Your Team’s Files, where you want them
Even though everything is in the cloud, we really like to have a copy on our computers (we work on public transit, in places with no or poor wifi, and we never really trust the cloud). So when we’re working…
Cal Armstrong
You need a Team to do that
So yesterday I mentioned about using Teams to do Screencasts – you can see that blog post by clicking here. Here’s a brief run-down of the process.When you’re in the Teams application, either as a reply to a message, or…
Help, (Teams), I need somebody…
I was thrilled that this year the Math Department has decided to move fully on to Microsoft Teams to provide Math Extra Help. While we’ll continue to provide face-to-face drop-in help during lunch, students in any course can post a…
Collaborating, without having to work
It often takes folks a bit to get used to OneNote because there are no “files” — there are only pages, like a Binder, and everything is placed on a page. So, when students do their work and present it…
Differentiation of Product
Now, as a math teacher, “differentiation of product” means something completely different… but for this purpose it means — don’t expect every student to respond to your request for evidence of understanding with the same learning artefact.This is well stolen…
Getting info easily – Microsoft Forms
So, as I’m getting ready for our training for new Faculty I thought I’d put together the steps for making a survey or collecting data. You can see some of my other posts on Microsoft Forms by clicking the link.…
Our Faculty OneNote
Sooo… we do everything in OneNote. I mean, everything (see here: Link). So the problem was, we were having OneNotes for everything and it just got to be too much. Instead, we set up a School OneNote ClassNotebook for administrative…
When she was bad, she was horrid…
Growing up we had a huge book of poetry in the house, and I remember reading it regularly. One that I remember is from Longfellow … and it applies to this situation.I have the pleasure of working with the folks…
NCTM 2018 Annual Conference — and OneNote
Since organization is important when visiting an incredibly packed conference like the annual National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), I thought I would share my approach to that using OneNote. You can visit it here: did I do…
Course Evaluations via AI… “I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid that’s what I think”
So the shape of things to come, I suppose. We just finished up with March Break and we send a Report Card (marks & comments) home with the students as they go on holiday. As they were coming back for…