Instantly Share Digital Lesson Plans
Changing times bring changing requirements for our product. To help teachers out in distance education situations and make their life a little easier, we made it [...]
New: Choose your own colors with the color picker
Starting now, your lines, shapes, and texts can be written in all the colors of the rainbow. The color palette has been expanded to include four [...]
New: Lesson autosave
You no longer have to worry about losing changes when you create a lesson in Gynzy. The new board now offers the option to save your [...]
Page templates
Making your own lessons just got easier with a little help from our lesson templates. You can choose between different templates with practical formatting. Quickly bring [...]
Set image as background
One of the teacher requests we got at Gynzy was to be able to set an image as background. Now you can have fun backgrounds that [...]
The new curtain
The red stage curtain is now also available on the new Gynzy board with a subtle addition, a "cord." Pull the cord to slowly reveal what [...]
Document import
Now you can import documents such as PDF, PowerPoint, and Word on the new Gynzy board and save them in your own lessons. This way you [...]
Shortcut Keys
The new Gynzy board contains many new features that teachers and authors can use to develop lessons even more smoothly, including shortcuts. Certain actions can be [...]
Text-to-speech
Add voice dictation to your own lessons with the “Text-to-speech” widget. With this handy widget you can type in words or sentences and play it with [...]
Gynzy Guide: Widgets
A lot of our widgets can be used to help keep your students under control and paying attention. You can use them in conjunction with Gynzy [...]
Gynzy Guide: Timetable (Visual Schedule Cards)
This guide will show you how to use our "Timetable" tool to keep your school day organized and efficient! You’ll be able to plan time for [...]
Gynzy Guide: Classroom Floorplanner
The tool we are covering this time is our Classroom Floorplanner, which will help get you organized before school starts! With this resource you can easily [...]
Gynzy Guide: Word Flash Cards (with your own word lists)
The tool I am going to cover in this guide is "Word Flash Cards (with your own word lists)". This tool is great for students who [...]
Gynzy Guide: Adding student lists
In this guide I’m going to teach you how to create and use student lists in our “Name order and group creator” tool. This tool will [...]
4 Core Areas of Music Education
National Music Week is coming soon and music teachers are some of my favorite people. I taught K-8 music so I know the challenges they face. [...]
Five Timeless Classroom Management Techniques
When most new teachers dream of stepping into a classroom, they think of the lessons that will be taught, the knowledge that will be imparted, and [...]
Earth Day Proves that Anyone Can Learn With the Right Environment
In 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin was moved dramatically by experiencing the devastation of an oil spill in Santa Barbara, CA. He wanted to do something [...]
Improve your Handwriting Skills on your IWB
He had a brilliant mind, but this favorite student of mine struggled with one main issue in fourth grade: handwriting. It was hardly legible and even [...]
Christmas Lesson Plan: Christmas Around The World
In this lesson plan students will analyze the celebration of Christmas in diverse cultures in a variety of media and formats. They will compare and contrast [...]
Activities that Will Instill a Love of Reading
There was a time when learning consisted of three basic subjects: Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. The “3 R’s” as they were once known, taught a student [...]
Teach fractions with use of your interactive whiteboard
Students need to know their fractions, so they can solve more difficult mathematical problems in the future. With Gynzy, you can use your interactive whiteboard to [...]
7 Shortcuts to Completing Your Lesson Plan in Record Time
Creating organized and innovative lesson plans is an essential part of every teacher's job. However, finding the time and the motivation can be difficult when you're [...]
What Should I Remember on Memorial Day?
It’s hard to remember what you’ve never learned. For most students, Memorial Day is the time when the city pool opens, or they have their last [...]
Teaching with Technology
The world of education has changed dramatically in the past three decades. Technologies that were once available only on a trial basis are now accessible by [...]
Different Lessons to Learn more about Poetry
Writing good poetry begins with reading good poetry, which can take hours to collect. This is time a busy teacher only finds after all the other [...]
Effective Lesson Plan Templates
As a teacher, your day depends on your lesson plans. They are what keep you organized, on track, and prepared to teach each subject. They also [...]
Physical Education Lesson Plans
Most schools provide a physical education program for their students. However, while these programs might take place every day or every other day in middle school [...]
Making a fraction kit together with the ruler
One of the first activities we always do with our fraction unit is to make a fraction kit. I gave each student eight pieces of 1X12 [...]
Pi Day Celebration
I had no idea what extensive Pi Day Celebrations there are all over the world until I began to research the subject. I found some terrific [...]
Gynzy without Interactive Whiteboard
I teach a combination first-second grade class in a small school. Gynzy was introduced to me this past fall while I was in another teacher’s classroom. [...]