The Google for Education team recently announced five new updates in Classroom that are specific to grading making the tool even easier to use. The recent updates allow teachers to do the following: Sort students on the grading page by status (done or not done) by first name, or by last name. Sorting by last…
Video is a powerful tool to use in the classroom. Videos can be used to hook learners at the start of a lesson and help develop a student’s critical thinking skills. Video is often used when flipping lessons and can be a part of a blended learning approach to instruction. With more and more video creation…
Editor’s Note: this post originally appeared on Jyhmon Moodie’s blog Science teachers have many great options for teaching different science concepts using the iPad. There are apps which allow teachers and students to create presentations, complete labs, work on projects, and lots more! Over the past several weeks I have been researching different apps and…
This post originally appeared on Ben Schersten’s blog Getting Pics From Drive to Blogger, on a Chromebook Posted on September 16, 2014 If you’ve ever tried to get pictures from your Google Drive to your (Google-owned) Blogger blog, you know that it can be a hassle. All the Google apps seem to play well together, except Blogger.…
This post originally appeared on Help Desk junior Danny Piotti’s blog: Apple fanatics and even Android fanatics (me) are very excited with the new release of iOS8 which was unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 2. A beta version of the software was made available to developers that same day, with a public launch…
Join the BHS Help Desk and members of the Burlington Public Schools EdTech Team at Marshall Simonds Middle School on Thursday, May 8th from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. as we host the next Parent Tech Night, “Putting Your Best (Digital) Foot Forward.” This workshop will help parents and students learn how digital tools can be…
Ashay Lokhande and Michelle Sahagian both had the opportunity to wear Google Glass as they performed a cross examination of witnesses and delivered the closing argument during Ms. Fishel’s AP World History Mongol trial project. When I entered Ms. Fishel’s class with Glass and asked who wanted to try it, almost every student in the…
