Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Use Class Codes on Wikispaces

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Use Class Codes on Wikispaces

For good reasons Wikispaces is a popular service for creating classroom wikis. Wikispaces is easy to use and free for teachers. Over the summer Wikispaces made it easier than ever to get students to join a classroom wiki. You can now have student join wikis through class codes. This means that instead of having to…

Pratical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Screencasting Tools

Pratical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Screencasting Tools

When you’re introducing students or colleagues to a new website or piece of software, you’re bound to find yourself answering the same type of question over and over again. One way to address those questions is through a screencast video demonstration. Creating screencast videos is also a good way to create short flipped video lessons in…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Random Name Selectors

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Random Name Selectors

At one point or another every teacher has asked for volunteers and not had any hands raised. In that case using a random name selection tool is an easy way to choose students to call on. And for those times when all of your students raise their hands for something fun, a random name selector…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Convert Spreadsheet Cells Into a Document
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Convert Spreadsheet Cells Into a Document

I love to use Google Forms to create and deliver quizzes to students. The problem with that has always been that when I start to add-in short answer or essay questions, the spreadsheet of responses becomes unwieldy and difficult to read. Save As Doc is a Google Spreadsheets Add-on that can solve that problem for me by…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Google Form Notifications

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Google Form Notifications

Creating and publishing a Google Form is a great way to collect information from students and their parents. A couple of popular ways to use forms is as quizzes for students and as sign-up sheets for parent-volunteers for school events. If the form that you create is going to be online for a while, consider…