Make tech work for you, self-control, bookmarking videos – Top 3 for the week

Make tech work for you, self-control, bookmarking videos – Top 3 for the week

13 Ways to make tech work for you – CREATE 2017 Conference Presentation My presenation and links from the CREATE Conference. Help students develop self-control with these 6 techniques Learning self-control. Vookmark is an easy way to bookmark videos on the web Quick way to save links to videos.

Google Takeout, learning from Ikea, and formative assessments – Top 3 of the week

Google Takeout, learning from Ikea, and formative assessments – Top 3 of the week

Google offers two options to students and staff to take your data with you when you leave Google Takeout lets you download or transfer your data. Enhancing student learning through the IKEA effect More evidence of taking ownership increases learning. Quiznetic lets you build interactive formative assessments Tired of Kahoot? Try Quiznetic.

Chromebook printing without Cloudprint, free art books, and build a city block – Top 3 of the week

Chromebook printing without Cloudprint, free art books, and build a city block – Top 3 of the week

Printing to local network printers without Cloudprint I can now print to my wireless Brother printer at home without setting up a Cloudprint server. The Guggenheim now has over 200 art books available for free Who does love free stuff? Especially when it’s from the Guggenheim! Brick Block is a neat “build your own city…

Chromebook focus, Flipgrid, and WriteReader – Top 3 for the week

Chromebook focus, Flipgrid, and WriteReader – Top 3 for the week

Forest is a really cool Chrome extension to help teachers and students focus Help students stay off of distracting sites. Using Flipgrid in your class for video responses Neat way to enhance class discussions. Use WriteReader with students for digital publishing and classroom ebooks Web based digital publishing platform for students.

Oxford comma, busyness, and the ACT/SAT – Top 3 for the week

Oxford comma, busyness, and the ACT/SAT – Top 3 for the week

Lack of an Oxford comma strikes again I, for one, welcome our new English overlords. The problem of being “busy” Being busy doesn’t necessarily mean you’re making progress. More than 950 accredited schools no longer require the ACT or SAT for admission Interesting that the push back toward standardized testing has now reached secondary education.

Resignation letters, formative assessments, research access – top 3 for the week

Resignation letters, formative assessments, research access – top 3 for the week

The view of US education as seen through teacher resignation letters Depressing look at the teaching profession. Formative is a free service for performing formative assessments in your classroom Another option for performing formative assessments in your classroom. Use the Unpaywall Chrome or Firefox extension to access research papers for free Access freely available research…

HS Science classroom design, scavenger hunts, and equations in Google Doc – Top 3

HS Science classroom design, scavenger hunts, and equations in Google Doc – Top 3

Wow, oh wow, I want to re-take HS science in this classroom! Great design for an high school science classroom. Scavenger hunts using technology Ideas on using technology to run a scavenger hunt. Easily insert equations into Google Docs with the FMath Editor add-on Another option to inserting equations into Google Docs.

Google Docs equations, Twitter and Schools, and one to one – top 3 for the week

Google Docs equations, Twitter and Schools, and one to one – top 3 for the week

Equatio is a new add-on for Google Docs and Forms to facilitate the entry of math expressions Insert equations into Google Docs and Forms with ease. Exemplary examples of school districts using Twitter See how school districts can use Twitter. Do one to one initiatives threaten public education For some reason, the author equates one…