Tech Tip-ology Blog

Type Less...Talk More with Mote

Using Mote to provide your students with audio feedback! Mote was born during the time we were all home learning and teaching during the pandemic. It was designed to provide thoughtful and actional feedback to students, but with your voice because teacher voice was missing for most of the pandemic. For students, hearing the teacher's voice was more important than we knew and it was important to feedback because the students could hear the tone, inflection, and more of what the teacher was saying when they were providing feedback in audio form. Mote was also a very efficient way for the teacher to provide and capture personalized feedback for each student. No typing just talking.

Mote works great because it integrates with Google Chrome and your Google Account to add the Mote icon to Google Classroom, Docs, Slides, and more. Mote is a very powerful tool when it comes to adding voice to any number of ideas you can think of. However, for this post, I will just focus on what it can do in Classroom. It will even convert your voice to text for those students that might need feedback in both forms. ;)

To get started go the CHROME WEBSTORE to install the extension. Follow the steps after that to create your account.

Effecient & Effective Feedback in Google Classroom

One goal I have every year is to become more efficient in what I do. This is especially true when it comes to providing feedback to students and teachers. So that got me thinking about how powerful Google Classroom is with providing feedback on assignments. Feedback is a powerful method to help move others to their end goal. In Google Classroom you can leave feedback through the private comment feature to each student in the assignment, but also directly on their document. When feedback is provided, it will generate an email to students to let them know you left comments for them to go back to. Just don't forget to return the assignment to the student so that they can make edits for re-submission and get more feedback!

December 2022

Merry Tech-Mas!

This time of year is one of my favorites. I love spending downtime with family, the lights, the smells, and the overall spirit of the holiday season. I also love sharing and giving gifts to others. As a technology coach and educator, I'm not independently wealthy and cannot buy for all, but I do love getting into the spirit by celebrating "Tech-mas!" What is "Tech-mas?" It is my way of sharing tips, strategies, and tech tools for each day leading up to winter break, which for teachers is the start of Christmas. 🎄

Here is my 2022 Tech-mas gifts. Check back often to see what has been added each day! Happy Holidays!