Weekly Tech Tips

  Dear Friends, How ya doin’?  Weekly Tech Tips I have written about this before but I have never actually done it. I am trying it out now for the first time and I wanted to share it with you. I am going to use Google Classroom to create a group assignment. Not only that, but I'm going to do another very similar group assignment in another class where I use Google Classroom to collect the work, but not to create and organize my groups. I am interested to see if the time spent upfront organizing the groups and creating separate assignments and documents using Google Classroom will pay off when it comes time to collect, grade and hand back the assignment.  I have a Grade 9 Criterion D that I'm going to use Google Classroom for to make and assign separate documents for each group. I also have a Grade 10 Criterion D with which I'm going to allow the students to select their own groups, create their own documents, and elect a scribe who will upload the team document to ...

  Dear Friends, Weekly Tech Tips hasn’t been very weekly lately, has it? Sunday November 7 we were live in person at GSIS. I want to thank the folks who came out that day to talk about Google Takeout, Google Drive for Desktop, and Google Classroom.  Great topics and a lot of questions, answers, sharing and learning going on that day. As promised, I am happy to make that a monthly event for those of us who like to be more hands on and face-to-face. It was great to see you. I probably won't schedule one for the month of December with the end of semester and the holiday season, but let’s shoot for January if anyone is interested. And last week Sunday my wife and I were out celebrating 24 years of marital bliss. But this week we are back with…. Weekly Tech Tips Let’s start with something more geared to the youngest among us, since I know this newsletter often tilts towards the Middle and High Schools. It’s called a Make and Take, and I love it. This is a Thanksgiving (US Thank...