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Teacher Tech. Tips & Tricks to Get Students Collaborating in Google Drive™ - The Techie Teacher® Welcome to G Suite. Google Fonts. There is Even More Google? - Google's Incredible Hidden Gems and Secrets. Google Tips & Tricks for Workflow. I love my PLN.

Google Tips & Tricks for Workflow

As an instructional technology coach and an adjunct professor I am continuously on the hunt for new ideas and ways to reach more students and teachers. Recently I participated in an #ISTETEN Twitter chat on Student Voices and Future Visions which included everyone from professors, coaches, teachers and pre-service teachers. During the chat a question was presented about student voice and what we learn when we listen to students. This led to the idea of students mapping their use of the Internet. Some professors have students map their professional learning networks, others ask students to map digital spaces that they frequent.

In 2001 Marc Prensky coined the phrases "Digital Natives" and "Digital Immigrants" essentially stating that your age determined how comfortable you were with using the Internet. Color Code and Organize Your Google Drive - Ladybug's Teacher Files. It seems like I rely more and more on my Google Drive each year of my teaching.

Color Code and Organize Your Google Drive - Ladybug's Teacher Files

I upload my favorite resources to folders, create docs for my students to use in Google Classroom, store maps for Social Studies, upload photos of our Science experiments...there is just so much you can do with the drive. And I really love how easy it is to organize your files. But, truth be told, I was never a big fan of the layout and colors. A sea of gray folders is never really helpful when you are a busy teacher trying to find docs on the fly. And, while you can colorize the folders, there is only so much control over the order they can be displayed. Or is there? I've had my folders colorized for a few years, but I learned something new. And it gets better. Sarah Thomas - Google Drive - SK12. Welcome to G Suite. Create G Suite Templates with This Mind-Blowing Hack. Taylor Made - Dungeons & GSuite. Search this site Dungeons & GSuite Using a Choose Your Own Adventure Style explore how you can use Google’s GSuite to build an interactive experience (using Slides and Forms) for students.

Taylor Made - Dungeons & GSuite

Create interactive Slide Decks and Forms helping with student engagement, while at the same time giving students resources to review and build toward, both formative and summative assessments. Bring your D20, a healthy dose of healing potions, and a device that you can connect to the internet for our quest. Dungeons and Gsuite V.2 Now grab your dice bag, roll up your character and get ready to set forth on an adventure into the World of GSuite and learn about how you can use its apps to create new ways of connecting to students and drive instruction in a different way. Once you have made your way through your adventure take some time to submit an example of your work to earn a Taylor Made Digital Badge.

Get Outta GSuite. Search this site Get Outta GSuite! It's night before the start of the year and your school has JUST decided to use Google Suite EDU but you know nothing about it! What do you do? How can you use something you know nothing about to help educate kids? You are determined to figure something out before the bell rings and students show up to your class! New to Digital Breakouts? Get Outta GSuite Digital Breakout created by @KarlyMoura. An Intro to Google Drive and Tools. The best Google Drive cheat sheets. Dynamic Learning with G Suite. 25 tips and tools to make Google Drive better. Simple Technology Tutorials. Simple Life Together Video Tutorials You know we love to talk organizing and tech on the show, but sometimes just “hearing” about a topic on the show isn’t quite as effective as “seeing” something in action.

Simple Technology Tutorials

I guess that’s why so many of you asked us to do some video tutorials to help you really grasp tech and organizing topics. So, since you asked, we decided to give a shot! Here are our goals for our video tutorials: Cover interesting topics that you can actually use to simplify your lifeDo our best to break down these subjects so they are easy to understandTry to make the videos interesting with real examplesProduce professional videos that get the job done, but don’t get caught up in trying to make it look perfect. Google Drive Tutorial This tutorial is just over an hour long and focuses on all the fundamentals of how to use Google Drive for creating, sharing, and storing documents using Google’s free, full-fledged office suite.