Terry's Tech Tips

Storms the past two weeks have really impacted our schedule!  This blog post should interest you if you want to gain more time in class for important student learning! Buy Back Class Time: Do you have a process that indirectly impacts student learning but takes precious class time to show students?   (Installing an app, extension, or using a website specific to your class?)  Do you have a particularly difficult topic requiring extra support or explanation?    Consider recording your screen while modeling the process or explaining the topic using a Chrome extension called Screencastify !  (Note that QuickTime Player also has screen recording options.) Once you have created your video, you can assign it as homework, saving class time you would have spent modeling the process or clarifying the difficult concept to your students. Using my laptop, I made the screen recording below demonstrating how to add the Screencastify extension to Chrome.   Think of a similar task you do with