Home - Zahner History

Students are sometimes taken back when I tell them that they can use pen on their bubble sheets. Many of them insist on using a #2 pencil because they still don’t trust me. It’s exciting to see the students in the room who light up over the “rule” they...

Typing feedback is much faster than handwriting it. Although some teachers swear by handwritten marking and scoring, it’s hard to believe that they have given the options on Google Classroom much of a chance.
Google Classroom has the potential for a variety of assessments within the platform and even more ways to provide feedback to students. The following shares what I’ve learned using this workflow over the last four years, including some of the new features...

“The smartest person in the room is the room,” according to David Weinberger’s Too Big To Know, published in 2012. I heard this quote somewhere in the ether and have thought about it before every lesson I teach and presentation I make.
Placing every student’s knowledge and effort at the center of the lesson is ultimately the goal with student-centered learning. Learners, by design, will spend most of the time using content they chose to answer their own need-to-know questions. The...

My father called me to ask if there was a way to turn a JPEG into a PDF. I told him that there were a few ways we can do it and that I should just come over and see what he’s trying to accomplish. It’s the best way to coach someone on technology issues...