Any of my blogger friends feel my pain when trying to keep your sidebar updated with resources/posts that involve images and links? I sure do! It’s such a pain dealing with coding, uploading images to Photobucket, or adding links to inLinkz.

Recently I discovered the magic of embedding Google Slides to my class website. All I have to do is make changes to my Google Slide docs in my Gmail Drive account, and my website is automatically updated. That includes the weekly newsletter, daily homework, resources, calendar, everything.

I have become addicted to it lately and just the other day it occurred to me that I can use this same strategy to create a sidebar slideshow with my latest resources that is ridiculously easy to update. If this is something that interests you, I have a video tutorial right here for you. If you find it useful, please let me know! I’d love to see your “smart” sidebar slideshow!

You can check out how my “Smart” Class Website here at my newest blog.

Are you a teacher author at TpT? Here’s a playlist of some teacher author tip videos I’ve made. Click on the image to watch.

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If you have a Facebook page and have never used Woobox to help you randomly pick winners, let me just say, it’s pretty awesome!

I made a tutorial in August, and a month and a half later, I finally got it on YouTube. Hope it helps you out! Is there a different way you use to pick winners at your Facebook page?

I’ve also compiled a playlist for my few videos with tips for teacher authors. Click the image below to watch them all. And please share your tips, too! I’m trying to work smarter, not harder! How about you?

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Hey, ya’ll! Whether you know or you don’t, I just LOVE using QR code in my classroom. They make educational resources:

• self-checking
• engaging
• 21st century
• so much fun!

So, I made a YouTube tutorial about how I do it. Even if you are familiar with making QR codes, I have a trick I use for getting QR codes quickly into PowerPoint, so I hope you’ll definitely check it out.

 
Now, if you want to add images to QR codes,  you’ll need to watch this video (very bad quality, 2012, sorry!) Image QR codes are so much fun and I first used them to create behavior coupons which you can download for free here.

I just recently created an image QR code resource for my kiddos that I am SO excited about. My little immersion buddies really need help with practicing writing in the Spanish language. So I’ve created 218 monthly writing prompts in QR code form.

You can watch the video below to see how the QR Code Writing Prompts work.

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If you enjoyed this tip, I have a few more teacher author tip videos you can check out by clicking on the image below.

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