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Top 3 posts of the week Sharing: 4 Reasons That Technology Might Not Be Helping Them Learn Seems to be a recurring theme, don’t do technology for technology’s sake. ⓔ Highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a Google Sheet column #gafetip #itip15 Although it’s a little tricky to set up, I use this all…
This is part 12 of 13 things to do before the first day of school. Awwwee, the first week of school. The students are optimistic and bright eyed, while the long days take a toll on the teachers. What better way to survive the first week than to plan ahead? This is straight forward for many…
It’s distressing to think that the sound of a baby crying reduces our mental agility just at the moment when we most need it. But it helps to take the long view of parenthood and its effects on our intellectual capacities. In her wonderful book The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter, journalist Katherine Ellison reviews…
Being an Mac school, we have use iPhoto (now Photos) a lot to manage all of the photos collected during the school year. But, now that Google offers unlimited storage of photos (it resizes the photos to 2048×2048 for non-Google Apps for Education Users) it makes sense to move photo storage to Google Photos. Getting…
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This is part 1 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Why blog? There are several reasons to blog, but we seem to get caught up in the reasons to not blog. To overcome this friction, we have to not only see the benefits of blogging, but to also try to…