Help Desk Live-Episode 24: What’s Up With Chalk Up?

In Help Desk Live Episode 24, Timmy Sullivan spoke with Justin Chando, CEO and Founder of Chalk Up. Chalk Up is a new learning management system with seamless Google Apps for Education integration. In this episode, Justin discusses Chalk Up’s features which, among others, includes a powerful, built-in rubric creation tool to make assessment of student work a…

Tech Savvy Parenting: November Event

I am pleased to announce the BPS Edtech November Tech Savvy Parenting Night: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH 5:30-7:30 Converting to the Cloud Converting to the Cloud is the November BPS “Digital Bootcamp Series” event and is designed to educate K-12 parents on the latest trends in educational technology. MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR: Tuesday, November 18th Library Commons…

Paperless Parent-Teacher Conferences with Google Forms & Sheets

Thanks to Google Forms and Google Spreadsheets, as well as two powerful Add-Ons in Forms, teachers can now schedule parent/teacher conferences in minutes. Not only does using Google Apps save you paper, it is much more organized and efficient. The video tutorial embedded below walks you through the process, start to finish. If you prefer…

Create Google Presentations on the iPad…Sort Of

When I heard the news late yesterday that the ability to CREATE a Google Slide presentation was finally released for the iPad and iPhone I was ecstatic. I, along with many other educational technology integrators, had been waiting for this capability for months, especially those of us working in 1:1 iPad schools that are also…