1) Do you have multiple Google accounts and often want to toggle between them? Sometimes sharing a browser between two different accounts can work well and sometimes, well, it flops. I have been known to both use and suggest to others the process of utilizing Chrome for one login (example: my school Google teacher account) and Firefox for another (example: my school Google student account). I also am guilty of regularly toggling using the "don't" process in this video, which suggests a better method of sharing your computer between multiple Google accounts: http://www.shakeuplearning.com/blog/youre-doing-it-wrong-how-to-manage-multiple-google-accounts/.
The video is very easy to follow... clear and not too fast that it is overwhelming. I do want to add that the one part that did not work for me in the video was when I clicked on my name in the top right corner of Chrome and clicked "Switch Person"... I did not have the option to add a new Google version of me. The alternative that did work was to click on the three little lines in the top right corner (red arrow) and then add a person on the settings page (blue circle). As she states in the video, Google works best in Google so keeping everything Google in Chrome is ideal... the method in the video is my new go-to one!
2. Technology appears to, and often does, move at such a rapid pace that it is hard to keep up with it all. Relying on showing a movie via DVD and, going back even more, finding a VCR to show a VHS tape, are no longer the most convenient options, if even feasible at all. If you have not already explored video options in United Streaming (your school librarian can help you with an account if you do not have one already), YouTube (keep on the lookout for a PD session on YouTube to be offered soon by the LCPS secondary ITRTs), or in BrainPop (see your ITRT for the school password), please do so as you work your way through your curriculum this year. Here is one more tool for your toolbox you may wish to utilize: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/. You can browse by topic, grade level, and/or standard!
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PBS LearningMedia
PBS Learning Media Home Page ... Travel back to 1989 to relive the fall of the Berlin Wall and witness its impact ...
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Enjoy! Contact your ITRT if you have any questions or suggestions!
