I’ve been struggling with my online identity and what I want to share. Too often I try to spread myself too thin, but if I’m not trying to learn it all I feel like I’m missing something. If you haven’t noticed, I’ve taken a different route with RyanCol…
Yesterday I talked about using Google Forms and Google Slides for exit or entry tickets. One addition I like is adding a timer to Google slides in the form of a countdown timer. By adding a timer the students and you get a sense of completion for the current task or project. Without the timer it might…
Using entry and exit tickets is a way for students to summarize and reflect on their learning in the classroom. Given at the start or end of class (or sometimes both!), these tickets are also a way for a teacher to see how the students are learning the material and to see if any changes…
Power Tools is an addon for Google Sheets that automates a ton of workflows. Instead of writing and troubleshooting functions, Power Tools can do it for you. Some of its features include splitting cells based on any delimiter or position (were you handed a spreadsheet with full name in column A but you need the…
I work with a lot of teachers and students, and one thing that baffles me is how many don’t set up bookmarks for sites they use on a daily basis. I’ve seem them go to Google and type gmail into the search box, and then click on the Gmail link in the search results. Or…
I guess I’m pretty old school when it comes to bookmarks. Although I still use browser bookmarks, I also use Delicious to store my bookmarks. Delicious is an online service that allows you to quickly save your bookmarks. But if that’s all it did, it would be pretty lame. It also lets you tag your…
Yesterday I mentioned CloudConvert as a simple way of converting files, in that case, converting a Google Slides document to a series of graphic images. When I was playing around with CloudConvert, I found out they had an iOS app. I downloaded the app and it works pretty much as expected. It doesn’t require registration, and…
Every once in awhile, you want to download your Google Slides presentation as a series of images. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t offer a way to do this. Well, you could download each slide individually, but I thought computers were supposed to make life easier! I know that Microsoft PowerPoint can do the conversion, but I wanted…
All of the major operating systems support multiple users (even the iPad is getting it), which allows each user of a machine to have their own settings, wallpaper, bookmarks, etc. Usually, you have one log in and that is it, but I’ve been experimenting with having two logins, and switching between them depending on the task. I…
Twitter chats can get very confusing, especially the ordering of messages. I always though Twitter chats were tedious to read since the newest chats were always at the top, so to read, you start at the bottom tweet, read left to right and down, and then have to jump up to the next tweet and…