Div1 Edtech in EPSB. 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools. Google Apps are collaborative, which makes them highly powerful. They offer opportunities for students to engage unlike ever before. Here are 20 ideas. Google Apps is beginning to revolutionize education.
With its highly collaborative, online/offline format — and its attractive price tag (free!) The way that Google Apps is interactive and easy to share is powerful. There’s so much you can do with these apps in class to get students — AND teachers — working together. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. What are other ways to use Google Apps to help students, teachers and others at schools collaborate? (For notifications of new Ditch That Textbook content and helpful links, “like” Ditch That Textbook on Facebook and follow @jmattmiller on Twitter!)
Related Google Apps "GAFE Smashing" activities -- Part 1: Dynamic Docs Google Apps make so many fantastic classroom activities possible. April 25, 2016 In "Ed Tech" October 2, 2014. A Short Guide to Sharing Media Through Google Drive for iPad. A Short Guide to Creating and Sharing Google Calendars. Creating a public Google Calendar and embedding it into your classroom blog is a great way to keep your students and their parents informed about what is happening in your classroom. I often included my lesson plan outlines and important handouts in the events on the public calendars on my classroom blog. If you would like to do the same thing, just sign into your Google Calendar account and follow the directions included below.
Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Step 5: Step 6: Step 7: Step 8: (The embed code can be pasted into a Blogger or Wordpress-powered blog). The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School. Back-to-school time is underway, and I'm sure you teachers are already balancing your lives, your classroom, and your pesky administrations. What could make life just a little bit easier for you? Google Docs, my dear educator friend.
Google Docs. Below, we have ten awesome tips to help you out when handling your students and their parents. Some of them you may know, but others, you very well may not. Monitor Revisions For Lengthy Papers And Reports Google Docs allows the owner (and whoever the owner chooses) to view all changes and revisions in papers. Viewing revisions is very easy to do. Accommodate Tech-Fueled Minds For Group Projects Group projects suck, but they don't have to. Google Docs offers the ability for multiple students to work on various projects together simultaneously. This can be simply done by inviting students via email to a document and giving them all permission to edit. Work With Your Student Even While They Are At Home Show Students Where They Made Their Mistakes. How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive.
Google Docs has made its home on Google Drive. So after one year, it's high time to get used to calling it by the new account name. Some digital habits die hard, and in my case I find it's still kicking as I continue to call it by its former name. I am one of the stragglers here. But then there's one thing which hasn't changed – my continuing reliance on Google for my web research. Google Drive might be jogging steadfastly behind Microsoft Office, but Google Drive is adding muscles to its legs; at least enough to help out a writer-researcher with the basic features he needs to get his job done.
There are certain advantages to using Google Drive for your research work. It's free and available from everywhere of course. The Twin Benefits of the Research Tool A Smoother Workflow The Research tool on Google Drive can be compared to a Google assistant who helps you search for the relevant content, images, maps, and other bits of information to include in your document. Citing Your References. 5 Ways to Use Google Sites in Schools. 13 Good Chrome Extensions and Apps for Students and Teachers. How to Create Image-Based Quizzes in Google Forms. How to Install and Uninstall Chrome Extensions. Yesterday, I shared a neat Chrome extension called WikiTube.
WikiTube matches YouTube videos to Wikipedia entries. This morning I had a couple of emails from people asking how to add that extension to their browsers. Rather than trying to type the directions, I created the screencast video and annotated screenshots that you can see below. (Click the screenshots to view them in full size). One thing that I left out of the directions is that you should sign into your account before adding the extensions. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Google Forms for Teachers- A Must Read Guide.
In today's post, we are sharing with you one of the best and simplest guides I have ever read on Google Forms. This visual tutorial is created by Eric Curts and covers a wide range of tips and tricks on anything you need to know about Google Forms. Check it out and, as usual, your feedback is most welcome. Enjoy Here is a cursory look on the table of content of this guide : What is Google Forms? Getting Started - MaryFran's Google Docs Tutorials. Once you have an account, go to the Google start page and sign in. You will be able to access Docs either through the list of blue underlined options at the top left hand side of the page, or under the drop-down menu under more You come to the Documents List Page. From here you will be able to: begin a New < Documentor Upload Files.
Here's some info on uploading:You can Drag and Drop files from your hard drive or Select files to upload When you upload a text document, spreadsheet, presentation, or drawing you will have the option to "Convert documents, spreadsheets & presentations to Google Docs format. " 10 Great Tools to Integrate with your Google Docs. Since Google officially changed Google Docs name to Google Drive and a number of updates have been introduced to improve its overall performance. One very recent update is an increase of cloud storage capacity to 15GB usable across Gmail, Drive, and Google Plus. It is quite obvious that Google is trying to outsmart its immediate competitor Dropbox and I think Google is successful in its strategy so far. To make Google Drive stand out from the crowd, Google opened it to apps developers and allowed users to select from a wide variety of web apps to integrate into their Google Drive accounts.
With the integration of these apps, users can now handle their files and documents ways not affordable by any other cloud storage tool out there. I have curated for you some interesting apps that are integrated into Google Drive and which you can install right from your Google Drive interface. Here is a list of some great apps to use with your Google Drive : 1- WeVideo 2- PicMonkey 3- Google Forms app. Forms - Kern Kelley. Google Form Templates If you are logged into your Google Account, these form templates will automatically copy into your Google Docs Dashboard. Many of the forms are designed to work with an iPod Touch. For more information about educational uses of that device, go to Test and Quizzes Self Grading 10 Question Multiple Choice Quiz - Provide a link to this form or embed it into a website.
Administrative Forms Professional Performance Evaluation - Teacher observation form that the administrators can use. Miscellaneous QR Code Generator - Creates QR Codes from URL's collected in a from.Science Fair Judging Form - This is the scoring form used in a middle school science fair.Story Board - Used by student groups to write and produce a video project. How To Use Google Docs Offline. Earlier this year Google enabled support for using Google Documents offline if you use Chrome and have the Google Drive Chrome app installed. When Google made that announcement I wrote some directions for enabling offline docs. Today, someone suggested sharing those directions again.
So I've rewritten the directions and included some screen captures of the process. To enable Google Docs for offline use, sign into your account and click the sprocket icon in the upper-right corner. Then select "set up docs offline. " Google Docs will then launch a dialogue box asking you to confirm that you want to enable docs offline. Step 1: In your Google Drive account open the "more" menu. Step 2: Select "enable offline docs. " A Note for Google Apps for Education Users If you are using Google Docs within a Google Apps for Education domain your domain administrator will have to enable the option for users to use Google Docs offline.
Teacher's Guide to Adding Images in Google Forms. Here is how you can add an image to your Form To add an image to your form, click on the " add item" button displayed in your Google Forms and select " image" just as shown in the snapshot below. There are three ways you can embed an image in your Google form: 1- You can drag and drop it in the designated area or you can click on " choose and image" and upload it from your hard drive. 2- You can upload images from the web by pasting their URLs in the content bar provided there 3- You can embed a snapshot into your forms.
Just click on " take a snapshot " and you are good to go. 4- You can also add images from your Google Drive. see these four steps in this screenshot When you upload your image you can then give it a title and type in the hover text. The hover text is self explanatory, it is the words users will see when they hover on the image. The hover text is also important in cases when the image does not appear in a certain web browser. 10 Apps in 10 Minutes #chromebookedu | Kyle B. Recently my colleague Jill and I worked with some teachers during a PD day on finding great Chrome apps & extensions for learning. We thought we’d kick off the time together by picking 10 of our most favorite (picking only 10 is hard!)
And sharing them with teachers in 10 minutes. We wanted to quickly get teachers excited about educational apps and extensions available to their students. We might have went just a tad over 10 minutes but nonetheless we kept it brief. Here are the 10 we covered with a quick description as well as the link to the Chrome Web Store. I am also purposely keeping this post short so it takes 10 minutes or less to read. :) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The great thing about installing apps in Chrome (whether on a Chromebook or not) is quick and easy. These are just a sample of the great educational apps available in the Chrome Web Store. Like this: Like Loading... Use 121 Writing to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents. 20 Google Docs Secrets for busy teachers and students. Google Docs has revolutionised the way we create and edit content on the web. It is a genuine collaboration tool like nothing that has come before it.
Up to 50 people can simultaneously edit a spreadsheet, presentation or document at no expense, and it is available on all mobile and desktop platforms. Today we are going to look at 20 great tips every teacher and student should be using to get the most of the collaborative learning opportunities Google Doc’s offers. Allow editing without signing in: If you’re sharing a document with classmates who don’t have a Google login, just make it available to edit without signing in. Chat away: In Google Docs, you can see anyone who is currently editing the document, and if needed, send a message to chat with them.
Embed Docs anywhere: Get a link to your document or spreadsheet, and you can embed or publish it anywhere, including Facebook or a class blog. Create graphs: Visuals are great tools for getting your point across. Google Voice on My Syllabus - Texting Encouraged. Five Essential Google Drive Skills For Teachers. This school year I've worked with a few school districts that are using Google Apps for Education for the first time. A lot of what I have done with those school districts is help to get the teachers acclimated to using Google Drive. When I sat down to plan an upcoming Google Drive training session I thought about some of the essential Google Drive skills that teachers need in addition to creating documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
Here are five essential Google Drive skills that I think teachers and students need. 1. Open and Edit Word Files in Google Drive. If you're just beginning to transition to Google Apps from Microsoft Word, the chances are good you will have old files that you want to bring into and work on in Google Drive. 2. 3. 4. 5. Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4: Google Docs for Administrators – 5 Ideas to Get Started. As another school year begins to come to a close, I have recently had some of our administrators (mostly elementary) contact me with ideas for making administrative tasks more paperless and create a more efficient workflow not only for themselves but for their teachers.
Some of these have been regular “end of year” tasks and others are being put into motion in preparation for next year. Given my known affinity for Google Apps for Education, and being we are a Google Apps for Education district, my first inclination is always to figure out how these tasks could be completed using GAFE in one way or another. As I begin to help several of our administrators with these projects, I thought I’d start a post that I could come back and add to over time. They might be beneficial to you as a teacher or you might want to share them with administrators in your district.
So here they are in no particular order: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Please feel free to add your ideas in the comments section! Like this: PSD70 Digital Portfolio Project. Free Google Documents Tutorial at GCFLearnFree. iPad or Chromebook: 4 Questions To Ask Before Choosing. Google Apps Training Videos | Google Apps Expert | Google Gooru.