As we get started with a new school year, teachers in classrooms across the district are dealing with a few dozen factors every class period that cause them anxiety. One of them is the mere act of signing out and opening up the Chromebook cart. But it doesn’t have to feel like a gamble every time students use technology. I thought I’d offer a few practical tips to help the use of Chromebooks in your classroom go more smoothly.
When your students meet a certain learning goal, what better way to acknowledge that than to issue them a badge? You can create badges in Google Drawings and then upload them to Google Keep, where you can then insert them into Slides or Docs and provide instant...
If you use Moodle (iLearn) with your classes, it probably still contains students and their data from the previous year. In order to get your course ready for the new school year, it is wise to reset your course. This simply means that you are unenrolling all of the...
Please read the following about a new initiative we learned of while attending ISTE this year, the #TeachersAreProfessionals movement. This initiative is focused on provided teachers with $250 of FREE MONEY to use in their classroom ANY WAY THEY CHOOSE. No receipts,...
One of the latest features added to iLearn (Moodle) is the ability for students to submit audio recordings within the Moodle Assignment module. There are no special tools needed other than the native microphone on a Chromebook or mobile device. With the simple click of a button, the audio recorder will open for students to begin recording up to 5 minutes of audio.
So this happened today: The excitement in Melanie Klein's text was palpable. Here is a teacher that found something that not only worked for her and her students, but made them both excited to learn! This marvelous tool is the workshop module in Moodle (iLearn). In...