Virtual Chemistry Labs

I came across ChemCollective while checking out my Twitter feed and it seems like a great resource to help students understand chemical reactions without needing the lab time. If you are covering a topic, but the experiment is inaccessible (cost, safety, time, etc.) then you can have your students log on to the website from in Safari and then complete the experiment online. Or perhaps you have a student who has a passion for the subject. Now they can come on to here and explore the vast array of resources available to them to help increase their knowledge. THe site also has tutorials, autograded problems, scenario based problems, molecular science modulars, and tons of other information. It is such a great resource that I'm guessing our chemistry teachers have already seen it. But it's worth checking out again to see their new site.

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Hide Dropped Students in Infinite Campus

I had a teacher ask me if there was a way to hide or remove students who are no longer in your class. The answer is maybe. It depends on if they are officially dropped from your class and appearing as red in your roster and gradebook. If not, then no, you cannot remove them until they have been unenrolled from the class. If the student is showing up as red in your gradebook though, you can hide them so you don't have to worry about them. Here is a screenshot to help you do it:

Keynote Interactivity (and my 200th post)

When I talked with teachers about Nearpod last week, there was a teacher at the highschool who really wants to keep his animations within Keynote while having the interactivity like Nearpod . I told him that I'd look into it to see what was possible. Short story: I'm not having any luck at all.

Build with Chrome (Lego Building Time!)

If you are like me, you spent countless hours when you were young building with legos . If you were a parent of kids like me, you spent countless hours vacuuming up those little pieces or hunting for them with your bare feet in the middle of the night (ouch!). When I heard about Build with Chrome yesterday, you can understand why my eyes lit up. What is Build with Chrome? It's this:

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