Sigh. It’s tough to disagree with Fawn Nguyen. () She wrote, in particular: I want them talking and interacting more than anything! Learning mathematics is a social endeavor. Here’s my perennial classroom routine, “Turn and talk with your neighbor.” I…
So… say you wanted to have a party… but what’s the right time to have it?Office365 Outlook (free for all teachers & students!) will let you poll people to decide when’s the right time to meet. You need to use…
So there comes a time when you’re presenting (or you know, you’re old) and you want to zoom in on an area of the screen. Press the Windows + Plus (+) on the keyboard to turn the built-in Magnifier…
You know that when you’re typing in any application (Word, Outlook, OneNote for example) you can press WINDOWS & PERIOD to pull up your Emoji keyboard. 👍 Click on the Magnifying Glass and you can type a word to quickly…
So sitting at lunch the other day, one of my colleagues was muttering about all the reading she had to do for a course and wished she could buy audiobooks for all of her readings. Well, I stuck my nose…
So everything we do is in OneNote. Everything. But we (okay, me) are trying to break out into other tools and that includes Microsoft Teams and their Assignment workflow. What I tried was this:1) In a Word document we wrote…
So, long story short, we have a bit of extra time in our Right-Angle Trigonometry unit, so I mentioned to my team that I would put together a BreakOut for review. During this time, we have a lot of kids…
A few years ago there was a great Twitter hashtag #NeedARedStamp about errors that students continually make and how it would be easier to just stamp your usual response on their papers. Check ’em out here! I need a red…
I had a teacher message me on Monday saying that he was having a guest talk to his class from Bogotá, Colombia and what would be the best way to web-conference with her and record it? The absolute easiest way…
I had a great conversation today with a tech director who was asking how we dealt with our 1:1 program and what my thoughts were on BYOD. So I thought I write my thoughts down here as well.We have been…