(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…
This year I was lucky again to attend the annual ISTE conference which this year happened in Chicago, a short 5-hour drive away from home. This was my fifth straight ISTE conference I have attended, and my third in a row that I presented at. I was even lucky enough to attend a full day…
There is no built-in option to add audio clips to a slide in Google Slides but there is a pretty easy workaround. Using a screen recorder, like Quicktime on a Mac or Screencastify in the Chrome browser, you can easily record yourself speaking over a slide and add that clip to the slide to add…
Kahoot is an engaging and fun tool to have a review or a quick formative assessment. I see it being used in a lot of classrooms, but it is not always the best tool for the task, depending on the task. While it is an easy tool to use to do that quick review or…
Color blindness is something that can affect a number of the students in our classrooms and it is hard for many to understand how these students see the resources we use. There are some free tools you can use when helping to design for students or for the students themselves to use when working with…
One of my fears I had as a classroom teacher was always centered around misspelling words when I wrote them on the whiteboard. I remember one time when I hurriedly tried writing out the word “assignment” but switched around the “g” and the “n” (you should be able to tell what I wrote). This was…
