Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
GeoGebra is a digital math platform. Perhaps like me, you’ve had some preconceptions about GeoGebra and didn’t think it quite fit in with what you are doing with your math students. However, GeoGebra works great no matter your topic! Heck, you could use it for non math topics as well. GeoGebra allows you to create…
In the Word Online webinar I had Peter Leonard, head of Word, as my guest. I thought I knew Word Online… nope, I was definitely surprised with the capabilities. Check out the video and then go visit word.office.com Alice’s Top 5 Things She Likes About Word Online I want to use cloud based products where…
Choice is very motivating. Try using my gamification template to create a Google Sheets choice board. Make a copy for each student so they can check off their choices and level up. Template Use alicekeeler.com/badgegame to make a copy of the template. Note, I have formulas all over the spreadsheet, be careful not to delete…
I use this a lot. Depending on my search, I don’t want old information. I filter my search results to be within the last year or last month. google.com Click on Tools After doing your initial search in Google Search locate “Tools” on the right hand side. This toggles the search results number to say…
During a live session with students there are several options for how you poll students. A quick and dirty is to reuse the same Google Form repeatedly. Steps Create a Google Form with one multiple choice question. It can be generic “Answer the question” and “A, B, C, D.” OR you can edit the question…
If your school is using Microsoft O365 and Microsoft Teams join me for some webinars on using these tools. These webinars are sponsored by Microsoft. Registration is not required. The link to join the webinars are on the alicekeeler.com/microsoft page for you to click on for the webinars. The webinars are done in Microsoft Teams…
Google Forms is the best thing since sliced bread. It will take you LESS time to copy and paste your Google Doc activity into Google Forms than it will to open each student Google Doc. Adding a Google Form to Google Classroom is easy, simply click the “Create” button when making an assignment and choose…
Mark Loundy has been on top of reporting how the new Meet integration works in Google Classroom. Follow him on Twitter: @markloundy He’s the guy to ask for Meet questions!!! Super helpful. Check out his short video on using video chat Meet in Google Classroom. I just created a three-minute video instructing teachers how to…
“This didn’t work for me.” “It wont’ let me login.” “I can not edit this.” “I can not open this file” Use Chrome logins NOT add accounts. This is the number one reason you have issues. I think I respond more often than not to someone having an issue with “You are having account conflicts.”…
You can add a co-teacher to Google Classroom by going to the People tab and clicking the add person icon in the Teachers section. Co-teachers have all the privileges of a teacher except the ability to delete a class. Student Files The way Google Classroom works is when a file is added to Google Classroom…
If you create a Google Slides template and want to share it with others you can modify the end of the Slides URL to turn your slides into a template. /template/preview Change the Sharing Permissions By default the sharing permissions on any file is private. You can not share templates of private files. Make sure…
Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams allows you to add a rubric to an assignment. You can also share your rubrics with other teachers. Google Classroom Create an assignment in Google Classroom with a rubric. Locate the assignment on the Stream. Click on the stripe to expand the preview of the assignment. FROM THE PREVIEW find…
“If it is low critical thinking, a robot should grade it.” Teaching critical thinking is hard and time consuming. So you have to give something up so you can spend time working with students on a feedback loop on higher critical thinking tasks. Tip: Make the WHOLE THING SELF GRADING Sure, you can mix up…
This post has been updated since its original publication. The Code Break event has passed, however you can find many more resources to help your students get into coding on the code.org website. Students at home? Take a #CodeBreak with special guests @mikeyk (@Instagram founder), @alicekeeler (star teacher), and @hadip (@codeorg founder). Join students from…
Microsoft Stream is available for O365 subscribers. Stream is a place to store and upload your videos when YouTube is not a good solution. Stream videos are by default private to the school (organization). Microsoft Teams Meeting recordings are automatically saved to Microsoft Stream. Videos for students are ad free and free from video suggestions…