The New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NJAGC) held their annual conference this past March at the Conference Center at Mercer. While I am not a member of the organization, my classroom-mate, Rebecca McLelland-Crawley, is and asked if I would…
Category: Tech Tools
How Can We See Superman Fly?
For the third year in a row, I was invited to one of my district’s elementary schools for their annual Math/Science Day (previous posts: 2016 & 2017). My teammates also joined me and the session wouldn’t have happened without them,…
Time to Make Amends…
At some point in time, everyone needs to take back something they have said. Today is one of those times for me on this blog. I wrote a post in May of last year offering a recommendation for an extension…
4 Favorite Audio Recorders for Chromebooks
So a little bit of info upfront… I’m usually not a fan of what I consider the ‘click bait’ of numbered post titles. I typically try to avoid them, but today I caved. I know that “studies show…” whenever there…
A Google Slides Hack…
I was asked recently by a colleague, Stacey Lindes if it was possible to link to a specific slide in a Google Slides presentation. After a little thinking, this is what I came up with. ***Note: I truly cannot recall…
Assisting My Colleagues with a Holiday Inspired Tech Exchange…
If you have read previous posts on here, I tend to get asked questions like, “Would it be possible to…” Well two of my colleagues, Kim Lowden & Jess Verrault, are putting together a pretty cool way to celebrate the holidays…
‘Force a “Comments version” Copy’ Integration Activity…
Google recently announced the ability to make a copy of a Google Doc w/ all the comments &/or suggestions from the original document replicated. (You can read about it here) By the time of this posting, after November 29th 2017, all…
Building Upon an Idea…
I recently read a blog post by Eric Curts at Control Alt Achieve about how to have mathematical notation in a Google Form. The resource he shared is a free web tool, Online LaTeX Equation Editor, which is similar to EquatIO. This tool provides several…
Dabbling in a Little Scripting out of Necessity…
This past October was a PD day for my school district. Our afternoon sessions at the middle schools and high schools were designed around an unconference model. I was asked to create the digital board for the middle school and…
A Department Meeting Success!
Ever have a meeting where you feel the group vibe is a… can’t say World Series win, maybe a Pennant Series win? People are leaving inspired with new ideas and come up to verbally share them with you; that’s what…