Lemon Tech Tidbits

  Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.  This site can be used to take a difficult article or piece of text and simplify it for your students' reading levels. It can effectively teach words or help students build better vocabulary. It saves teachers time by easily creating vocabulary lists and quizzes. It is completely free and is web-based so it can be used on any device. It takes only minutes to set up accounts for teachers and students with no personal identification required.  To see a short demo video, click here .

  This new and completely FREE Whiteboard tool was made by math teachers for math teachers. This collaborative tool was designed to be easily used by teachers and students. There is no need to download an app. All that is needed is to go to the website which is accessible with any browser. The Math Whiteboard includes a keyboard interface made for integrating math notations. It will recognize handwritten equations, has the ability to graph equations, includes a slider for different inputs into problems, and allows drag and drop of PDF assignments.  To use the site, teachers select “Create a Whiteboard Now.” Next, they will click “Copy Link” and share it with students via Google Classroom or email.   Eric Curtis has provided a youtube tutorial over this new web tool. You can access it here .  Go to https://www.mathwhiteboard.com/ and give it a try.

  Google Keep Tutorials I am often asked which tech tool I use the most. My answer is Google Keep. In fact, I use it so much that if it suddenly went away, I would not know how to function as an adult and educator. I highly recommend you do as well. To learn about Google Keep, watch these 18 very short videos by Richard Byrne: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/18-google-keep-tutorials-for-teachers.html If you already USE Google Keep, you might still want to take a look as there is most likely something in one of the videos that will be new to you. For example, did you know you could create a comment bank in Google Keep for grading Google Docs assignments? Google Calendar Tutorials      Another tech tool I use to help stay organized during a school year is Google Calendar. If you are new to our district and/or new to Google Calendar or just want to learn more, check out this lists of very short youtube videos from Richard Byrne: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2023/08/

  There have been many updates this summer but instead of telling you about all of them, I decided to highlight the ones I believe you will either really appreciate or will want to use. Google Classroom Update A new update to Google Classroom is the ability for the teacher to lock submissions on assignment past a certain date. If the submission is closed for a specific assignment, students may still access their assignment-related documents to continue to edit.  The Comments feature has had an update. You can now format the text using bold, italics, underline, and with bullet points. You can also reply to a comment right from your Gmail without having to go to Google Classroom.  Google Doc, Slides, Sheets Updates In Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets, there is now a magnifying glass in the top left-hand side. You can use this to quickly find and use a tool without having to go through the menu bar. If you select the tool, it will automatically do it for you. (this will be very handy in Sh