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A quick way to randomize students with Google Sheets **Update**
UPDATE October 2020 – Google Sheets now has a randomize range option. I’ve also created a video demonstrating the randomize range option. Use the randomize range option With the randomize range option, it’s a piece of cake to randomize a list of students. Let’s say you have a list of students: To randomize the range,…
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The three rules of humanity #oetc15 #oetcx
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve thought a lot about the meaning and purpose of life. Well, at least the purpose of life, the answer to the meaning of life is 42. And I’ve been on too many conversations to count on what should be the purpose of education. So let’s read a random sampling of vision…
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The Pearson and PARCC trainwreck
I had first read about Walter Stroup in Texas a couple of years ago, but I hadn’t done much followup. While I was researching for something else, I came across an article from September that has more information. Basically, Stroup’s researched the validity of the STAAR test from Pearson: Using UT’s computing power, Stroup investigated….
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Schedule rooms and equipment with the Google Sheets add-on Lab Scheduler
There are a couple of different ways to schedule equipment when you’re a Google Apps for Education school. One is to have the GAFE administrator create Google Calendar Resources that can then be scheduled with Google Calendar. This method works really well, but its biggest issue is that staff have to schedule by time, not…
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40,000 pieces of art now available from the Smithsonian
The Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian museums has released a complete digital copy of their collections. The Open F|S initiative is free to use for non-commercial purposes.
