Remind101 is a free service that allows teachers to easily connect with both students and parents using text messages. The beauty is that the teacher never has to give out their phone number and the students never have to give their number to the teacher. Everything is done through the Remind101 service. The teacher…
I was working on a couple of papers for my Masters classes this weekend when I decided to give the Easybib Add-On for Google Docs a try. It allowed me to easily create a list of the resources I was using for my paper and then inserted them where I wanted. They were in proper…
For the first 5 years of my teaching career I would save every file I collected or created onto a flash drive. I had to occassionally upgrade to a larger flash drive each year as I created more and more files. I backed these files up to my home computer every so often, but only…
What was a useful tool before is now even more useful. Lucidchart is a concept map, venn diagram, chart creating tool that works very similarly to a Google Doc and can be connected to your Google Drive. There is a collaborative feature to Lucidchart where multiple students, or teachers, could be working on the same…
With the addition of Add-Ons to Google Docs and Sheets, Flubaroo has been now made into an Add-On. This is nice since it means that once you download it, it will be available in any Sheet that you use. There are no big changes to Flubaroo other than it is a little quicker to use.…
With the introduction of the Add-ons into Google Docs and Sheets, we can now finally use our favorite script Doctopus with the new Google Sheets. Not only can we use it but it has been updated to include more features built in and make it even easier to use than before. The main idea with…
Like an unexpected birthday present, Google has introduced a new set of tools that are integrated with Google Docs and Sheets. Some of these tools are just the updated versions of scripts and extensions we had before but there are also some new tools to use to make your work more efficient and effective. The…
Today I got to help out with the Language Arts department as they put on their annual Gatsby Party. They throw a “party” for their classes that are reading and studying standards using The Great Gatsby. They try their best to recreate what would be a party put on by Gatsby. This includes gaming rooms,…
This past weekend I went down to SE Polk for Edcamp Iowa. This was the largest connects Edcamp in the country as we had 5 locations in all corners of Iowa. Somewhere around 700-800 educators took part and from what you could tell on Twitter, it was a giant success as far as learning and…
Earlier this year we had something at my school called Tech Time where we would meet once a week, before school or after school, to go over some tech tool or technique in the classroom. This was totally voluntary and it was something that was done before I took my position this year as tech…
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