This email went out to all STJA faculty earlier this evening: ************************************** Hello everyone, Registration for the upcoming January In Service is now closed. If you still need to register, please email me and I will add you to a group. Instructor and room assignments are now posted right here: http://tinyurl.com/inservicerooms If you do not [...]
I sent this email out to the STJA faculty yesterday: ***************************** In order to make the best use of our time during the in service training, I’m going to need everyone to complete a few simple tasks. It would be very helpful if you could make sure you’ve completed these two tasks by this Friday, [...]
Google Documents does not always preserve exact formatting when you upload a document. So, if you’re working on a document that exists outside of Google Docs that requires careful formatting, DO NOT import it to Google Documents and expect the formatting to hold.
I sent this email out to the STJA faculty yesterday: Hello everyone, The morning session of the upcoming January In Service will be devoted to technology integration. I will be giving a presentation on 21st century learners and then the entire faculty will be sent off to ten different locations for Academics Manager and Google [...]
One issue that I have run into when using Google Forms is that reordering questions doesn’t always work as planned. I’ll be editing a form and I’ll add a new question. The question will be added to the end of the form but I want it to be higher up in the question order. So, [...]
I just came across this blog post and thought it was worth sharing. Sound familiar? :)
Here’s how thing stand in the world of Tech Integration at St. Johnsbury Academy: Academics Manager: A couple teachers and students have been playing around with the interface. They’ve found it to be quite easy to use and that it’ll satisfy a good number of their basic web needs. Students have been playing around with [...]
Google being the behemoth that it is means that it is constantly under attack from many forms of spam. Newsgroups (Google Groups) get flooded with ads for Nike shoes, their email servers are pummeled with spam (hooray for good spam filters!), and when it comes to user creation for services like GMail, lots of bogus [...]
I have always been a big fan of using test corrections. Sometimes they are required of all of my students and sometimes they are optional and students can earn some points back. Over the years I have worked to push my students to make more careful corrections. For the most part I haven’t had trouble, [...]