Imagine having 4 people in a rowboat, all rowing at the same time. If one person is rowing in the wrong direction or even not at all, the boat will not go where you want it to go. This is my analogy for what happens where we allow a single person or group to use…
I end up creating a lot of tip sheets and tutorials for teachers and students. Sometimes those require long explanations which are better solved using video but sometimes all I need is a 20 second clip or shorter. For those shorter cases, I just use Snagit for Chrome to capture a quick video and turn…
I try to live in a #growthmindset so New Year’s is not that much different for me than anytime in the year as far as resolutions go. I try to constantly look at what I can improve at and how I can change. But since so many people use this time of the year to…
(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog. I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Friday, December 12 Update to Google Docs – You can now merge table cells…
(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog. I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Tuesday, November 25th Getting rid of notifications in Mac App Store – Simple step to get…
(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog. I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Thursday, November 13 Welcome to the third AHS Tech Times newsletter. Self-paced Google Apps…
(Apparently I have been forgetting to post the newsletters that I send out to the staff I work with onto this blog. I removed the stuff that pertains only to them and will post the old newsletters all at once.) Friday, October 31 Welcome to the second AHS Tech Times newsletter. Add-ons in Google…
Yesterday I presented a session about “Differentiation Using Google Apps” at TIES in Minnesota and it was another good presentation, but yet I feel I can be doing better. During the #MNLead chat on Twitter Sunday night I shared out the phrase, “Live life in beta”. I have heard that phrase a lot over the…
I have become less and less of a fan of textbooks as technology has made it even easier to find resources that are better suited to help our students learn. A textbook is as far away from differentiated resources as you can get as it is written in one way and written for students who…
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