Terry's Tech Tips

Spice it up!  Create a Course Expectation Infographic Think about most students' first day of school.  They start out in Advisory, reviewing a multitude of compliance documents and completing a form agreeing to all the contents.  Not that exciting.  This year, they'll receive their laptop in Advisory as well - very exciting!  The rest of the day will be spent in each class, getting to know their new teacher (inspiring) and reviewing course expectations (not as exciting). If you are thinking of spicing up your first day, you may want to consider presenting your Course Expectations using an Infographic!  The example above is based on a course that I will teach in the spring. Reasons why Infographics work: Infographics are everywhere on the web - with good reason.  Infographics play to our brain's strengths: 60,000 times faster Humans process visual information 60,000 times faster than text. https://images.app.goo.gl/82HPWapeQh5raZeg8 . faculty.mercer.e

I was so excited last year when I noticed that Google Classroom provided the ability to copy the classroom for the next year. Good News: I tested this process out at the end of last year, and my results were great!  Every assignment saved as a draft with all related documents and support links placed under the topics I had created.  I knew teachers who had used Moodle in the past would appreciate the new feature.   Bad News: That's good news.  But, there was something that I didn't consider last year.  When you copy a Google Classroom, it makes a copy of everything in the Classroom.   Every document, every video, including your directions, course syllabus, and other 'view only' documents you provided to your students in their assignments.  Let's consider how that might look: You have a Course Expectations document.   You taught two sections last year.  You added this document to each course.  If you needed to make a change to the document, yo