Edtech Tips of the Month

"Connections" in the Classroom!

Want a critical thinking activity for your students that forces them to make connections?  Check out this connection website!  You can create your own with your own content!  Click on the image to the left to play a sample game from their website.   Click here for a blank template to create your own with your current content.  Once you generate it, it will give you a share code that you share with students and then they can play the one you created.

Snipping tool Keyboard Shortcut 

Press Windows + Shift + S and then let go.

Automatically opens up your snipping tool.  Drag a box around what you what "snipped" or copied. 



Youtube shortcuts and tips

Want more Youtube hints?  Check out this page on my website.  You can learn how to block ads, as well as approve Youtube videos that are blocked.  This way your students can view what you want them to view.

PADLET:  Better and Better!

Padlet... has jumped on the AI train and I am loving it! Check out these AI classroom activities AI generated for me... I just typed in the subject and selected the grade level.    

In the free version of padlet, you still only get 3 free padlets.

However, you can archive them when you need to create a new one.  Then you can un-archive them when you need to use them.  

Free screen-recording tool for teachers and students on both laptops and chromebooks.   The district has unblocked this website so students and teachers can use this tool to create screen-recordings.

Classwize Tutorial

Forgot how to use the tools in classwize?  Or even how to get into classwize?  Check out this step by step tutorial!  

Classwize Step-by-step tutorial.pdf