Terry's Tech Tips

Today's post is designed to help you ensure that your Aspen GradeBook is calculating grades as you intend!  Now is a great time to do a sanity check with your GradeBook, because Aspen highly discourages making any changes to your Average Mode configuration once grades are entered against assignments! You should coordinate your Aspen GradeBook with colleagues in the following situations: if you are teaching a like course with other colleagues if you and a colleague each teach one semester of a year long course Below is a list of the Average modes available to you, and some of the pros & cons of each mode.   Click here for a larger view. I'm still not sure which Average Mode I want to use! This document gives specific examples of calculations using the same student grades for each mode.  It is a great way to see how the grades calculate!   Below you can see differences in term grades using the same student data for the various methods (with some assu

I love highlighting some of the phenomenal things teachers are doing at CCHS.  I'm labeling these posts ' Spotlight ' posts.  Hopefully, you  find it beneficial to get a glimpse into another teacher's classroom,  and maybe find some inspiration!     Today's Spotlight Post features Andy Fall, who joined CCHS in the 2016-2017 school year teaching Chemistry.  As Andy began teaching last year, his students requested he repeat explanations of particularly difficult content they were learning.  He began having students video him using his cell phone.  Videos range from 2 to 5 minutes long.  Andy posts the video on his youtube channel for students to refer to when doing homework/projects at home or in Directed Studies.  Here is an example of a video on the Ideal Gas Law that Andy had already worked through with his class.  Students requested he re-teach so they could video the explanation (this time without student questions).  Notice that An