FREE STUFF! Free stuff that’s useful! Even better! Google Chrome Extensions are tools that you can add to your toolbar. There are thousands out there, but this blog post will tell you about five that I found extremely useful in my classroom practice. If you haven’t been using extensions yet, this is a great place to start.
In this short video I’ll show you a workaround to add audio to your Google Slides. You will learn how to add a hidden video from YouTube into your slides, meaning that anything (voice recording, student created music or already available music) can become soundtracks for your presentations.
Want to be sure your students are watching the videos you want them to? Learn how to insert a video into a Google Doc in such a way that your students can watch it without having to leave the document.
Copy, paste, undo, refresh, right click (secondary click), resizing an image, opening a new tab, drag and drop…….. basics right?!?!?! Just like riding a bike! Driving a car!
But, we all had to learn to ride that bike and drive that car. Who’s teaching you, your colleagues or your students these seemingly basic skills?
This review is about Makeblocks new addition to their robotics lineup, the ‘Codey Rocky’, which the team at Makeblock have been kind enough to give me an advance trial of.
Publishing your Google Slides to the web allows you control over how viewers see your slides. Go a step further and customise the auto-advance speed to create fun animations and timed Pecha Kucha style presentations.
QR (Quick Response) codes are a great tool for using in your classroom. The latest software in smartphones has the capability to read them from the camera app, and it’s quick and easy to download a QR code reader if not. Use them to engage your students, bring classroom displays to life digitally and more!
Do you find it a bit frustrating trying to type maths equations in a Google Doc? Do your fractions not quite line up? Let me show you two very simple ways to solve this.
If you’ve ever used Chrome books with students under the age of 7 then you’ll instantly know the pain and stress that I’m about to describe. I was working with a classroom of 25 Year 1 (6 year olds) students who had never logged in with their accounts before, let alone be able to find the @ key on the keyboard.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), generally means your staff and students are bringing their personal devices to school. However BYOD can also include models where schools purchase the devices and lease them to students, schools mandate a device for parents to buy (BYODD) and everything in between.
In many schools BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Disaster, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
A BYOD plan is effective only if it ensures a school’s unique educational goals will be achieved. It shouldn’t just help figure out the best educational technology to use.
I picked up my surface Pro 3 two weeks ago. I was interested to see how the Surface pro 3 would compare to the Surface Pro 2 and more importantly my new MacBook Pro.
Here is what I like and disliked, as well as an evaluation of the Surface pro 3 in an educational context
