Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Why we Need to Talk About Leslie Jones in Class Guest blog post by Julie Smith. Author of the book Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-in World By now you’ve probably heard about SNL’s Leslie Jones, who’s been the victim of some horribly racist attacks online after she appeared in this…
When possible, it is important that we educate our students on how to be safe on the web. Scammers are always out there trying to take your personal information and money. When you receive spam/scam email that does not have inappropriate information try asking students to determine if this is a valid email and why…
I just received an email that was sent out to at least 50 recipients. The problem with is that when someone replies to all it goes out to all 50+ people and quickly my inbox is blowing up with emails from people I do not know. Privacy Besides the excessive email that is generated by…
In a digital age, it is important that we educate our kids how to avoid scams and to stay safe online. I like to dig through my spam folder to find examples of scams and use them as examples for students to critically analyze why they should be skeptical of the email. Previously I posted…
Recently I looked through my Spam folder in Gmail. So many of the messages were “spoofing.” This means the email LOOKED like it was from a legitimate company, but in reality it was someone trying to trick me into giving personal information or money. It is not just email where people try to trick me…
Sometimes I feel like dictating my typing. Other times I can not figure out how to spell a word so I simply engage the voice dictation to help me to figure it out. Using voice dictation can be really handing when providing students feedback. I am able to look at student work and give my…
If you are on a Mobile device such as an iPad, android tablet or your phone you probably have the Google Drive and Google Slides app. If you are using Google Slides on the Mobile device you will notice that you can not add an image to the slides. Here is a tip I learned…
This morning I was talking with the amazing David Theriault @davidtedu about signing teachers up for Twitter. He was sharing how the sign up process can be a little cumbersome since the sign up process asks the teachers to follow 10 people. The hiccup of course being that they do not know 10 people. Create…
Recently Kids Discover posted my article on 5 Tips for Better Presentation Slides. One of the suggestions I gave was to draw your own slides in Paper 53. This helps you to ensure that you have the perfect image to go along with your message, and your presentation looks unique. Amy Burvall Amy Burvall does…
This morning Kristin Gregory tweeted out that she was trying my “Tweet Stuff” template. In response to some requests, I thought I would make some directions on how to use it. CLICK HERE for the template. The gist of the spreadsheet is it creates a link for you to tweet out things. Click on the…
Photo Credit: Angelina 🙂 via Compfight cc While doing demonstrations on my MAC, either live or screencast, you want to draw attention to the part of the screen the viewer should be focusing on. Mouselight One way to do this is to use the mouselight app. It is $0.99 in the Mac App store. After…
One thing I like about Google Drive is the ability to share documents. I can share with view only rights or with collaboration priviledges. I will place all of my course documents into a folder for students to view. Any document I add to that folder automatically assumes the sharing rights of the folder so…
Many of our students have some sort of device that takes video. This is the perfect opportunity to have students create. But how do you manage the videos once they make them? YouTube makes it easy. Go into your YouTube settings and obtain the mobile email address. Share this email address with your students (sorry…
In Google Docs and Google Sites there is an option to see the revision history. Use this to… See who has been working on the document. Revert back to an old revision if you are unhappy with the changes. Revert back to an old version if a collaborator makes changes that were not welcome. Grade…
In a previous blog post I explained how in 5 easy steps you can learn how to pre-populate a Google Form. I would like to show you how you can use spreadsheets to take this one step further. In my quest to go paperless I created a form for students to turn work into. This…
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