Online Google Classroom training
Google has an online course with 8 lessons on using Google Classroom. Check it out: https://www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/classroom/basics.html
Google has an online course with 8 lessons on using Google Classroom. Check it out: https://www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/classroom/basics.html
Richard Byrne has put together a screencast on how to create a word cloud directly in Google Docs. You may currently use ABCya (works on Chromebookse) or Wordle (does not work on Chromebooks) but this will cut out a step. This is a Google Docs add-on, and he describes how to add the add-on to…
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…
Kenton City Schools has signed up with a 60 day trial of Kami’s teacher plan. After the 60 days, the licence will revert back to the Basic plan. Kami is a web based app that students can use to collaborate, edit, or markup documents and images, such as PDFs and jpegs. It’s a nice alternative to…
Although it is a little old (June, 2004), I found the article at BBC News (The seven-year-old bloggers) inspirational. Crucially, some of the children who attend the club have improved their knowledge of IT far above what is required of their age group by the National Curriculum. “The Government target is for 80% of children…
The staff and students of the University of Wellington learned this lesson when maintenance on the computers and network went terribly wrong: A grad student reported that not “only files on the desktop were gone” but “my whole computer had been reset, too,” which would be consistent with an AD operation removing her user…