Tech Tips and Tutorials on tools that can be used in the classroom.
Your phone can make a great video camera, but moving that video to your computer can be tricky sometimes. If you have already synced your phone with your computer, moving the video should be pretty easy. However, we can use your Google Drive account to move your video to any computer. (The images below were…
Movenote is a nice, web-based video creator app that allows you to easily add video of you speaking along with an image or document. You can easily share out directions on how to do something or even provide feedback on an assignment for a student. Emails or text can only convey so much, adding a…
One of the easiest ways to share a file with your students is to create a Folder in your Google Drive that is already shared with your students. Once the students have access to this folder, anything you put in there will automatically be available to them and this can save a lot of time…
Flubaroo is another example of a great Google Script that can automate something in a Google Spreadsheet to make things easier for students and teachers. Flubaroo can automatically grade a Google Form that is used as a quiz or formative assessment. It will automatically grade multiple choice questions on a Google Form and allow the…
Following the trend of the other Google Apps, Google Calendar is easy to use and very easy to share out with others. You can create a calendar, which can be edited anywhere you have an internet connection, which can easily be shared with others using email or by posting the link somewhere. You can create a…
Google Forms is a tool that easily allows you to collect data and information. You can quickly and easily create your form which can then be shared out in many different ways. Once you have your data, you can easily analyze it using some built-in tools or share it out with others. Watch…
Google Docs is much more than a digital word processor program. It is a tool that can be used to increase collaboration, creation, communication and critical thinking. There are features built into Google Docs that makes it much easier to have people/students collaborate one document without having to be in the same place at the…
Images have become such an integral part of the learning process that being able to search the vastness of the internet for images that fit our needs has been great. Using Google to search for images can be very helpful, but there are some tips and tricks that not everyone is aware of. There are…
Google Video Chats are a great way to collaborate with someone or someones who are not at the same place as you. You can easily start up a video chat, share your desktop or browser window and connect with people around the world using your Google Account. These are private chats and are so easy…
One of the things that can help students and others alike in analyzing data is to graph it and create a visual representation. You can do this easily for XY data but if you add in a third component to that data, analyzing 3D data becomes a bit more difficult. You could create a surface chart…
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