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…
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…
In the early days of YouTube, it was filled with mostly useless videos of cats and music videos. YouTube now is a great resource for finding video clips related to almost anything you want. You can fix your sink using an instructional video found on YouTube, something I have done, or you can just find…
With Google Classroom being fully rolled out and being used in multiple classes here at AHS, it is important for students to know the basics of how to use Classroom. Classroom is very easy to use and takes very little time to learn. The following video should help students get started and help teachers see…
With the recent release of Google Classroom to all GAFE schools, there were a few updates. While I did create an update video, I thought I would also just redo my Creating Assignments tutorial. Watch the video below to see how to create assignments in the new Google Classroom.
Google Classroom is starting to be rolled out to schools around the world and there are even a couple of updates from the preview that some had access to over the summer. You can see my previous postings for Google Classroom here. There are 2 big changes, one is an About section and the…
You can easily export a class roster that includes the email addresses for your students from Infinite Campus. You can then use those email addresses in various apps like Doctopus or to create a Google Group to send out class emails so you only have to type in one email instead of all of the…
Google has released an update to their Drive app and everyone is able to make the change now before it is made for you. The only issue is that it did not work great on my school account but it worked perfectly on my personal account. There are some added features that some will really…
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