The GPS Tech Guide is a site designed to support the amazing teachers of Grosse Pointe South High School. Please use this blog as one of the many great tools you use every day to provide the top notch education the students have always received.
I have compiled YouTube videos that demonstrate how to use the different parts of Turnitin.com. As a school, we have already looked at the discussion board element and some teachers use Turnitin.com to check kids for plagiarism, but there is more there teachers could use. By using all of Turnitin.com's features, you could avoid taking papers home ever again. Another bonus with using Turnitin.com for grading is that students can see their work as it is checked instead of having to wait for all of the papers to be checked and returned. The feedback is quicker for the students and that is very helpful to the students looking to improve their writing.
Watch the videos on how to grade papers on Turnitin and even leave voice notes for students. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and we can work on them during 4th hour.
To watch the other videos in the play list, you need to click this playlist icon seen below. Hold your mouse over the screen for the menu to appear at the bottom.
Evernote is a free tool that allows user to take notes on their digital platform and access them on any internet ready device. This device could be an iPhone, iPad, Android device, Windows phone, PC or Mac desktop or any other device that lets you have access to the internet.
Evernote is a great tool for education because it allows users to organize the notes in a way that best suits them. Once the notes are created and saved in notebooks, they can easily be shared with others through Facebook, Twitter, Email or links that can be posted to websites. Here is an example of a link I created for my students and their assignments.
I also use Evernote for all of my lesson planning needs. I can place links, photos and documents in notes to access anywhere and anytime. I can edit these notes on the go and share them with other teachers looking for ideas for their lessons. It has made life much easier using this instead of the traditional paper plan book.
Here are a series of videos for your to explore to see how Evernote works. If you are interested in learning more about Evernote in education, we can set up a time to chat 4th hour to go over the different uses.
To watch the other videos in the play list, you need to click this playlist icon seen below. Hold your mouse over the screen for the menu to appear at the bottom.
With the new information regarding Google shared by the district, I wanted to remind you that I have an entire page dedicated to Google Apps for Education that you can take a look at when you have free time. It is above this post in the menu bar. It will show you the many different Google Apps that are available to students and staff and how to use them. If you have any questions, please email me and I will be happy to help. I'm free during both lunches and would be happy to sit and talk about any questions you might have.
I also wanted to share some information on using my site. As it has grown over the past few years, it might be hard for some people to find information they are looking for quickly. Here are some screen shots I hope will make the search a bit easier.
You can find information on the most used items in the district in the main menu.
You can search my blog for specific items by using the search box on the right.
You can find some topics that have been tagged by looking at the tag widget on the right.
I hope this helps you with looking for information and trying new things this year. If there is something you are looking for and you can't seem to find it, let me know and I will help you out.
