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Desmos, OneNote & Replay
So using Desmos activities are a great way to encourage exploration and discussion in math class -- if you haven't tried them, I encourage it. They're collected at https://teacher.desmos.com/ But ......
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#Hyperdocs .... or, like, just a OneNote
Scrolling through my Feedly a few weeks ago, I came across a Richard Byrne blogpost describing something called a Hyperdoc, so I read through and thought, hey... they're just describing a OneNote page!...
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Keeping up with Microsoft
So on Fridays, I sit in the Lounge at School so that folks can get assistance with things. It's good because just seeing me will prompt them "Oh, I had a question for you!" Today, someone sat down...
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Tech is not the be-all and end-all
Although I said I'd blog every day in November, I meant "school days" and didn't intend to blog on the weekend. But I had a few minutes between tasks and was browsing Twitter and came across Draper's...
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Report Cards & Learning Skills - Student Self-Assess
We just finished our report cards for the first Report Period and, in anticipation of giving them formal feedback, I asked my students to do a self-reflection of their Learning Skills, and to provide...
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Audio in Learning (in OneNote)
Last week was crazy busy (3 conferences, report cards and my Dad's memorial service) so I'm catching up on my November committment.As Richard Byrne laid out today in his post, "Voice Recording Tools",...
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Why students OneNote
So my good friend and colleague Anjuli Ahooja and I were fortunate enough to host a student panel on learning technologies at the STAO (Science Teachers Association of Ontario) and teachers in the...
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Making Microsoft Forms Quizzes with Math (Free, Easier and Quicker)
So Twitter serves up a lot of great tips, tricks, techniques and shortcuts for busy teachers. Choosing to follow the right folks helps prevent a lot of the nonsense.Eric Curts (Twitter) provided one to...
View ArticleStop Ditching Homework
I know it's trendy for folks to proselytize "Ditching Homework" - it's a catchy phrase, great memories of your own homework are likely hard to find and you won't get invited to speak at conferences or...
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Who are you?
In preparation for my next blog post (I'm blogging once-a-day in November!) we should talk about who you are. In today's cloud-based services, you need an identity. It's typically based on your email...
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Using OneNote to create a Choose your own Adventure book
[I did have 3 hours of Parent Teacher Conferences tonight, but I wanted to make sure I got my November daily post in!]I spent way too much time as a kid reading through the Choose Your Own Adventure...
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Web Content into OneNote
Getting content into OneNote is incredibly easy ... since every page acts like a clipboard, just drag&drop or use the INSERT ribbon.You can use the smartphone app OfficeLens (which takes pictures...
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Write anywhere
As folks know, I'm a big fan of #digitalink -- as a math teacher, as an aspiring creative person, I always want to scribble. I write on everything at home, and always have. The back of envelopes (when...
View ArticleBYOD. It's not about the device until it's the device.
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...
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"Geez, it's so easy!" - Skype for Business for Education
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...
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#NeedARedStamp
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...
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Back to the BreakOut
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...
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Using Assignments in Microsoft Teams
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...
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Reading is FUNdamental-ly EDGEy
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...
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Emojis ... Windows Full Stop
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...
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