For the past several years I have been using Google Forms to run my course evaluations. The system has worked very well. I now have several year’s worth of detailed course evaluations that I can refer back to at any time. All of the data is easy to read, and Google Forms has a built [...]
Sometimes it becomes necessary to be able to easily email a group of people on a regular basis. It may just be for broadcast purposes, but in other cases everyone in the group needs to be able to easily email everyone else in the group. Google Groups is an excellent option for creating email groups. [...]
In an effort to make it easier for teachers to sign out department technology, I have created a basic way the process can be done online. The process has been used for the past couple weeks in the Language Department to great success. We just now launched the same system here in the Math Department. [...]
Before classes began this year, I sat down with John Lovett, the head of the Green Dorm, to talk to him about his options regarding how to best share data among his dorm proctors. We worked out a good way to start the efforts and John took things from there. Here’s what he has to [...]
Over the next few days you should see your Google Docs experience turn into Google Drive. Your user experience shouldn’t change, but you’ll now have the option of installing the Google Drive application to your computer which will allow you to sync all your Google Docs (any files really) between your online account and your [...]
As hard as I try, I can’t seem to always remember to bring my advisory attendance sheet with me to chapel every morning. On the days where I forget the sheet, I will scan my group and memorize who isn’t there. When I get back to my classroom I’ll fill out out the attendance sheet [...]
In the past I have carried students’ notebooks from Newell Hall 25, to the language office, back to NH25, to my car, to my kitchen table, back to my car, back up two flights of stairs and then had students never pick them up, never read the comments I entered, never compare the score they [...]
Here are the slides from a presentation I gave this afternoon in the Library covering the basic outline of the STJLabs Google Docs services.
You can sign up for Google Voice with your STJLabs account information! Google Voice gives you more control over your phone calls. With Google Voice, you get one number for all your phones, cheap international calls, voicemail like email, and more, for free! (US only). You can watch a video about Google Voice right here. [...]
Hello everyone, You know those technology problems that drive you absolutely crazy? You know, the ones that you absolutely need to solve but working on them feels like giving yourself a root canal? Well, I live for working on those types of questions. So, if you have a technology integration question, send it my way. [...]