A Comic, thinking hard, and a free for teachers app – Top 3 of the Week
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How to make a student response system in Google Forms and Sheets #YouTube
Here are the directions on how I created a quick and easy student response system with Google Forms and Google Sheets. Why? Sure there are tons of other ways to get input from your students, but I wanted a quick way I could survey students on the fly. The spreadsheet that has the formula for…
Sweet, sweet, technological procrastination
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I once gave a talk titled “Using technology to procrastinate”. An idea that I have used since my sophomore year in high school. We had a big research paper due, and it had…
People prefer pain instead of thinking hard
Thinking takes real effort. It requires sustained attention. Scientists have known for some time that focusing your mind consumes considerable metabolic resources. But in our day-to-day lives, we discount the effort needed to pay attention and think because it doesn’t feel as physically strenuous as, say, lifting a 50-pound weight. Source: To Avoid Thinking Hard, We Will Endure…
Reasons why distance learning is harder than it should be
So we now can work in teams despite being continental distances away from each other but we do have to acquire the skills to do that. And if we fail to do so, that has a rather grave disadvantage, which is that… Nothing has as dire an impact on productivity as poor communications. This is a truism that applies…
Mockofun is free online design app for teachers
Source: MockoFun Is Free For Teachers – MockoFUN MockoFun now has a free premium account available for teachers. If you’ve used Adobe Spark or Canva, you’ll feel right at home with MockoFun. I’m the type of person who will jump from tool to tool. Why? For starters, each tool starts to have a sameness, and…
A meme, a comic, and no camera in video conferences – Top 3 of the Week
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