Add-ons to Google Documents, Forms, and Sheets can help you streamline processes and free you up to do other things like spending more time meeting with your students one-on-one. One Google Docs Add-on that can streamline your grading process is JoeZoo Express. JoeZoo Express is a Google Documents Add-on that can save you a ton of time…
Throughout the course of the school year we all need to schedule meetings for one thing or another. Whether it is a meeting with colleagues, students, or students’ parents trying to schedule meetings efficiently can be a challenge. Here are three tools that can help you streamline the process of scheduling meetings. Doodle is a…
When students are searching for images to use in their slide presentations, videos, or other multimedia projects it can be tempting to them to simply perform a Google search then right-click and save the first images that they like. Of course, in doing that they could be downloading copyrighted images that they shouldn’t be using without…
In this week’s Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week I published an embarrassing homophone mistake. Many of you were quick to email me about it. You were right to do so. The mistake I made was a classic example of writing too quickly and not reviewing thoroughly before hitting publish. I’ll do better next…
Next Vista for Learning is a unique video sharing website because it focuses on sharing videos made by students and teachers to teach short lessons on a wide variety of topics. Unlike other video sharing sites, Next Vista for Learning has people who review the videos for accuracy before they appear on the web. On…
Google Drawings is one of the tools in the Google Drive suite that often gets overlooked by students and teachers. It can be a handy tool if you know how to use it. In the short video embedded below I provide a demonstration of five things that students can do with Google Drawings. The five things…
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