Tech Tips and Tutorials on tools that can be used in the classroom.
Every time I help a teacher get ready for a new project or activity in their class, I make up a resource page on my school site so that the students have resources outside of class. Surprisingly this is the first time I got asked to help with Garageband, which can be a great app…
The document camera has the potential to be more than just a digital overhead projector. Not many people use the camera on the document camera for other than viewing something they are writing on. Having the ability to record the video coming in from the camera can help in the explanation of any topic. Ideas…
One thing that was useful for me this year was the ability to have people sign up for times on my calendar so we can meet. They could easily see if I was available or not and when they selected the time they wanted to meet, that time was automatically added to my calendar. I…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
With the introduction of the Add-ons into Google Docs and Sheets, we can now finally use our favorite script Doctopus with the new Google Sheets. Not only can we use it but it has been updated to include more features built in and make it even easier to use than before. The main idea with…
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