Not Your Typical Classroom Economy I heard an NPR interview with Rafe Esquith where he was sharing his strategies for teaching fifth-grade students about financial responsibility. I immediately bought his book, “Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire.” Like all things Esquith does, his classroom economy was over the top. Students apply for jobs, earn money,… Read more
A Simple Solution to a Common Classroom Problem “Wouldn’t it be cool if students didn’t have to raise their hands and wait when they needed help and could just hit a button?” “What if the teachers then knew the exact order of the students that they needed to assist?” After posing these two questions, teachers… Read more
The Seating Chart Tool You’ve Been Looking For Mega Seating Plan www.MegaSeatingPlan.com Mega Seating Plan makes it easy to create a variety of seating charts for any number of classes in any number of seating arrangements. All navigation is done through three sections in the top menu: Class Lists (the students in your class(es)) Classrooms… Read more
Lesson Plan Your Way When I first started teaching, I was required to turn in two weeks of lesson plans on a six-point lesson plan template. It may have been one of the most useless wastes of time in my entire career. These documents did little to guide my instruction. They weren’t especially helpful for… Read more
Retire Your Popsicle Sticks… Check Out Name Picker Ninja Every teacher needs a handy tool for randomly calling on students. If you’re looking to replace your popsicle sticks with something a little more modern (yet still quick and easy to use) then check out Name Picker Ninja. Random Names in Three Easy Steps Go to… Read more
Transfer Files the Easy Way – No More Emailing Attachments – with dropitto.me What’s the Easiest Way to Have Someone Send You a File? They could share a Dropbox or Google Drive link, but unfortunately not everyone uses cloud storage. Emailing attachments is pretty limited in terms of file size. Airdrop is great if you’re… Read more
How to Copy Folders & Subfolders in Google Drive Copy Folder Copy Folder is the easiest way I know to copy folders and subfolders in Google Drive. Copy Folder is an application for Google drive that copies EVERYTHING within a folder. It copies folders, subfolders, all files within the selected folder(s). If you have set… Read more
The Only File Converter You Need Convert Files with CloudConvert CloudConvert.Com Convert Nearly Any Type of File CloudConvert has become my go-to method to convert files. It works with more than 200 file formats. Nearly any type of file can be converted: audio, video, documents, ebooks, images, spreadsheets, and more. Best of all, it’s free, easy… Read more
A Lesson Planning Power Tool – TeacherCal EduSync.com/TeacherCal TeacherCal is a feature-filled lesson planning calendar for teachers that integrates beautifully with Google Drive. To call it Google Calendar for teachers is a serious understatement. In addition to letting teachers plan lessons and units of study, it automatically organizes all resources within Google Drive, provides students… Read more
Survey Students & Assign Their Top Preferences with Poll & Match Poll & Match www.pollandmatch.com Poll and Match is more than an online survey. It provides teachers with an easy way to let students rank their preferences from a list of choices, and then assign students to one of their top choices. For example, I wanted… Read more
