Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Kids Do Love Fractions I’m a troublemaker and have started giving busting out math problems at dinner when I’m over at someone’s house or if my kids bring friends over for dinner. Whoa to you if you say to me “I’m not good at math” or “I don’t like fractions.” OF COURSE YOU ARE GOOD…
3 Tips for Interacting on Twitter 1. Do Not Start a Tweet with @ When you start a tweet with @ it is semi-private. Rumor was they were going to eliminate the need to start a tweet with a period, but really they just made it harder to start your tweet with a period. Let…
Have the Students Make It I’m a big fan of Catlin Tucker. In one of her blog posts she asks the question “Who is doing the work in your classroom?” Teaching responsibility and creating leaders starts with giving students responsibilities and having them make decisions. Instead of you staying after school creating a Quizizz game…
Add A Slide per Student in Google Slides One of my favorite activities is collaborative Google Slides. That is all students in the class on the SAME Google Slides. I usually recommend to keep it simple. Create BLANK Google Slides and share it with edit access with the class. Students add their own slide and…
This post has been updated. Play Farkle in Google Slides Previously I had blogged on playing Farkle and provided a template in Google Slides and Google Sheets. The Google Sheets spreadsheet had a menu I coded to allow students to roll dice within the spreadsheet. I think using actual dice is better but when we…
3 Lilypads and a Frog A friend of mine showed me a math problem which posed the problem of a frog jumping over 3 lilypads twice and ending up in the same position. Does the frog always end up in the same place and why? The activity is represented with 3 pennies and a dime,…
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…
Game Board Template This is just for fun, I created a game board template and thought I would share it. Create a Game I didn’t make the game for you, so you (or as Catlin Tucker says, have the student’s do it!) will need to create an idea to have student’s use a game board….
Leave Student’s Emoji’s for Feedback I think many of us wish Google Classroom allowed us as teachers to add attachments or pictures to student assignments (leave feedback!). One hack I have for this is to ask students to create a Google Drawing I can leave Bitmoji’s and other feedback on. Obviously, that has its drawbacks….
Code Font in Google Sites This may seem strange but really there is nothing to look at here. The purpose of this blog post is to clear up some confusion about the option to “Code font” in new Google Sites rather than to give you a tip on what to do. Basically “Code font” is…
Email a Word Doc or PDF It isn’t often but sometimes I am needing to send someone a PDF or Word version of my Google Doc. Google Docs will automatically create the attachment for me. File Menu Use the File menu and choose “Email as attachment.” PDF The default attachment type is PDF. Click on…
Share Your Lesson Plans Through Google Calendar There are 3.6 million teachers in the US and we do not have a collective way to share our lesson plans. There is some awesome teacher in “Vermont” doing some cool things and we all have no idea about it. How do you follow day to day what…
Push Feedback to Student Slides A relatively new feature in Google Slides is the ability to link slides. What this means is if you have 2 Google Slides presentations you can connect the two slides. Create a slide in presentation A, copy the slide and paste it into Presentation B. You will be prompted upon…
Filter Gmail G Suite users, it’s essential you are master of filtering your Gmail! Your productivity (and may I add happiness) will increase exponentially! Search Gmail Gmail is by Google so obviously, Gmail has a search box. Search for a name, email address, subject line, or text from an email. From your search, we will…
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