Introduction GoGuardian is a digital classroom management tool that allows you to view your students’ screens as they are working in your classroom. This can be used to both ensure student productivity, safety, and allow subtle communication between teacher and student that will not disrupt their learning. How to Access Go to https://www.goguardian.com in your … Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to GoGuardian
Oh boy. Standardized testing. Every teacher’s favorite thing in the whole wide world. Not. I don’t think it comes as a surprise to find out that standardized testing is almost universally disliked by educators, students, parents, administrators…to be honest, it’s rare to actually hear someone in-person genuinely say they like testing.There’s good reason for that. … Continue reading Let’s Talk About Standardized Testing
Happy April! Spring is in full bloom, and boy howdy is it already shaping up to be a busy on. Let’s jump right in! Teaching Tech Tip: Use Flipgrid to make short informational videos If you’ve followed me at all, it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that I use Flipgrid a lot in my … Continue reading A Writr’s Report: April 2021
When you start writing a story, it’s important to have a sense of who your characters are, especially your main characters. Who they are, what they want, what their voice sounds like: all of these are important qualities that can make or break a story if you don’t have answers for those sorts of questions.My … Continue reading How I Develop Characters (with bonus short story!)
Fanfiction is weird, yo. My understand of what fanfiction is has always been a little…skewed, I guess. Growing up, my perception was that it was a bad thing: it was predominantly smut, or writing that took stories I enjoyed and made them wayyyyyyy too sexual, or was just full of wish-fulfillment. I treated it like … Continue reading Leticia Lunetti: My Dive into Fanfiction
So my wife and I had a competition a few days back to write a pirate story – me, being the dorky sort I am, turned mine into a sea shanty, set to the tune of “The Wellerman” (the sea shanty that got super popular on social media like TikTok) sans chorus. Here is the … Continue reading The Legend of Captain Farron
I know I can get pretty negative on here. Heck, my last blog post was about how education system is feeling more like an entertainment gig than an actual teaching job. And the thing is…there’s some reason for that. Ask any teacher in the United States right now. Teaching is hard, and it’s only gotten … Continue reading The Kids Are Alright
First of all…hi! Sorry I’ve been away for a bit, there’s been a lot going on. 2021 has started as a year that feels like the light at the end of the tunnel (sort of). 2020 was a chaotic, stressful mess, and already there are signs that things might actually start to get better. For … Continue reading 2021: Off to One Heck of a Start
Since I did a post last week reflecting on my year in writing, I felt it appropriate to also reflect on teaching, because oof: it was a doozy. There were a lot of reasons for why this hard, and most of them were pretty obvious: COVID-19 threw a massive wrench into the entire education field. … Continue reading Teaching: A Year in Review
2020 is nearly over (thank goodness)! I decided to try something and see how much I wrote this year – I felt like I wrote a lot more than in previous years, and so I wanted to do some maths and see exactly what that all amounted to. Here are the categories in which I … Continue reading My Year in Writing
Jacob Ryckman 