I didn’t have the intention of being a paperless class and I don’t believe that paperless is a goal within itself. Nevertheless, last year, out of necessity, I became a mostly paperless class at the college because I had no easy access to a copier. As it turned out last year I had it great …
Who doesn’t love a good game of Bingo? This is a Google Slide deck for Bingo. Share in Google Classroom as “Make a copy” and you can play infinite games infinitely. Students drag the numbers into the grid and then when the teacher calls the number they can drag the dot onto the number. Bingo …
Two weeks ago at my Instructional Coach training, the trainer had us do an amazingly simple partner activity. We divided a sticky into four quadrants and in each one wrote a word: Winter, Summer, Fall, Spring then we had to stand up and find a partner for each square. We wrote the name of that …
I am always up for some good number practice. In my perfect lesson plan there would be some attention to numbers every day- I just feel like students always need more practice. Of course, there’s a ton of ways for students to practice listening to numbers, but not so many for them to practice speaking …
Last week was the first day of my college class. I used my basic: hour of boring syllabus + hour and half of French sequence, but this semester I made some big changes. First, for the syllabus I ditched reading the syllabus (yes, I was guilty of doing that type of beginning of class), for …
If you are using the new Google Forms for quizzes and have it set to allow only response, but then find yourself needing to let a student take the quiz again you can work some form magic to do it. It will delete the student’s original response, but if you’re ok with that follow these …
Reset student responses in quizzes in Google Forms Read More »
This summer at ISTE I won a free copy of “Ditch that Textbook” by Matt Miller. I’d heard about this movement of course, so I was interested in reading the book. After much reflection I’ve decided that I’m not ready to ditch my textbook and here’s why: I want the extra resources. I teach at …
I’ve been taking advantage of our “no school because of smoke” days to re-do my college syllabus for French 101. I’ve had a few ideas in my head since the end of last semester that I’m finally processing. I’ve taught this class at least seven semesters and never the same way twice. While I …
I’m so excited to use the new Google Forms quiz feature, but I doubt that I will use it much for quizzes. I can see using this feature as a quick exit ticket. I’m going to ask my students five to seven questions at the end of each lesson based on the lesson objectives. Because I …
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 …
