Last week was a great week of chatting… No, we didn’t have our feet up eating bon-bons in my office space, talking about the beautiful fall weather… Instead, I really got to listen to teachers tell me where they want to be heading with their students. These conversations led to me asking lots of questions […]

Recently, someone shared Blendspace with me. If you want to create stations, differentiate instruction and/or preview, enhance or review topics with students, you’ll want to check out this quick demo of this service: Using Google Classroom? Blendspace lessons may be a perfect match for organizing links and online content for access via a Classroom Assignment. […]

I love the way Google Classroom organizes student work. Life has never been easier for a teacher. Create an Assignment: either give students a copy or Google will make them one right in Docs. No more naming files and then misplacing on the local server. A teacher can view finished and unfinished work all via […]

A real concern for teachers is having students search online safely. I have had this conversation with many of you. Three suggestions that I have given are: Use a kid-friendly search engine, like KidRex. Supply the websites for students, for example, use our shared resources on a district curriculum links page. Keep your eyes peeled […]

For demonstration purposes, I am a student in many real Google Classrooms. Therefore, I often will receive emails to assignments (since I’m an adult in our school domain with email privileges activated).  I don’t mind receiving these emails as they keep me in the loop of how people are using Google Classroom. I have noticed […]