Teaching from Home Tips

Would you like to record your voice with instructions or read aloud a chapter of a book? I can show you how quickly and easily. The video is less than 4 minutes.

Apps needed on your phone are VOICE memo (already on there from factory) and DRIVE--google.
Tabs on your internet that you need open are DRIVE and your GOOGLE SITE.

Teaching From Home Tips

1st tip-  How to easily get something from TPT to your drive and into a shareable link!

2nd tip- How to share something with a student or parent and not allow them to change/edit/delete your file. This tip forces the link to create a PHOTOCOPY of your file!

Hope this helps..The movie is 4 minutes.

Lady Liberty is an #edtech Nerd like me.

https://youtu.be/8_T2O1BH1Yg

Online Hangman

Conversations I have overheard from the second graders.

Wow! I didn’t realize mystery had a "y".  That’s why I guess "I".

We only have one guess left- maybe we should ask Mrs. Sanders what other letter could make the ers - sound.  I thought it was a "e".  On the word SCISSORS. 

How to check Flesch-Kincaid Readability Statistics in Word

First, copy and paste the text you'd like to see checked into Word (tm)

Next, choose the drop down arrow located next to spell check icon at the top.  Choose more commands from the drop down pane.

Next,  you'll choose the word that says Proofing on the side panel.

Scroll down after selecting proofing and make sure show READABILITY STATISTICS and grammar & refinements has been selected.

Next, recheck your document if you hadn't before.

After your document has been checked a Readability Statistics box will show up.  It lists for you the total words, average words per sentence, the reading ease, as well as the Flesch-Kincaid Readability.

Click here to make a copy of my Computer Skills Inventory.

If you'd like to make a copy of my computer skills inventory click here to add it to your google drive.

Exit Ticket Computer Student Self Assessment

I decided to come up with a student self-assessment for the entire year.  I will be using this at the beginning of the year and also at the end of the year as a #growth record.  As you know it's hard to prove growth when you see so many kids.  My lab is structured where I teach Young 5's through 6th grade.  I see each class 45 minutes a day.  It is a work in progress.  I think it's important to know what I can focus on throughout the year and what things my students have mastered so I don't repeat the following year.

If you use this assessment please include a link back to my blog.