I’m always surprised how little teachers use Google Sheets (or Excel) because it has so many features that help make all the little tasks we need to do as teachers less time consuming. One of these is Data Validation. Data What? Data validation is a neat little feature that adds a drop down menu to …
I get asked all the time how to make Google Forms secure for test taking so students don’t cheat. Whaaaat? Students want to cheat? Whaaaaat? This technology…now all the sudden kids what to cheat. They never did that before. Here are some ways you can make your Google Forms tests more secure. Walk Around and …
I’m not a super user of the brain breaks, but today at my after school expanded learning director’s meeting, Sandy Slade from Skillastics had us do a super simple brain break that I thought would work great for any language level. She had us put our hands on our temples and said, “When I say …
At the end of last semester I was wrestling with how to work on pronunciation. Alas, I was tired of hearing “Il essssssssssssst anglaissssss” and so I started to brainstorm ways students might be able to work on this problem without me. This particular pronunciation issue is, in my opinion, an input and reading issue. …
So far my 2018 has not started off fantastic. I either food poisoned myself New Year’s Eve or had a stomach flu. Either way, I’m on the mend today and ready to do some reflection. My Blog 2017 was my first full year of my Language Makerspace blog. I had over 50 posts, which I …
A colleague asked me to help her come up with a way for students to do peer reviews of projects using Google Forms. The results had to be viewable only by the teacher and the student and all students had to have access to the links to submit the peer reviews for every student in …
The Internet… Day two of the Great File Cabinet Purge began prematurely. I had planned on taking it slowly and doing a couple of drawers a week leading up to finals. But then on I got an email from Google who kindly suggested I click on explore.org and explore something. I thought I was going …
You can customize which websites open up when you launch Google Chrome. Here’s a quick walk through. You can view all of the Tech Bytes on YouTube.
It is my goal that by the time I go on Christmas vacation I will have cleaned out my file cabinets. The catalyst for this purge is the fact that my file cabinets live in an after school room and because of where they are they create a little cubby area where students like to try …
I am so far behind in my #edublogsclub blogging that I’ve given up caring. I’ve not given up blogging them, just given up caring that they weren’t blogged during the week assigned. However, I am determined to finish before the end of the year. My Favorite Tool By far, my most favorite tool right now is …
