What began as an email to staff at my school has become something that I look forward to each week.  I love to investigate new resources for those that teach and for those not necessarily in a classroom.  I hope that you can find things here that you can use!

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Personalize Chrome Favorites Bar
2020-09-08 06:00 Hey Friends!  Welcome to this week’s Tech Tuesday!  First and foremost…THANK YOU to Mrs. Lanter @DeanRusk for this week’s Tech Tip!    Last year, I showed you how to edit your Favorites bar in Chro...
Canvas New Analytics
2020-09-01 06:00 Do you want to send an email just to students that are failing your course?   Do you want to send an email to students with an “A” to say “Great job!”   Want to see when the last time students acc...
Warm-Ups in Office365
2020-08-25 08:00 I think most of us have some type of Warm-Up activity for students when they enter our classroom.   I’ve tried many different versions over the years:  pocket folders, spiral notebooks, binders w/ p...
Digital Choice Boards
2020-08-18 09:00 I remember when I started teaching in the late 1990’s, I used Choice Boards quite often in my classes.  Whether it was a 9 square Tic-Tac-Toe board or some other iterations, they were all the same con...
Prerequisites in Canvas Modules
2020-08-11 10:23 Have you thought about using Modules “Prerequisites” as a way to allow students to move forward at their own pace?   Did you know that you could assign prerequisites in Canvas?  They are exactly wha...
Outlook Tips & Tricks
2020-08-04 07:46 Welcome to Tech Tuesday!  Today’s edition of Tech Tuesday will hopefully show you some of the great features that can be found in Outlook that you may or may not know about.  So, let’s get started.  ...
Font Hack 101
2020-07-28 08:00 Hey everyone!  Have you ever tried to download a font on your school computer only to be greeted by this…     Me, too!   I’m in charge of maintaining the hallway monitors at my school and there...
Embed Content in Canvas
2020-07-21 11:31 If you are using FlipGrid, Padlet, Nearpod, Forms, or other resources, how are you putting them in Canvas?   For the longest time, I used to just Copy/Paste the link to the resource within the assig...
Creating a Bitmoji Classroom
2020-07-15 14:12 Creating a Bitmoji classroom seems to be the thing to do right now.  I’ve created mine!   What I’ve done with today’s Special Edition of Tech Tips is walk you through creating a Bitmoji classroom in...
Using Forms for Guided Notes
2020-07-15 14:00 Hey friends!  Last week, I sent you information about using Forms in the classroom.  I hope that you found those ideas useful.   One suggestion that sent back to me comes from Debbie.  Her school us...
Creating Canvas Buttons
2020-06-23 14:00 Good morning everyone!    This week, I walk you through using PowerPoint to create buttons for your Canvas page.    Tech Tips – Creating Canvas Buttons (Video)    
8 Classroom Uses for Forms
2020-06-19 00:54 In an ever changing world that we live it today, education moving forward is going to be different.  Whether we are in the building or on-line, we can’t go back to the same old routines of the past!  ...
Fillable Forms
2020-03-24 00:30 At one point in time, I was trained on using the “Developer” tab in Word to create Fillable Forms.   But, like most things we don’t use on a regular basis, I had forgotten how to do this.  I was r...
Document Scanning w/ Apple
2020-03-24 00:22 Working from home? Here’s a great tip in case you need to scan a document. iPhone users: go to “notes” and hit the little camera button. It will ask if you want to scan a document. Lay out the pages y...
Embed YouTube in Canvas with No Suggested Videos
2020-03-21 00:36 We’ve all used YouTube video for various assignments/discussions/announcements/etc. in Canvas. You’ve probably also noticed that at the end of the video, your students get “Suggested Videos” that they...
Video Recording in Canvas
2019-09-10 14:00 Have you wanted an assignment where your students created a short video for you?   Band – playing a song Chorus – singing scales ESL – practicing language skills Reading – reading passages or poe...
Picture Edit with PowerPoint
2019-09-03 14:00 When you insert an image in PowerPoint, depending on the coloring of the image, you get a "box" around your image like this...   But, with some simple steps, you can change this image to look like...
Video Editor in Win10
2019-08-27 11:51 Good news!  Good news!  MovieMaker is back!!  Well, not really, but the Video Editor app in Windows is (IMO) even better.  Below are the steps to get you started…   (NOTE:  I recommend that you foll...
2019-08-19 10:51 A couple of years ago, I began using QR Codes for my hall passes.  I have four QR codes on my bulletin board.      On the table below the bulletin board, I have an iPad, but students can also use...
Installing Microsoft at Home
2019-08-13 10:00 Go to the Internet on the computer that you want to download software on.   Click the Your Profile Pic in the top right corner.   Click on "My Account" on the right side of the screen.     ...
Changing PowerPoint to fit SmartBoard
2019-07-30 14:00 A quick reference to change your PowerPoint (widescreen default) to match your SmartBoard (standard size) and get rid of those annoying black spaces at the top and bottom.   Changing PowerPoint Slid...