Welcome to WRMS EdTech, the site for all things WRMS curriculum, instruction, and technology! I hope you find this site useful and, dare I say, fun. I will be posting various things throughout the year, and some things I will do regularly. I hope to get teacher input on things you would like to see here, so feel free to let me know your ideas. Also, if you enter your email on the right hand side and subscribe to the newsletter, you will receive email updates when there are new posts! And now, for our first post: Digital Tool Tuesday! Every Tuesday I will post about some kind of digital tool that you can learn about and hopefully use in your classroom! As I said above, I really want your input, so if you know of a tool that you would like me to showcase, let me know. I am going to start with something that is familiar to a lot of you for our first Digital Tool Tuesday. With our 1-to-1 Chromebook initiative, Google Classroom is really an integral part of using the Chromebooks successfully in your class. If you have not used Google Classroom before, or you have only played around with it, I hope you can take off this year and use it to its full potential. It is fairly straightforward and easy to use. Google came out with an awesome site called First Day of Classroom, which includes how-to videos, PDF guides, and even live training sessions, all centered on Google Classroom. If you are a Classroom beginner, this is a great place to start. For those of you who are ol' Classroom pros, they have come out with some great updates over the summer to make your tech lives easier. This article goes into detail about all of the new features. Some highlights? You can now see one student's assignments on a single page (great for tracking students' missing work). You can also now put in decimal grades, something I have been wanting for so long! They also added batch grading in Forms. So say you give a quiz that has a short answer question, you can see every student's short answer on the same page and grade them all from that page. Yay! Time saving tools are the best. If you are using Classroom for the first time, and you would like any help, let me know and I can help with setup, activity integration, or just being there the first time you use it with students! Your friendly neighborhood Instructional Facilitator, Christin
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Kathryn Louderback
8/16/2017 05:21:19 am
This looks great Christin! I will make sure to bookmark this so I can read all the cool ideas you have for the classroom.
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