be a hassle and not possible most of the time, unless you are using a Chrome Extension called Naptha. (More info = http://projectnaptha.com/) Install the extension and you can now easily copy text from an image or a PDF and then copy it into a document. Watch the video…
Earlier this year I made a quick tutorial on how to download Google Drive to your computer, the video quality ended up being fuzzy for some reason, but with summer coming it is time to update that a bit. Downloading Google Drive allows you to easily place anything into the Drive folder and have that…
Here are the rest of the Garageband Tutorials I created. I might even have to start doing a podcast seeing how easy it is to make a good looking and sounding podcast using Garageband. For an AAC Export Adding Pictures YOUTUBE VIDEO Adding Chapters or Markers YOUTUBE VIDEO Both mp3 and AAC Embedding…
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