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EdTech Vanguard: March 2015
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Mute Individual Chrome Tabs. Chrome has the ability to be customized to almost any extent you can imagine. One feature that I have always wanted was the ability to mute individual tabs. Well it seems like this is something that you can finally do (even if it's just in beta mode). Let's set the scene:. Click relaunch Chrome on the bottom of the page. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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EdTech Vanguard: August 2015
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Friday, August 7, 2015. Google Classroom Home Screen Organization. If you are like me and have several classes set up in Google Classroom, it's really convenient to have your Home/Dashboard set up in a way that makes sense to you. For me, I like to have my class cards go in chronological order of my school day (Periods 1-7). Solution #1 - Create classes in a specific order:. In order to keep the arr...
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EdTech Vanguard: Google Classroom Home Screen Organization
http://edtechvanguard.blogspot.com/2015/08/google-classroom-home-screen.html
On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Friday, August 7, 2015. Google Classroom Home Screen Organization. If you are like me and have several classes set up in Google Classroom, it's really convenient to have your Home/Dashboard set up in a way that makes sense to you. For me, I like to have my class cards go in chronological order of my school day (Periods 1-7). Solution #1 - Create classes in a specific order:. In order to keep the arr...
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EdTech Vanguard: Mute Individual Chrome Tabs
http://edtechvanguard.blogspot.com/2015/03/mute-individual-chrome-tabs.html
On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Mute Individual Chrome Tabs. Chrome has the ability to be customized to almost any extent you can imagine. One feature that I have always wanted was the ability to mute individual tabs. Well it seems like this is something that you can finally do (even if it's just in beta mode). Let's set the scene:. Click relaunch Chrome on the bottom of the page. Connect with me on Google.
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EdTech Vanguard: May 2015
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Friday, May 22, 2015. Becoming a Master of Data Overlords. Almost every time you would export data about your student, it shows up in a spreadsheet the same way: student names going down the left side in rows and different data sets going across the columns. Watch the video below or follow the step by step guide below to create this report. Step 1: Open up a sheet with all of your student data.
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EdTech Vanguard: August 2014
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Wednesday, August 20, 2014. App Smash: Icebreaker Game with Socrative and Google Forms. I collected data from Google Forms, and then imported that data as a quiz into Socrative. I ran a teacher-paced quiz to facilitate the game. Students got to choose what they thought was the lie through their phones or Chromebooks, and we would watch the live results as live polling was happening. Now send a Form ...
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EdTech Vanguard: Hack Google Slides
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Monday, August 11, 2014. I am a big fan of being able to manipulate a page to look however I want with the use of text boxes and images. In Google Docs, the formatting of pictures is temperamental at best. I love how Google Drawings and Slides allow you to change things up, but I don't so much like how they are limited to the slide or canvas. Hack away. Here's a demonstration:. You will see one of t...
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EdTech Vanguard: Doctopus Walkthrough with GClass Folders & Goobric
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Wednesday, August 6, 2014. Doctopus Walkthrough with GClass Folders and Goobric. Getting ready to start the year and want to play around with some add ons? Doctopus gives you some functionality that Google Classroom hasn't provided yet. This means it can be a great substitute or an extension of using Classroom. What is an add-on? What this guide will help you with:. How to get Add-ons:. Any time tha...
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EdTech Vanguard: Becoming a Master of Data Overlords
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Friday, May 22, 2015. Becoming a Master of Data Overlords. Almost every time you would export data about your student, it shows up in a spreadsheet the same way: student names going down the left side in rows and different data sets going across the columns. Watch the video below or follow the step by step guide below to create this report. Step 1: Open up a sheet with all of your student data.
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EdTech Vanguard: Make Goobric Count for You
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On the frontlines – teaching students; teaching teachers. A source for EdTech tips, tricks, and solutions. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Make Goobric Count for You. I have been using Doctopus and Goobric. Click link to see the walkthrough) extensively this semester already. One of the things that I was struggling with was that Goobric doesn't automatically add up the scores from a rubric so that I can easily enter the grade into a gradebook. Go to the column that says grade (create when you run Doctopus).
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