Winter Olympics lesson plans and resources

Bycollinsr January 12, 2006

Kathy Schrock has put together a ton of resources for using the Winter Olympics in your classroom, including the history of the Olympics, lesson plans, and activities. Check them out at her website.

Create PDF forms for free, online. Go paperless with documents you already have

Bycollinsr October 10, 2012

I had this extension installed in Chrome for awhile, PDFescape, but today was the first time I ‘ve really had a chance to look at it. It allows you to type on PDFs or create forms out of PDFs. Once created, these PDFs can be filled out by students online through the PDFescape website, Apple…

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How PowerPoint is killing critical thought.

Bydeanj October 1, 2015

From The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information This could apply to Notebook, or Google slides as well.

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Alumni speaker for the University of Findlay College of Education

Bycollinsr April 14, 2011

I had the privilege of addressing the soon-to-be graduates of the University of Findlay College of Education on April 13. It was a pleasure to speak, although it was tough for me to limit myself to 20 minutes. A copy of the speech and the audio from the speech will be posted to http://ryancollins.org/ as…

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Check out the presentations from NEOTech 2020

Bycollinsr April 20, 2020April 20, 2020

Last month I had the privilege of my presentation Rock Google Slides Like the Boss You Are being selected for the NEOTech 2020 conference. Unfortunately, the conference was canceled. Today the organizers have announced a way to virtually attend the conference through their website, NEOTech Conference. Besides my presentation, there are a ton of other presentations…

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Google for Educators

Bycollinsr October 12, 2006

Google, at Google For Educators, is now offering educational resources for using Google products in the classroom: Google recognizes the central role that teachers play in breaking down the barriers between people and information, and we support educators who work each day to empower their students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. This website…

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Cool search site

Bycollinsr October 31, 2005

We’ve all come to love and rely on Google, but I was alerted to a new site today, Clusty. This search engine takes your search query, and “clusters” the results into different search topics. For example, I did a search on “volcano”, and not only did it give me a list of websites for volcanoes,…

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