Category Archives: Professional Development

Using Zoom as a Video Conferencing Tool

Zoom is a videoconferencing app we are going to be using for live in-person meetings and class sessions, as well as recording mini-lecture videos for uploading to myHebron. Below are the steps for joining a meeting, setting up a meeting … Continue reading

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Saving Any Document as a PDF

There are a number of ways on the Mac of saving any kind of document type to a PDF file for easy online distribution, including uploading to myHebron. Google Docs, Sheets and Slides Open up any of the these types … Continue reading

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Apple Teacher & Everyone Can Create

The focus of this week’s faculty tech training was to take a look at Apple’s recent additions to their professional development offering for teachers. This included the Apple Teacher certification program and the Everyone Can Create curriculum resources. Note that … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality in the Classroom

Augmented reality (AR) is the real time combination of digital information with your surrounding environment. AR uses your device’s camera to capture this environment and its digital display to overlay new information on top of it. During some recent faculty … Continue reading

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Using the Clips App to Create Quick Classroom Videos

Clips is a new app for making fun videos to share with friends, family, and the world. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with animated text, graphics and emoji, … Continue reading

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Video Project Production Steps

If you are thinking about completing a video project with one of your classes, this is the standard process of film production that we recommend following: Treatment. This is a short paragraph describing the purpose of the video project and could … Continue reading

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New Google Sites

Google has recently completely overhauled their website creation tool Google Sites (and this is now live on our domain), with the creation interface now being very similar to the updated Google Forms tool that was rolled out last year. We used the … Continue reading

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Foreign Language Technology Project Ideas

As a follow up to our focus on technology integration at the department level, and after meeting with all department heads, below are detailed a number of technology project ideas (using either the iPads, the computer labs or the 3D … Continue reading

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English Technology Project Ideas

As a follow up to our focus on technology integration at the department level, and after meeting with all department heads, below are detailed a number of technology project ideas (using either the iPads, the computer labs or the 3D … Continue reading

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Science Technology Project Ideas

As a follow up to our focus on technology integration at the department level, and after meeting with all department heads, below are detailed a number of technology project ideas (using either the iPads, the computer labs or the 3D … Continue reading

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