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50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help In Education. Google Docs is such an incredible tool for college students, offering collaboration, portability, ease of use, and widespread acceptance. But there are so many options, both hidden and obvious, that there’s a good chance you’re not using Google Docs to its fullest capability. We’ve discovered 50+ great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student , with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive. 50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help In Education.

Four new ways to customize your Google Forms. From classroom pop quizzes to RSVPs for your family reunion, you can use Google Forms in tons of different ways -- which is why it's important to be able to customize each form to fit your needs.

Four new ways to customize your Google Forms

Starting today, you’ll be able to take advantage of four new features to create your perfect form: progress bars, data validation, embedded YouTube videos, and custom messages. Guide respondents through your survey with a progress bar Sometimes it’s helpful to give respondents a sense of how much of a survey still needs to be completed, and now you can by turning on a progress bar in your form. To turn it on, just check the progress bar box in the Form Settings tab. Get results the way you want them with data validation Let’s say you’re using Forms to collect sign ups for an email newsletter. 10 Creative Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning. The following post was co-authored by EdTechTeacher’s Beth Holland & Tracy Sockalosky. When we think about the tools and resources that benefit all learners, certain key attributes come to mind: multiple modalities, scaffolding, communication, collaboration, and support.

While there are hundreds of tools and devices available, we have found 10 strategies to maximize the learning possibilities through creative uses of All Things Google . 10 Creative Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning. 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved.

Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.

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Astronomy taught us centuries ago that common sense is not a reliable guide to reality. Today it is neuroscience that is forcing us to readjust our intuitions. 7 Tools Students Can Use to Manage Group Projects. Any teacher who has assigned group projects to students has at some point had to help those students organize and equitably distribute work.

7 Tools Students Can Use to Manage Group Projects

(Or has had to listen to students complaints about other group members not pulling their weight). Here are some tools that you can have students use to manage their responsibilities when working on group projects. Pegby is a good website for organizing the tasks that you and or your team need to get done. Pegby is set up like a corkboard with index cards stuck to it. The corkboard has three columns to place your index cards on. Web Tools for Collaboration. Group projects can cause a lot of stress for everyone involved.

Web Tools for Collaboration

For some people, the idea that a portion of their grade is dependent upon the work of others can be agonizing. Between trying to coordinate work and make sure deadlines are being met, group projects can be a real headache. Luckily, several useful online tools are available to help you keep your group project running smoothly. The, "I want to build a laser", Thread - Laser Pointer Forums - Discuss Lasers & Laser Pointers. Walliwisher. TodaysMeet. The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You.

The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? Likes?) And ran a contest to try and get as many submissions as possible. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates. TheDailyCafe.com. Walliwisher. Edmodo - incredible free resource to use in the. Free Technology for Teachers. Second Grade Websites. 250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.

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Flash forward to today, both of the schools I work at have purchased one iPad for each classroom. Although I’ve already mastered how to manage all the iDevices in my personal household, learning to manage iPads in an institutional environment involved a bit more learning due to the complexities of software licensing and the necessity to keep institutional accounts separate from personal ones. School Accounts You’ll Need: 1. A generic e-mail address. To repeat, you deposit gift cards into the VPP account and then redeem the download codes you receive through your school’s Apple ID. Although you buy 20 codes, you really only redeem one of the codes.

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Self Sufficiency Guides for living a more Self Sufficient Life. Explore Our Town Project. The Our Town Project is an interdisciplinary collaborative project that asks students to explore their town and the people and places that make it unique.

Explore Our Town Project

Students begin by using Google Earth to identify various places in their town, such as their schools, their seat of government, the police station, the hospital, the zoo, religious centers, local museums, water treatment plants, and other businesses where their parents work. OER Commons. FlexBooks. Virtualinquiry - Spring 2011 Archives. Project Based Learning. Project Based Learning. Making Projects Click. Making Projects Click. PBL Resources - Ways of Learning. Not all of these are PBL in the strictest sense of the term, but some are and those that are not are still great sources of inspiration for teachers trying to enliven their classroom.

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West Virginia Project DesignsA collection of projects by grade and a great place to start. Don't be overwhelmed by the layout which is not the most visually appealing - there are some really great ideas in there, one of which I'm planning to use shortly: Audio Books are Awesome! (I'll be using a local organisation for the blind, rather than Librivox but I think it's a great idea.) Project Based Learning at High Tech HighFor reasons unknown, English comes under 'Humanities' in this school, so when searching for projects you'll need to select or search for that term.

Organizing, and learning with, group projects. Cooperative learning series Learning and working in groups involves shared and/or learned values, resources, and ways of doing things.

Organizing, and learning with, group projects

Effective groups learn to succeed by combining these factors. Your group, and each individual within it, will only be as effective as they are willing to respect differences within the group. Summary of the entire process: Lyme Disease Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention, Advocacy (Lyme Info)

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