Weekly Tech Tips

  Dear Friends, Is it June yet?  Weekly Tech Tips Maybe a little late for your student and parent surveys this quarter, but here are some tips on using Google Forms. There is a big difference between SHARING a form and SENDING a form. When you SHARE a form you are inviting collaborators to work on editing the form with you or inviting them to make a copy of the form for their own use. When you SEND a form you are activating it in order to receive answers. The person you send it to cannot alter the form, they can only fill it out. To SHARE a form you can either copy the url out of the omni (address) bar and send that to your collaborator or you can click the More button ( the three vertical dots sometimes called the Snowman ) and Add collaborators When someone shares a form with you you should make a copy, like this: In Google Forms, open the form or quiz you want to copy. In the top-right corner, click More (sometimes called the Snowman ) Make a copy. Name the copy. (Optio...

  Dear Friends, It’s been a while. Quite a string of long weekends we had there.  Weekly Tech Tips Thought I’d get back to basics and share with you two of the most pervasive acronyms in EdTech. The goals here are to be in the center of the TPACK Venn Diagram and taking a ride on the SAMR submarine. I appreciate the part in the center of TPACK that acknowledges that sometimes the best tech choice is no tech at all.  . This Week’s Apps and Resources Remember there are over 300 Apps you can add to Schoology. Some you can activate yourself, others you may need to ask for Raj’s help and still others may not be available, but it is worth a look through the options. In the upper right part of the Schoology site you will see an icon made of a square of four squares. This is the App Center (1st image). Click that and you’re in (second image). When you successfully add an app it should appear as an option when you go to Add Material inside your course. Here are a few other a...