This is part 2 of 13 things to do before the first day of school A Google Voice number is a great way to communicate with parents, without having to give out your personal home or cellphone number. With a Google Voice, you control what phones ring when the number is called, when phones will…
Showbie is a free educational app for teachers and students that makes creating and completing assignments, providing assessments, and storing grades easy. Source: Showbie – The Heart of Your Paperless Classroom If you are in an iPad classroom, Showbie may be a site you’ll want to check out. As a teacher, you can assign tasks…
At its core, Dropbox is a service for storing and sharing files on the cloud. If you’re one of its 200 million users, this is probably what you mostly use Dropbox for, too. But there’s a lot more that Dropbox offers to make your life easier. Some of Dropbox’s underused features include commenting on files,…
This is part 1 of 13 things to do before the first day of school For a lot of scenarios, creating a Google Form to collect information works well. But it could also be overkill to create a form just to collect a student’s username from a web service, or to have a student select…
Get kids programming within minutes. Source: Lightbot Lightbot is a series of challenges for students to learn programming, much like Swift Playgrounds or All Can Code. These activities are broken up into two categories, one for students ages 4-8 and the other for students ages 9+. The activites can be completed on iOS, Android, or…
Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? For both parents and teachers, knowing whether computer-based media are improving or compromising education is a question of concern. With the surge in popularity of e-books, online learning and open educational resources, investigators have been trying to determine whether students do…
Since it’s the first day of August, I figured it’s time to list 13 things to do before the first day of school. That doesn’t mean you need to do all of them, or even a majority of them, but hopefully there is one or two tips that you find beneficial. Do you have any…
Earlier this year, France passed a labor reform law that banned checking emails on weekends. New research—to be presented next week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management—suggests other countries might do well to follow suit, for the sake of employee health and productivity. A new study—authored by Liuba Belkin of Lehigh University,…
ⓔ Use Google Photos for managing your classroom photos How Google Photos can be used in your classroom. Teen’s Snapchat school bathroom prank is criminal behavior, court rules A warning for not just Snapchat users, but for anyone who posts things publically. Cardboard Challenges: No Tech/Low Cost Maker Education | User Generated Education Great low…
Sesame is a platform to document and assess mastery of skills. Source: Welcome | Sesame Sesame lets students submit all types of work to the teacher for assessment and/or to provide instant feedback. The website can integrate with 1,000s of apps and had curriculum standards built in. There are also customizable rubrics and check lists…