Category: Tech tips
169 Tech Tip #99: Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #99–Need Email Accounts for Registration? Try This
Category: Email
Sub-category: Webtools, Problem-solving, Classroom management
Q: A lot of web-based tools require email verification. Many of my students don’t have these at school or home. What do I do?
A: This is a lot easier than you’d think. Gmail ignores anything that comes after a + in a username. JonDoe is the same as JonDoe+thinglink. Use that to your advantage with student accounts. They can use your email address and append their name with the +. You can even set up a filter to send all those + emails to a separate folder so it doesn’t annoy you.
169 Tech Tip #98: 13 Tips for Email Etiquette
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #98–13 Tips for Email Etiquette
Category: Email
Sub-category: Assessment
Here’s a poster with 13 email etiquette tips to share with new users:
169 Tech Tip #83: Find Outlook Follow-up Folder
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #83–Find Outlook Follow-up Folder
Category: Email
Sub-category: Problem-solving
Q: I had to reformat my computer and lost the ‘For Follow Up’ folder in Outlook. How do I bring this back?
A: This isn’t important until it happens to you. To re-create it, choose File>New>Search Folder or use the shortkey Ctrl+Shift+P. Highlight ‘Mail flagged for follow up’ and click OK.
A note: Search folders are collected at the bottom of the folder list.
169 Tech Tip #77: Use BCC to Hide Email Addresses
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #77–Use BCC to Hide Email Addresses
Category: Email
Sub-category: Security, Parents
Q: I want to send an email to a list of people, but want to keep their email addresses private. How do I do that?
A: Put email addresses under the BCC field. In the ‘to’ field, put [email protected]. It doesn’t matter what you put. It’ll bounce back to you as undeliverable, but all of your bcc emails will go out as planned.
169 Tech Tip #69: Instead of Emailing, Share
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #69–Instead of Emailing, Share
Category: Email
Sub-category: Internet, MS Office, Google Apps, Parents
Q: I want to share a class video with parents, but the file’s too large and I don’t know how to embed it into the class blog. What can I do?
A: Share it with Google Drive or Microsoft’s OneDrive. In fact, you can share from any cloud-based file folder including Dropbox and Box.
169 Tech Tips: Email from MS Office
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #61–Email from MS Office
Category: Email
Sub-category: MS Office, Classroom management, Printing
Q: I was helping a colleague who couldn’t print a document (server problems) and wanted to email it to herself to print at home. She started going online to her web-based email account and I stopped her. There was a quicker method.
A: Click the email tool on the MS Office program toolbar. It automatically opens your email program. An email dialogue box will open. Fill it in and send.
Of course, if you’re in Google Apps, it’s already in the cloud which means you can access it from anywhere—like home
169 Tech Tip #126: 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #126–7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
Category: Differentiation
Sub-category: Teaching, Pedagogy
Here are seven ways to differentiate instruction every day:
10 Classroom Management Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are ten of the to
p classroom management tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers:
- Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class?
- Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin
- How You Can Make Homework Easier for Students
- 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes
- 7 Tips to Differentiate with Tech
- What to do when Computers are Down?
- How to Use an Internet Start Page
- 17 Ways to Add Tech without Adding Time
- 10 Ways to Use Twitter in Class
- 18 Ideas for Warm-ups, Exit Tickets
169 Tech Tip #17: No Excuse for Spelling Errors
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #17–No excuse for Spelling Errors
Category: EDIT/FORMAT
Sub-category: MS Office, Google Apps, Internet
Q: What are those red and green squiggly lines in my document?
169 Tech Tip #124: Editing is Easier with Digital Writing
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #124–Editing is easier with digital writing
Category: EDIT/FORMAT
Sub-category: Writing, Classroom management
Q: I can’t convince my students to give up their paper and pencil. What’s a great reason that will resonate with them?
A: Digital writing is easier to edit. By a factor of infinity. Anyone who has tried to erase knows they often end up with smudged notes and torn paper. The digital version of editing with a simple overtype or insert is miles ahead. Why force students to use an inferior method?
