I really wish I had my iPad when I was in college and not just so I could waste time watching funny videos while in a boring lecture, but so that I could have used it to take notes in a way that would have helped me a lot more as a learner. While I…
Intercut, from the people that brought you Swivl, have recently updated their app to allow for it to be used to create screencasts. Intercut uses AI to merge two video sources together to create a polished finished product. This app feature was seen as a beta feature in Swivl where it would merge the video…
As more and more schools have gone 1:1, giving a device to each student, you hear many schools talking about going paperless. Too many focus on the paperless part of using more technology instead of how using technology effectively can drastically improve learning. Technology won’t always be the best tool for the job but it…
Clips is an iOS app, so iPhone or iPad, that allows you to easily create a video with features similar to what you can do in Instagram or Snapchat. You can create a quick video and add over symbols, animations, text, filters, and other options. The key feature that makes this app stand out to…
In preparation for an upcoming presentation about giving digital feedback to students, I wanted to run through Goobric again just to make sure there weren’t any changes I was unaware of. I recorded it so if you have not used Goobric before, you can see how easy it is to give rubric feedback inside of…
(As a way to be more accessible to more people, this is the first in a series of blog posts where I will have audio with my written text. This way more people can get the information I am sharing despite any auditory/visual issues they may have. They can use a translator to translate the…
This weekend I picked up a pair of Apple AirPods largely due to the accessibility feature they introduced with iOS 12. You can now use the microphone on your phone to send audio to your AirPods using a feature called Live Listen. This is an awesome feature and one that I hope to make a…
A great update came out recently where you can turn on automatic Closed Captioning in Google Slides. All you have to do is to start a presentation and click the Closed Captioning button in the toolbar that pops up in presentation mode. This feature should be rolled out to all education accounts by now but…
To add another equation to your tool box of Google Sheet equations, watch the video below where you can learn all about Transpose Filter. Transpose Filter can work like a Vlookup to pull in data from one sheet to another, based on a unique value such as a student ID or other identifier. Vlookup however…
Recently many educators were very sad to see Today’s Meet go away and now will have to find a new way to have a backchannel in the classroom. While there are many options out there, more on that in a bit, we need to understand why backchannels are a good thing in the classroom. Backchannels…
