Hold My Chalk

Many of you have documents that you have used for years in your lessons that you just can't bring yourself to let go of yet.  They are like your security blanket that you just don't think you can live without.  You may have even gone to the trouble to upload the file to Google Drive or Dropbox so you can access them from home or the doctor's office.  You might have even added them to your "Stuff" in My Big Campus so you can attach them to bundles or message them out to students.  You are well on your way to eliminating the excess paper wasted in your classroom at this point. What do you do when it is time to create a new document?  Do you fire up Office on your machine, then drag it into Dropbox?  Do you create a new document in Google Drive?  Both are perfectly viable options.  If you are a My Big Campus user, and the document is for an assignment or sharing with students or coworkers, my question is, "Why bother with the other tools?" I would go...

Many of you are busy building bundles in My Big Campus.  If you haven't explored all the options yet, you may not be aware of all the features available to you.  I thought I would use this post to give a brief interpretation of each of the items you are able to add to your bundles.  All of this is found when editing the content of your bundle. The first two options appear in the editor window.  You can "insert text" or "upload files."  When you choose "upload files" you get the normal dialog that allows you to search for content on your computer.  The "insert text" option opens a text editor below the current point.  This will allow you to edit test just like you would when you create a document. Your other options appear on the right side of your screen.  You will see a drop down menu and a search box.  The rest of the post will describe each of those options in the dialog box. Bundle Locks-This includes three categories.  All you need ...

A while back I posted about an Easy File Transfer of content between ipads using the Chirp app .  Which, for those who haven't tested it yet, is a great way to get those files out to students quickly without the need for putting the file in some shared folder or email.  The only stipulation is that each person must have the Chirp app  open on their device.  In a nutshell, you find the content you want to share open Chirp, choose the content and Chirp it out to the other people in the room.  Their device hears the Chirp and then seeks out the information.  Within seconds everyone in the room can have access to the content you desire without opening emails, etc.  If someone doesn't hear the Chirp, then a neighbor can reChirp the information to them. Why am I rehashing all of this for you?  Well, now there is a Chirp app and extension for Google Chrome.  If you go to the Chrome Web Store and search for Chirp you will see an app and extension ca...