Using Google Classroom
In 2014 Google released it’s LMS to the world. Aptly called “Google Classroom”, it was little more than a Google Plus type newsfeed for classes. Teachers could sign up student accounts, and set assignments and...
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Open Source for Education
I’ve been a long time advocate for open source software. It’s not just that it is freely available, but that it can be added to, modified, improved, or further developed and passed on for...
Getting started with Genius Hour
So this week I was intrigued by the concept of “Genius Hour” or “Passion Projects”. It just so happened that there seems to be a spare hour on Friday where students have finished their...
Google Drive vs. OneDrive
Sorry. Did I say versus? I meant AND. About four years ago, our school made a shift to using Gmail as our email client. We’ve never looked back. This year, we began delving into Google...
Personal and Work Gmail – Setting Up User Accounts in Chrome
The Problem For a long time, this was a very common problem, especially as Google Apps For Education (#GAFE) became much more prevalent among education providers. Suddenly teachers found themselves trying to log into...
Saving Recent Downloads to Google Drive
So you’ve gotten used to saving attachments from your G-Mail straight to your Google Drive. It’s pretty handy isn’t it!? But what about when you download that PDF resource? You can’t just select your...