Trying to get all of your students to the same set of websites at the same time can be a frustrating experience for you and for them. Just a mis-typed character or two can create a frustrating experience for everyone in the room. One way to avoid this situation is to post all of your…
There is a lot of great educational content on YouTube. The challenge that many teachers and students have is finding and keeping track of it all. If you use the collaboration option for YouTube playlists, you and your colleagues can build playlists of educational videos together. Likewise, as I suggest in the video below, you…
TinyTap is a fantastic free iPad app and Android app through which you can create educational games. This week TinyTap introduced a new feature that allows you to create games in which students type their answers. Previously all games were of a simple identification or multiple choice nature. The new feature enables you to create…
Getting Going With GAFE (Google Apps for Education) is the most popular online course that I have offered over the years. Last summer nearly 200 people earned professional development and or graduate credits by completing the five week course. On November 24th I’ll be starting a new section of the course. All of the course details…
We’re now at the part of the school year in which many schools are hosting parent-teacher conferences. Of course, every teacher knows that this won’t be the only time that they meet with students’ parents. When you need to schedule meetings instead of having a school secretary handle it, try Bloomz or Doodle. Bloomz has many…
The table tool is one of the Google Docs tools that tends to get overlooked. It’s a useful tool for quickly creating charts within a document. I have long used it to give organization to group notes during jigsaw reading activities. I do that by creating a table in a Google Document then assigning a…
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