As our new school laptops do not have Microsoft Office installed, many people are going to have to learn how to use tools that are readily available to do what they were doing before. We have LibreOffice installed on the computers and of course we have access to Google Drive. Both of these allow us…
One of the changes made to Google Drive and Docs this summer was the addition of the Suggesting option for edits in Google Docs. Previously if you wanted to suggest any changes in a shared document, you could add a comment to the side or just use a different colored font to add that change.…
Right before I left for ISTE I was given access to Google Classroom and I have been playing with it ever since. As a teacher I mostly used Moodle as my LMS and used Google Docs, this was before I knew about Doctopus which is what I would have used if it was available then.…
One thing that can help greatly in the classroom is to reflect daily on your teaching practice. Reflect on well the lesson went, how the students did with the content for the day and how the class flowed. It is important to take time to reflect in order to make sure that we are constantly…
Google Apps have been a huge resource in my classroom and in the classrooms of teachers that I get to work with. Google Apps make it very easy to embed the 4C’s of digital learning in today’s classroom and are constantly improving to make the learning more effective each day. I have used the apps…
Students tend to be more engaged in a class when they feel like they are an active part of the learning process instead of just a bystander. One thing that I always enjoyed was allowing the students to help guide where we would go next in class or how we would go learning about our…
While many people easily embrace technology use in the classroom, there are many who wonder why anyone would. They are not sure why they should learn how to do something new or change what they have already been doing. For me it was simple, technology was an easy way to transform the learning that was…
Having students create a Google Site is an easy way for them to share out what they are learning or creating. Sometimes you may want to give them a way to get started quickly and even help organize the information for them. You may also want to use a gadget or have a certain layout…
When I started teaching I was given some advice from a veteran teacher to keep away from using red when correcting assignments. They said it was because students had viewed the red pen as being negative and instead we should be focusing on helping our students improve, not just telling them what they got wrong.…
Time seems to be a big thing that almost all teachers wish they had more of. The thing is though is that there are things that we can do to make it so we have more time with our students in class. When I flipped my classroom it wasn’t so I could spend less time…
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