Entries by Mike

Creating an Automation Chain to Share Quizlet Progress with Students

As you can see from this post about using Google sheets to grade Quizlet progress, I have ingrained Quizlet into the infrastructure for my human body systems class. I am a massive fan of the automatic feedback and learning that happens with using Quizlet for this vocabulary instruction, and my students frequently comment about how […]

Resources to Make Your Student’s Presentations Shine

You might imagine that I would be a big fan of using novel presentation technologies like Prezi or FlowVella. I am… sometimes… but pretty rarely. Much more frequently I would prefer to use Google Slides or PowerPoint. I also think it is a better idea to teach students how to use these ubiquitous tools rather […]

Using Siri Shortcuts to Prepare for Meetings

Once a year, I use a really helpful Siri Shortcut to schedule and plan for a year of meetings. This shortcut makes calendar events and OmniFocus projects for each of my department meetings, so I am never caught off guard.

School Calendar CSV File

I am a big believer in the helpfulness of digital calendars. Both at home and school, I have detailed schedules marking out all of my temporal obligations for as far out into the future as I can. My school, like I am sure many others, has a rotation schedule that matches no calendar software on […]

Non-Zero Day- Nested Folders Podcast

I am a big fan of Rosemary Orchard; I was very excited to hear about her new productivity podcast called Nested Folders. While I don’t know how I feel about her co-host yet, I am delighted to hear more about how Rose works.