Tuesday, May 15, 2018

TwosDay - Cory - Retrieval For Studying


Students are so often cramming more information into their brains at the end of semester, but it can also be beneficial to help them pull those pieces out for better retrieval on exams.  Try using Socrative, Flipgrid, or no technology at all to allow your students to have a brief brain dump for a study session.

TwosDay - Sean - Autocrat From A Guest TwsoDayer


Hacking doesn’t HAVE to be super high tech or fancy. It can be as simple as using a tool to enhance another tool. Autocrat can help us hack google forms and sheet and docs to put together some powerful messages. Check this out, from our guest TwsoDayer, to see how you can use Autocrat to get Forms, Sheets, & Docs to all work together for wonderful data compilation.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

TwosDay - Steve - EOY Mastery Manager Tips


As we approach the end of the semester, I want to remind you of some important tips related to Mastery Manager.  In this video, I help you find last year’s final exam file in order to duplicate and update it for this year, provide time-saving tips on how to ensure your bubble sheets are printing correctly, and revisit the steps required to allow students to complete their exam online.

TwosDay - Amanda - Quizlet


Students are usually the experts when it comes to review and Quizlet, but this time around you can highlight some great new features and you can be the expert! Quizlet has added the diagrams that students can label and review from. There are numerous diagrams already created, or you can create your own. Also, students can now combine their study sets and review all units from the year. Happy reviewing.  If you are looking for new ways to use Quizlet Live, click this link! 

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

TwosDay - Sean - New Gmail Features


Gmail, the flagship tool of Google educational products has bestowed a wonderful gift upon us with some new features (and a few more phases of new stuff still to come soon). If you haven’t enabled it yet, I’ll give you a quick look at doing that, then a brief tour of the new-ness.

TwosDay - Bob - Padlet


Padlet offers a message board-style method of communication between teachers and students as well as among students in the classroom. Teachers can post a prompt to which students can post text, image, video, and voice responses. Students can also use Padlet as a way to save resources for themselves or share them with classmates.