Time Saving Tech Tip: Use LightShot to Quickly Build an Assessment or Worksheet

This Educational Technology Tutorial demonstrates how teachers can use LightShot or any other screen capture software to quickly and easily add images, parts of images, text and whole questions into a worksheet that can be used by teachers in the classroom. This EdTech tip will save teachers time when building homework, worksheets, reviews and assessments.

EdTech Tip: Trigger a "Copy" Doc button when Sharing Documents with Students

Just came upon this cool Educational TechTip. I have been sharing documents with my students for years and always having them create copies. This tech tip will demonstrate how to save your students a step or two when creating a copy of a specific Google Doc, Sheet, or Presentation. I also tout creating tinyurls so that students don't have such long URLs to try and type correctly.

Physical Science: Laser light makes sound wave patterns visible

I built my own laser light sound visualizer. Using a tone generator and multiple tones you can create some awesome light patterns. We showed this to all of our physical science classes. The excitement of our classes was pretty cool. Many students stopped to take pictures of the oscillator and talked about building their own. The cost of the contraption was hardly anything, just the laser light.

Interactive Review Reading Log--Monday to Friday

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Reading Log

This is an activity-based reading log.

My idea behind this type of reading log is threefold.

1. Keep track of the books that students are reading and the time they are reading each day.

2. Practice a skill, based on reading, writing, and science standards as well as a review of previously taught standards to add more practice.