I love Google Slides because you can use it as a whiteboard and the whole class can participate. (Read: never again spend hours copying, cutting and sorting only to have someone lose one card and not be able to fully participate. Oh wait, students can’t lose these because they’ll be saved in the Google!) I …
With the new changes in Google Forms, making quizzes is now even easier. I’ve been using Google Forms exclusively for quizzes in my paperless classroom. Here are some tips for making your Google Forms into Awesome Quizzes. For more tips, watch my workflows on setting up a quiz from Google Forms.
My favorite feature of Google Slides is that you can use them for everything else besides delivering content. I’ve made a Google Slide deck for Bingo. Share it with students as “make a copy for each student” in Google Classroom and play away. Directions are on the first slide. Click on the link and it …
These are the questions I get asked most frequently about Flubaroo- a Google Sheets Add-On that grades tests. I’ve used Flubaroo as my only (automated) test grading option for more than a year. If you haven’t already, watch the short video at Flubaroo.com for a quick over view of how Flubaroo works. Note: Now you …
A few weeks ago I was about to do an activity where I knew I was going to push students to expand their answers (Angelina Jolie is a better actress because …..) that it got me thinking about ways we can challenge students to do than just respond with yes or no; because in addition to …
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In addition to the keyboard shortcuts below you can use Awesome Screenshot Extension for Chrome- This is exactly what it says-awesome. It allows you to annotate images and add boxes. Sometimes when I choose “selected area” it crops it funny, so I choose “visible part of the page” and do the cropping myself. You can then save …
In addition to the keyboard shortcuts below you can use Awesome Screenshot Extension for Chrome- This is exactly what it says-awesome. It allows you to annotate images and add boxes. Sometimes when I choose “selected area” it crops it funny, so I choose “visible part of the page” and do the cropping myself. You can then save …
In addition to the keyboard shortcuts below, you can use Awesome Screenshot Extension for Chrome- This is exactly what it says-awesome. It allows you to annotate images and add boxes. Sometimes when I choose “selected area” it crops it funny, so I choose “visible part of the page” and do the cropping myself. You can then save …
Learn to be a screenshot Ninja! If you learn one skill this week it should be how to take a screenshot on whatever device you use. This is one of the most versatile and simple tech tools you can use. On any given day I will can take endless screenshots for all types of different …
Situation: You find the most absolutely beautiful, perfect image/text/cartoon/advertisement to go with your unit on [fill in the blank]. Now to save it so you can exploit it! Don’t end up with a hot mess of saved images/texts/cartoons and advertisements. Here’s some tips. Try to locate the original or the source with the best quality. There’s …
