In today's Tuesday Tech Tips, read all about using Emojis (yes, Emojis!) in your instruction, creating your own Emojis, how to check if a website is blocked for your students, the wide range of protections you can use in your Google Sheets, and more! ➡️ ➡️➡️ | 💡 Quick Tip 💡 Did you know that Google’s search box doubles as a calculator? Enter in your equation and hit enter- it’s that easy. It’s also flexible with how you type the equations, for example, "12 x 12," "twelve times 12,"or "12 times 12" will all work.
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How to Use Emojis in Teaching
Emojis are fun little characters that can add visual cues to student assignments and help you manage classroom routines.
This article HERE from Edutopia has many ideas that go beyond the popular or common ways we use emojis (in text messages, comments, and social media posts), and connect to projects and routines you might already be using in your classroom.
**Bonus Tip**: Have you ever wanted to use an emoji to communicate an idea, and couldn't find the right one? With Emoji Kitchen, linked HERE, you can take two emojis and combine them into one. For example, to communicate the idea of a basketball 🏀 scholarship 🎓, mix them together in the Emoji Kitchen and get this:
Or, for Valentine's Day tomorrow, tell your true ❤️ you want to take them out for 🥞 with this:
How romantic! The possibilities are endless, and with that linked article above, you can find meaningful ways to use these in instruction. Emojis aren't just a
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Blocked for Thee, But Not for Me?
Have you ever run into a situation where you vetted a website to use with your students, only to realize during the lesson that it's blocked for them? Our filtering rules have different criteria for staff compared to students, and are more restrictive for students, leading to this frustrating scenario.
You have an extension called Lightspeed AccessScan which you can use to preemptively prevent this from happening to you.
AccessScan is easy to use, and the extension is already available for you in Chrome. This video from the vendor linked HERE demonstrates how to use it.
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Protect, Hide, & Edit Your Google Sheets
There are many settings in Google Sheets that allow you to granularly protect your Sheet, right down to individual cells. You can even set it up to show a warning when anyone makes an edit. It doesn’t block people from editing, but they’ll see a message asking them to confirm if they really want to make an edit.
Google can explain this much better than we can. Check out all of their instructions on how to protect, hide, and edit Sheets HERE.
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