Using Google Scripts can make working with Google Docs with your students that much more efficient and effective. gClassFolders is a script that can automatically create shared folders with your students. It will create a separate assignment folder for each student and then a shared view and edit folder for each class. One you run…
There are many uses for a Google Form in the classroom to collect data. Once you have that data you have options on how you can go about analyzing it. There is a quick built-in way to analyze the data using “Show summary of responses” or you can go more in depth using certain functions…
My wife and I exchanged Christmas gifts early this year and I will have to say that she won. It isn’t a competition but she definitely got me something that I wasn’t expecting and definitely something I am going to enjoy. She got me a Raspberry Pi kit. For those that do not know what…
I have posted quite a few tech tips posts this week on my other site. My goal is to find tools that will help the specific teachers in my building and I do try to stay away from tools that may be too complex or costly to use effectively in the classroom. My goal is…
One of the biggest tips I give to people when using technology in the classroom is to give your students choices. Choices on how they work in the classroom, choices on what they create and even choices on how they are assessed. By giving choices we are allowing students a greater chance to own their…
I have a whiteboard in my office where I write out ideas and post the important stuff that I need to be focused on. I have always done this, when I was a teacher and even when I was a student. In college I wouldn’t have been able to pass my upper level physics classes…
There are often times when we find a website with information on it that we want to share with others. Instead of just giving them the website to look at, we now have tools that allow us to annotate that page and use highlighting or notes to add our own content to that site. Scribe…
Often times in class there will be a point where the class is having a discussion and there needs to be a record of the ideas and thoughts/conclusions being created. Typically the teacher will write these on the board and then students will copy them down. There is a big disruption in the thinking process…
I recently read a news article about a teacher who was using social media in their classroom to engage students. They were using Twitter as a tool to learn and discuss various issues related to the content. The students who were interviewed enjoyed it and the teacher commented on how student learning was improved by…
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. CBSNews.com replayed their broadcast from that day as it happened. You got to see how the news played out that day and how people reacted initially. Watching this I did wonder how many teachers showed this to their students. How many used this…
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