We just finished the latest Tech Time 2.0 Google Hangout on Air. These are just a way I thought we could have teachers share out what they are doing with technology that is effective in their classrooms. This is just another way to support collaboration between teachers. If you look at the topics of the…
I was trying to be proactive and start working on a big paper for my Masters class early the other day and of course, I got distracted. I started thinking about how I could make it easier for people to search through my tech tips and tutorials to find what they are looking for. For…
Copying text from an image or a PDF can be a hassle and not possible most of the time, unless you are using a Chrome Extension called Naptha. (More info = http://projectnaptha.com/) Install the extension and you can now easily copy text from an image or a PDF and then copy it into a document. Watch the video…
Earlier this year I made a quick tutorial on how to download Google Drive to your computer, the video quality ended up being fuzzy for some reason, but with summer coming it is time to update that a bit. Downloading Google Drive allows you to easily place anything into the Drive folder and have that…
The biggest shift in the early part of my teaching career came when I came across a blog post (author since long forgotten) about how another teacher became not only happier, but also more successful with their students’ learning when they focused more on what the students were doing and less on what they were…
Here are the rest of the Garageband Tutorials I created. I might even have to start doing a podcast seeing how easy it is to make a good looking and sounding podcast using Garageband. For an AAC Export Adding Pictures YOUTUBE VIDEO Adding Chapters or Markers YOUTUBE VIDEO Both mp3 and AAC Embedding…
Every time I help a teacher get ready for a new project or activity in their class, I make up a resource page on my school site so that the students have resources outside of class. Surprisingly this is the first time I got asked to help with Garageband, which can be a great app…
The document camera has the potential to be more than just a digital overhead projector. Not many people use the camera on the document camera for other than viewing something they are writing on. Having the ability to record the video coming in from the camera can help in the explanation of any topic. Ideas…
Just because I am no longer teaching science, does not mean that I am not a giant science nerd at heart. Take for instance the Lunar Eclipse that we had last night. Although I only found out about it in the last couple of days, something that would have never happened when I was teaching…
As I try to grow as an educator, I am constantly looking for great professional experiences to help me grow in ways that I can not imagine. I believe that the Google Teacher Academy could be one of those experiences and I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about it lately. As part…
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