Tag: Google

Oct 10

Office2 HD and Google Docs

My 6th graders are researching water pollution as part of our water quality project. I created a Google Doc for each team in each class for them to answer their questions and take notes. Each student in each team would type his or her notes into the Google Doc and once teams are ready the …

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Oct 01

Play First, Work Later

When you bring out math manipulatives you let the kids play with them a bit so that later they can focus on the work of learning with the tool. That was my intent with our new iPads and netbooks. I have lots of ideas I want my students to try out but first I thought …

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Sep 06

Tech Requests to Start the Year

After having access to many web 2.0 sites last year I was bummed to start off this school year with almost everything I use blocked. I am a teacher and staff accounts are supposed to have access to most of the things I requested to have unblocked. Tech support did try to help but after …

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Aug 23

Office2 HD

This is another cross post I wrote for IEAR. I was reading a post from Adventures in Teaching and Learning by Mr. Keenan, Why the iPad IS for Content Creation in Education {iPads in Education, Mobile Learning, 21st Century Learning} and I splurged and bought one of the featured apps in that article, Office2 HD. …

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Jun 30

Reflections of 2009-10

Mr. G's sample progress report for standards based reporting.

This year I taught three 6th grade Science classes, which means I had all 90 of my middle school’s 6th graders, and two 7/8 mixed Earth Science classes. Being able to teach 7th and 8th grade Science is wonderful because that means that I get to have some of my former 6th grade students again! …

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