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…
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…
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,…
One of my complaints with my new and improved Macbook Pro was battery life. As I’ve been investigating what I can do to help improve my time on battery, I’ve come up with two different approaches. One is a no brainer, dim the screen. The other is more painful. Switching to Safari. I’ve notice that Google Chrome…
In the menu bar under OS X you may have a bunch of icons on the right side, each one with a different function or representing a different app. When you click on them, they usually give you quick access to some feature. For example, the sound icon lets you adjust the volume. A neat…
I use conditional formatting for individual cells quite a bit. What’s nice is that conditional formatting can also highlight rows in Google Sheets, which is very possible! Some ways this is useful is when you are analyzing student scores. You can mark rows where the student is proficient in green, where the student is borderline…
In my never ending quest to maximize the amount of work that needs to get done I’m constantly evaluating ways of managing my task lists. I’m currently settling into two systems, depending on the tasks that need to be completed. Google Keep Google Keep is Google’s limited answer to Evernote. While it doesn’t have near…
In the past year and a half I have been running Linux on an Lenovo Ideapad. It worked really well, but I was missing a couple of things. One was wireless mirroring. My workaround was to use Chrome and a Chromecast, but it wasn’t as smooth as I would like. I was also missing some…