With the update of Google Drive available to people and will more than likely be pushed to everyone soon, there is a new sharing window that pops up. You have pretty much the same options as before but you just need to click in different spots. The official Google Drive post can be found at http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/09/sharingupdates.html.…
Thanks to Andrew Stillman and his crew, you can now use Goobric with assignments created in Google Classroom. Doctopus is still a very useful tool and has features that are not available in Classroom yet but they are working hard to make Doctopus work with Classroom. Goobric allows you to use rubrics to assess and…
As a GAFE school, there is a tool that is readily available that makes it easy to carry out student blogging in the classroom. Student blogging can serve many purposes as part of the learning process, from reflective writing to posting student creations to share with others. There are tools that make using Google Sites…
Padlet is a great tool for collaboration, communication and curation. It can be set up so that people can add to it without needing an account or just so they can view what others have done. It has a lot of uses and is very simple to use. Adding to that simplicity of use is…
Padlet is one of those tools that I keep finding uses for when I am using it. It helps that they keep rolling out new features that add to its usability. It is a great tool for collaboration and getting feedback but the recent updates make it even more useful as both a curation tool…
Over the summer the student laptops got a new image which included the updates to both iMovie and Garageband. Since these programs are used by a good number of teachers, that means I need to update my tutorials to help students when they get stuck. Typically students need help getting started but they do a…
A couple of students came to me to get help on creating their ballot for homecoming court using Google Forms. The way they have done it in the paste was too time consuming when they had to count up each paper ballot after getting them collected. They wanted to have a way that was quick…
One question that we got a bit towards the end of last year was an easier way for teachers to know when there are updates to the AHS/AMS Tech Innovation site. Since this is a Google Site and we use the Announcements page to post new tech tips and ideas, you can use a RSS…
Google Forms have a lot of uses in the school setting, from being a way to easily conduct a formative assessment to even being a way to let students vote without having to collect tons of paper slips. One issue that some had with Google Forms was the limited options to customize the look of…
I have heard this said a lot lately that we must make ourselves uncomfortable in order to see real growth. That if we only do what we are used to and comfortable with, we will not be able to grow as we are just doing what we have always done. I think the phrase “That’s…
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