Author: Thomas Galvez

In the last Matrix post, I wrote about Academic Honesty When Using Images, Music, and Video. The ideas discussed in that post revolve around an ethical mindset students

Academic Honesty is an important mindset we work to cultivate in our students as teachers. We do a very good job to teach our students the ethical (and

The High School recently subscribed to a cloud-based application called Voicethread. On a basic level, Voicethread is an online presentation platform where slides are created and a person’s

Hapara was recently implemented in the high school, joining the Middle and Elementary schools who implemented it at the beginning of the school year. At SSIS Hapara will

One of the first challenges of integrating digital technologies and working in a 1-1 environment revolves around classroom management. Effective classroom management has always been a top priority in

Coming into the role of Instructional Coach for Technology is challenging. There tends to misperceptions about the nature of the role. Is this person a coach? If so,

From the Gooru: Knowing your schedule at all times is vital when reading and composing emails. If someone asks you to get coffee later this afternoon, you should

From the Gooru: There are quite a few reasons you would want a backup of all of your emails. You may be moving away from Gmail and want

From the Gooru: Editing your contacts one by one in the Gmail interface is slow and tedious. Often times the updates and changes you need to make to

From the Gooru: Gmail has your back on spell-check. Gmail has two forms of spell-check to make sure your email messages are free of grammar mistakes and misspellings.