My good friend Christine Pinto was telling me she was having her Kindergartners do some pumpkin activities this week in anticipation of going to a pumpkin patch. I thought alicekeeler.com/pixelart would be a fun way for kids to make a pumpkin since after all, the answer is always a spreadsheet! Using my pixel art template […]
I Love Real Data!!! My typical joke is “Who is Bob and why is he carrying 40 watermelons?” As a math teacher pretty much the entire textbook is “who cares?” it’s hard to engage students with contrived word problems. However, I believe students DEEPLY CARE! They want to change the world and be influential. This
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Guest Post by Marcia Carrillo Remove.bg is an online tool used to remove the background of a picture in seconds. The background is replaced by transparency, which allows you to insert the image into a new background. Being a skeptic, I took several pictures and uploaded them to remove.bg and was completely amazed at the quality
I am a day late and a dollar short on this one. Water bottle flipping is no longer the in thing, but I suspect some students would enjoy the game anyway. Divide the class into 2 teams. Each team gets a water bottle. Each person in the class gets one flip of the bottle for
The art of the lesson plan is knowing your students and creating an engaging lesson for the students you actually teach. This is the problem with pre-made lessons from the publisher, they don’t know your students. An English teacher, after noticing his students were really into the television show The Office created a hook for
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Google Sheets Checkboxes Checkboxes in Google Sheets has become a spreadsheet staple! Incredibly easy in Google Sheets. Highlight the range you want checkboxes and use the Insert menu to choose “Checkbox.” True or False The checkboxes are the value of the cell. When checked the value is true. When not checked the value is false.
Use Google Sheets to create multiple, different, Bingo boards from your own list. Template alicekeeler.com/bingo As with all Apps Script coding projects you need to wait a minute for the code to load. Look for the “Bingo” menu to load up next to the Help menu. Choose setUp and authorize the Add on. 25 Checkboxes
Online marketplaces, like Amazon, have drastically altered the retail landscape, but brick-and-mortar stores offer an unparalleled opportunity for retailers to use omnichannel marketing to enhance the customer experience. If we marketers could understand what shoppers really want, we could engineer a customer journey that would incorporate mobile, online, and in-store experiences in a way that
Artificial intelligence is powering the world’s most powerful learning machine: Google. As the search engine gets deeper insight into what makes people tick, it’s adjusting search engine rankings to bring the most relevant, engaging content to the top of the search rankings. AI, voice, user engagement… the search engine optimization industry is seeing some seismic
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Marketers have long known the importance of brand, and we’ve developed an appreciation for how company culture impacts things like customer experience and productivity. What brand leadership expert and author Denise Lee Yohn does in her latest book is to bring those two concepts together and use examples to illustrate how the combo can supercharge your success.
