Weekly Tech Tips

  Dear Friends, Thanks again to those who have filled out the Google for Education Training form. I got a few more interested. I have not forgotten about anyone and I am planning on offering the training sessions right after Christmas Break. That may seem a bit far away, but I need time to prepare and I have a mandatory month-long IB online cert starting soon. Here is the form yet again. https://forms.gle/9Earqqf8nj3EUvkp8 This week is about Google Calendar as I have finally gotten the block calendars made. I am sorry that took so long, but I was warned that there might be changes to the schedule and then a lot of stuff happened and well… I don’t know if the schedule will change or not, but I will show you what I did and share the files with you. Weekly Tech Tips Do you want your Google Calendar to look like this: With this How to Doc and these csv calendar files you can. The How to Doc was originally created by Brian Montgomery. I have updated it over the years. It is ...

  Dear Friends, Thank you to those who have filled out the Google for Education Training form. I got your replies and I am working on a plan. We have about 6 folks interested in a Level 1 Certification and 1 in a Level 2 so far. Most are interested in an after work training session. I will take this all into consideration and get back to you soon. If you would like to express interest the form is still here https://forms.gle/9Earqqf8nj3EUvkp8 Sorry for not sending an edition out last week. I think we all had a lot on our minds and plates last week. Now that that is finally over and our students are all back with us [YAY!!!🎉🎉🎉] and we can get back to some kind of normal teaching, I hope that tech still plays a role in your more normal classroom. I have felt so great about teaching my 8th graders about spreadsheets during our statistics unit in math. While I cannot honestly say that they will ever have to use mid interval class values to estimate the mean of a sample, I am a...

  Dear Friends, I would like to thank you for allowing me to train and help you with your Edtech needs and questions particularly in regards to Google for Education Suite. It is because of you that I was able to earn my Google for Education Certified Trainer last week. I literally could not have done it without you. What’s more I cannot keep it without you. I am now obligated to perform 12 training sessions a year! The idea is to make as many teachers Level 1 and Level 2 Google Educators as possible. So if you are neither or just the first one, please let me know if you are interested. Here is a form to fill out if you’d rather do that now. This is the same form I sent out last week as an example of  “branching”: https://forms.gle/9Earqqf8nj3EUvkp8 Weekly Tech Tips Google Applied Digital Skills for Civic and Government Premade lessons that simultaneously teach valuable digital skills. Last week was Social Studies and Language Arts . This week is Civics and Government. Jus...

  Dear Friends, I hope your Chuseok was peaceful and restful and beautiful. I know I got a much needed recharge. Here’s hoping it lasts a while. This week I hope to convince you (if you are not already) that as educators we are on the cusp of a revolution in our field as indeed is society as a whole. Now is the time to start enacting those decades-old buzzwords we’ve been hearing and using for so long. Words like, student-centered, student choice, research-based, social emotional learning, differentiated learning, transformational learning, growth mindset and all the rest that we all love to hear at conferences. Those words that get us all fired up and make us warm and fuzzy for a few hours until we get back in the classroom where the pressures of a fixed and prescribed curriculum force us to fly through content chosen by people far away as fast and painlessly as possible. I hope to inspire you with ideas from educators around the world who see change coming fast. I hope to recr...