• ESL Dice Games: Making Your Classes Fun and Engaging

    ESL Dice Games: Making Your Classes Fun and Engaging

    Dice Roller ⚀ Roll Dice Click the button to roll the dice. Dice games are a great way to make your classes more enjoyable and fun for you and the students. Dice Games When we want to create randomness, the first thing that comes to mind is to roll a dice. Rolling a dice will…

  • Excel IF Function – A Guide for Teachers and Beginners

    Today, I will show you how to make a scorecard in Excel and use the IF Function to calculate the scores automatically. We have a list of students who have all completed our test. If the student has scored more than 80 points, we should fill the results column with “Pass”; if they score less…

  • Convert Vertical Data Into Horizontal Data in Excel

    Convert Vertical Data Into Horizontal Data in Excel

    Introduction How do you convert vertical data into horizontal data in Excel? This was a question I was asked this week. A friend of mine was asked to convert an Excel spreadsheet that contained a list of classes and their students from one long column of text to rows of classes and their students. What…

  • Creating PowerPoint Presentations on iPhone: Guide

    Creating PowerPoint Presentations on iPhone: Guide

    Recently, I have needed to do a lot of work while on my iPhone. One of the things that I needed to do was create a few simple PPTs for classes. These PPTs only need to be a keyword or a sentence, so nothing too complicated. The Microsoft PowerPoint mobile app did a fantastic job…

  • How to Activate Water Lock mode in WatchOS 10

    I wrote How to Use Water Lock Mode on Your Apple Watch in Class back in July. In that post, I shared how I use the Water Lock mode. I am still using this to stop my students from playing with all the buttons on my Apple Watch. WatchOS 10 has changed the way that…

  • How to change language in Activinspire for Mac and Windows

    Today I’d like to share a tip on changing language in Activinspire. I’ve been moving to different classrooms recently, and each has had the Activinspire set to a different language. It has been very difficult to work out how to change the languages back to one I can read, so today, I’d like to take…

  • How to Use Water Lock Mode on Your Apple Watch in Class

    Have you had that moment in class when the kids are full of energy, and then they notice your Apple Watch and can’t control themselves? They jab at all the buttons, opening apps you didn’t know you had. There is a setting on the Apple Watch where you can stop them. It is designed to…

  • New Scratch Classroom Games – Bird Race and Weather Game

    New Scratch Classroom Games – Bird Race and Weather Game

    I have updated the Scratch Classroom Games pages with two new games: Bird Race and Weather Game. Bird Race Bird Race is a two-player game where players tap their button to move their bird, and the first bird to cross the finish line wins. It can be used as an incentive game and is fun…

  • Play the Piano – New Game

    Play the Piano – New Game

    Hey everyone! I’ve just added a new game page to my website. It’s a simple and fun piano keyboard that’s perfect for students to show off their skills or have fun. Check it out here: https://septembered.org/scratch-classroom-games-gallery/play-piano-virtual-keyboard-game/  Other Games You can find and play my other games by clicking the here

  • How to Make Silhouettes in Pixelmator: A Step-by-Step Guide

    How to Make Silhouettes in Pixelmator: A Step-by-Step Guide

    In my last post, I discussed how to Make Silhouettes in PowerPoint. Since then, I have been turning more and more images into silhouettes in preparation for a Classroom Game I am working on. I will share with you how I use Pixelmator to make silhouettes. Even if you don’t have Pixelmator, it might be…