AHS Tech Times Biweekly Newsletter

One of things I took away from ITEC this week was some advice from Brian Abeling (@wdmTECH) about how they developed their tech newsletter for teachers.  I had been working on a similar idea ranging form a weekly video podcast to a newsletter like this to better share some of the tech tips and updates…

gMath Add-on for Google Docs/Sheets

This is an old post, go to https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/ to find about the replacement for gMath.   Something that some people did not like about Google Docs was the lack of an in-depth math equation editor as they were accustomed to in Word.  Through the use of a new Add-on, you can get a lot of the same functionality…

ITEC 2014 = Success!

(Thanks to @sandirankin for taking this picture of me presenting) Finally had some time to reflect and recover a bit mentally from ITEC and I am certain that it was a great success for me.  I thought both of my presentations went well and I had some great conversations with others that will help me…

Google Classroom Updates 10-14-14

Google is constantly listening to teachers and updating Classroom to better meet the needs of many.  You do have to remember that this is a free and lightweight service so you should not be expecting full LMS features but this is a great tool to use to help organize and streamline many things.  It is…

Getting Ready for #ITEC14

Tomorrow I will be at the fall conference for ITEC and I will be prepared thanks to being through this all before.  I think there are some things you can easily do to be prepared when attending a conference because the learning can happen in many different ways.  The following are ways that I am…

Bring on ITEC 2014!

After attending the ICTE conference yesterday (Iowa Council of Teachers of English) in Johnston and teaching some physics yesterday and today, I am very much ready for the ITEC conference on Monday.  I am a big proponent of going to education conferences as long as you focus on how you can improve as an educator…

Kaizena Updated – Now an Add-on

Kaizena was updated lasted night and is now accessible as an Add-on through Google Docs.  For those that are new to Kaizena, it is a way to leave voice and text comments in a Google Doc as well as include resources and tags related to the learning.  Leaving effective feedback should be a goal of…

What Would MacGyver Do?

Throughout my teaching career I have been put into certain situations where I did not have the tools or resources necessary to do what I wanted, or so it would seem.  I have found ways over the years to take what I have and turn that into what I want, as best as I could.…