I recently heard about an awesome online game called GeoGuessr. It’s a game that drops you in random places around the world using Google Street View, then you have to guess where you are by thinking critically, finding clues, reading signs, looking at foliage, etc. It’s so addictive! The teacher in me immediately started thinking of […]
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How to add accents to Google Docs – no more copy & paste!
Still copying and pasting accents into Google Docs? No need, because there’s an Add-on for that!! I wanted to write a quick post to share an awesome time-saving tip with my fellow modern language teachers. After the positive and amazed reactions I got at my French Immersion school about this when I shared it with staff, […]
Phys Ed Hack
Since nothing EVER sticks to the gym walls at my school I had to think of a hack for that! I decided to cut two straight lines/slits (a couple centimetres on each side of the hole) into my flat pylons in order to stick circuit training cards, instructions, and station sheets into them. It worked […]
TDSB Google Camp 3.0 -Get Your Teacher Mojo Back!
Yesterday I was lucky to be a part of an amazing Google Conference put on by the Toronto District School Board called Google Camp. Myself and 500+ like-minded Ed Techie Google-loving TDSB educators, admin and staff were motivated and inspired by keynote speaker George Couros and endnote speaker Dean Shareski. I feel so lucky to […]
Free eMagazines from Zinio on your tablet in less than 10 steps!
Extra Extra eRead all about it! Zinio- FREE digital magazines on your computer, Smartphone or tablet from the public library Let’s face it, as teachers we don’t always have the time to sit down and enjoy a great magazine, let alone trying to make time between marking, reporting and lesson planning to get to the store […]
