As I discussed in my previous post, I am on a quest to design Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in a way that they are more engaging, readable, and easy to consume. As part of this, I looked at an update that Kindle books made a few years ago that changed how I read. Before […]
Author: Nathan Nagele
I'm a husband, father, and technology education teacher. I have a passion for creating videos and instructional materials that help students highly achieve.
How to add more fonts to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc
With the last year being largely online can creating more Google-based documents than ever before, I have found a need to make my Google-based items more readable and have a bit more “design” put in them. Typically, I use the standard fonts, preset formatting options, and colors and go from there. It makes creating items […]
Screencastify Part 1
I’ve been doing screen recordings for over a decade now as a daily part of my instruction. In that time, I’ve been amazed by how easy it has become and the drop in overall costs associated with screen recording. If you aren’t sure, screen recording or screen capture can be defined by recording your computer […]
8 Suggestions for New Online Educators
Introduction As I sit here in the middle of March 2020, I am faced with not being able to go back to my school tomorrow. In fact, I will not be able to go back to my building, students, and co-workers for the next two weeks at a minimum. We are dealing with something that […]
Searching for the best Canvas homepage design
My district started to move over the Canvas LMS last year and we are really embracing it this year. I really like the LMS overall, it has power, customization, and flexibility on how to do almost anything that you could want. As part of that flexibility and customization, you can set your course’s homepage to […]
Summer Goal Tracking
With the school year over, I now have a lot of additional time to work on some projects that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. Over the past few months, I’ve felt a little out of control when it comes to getting things done. The end of the school year is particularly […]
Wanted Google Classroom Grading Enhancements
I previously talked about Google Classroom’s new gradebook and it got me to thinking about other things that I would like to see done with Google Classroom. By and large, it’s an outstanding tool, but there are a few tweaks that could really make it more usable and efficient for me on a daily basis. […]
Read Text from an Image with Google Keep
I’ve been trying to write down more things recently in an attempt to better keep track of things and to make sure that ideas that I have, don’t leave my head permanently. As part of that, I’ve been using Google Keep a great deal more in the past few weeks. One of the features buried […]
Google Classroom Grade(book) Beta is here!
Yesterday was interim day, so I opened up Google Classroom and went in to grade any assignments that I may have missed or that were recently submitted. To my surprise, there was a new tab at the top of my Google Classroom called “Grades.” Obviously, I stopped any thought of grading and went into the […]
Screencastify: A software-free screen recording option
Over the past few years I have really increased the amount of video content that I create for my students. Most of the videos that I make are done to re-teach a process that I covered in group instruction. Students find it easier to have me available on demand for help or they don’t miss […]