World History
I am sitting here enjoying the Olympics (long track is my favorite) and figuring out new things for the classroom/grading student assignments.
One thing that has been missing from Chromebooks has been a way to make screencasts. Enter Screencastify! While you still cannot record just a portion of the screen, it is huge step. It also works on Chrome. You can either download it onto your laptop or put upload it straight onto YouTube.
By the way Chromebooks are a great way for your school to get a sub $300 laptop for your students and works well if you are comfortable on the cloud. I like them so much that we have two here at home for my kids.
- Chromebook Shortcuts
So last Friday the two wonderful SBTS (school based technology specialists) in my building delivered thirty Chromebooks to my classroom. We spent about 20 minutes logging in and then connecting to the two WiFi accounts that we have at school. I...
- Internet Access For All Students?!
Each year I teach two AP classes, 2 standard ones and one online. So of my roughly 150 students, about 5-6 start the year without a laptop and all are in my two standard classes. What is different this year is that all but one has some Internet...
- Chromebooks As An Inexpensive Alternative For Schools
It is interesting to me that schools are willing to pay a great deal of money for tablets when laptops can do more. The problem, of course, is that many see laptops as being even more expensive. A number of teachers in my county would love...
- Chromebooks And Our Changing Schools
Okay, so you may have noticed that I rarely advocate for something that costs money on this site (other than perhaps these world war simulations and a few free books I get from time to time), but Google is onto something with Chromebooks. They aren't...
- Page Snooze On Chrome
One of the great reasons for using Chrome or Google Docs/Apps is that you do not have to wait around until a new version comes out in a six months to a year. For example, Google announced that their dictionary will be continually expanding as languages...
World History
Screencasts for Chrome/Chromebooks
I am sitting here enjoying the Olympics (long track is my favorite) and figuring out new things for the classroom/grading student assignments.
One thing that has been missing from Chromebooks has been a way to make screencasts. Enter Screencastify! While you still cannot record just a portion of the screen, it is huge step. It also works on Chrome. You can either download it onto your laptop or put upload it straight onto YouTube.
By the way Chromebooks are a great way for your school to get a sub $300 laptop for your students and works well if you are comfortable on the cloud. I like them so much that we have two here at home for my kids.
- Chromebook Shortcuts
So last Friday the two wonderful SBTS (school based technology specialists) in my building delivered thirty Chromebooks to my classroom. We spent about 20 minutes logging in and then connecting to the two WiFi accounts that we have at school. I...
- Internet Access For All Students?!
Each year I teach two AP classes, 2 standard ones and one online. So of my roughly 150 students, about 5-6 start the year without a laptop and all are in my two standard classes. What is different this year is that all but one has some Internet...
- Chromebooks As An Inexpensive Alternative For Schools
It is interesting to me that schools are willing to pay a great deal of money for tablets when laptops can do more. The problem, of course, is that many see laptops as being even more expensive. A number of teachers in my county would love...
- Chromebooks And Our Changing Schools
Okay, so you may have noticed that I rarely advocate for something that costs money on this site (other than perhaps these world war simulations and a few free books I get from time to time), but Google is onto something with Chromebooks. They aren't...
- Page Snooze On Chrome
One of the great reasons for using Chrome or Google Docs/Apps is that you do not have to wait around until a new version comes out in a six months to a year. For example, Google announced that their dictionary will be continually expanding as languages...