Setting Up Tech for the New School Year
This past week was spent getting things ready for another year in the classroom. My co-teacher and I met to lesson plan (thank you Google Docs!) and also went into our classroom to get things organized and decorated. It used to be that I would spend the majority of August in my classroom decorating and organizing, but things have changed over the past 20 years. Today I spend most of my time at home on the computer getting things ready for our 1:1 laptop environment. Let me share with you some of the ways I have been getting ready. #1 - CSV file - I create a Google Spreadsheet with student names, email, a common password and usernames. I can then download this Google spreadsheet as a CSV (comma separated values) file. This saves me so much time in setting up accounts for my students. I type everything in once and then can use this information to set up most of the accounts for my students. Here is a peek at the spreadsheet. I won't show any ...