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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
I have come to really value the use of video in the classroom. I started teaching nine years ago and I have always embraced video, but it’s so much easier now than what it was when I started. I hope to always make high quality content, and with that content comes some massive file sizes.…
I am in my 9th year of teaching and I’ve had two very different teaching experiences that greatly influence the ways that I do things in my current classroom. My first teaching job was at an online charter school. I taught my students 100% through video, text, images, and live webcasts. From a creative point…
I recently got around to updating my computer to the newest version of MacOS, Mojave. The feature that I was most looking forward to was dark mode and other than that, I didn’t really take note of anything important. That is until I miss clicked a keyboard shortcut and found a new way to record…
I’ve been lucky enough to have a 3D printer in my classroom for the better part of the past five years. I’ve printed countless items that my students have created and my machine has been rock solid. When we originally purchased my printer, I wanted something different, but I’m very happy with the printer. Over…
I was greeted with a small window on my Google Classroom during the school week that informed me of several updates available in Google Classroom. After spending some time with it, these are the four most important updates to Google Classroom. 1. Drag and Drop You can now drag and drop anything in the “Classwork”…
