Differentiate Instruction Using Google Apps | Electronic Brains Theories that Inspire Great Instruction As a trained Special Education teacher, I have always believed that it is essential to offer a variety of learning strategies and project opportunities to the students in my classroom. I have always worked hard to create interactive multi-modal activities and learning opportunities, often providing manipulatives, games, posters, white boards, mini chalkboards, personal anchor charts and graphic organizers for students, aiming always to provide the tools and strategies individual students need in order to succeed, never believing in the on-size-fits-all model of instruction. Over the years, I have been inspired by a number of great instructors and theorists, with Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences being most influential in my instructional planning, delivery, and assessment. Essential Technology and Google Apps When I first began teaching, I used technology to find resources and lesson plan ideas, and to communicate via e-mail.
10 Ways to Use Google Sites with Your Students April 18, 2014 Google Sites is one of the best website creation software I have been recommending for teachers. There are a wide variety of reasons why Google Sites is an ideal platform to host your class website and here are some of them: Google Sites is easy to use and has a student friendly interface.You can set up your website within minutes without the need for any HMTL or CSS knowledge.It provides highly customizable themes that you can easily apply to your site.It is integrated with some other Google serves like Google Calendar.Google Sites has a wonderful web-based editor that allows you to easily create, edit and share you content.It provides a set of collaborative features including multiple editors and commenting.Inserting images, videos, and other multimedia materials is ridiculously easy.It provides a modest cloud storage capacity for you to upload documents, files, attachments, and PDFs.And it is FREE.
The Recipe for Perfect Social Media Posts When you post on social platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest, you've got to do a lot more than just post a link with a quick sentence describing it if you want lots of people to click on your post and visit your website. You've actually got to optimize your posts for each network. Knowing little tricks like where to put a CTA in your YouTube description, how to include a shortened link in the copy of your LinkedIn post, or why you should avoid including a human's face as a pin image on Pinterest could be the difference between success and failure on social media. And if you're already putting in the man-hours and budget into building your business on these platforms, you want to make sure you're skewing toward the success side of the spectrum and getting the biggest bang for your buck. So keep on reading -- these optimization tricks are visualized in this infographic, designed by mycleveragency.
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5 New Google Form Features in July! July 2017 comes with 5 brand new features added to Google Forms! One of the most anticipated is the availability of File Upload for consumer accounts (previously restricted to G Suite Domains). Check out whats been added to Google Forms! If you're a heavy Google Forms user already and you also tend to organize your forms into sections, you're going to love this new feature! #2: Create a Checkbox Grid Multiple choice grids have been available for a long time and they're great for rubrics but there are other evaluation methods that might work best with a checkbox grid in which the user can select more than one option from the columns. #3: Create Default Settings If you want to be able to set similar setting across all of the Google Forms you create, you can now do that via the Preferences option in the menu. You can create 3 default settings: collect email addresses, make questions required, and you can set the default quiz point value. #5: File Upload for Public Accounts
38 Ideas to Use Google Drive in Class August 11, 2014 This is the third post in a series of posts aimed at helping teachers and educators make the best out of Google Drive in classrooms. This series comes in a time when teachers are getting ready to start a new school year and hopefully will provide them with the necessary know-how to help them better integrate Google Drive in their teaching pedagogy. The two previous posts featured in this series were entitled consecutively "New Google Drive Cheat Sheet" and "Teachers Visual Guide to Google Drive Sharing". Today's post covers some interesting ideas and tips on how to go about using Google Drive in your classroom. Google Docs
100 Best Design Blogs for Graphic Designers Inspiration & Tips If you’re looking for the best design blogs to follow… you’re in the right place. Get your RSS reader warmed up and subscribe to these blogs for daily updates of Graphic Design Inspiration, Branding advice, Typography tips and Web Design Tutorials. I’ve spent the last few days curating this list from my Feedly collection and suggestions from other designers – I’ve certainly come across a few fantastic resources in the process. If I’ve left any incredible design blogs out of the list you feel should have made the cut, feel free to leave a comment at the end – I’ll review and keep the list as up-to-date as possible! Let’s start the list with a bit of shameless self-promotion if only to get it out of the way… Inkbot Design’s Blog – – We focus on articles aimed to help young designers, along with a few here and there to help my clients with their own brand. General Design Blogs Hongkiat – – Design tips, tutorials and inspiration. Co.
Using Social Media in the Classroom! - Teach Create Motivate Social media, as I am sure you know, is a VERY powerful tool. You can even use it in your classrooms!! I wanted to do a quick post on the ideas and share them with all of you fabulous teachers!! Social media in the classroom is a great way to connect with parents and students. p.s. As much as we all want our students to go home and tell their parents all the wonderful, engaging, activities that we spent hours to create, plan, and teach……..is that usually the case. Kids are kids and they go home and mumble about their day or just plain say nothing exciting happened. First up: Instagram! Next: TWITTER! 3- Facebook! Lastly…Some of us are on SnapChat, a social media platform that has really taken off! I have created some parent permission forms for each social media platform that I would love to share with you! I hope you learned some tips for using social media in your classroom! Leave your ideas in the comments below! Pin this image to save this post for later!
Control Alt Achieve: The All New Google Sites for Schools - Video Tutorial Back in June, Google announced that Sites, its web design program, would be getting a long overdue update (see my post from then). Rather than just add some new features, Google chose to rewrite the entire program from the ground up. As of November, the all new version of Google Sites is now available for everyone to use. So how does it stack up? In short... Easy, Beautiful, but Basic Easy - By far the new version of Google Sites is the easiest web design program I have ever used (and I even wrote my own web design program about 15 years ago... anyone remember POW-PAK?) Video Tutorial (1 hour) Session Slideshow Additional Session Resources Video - "The All New Google Sites for Schools" - YouTube linkSlideshow - "The All New Google Sites for Schools" - Google Slides linkBlog Post - "The Totally New Google Sites" - Blog post linkComparison of Classic Sites to New Sites - web linkResources for "Classic Sites" - web linkPost by Eric Curts.
Make This the Year You Launch Genius Hour By Gallit Zvi and Denise Krebs Have you heard of Genius Hour? It’s inquiry-based and passion-based learning all rolled into one and students love it! We are firm believers in this kind of student-centered classroom experience. If you haven’t given this learning idea a shot in your class yet, we think you should consider making this the year you launch Genius Hour. The Genius Hour movement was born on Twitter and we continue to host a #geniushour twitter chat each month. Preparing for a Genius Hour launch First we asked these teachers, some of whom have several years experience in Genius Hour, questions about what happens in their classrooms before they launch Genius Hour. Justin Greene and Carli Padgett each said their students will have conversations about their passions, likes and dislikes, and what they are wondering about. Laurie Davies, Jennifer Abbey and Cristal Edwards suggested community building is key. We love the use of a Wonder Wall in the classroom.