Four new features in G Suite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education)

Four new features in G Suite for Education (formerly Google Apps for Education)

Today we’re introducing new time-saving features to Docs, Sheets and Slides designed to speed up and simplify the way teachers and students work, so they can focus on what’s really important—teaching and learning. These apps still have all of the same functionality that students and teachers love, with the addition of these new features. Source:…

CaptureCast is another option for recording screencasts with Chrome and Chromebooks

CaptureCast is another option for recording screencasts with Chrome and Chromebooks

I stumbled upon another option to record screencasts with Chrome and Chromebooks, CaptureCast. This extension has some nice features that the Nimbus tool doesn’t have. Most notably, webcam, Google Drive, YouTube, and Vimeo support. With CaptureCast, you can overlay your webcam video onto the screencast, or record only your webcam. Once you are finished recording,…

Using edtech not to measure, but to make students better
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Using edtech not to measure, but to make students better

With the Common Core’s emphasis on data-driven instruction there is a misguided focus on using technology to deliver content and collect data rather than cultivate learning and stimulate cognitive development.Using education technology isn’t so much about students mastering a device or procedure so much as it is about mastering themselves first. Source: Use edtech to maximize student knowlege, skills and…

Student screencasts, highlighting Google Sheets, Timer in Google Slides – Top 3 posts for the week

Student screencasts, highlighting Google Sheets, Timer in Google Slides – Top 3 posts for the week

Students creating screencasts instead of presenting A great use of screencasts in the student centered classroom. Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting A way to highlight an entire row based on conditional formatting in Google Sheets Adding a timer to a Google Slides Use a Youtube video to add a countdown timer to…

Flipping your classroom with screencasts

Flipping your classroom with screencasts

With all of this talk about screencasts, what about flipping your classroom? Flipping a classroom doesn’t involve gymnastics, trampolines, or basically any physical activity. Which is good, because my balance is on par with Weebles. When you flip your classroom, you provide your lecture or some other support materials to your students as homework before the…