Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Use Drive20 to Open 20 Google Docs All at Once What is good and bad about Google is they are always making changes. I like to think it keeps your brain young. Awhile back Google updated Google Drive and this caused the Drive20 Chrome extension to break. I am happy to announce it is BACK!…
Be a Screencastify Genius! with this Online Certification Screencastify is FREE (freemium) and a must have for Chromebook and Chrome users. Screencastify allows you to record your screen, with or without your webcam, and the video SAVES TO GOOGLE DRIVE! That is all I want in life! Get it in Drive! Link to Online Certification…
Use the SlideShot Chrome Extension with Desmos Desmos is so much more than an online graphing calculator. Demos helps shift the math classroom from students doing math to exploring math. “Math is about pattern finding.” – Youcubed One of the shifts in teaching mathematics is away from “Show your work” to “Show your thinking.” Exploring…
Add Comments on Images Submitted to Google Classroom I have been 1:1 almost my entire teaching career. I started teaching in 1999 and one staple I always require is students to take and submit screenshots. This aids in accountability “What have you been doing all period” but it also helps me to provide feedback to…
Quickly Export Your Class Roster from Google Classroom A simple class roster is something all teachers need. Google Classroom is great but getting a simple roster of your students is not easy. My nephew Matt Dolio, high school senior, was able to solve this problem for me by creating a Chrome extension that exports your…
Use Webcam Record to Add Directions to Google Classroom The most influential element in a classroom: the teacher. You work hard to build relationships and students like you. Putting your face into your digital assignments makes a personal connection with students, even when they are using a computer. When creating an assignment in Google Classroom…
Top 5 Exceptional Extensions Guest blog post by Lynn Gershman Our students come to us with all their personality, talents, behaviors, and exceptionalities. Getting to know students is the easily the best part of being an educator. In her seminal work. An Ethic of Caring (1998), Nel Noddings tell us, “We need to give up…
Use EquatIO Mobile Want your eyes to completely bug out of your head!? You have to try out EquatIO mobile. It allows you to WRITE math on PAPER and then convert to typed math and then magically show up in your Google Slides (or other Google Apps.) m.equat.io 1. Create Google Slides You can actually…
Stop YouTube from Autoplaying I love YouTube, You love YouTube, We all love YouTube…. but not the presenter when we fire up YouTube at a PD session. It’s legit! I wanted to look up something the presenter referenced but then the video starts blaring and I’m sheepishly trying to reduce the volume on my computer….
Manage Multiple Google Accounts If you are like me, you have more than one Google account. You may have your G Suite account from school plus your personal Gmail account. I was working with a teacher the other day and we were trying to create a TemplateTab. We were clearly in her school account but…
Use Google Drive to Easily Rename Files I love me a good keyboard shortcut. Once I’ve practiced it enough times it’s muscle memory and my efficiency increases significantly. The keyboard shortcut to rename files in Google Drive is to simply press the letter N. Try it! Webcam Record YOU are important to your students. One…
Make Learning Better with Bitmoji Bitmoji is a cartoon version of you. Warning, some of the Bitmoji’s are very inappropriate. I caution you to consider using it for yourself but to be thoughtful about if you want to assign students to create Bitmoji. I know it sounds crazy to claim that Bitmoji improves learning, but…
Webcam Snapshot Chrome Extension If your students use Chromebooks the webcam is one of the great features to utilize. As Jon Corippo says, everything is digital when you can take a picture. My new Chrome extension allows you to use your webcam to take images and save them to Google Drive. Chrome Webstore Install Alice…
3 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts Assuming you already have Control C (copy) and Control V (Paste) down solid here are 3 you should be using on a regular basis. My goal is to try to use the mouse as little as possible. Increase your productivity and reduce your chance of carpal tunnel. Control T – New…
Thank you to Matt Miller (@jmattmiller) for creating this graphic. Use DriveSlides to Review Student Images One thing I ask students to do is to submit screenshots of things as their evidence of completion. When students submit an image to Google Classroom it is automatically saved into an assignment folder in Google Drive. Using the…
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