Multiple Chrome Profiles
As a teacher, you know that juggling your personal and professional life can be challenging. But you’ve got to stay organized and keep your school stuff separate from your personal stuff! Multiple Chrome profiles can help you do just that. If you are like me, you probably have more than one Google account to help […]
Mindfulness Meditation Apps for Teachers and Students
Why is mindfulness important? Finding a balance between the perks and challenges of today’s digital environment can be taxing, but it doesn’t have to be! Read on to see how using mindfulness mediation apps can help you and your students! Mindfulness meditation apps can help support both students and teachers! Technology in the classroom certainly […]
Teacher Self Care: 6 Tips for the Holidays
While teacher self care has not always been at the forefront of discussion in the field of education, most educators will agree that teaching is time- and emotionally-intensive work. But the joys of the profession have often outweighed the challenges! However, in the past couple of years, we have faced circumstances that we never imagined […]
How to Run Hour of Code Activities in The Classroom, Even if You Aren’t a Coder
Many schools and classrooms across the country, and around the world, will be participating in Hour of Code activities in celebration of National Computer Science Education Week, December 6-12, 2021. Hour of Code is a great time to expose students, and teachers, to the field of computer science and general coding concepts. What is the […]
5 Tips for Using Google Slides Templates for Virtual Learning
Even as many schools move back to face-to-face instruction, virtual learning days are also now an integral part of our school year. But being anxious about them should not be! Using Google Slides templates for virtual learning can be helpful in making teaching virtually learning less stressful. Why Google Slides templates for teachers? Our favorite […]
5 Ways to Incorporate Play in the Classroom
Teachers can incorporate play in a variety of meaningful ways while still teaching the standards and covering their content
The “Techie Teacher” Myth
Over the past year in my role as a digital learning coach, I have noticed the way so many teachers adapted to teaching in the post-Covid classroom. For some of you, Google Classroom was a brand new platform that you had to learn and teach your students to use at the same time! For others […]
How to Organize Google Drive: 6 Tips from a Google Trainer
If you are like me, you may need to do some organizing in your Google Drive. In Google Drive, you can store your Google documents and other files like PDFs, images, and videos. Like other document storage, Google Drive has folders that help you keep it nice and tidy. But if you don’t use them, your Drive can become quite unruly!
Digital Breakouts During the Times of Social Distancing
Digital breakouts are an amazing way to gamify your classroom, get students engaged in content, and have them apply their knowledge in a variety of ways. “Breakouts” take the concept of escape rooms (you know those places that are popping up where you and your friends are willingly locked in a room and have to […]
Goal Setting with Students During a Pandemic?!
While learning how to set goals is an important part of growing up and achieving our dreams, many of our students lack the skills they need to set and attain goals. Similarly, teachers sometimes struggle with how to teach students to consistently and effectively set goals during normal times . . . not to mention […]