Edmonds Digital Learning

"Okay, students," the teacher called, rising from her chair, "Please look at the poem on the screen and then count...um, let's see...1, 2, 3, um...4, 5, 6, yeah, six lines down. Yes, that's it! Can you look at the sixth line down?" If this has ever been you, then there is an awesome new extension that can help streamline your directions for studying literature! The, aptly named extension, Line Numbers for Google Docs  will, unsurprisingly, add numbers to lines of text in a Google Doc! There shall be no more counting or confusion about which line of text for which you are referring. Here's all you need to do. 1. Click this link: Line Numbers for Google Docs 2. Click 'Add to Chrome' 3. Open a new Google Doc by clicking this link: docs.new 4. Copy and paste text from the desired teaching material 5. That's it! You've got it! But, wait, nothing can be that easy, right? No, of course, it can't. The extension will cou...

In the third grade, I was involved in an uncomfortable relationship with my teacher's chalkboard. Speaking without raising a hand, accidentally tearing a blue ditto worksheet, or any number of other relatively minor infractions led to her drawing a small circle on the board. The dissident student was called to the front of the class and instructed to put her/his nose in the center. If the incident was deemed especially heinous, the student would be called to the board before the circle was drawn so the teacher could sketch it just high enough that the perpetrator would be forced to stand tip-toed to serve out the sentence. To this day, I'm not a fan of the smell or the feeling of chalk. Starting my teaching career, chalkboards made way for whiteboards and such punitive procedures were, thankfully, deemed barbaric. Nonetheless, whiteboard marker tips were notorious for getting pushed in and, if erased by human hands, the boards started looking nasty alarmingly quickly. ...

Casting is great, but it gets a little old if nothing's biting! If you or your students haven't had any luck casting to a Chromebox or another device, this one little setting works like a charm! 1. Be sure to add the Google Cast for Education extension if you haven't done so already. Please note, students do not need to add this extension. 2. After you add the extension, click the small green Google Cast for Education extension icon near the top of your screen. 3. Give your receiver a name. The students will see this, so make it simple and something that makes sense to you and your class. After you name it, click 'SAVE'. 4. If you want your students to cast, under the 'Add people' section, select your most current Google Classroom. The default is set at teachers can present and students can request, which is my personal favorite, and then click 'ADD'. Finally, click 'CLOSE'. 5. On the student's end, they need to open...