4 Important Google Drive Skills for Teachers December 3, 2015 As we were sifting through our Google Drive archive here in EdTech and mLearning it dawned on us to create this list of important tips and hacks every teacher should be aware of. We labelled them as skills because once mastered they have the potential of transforming teachers' Drive experience and enable them to tap into its real educational potential. We invite you to check them out and share with your colleagues. 1- Create Shared Folder in Google Drive You can easily create a shared folder and share it with your students. A- Create a folder B- Name your folder C- Customize sharing setting of your folder D- Customize visibility settings of your folder E- Share your folder Now anything you add to that folder will be automatically displayed in students Drive. 2- Install Google Drive Apps''To install apps compatible with your Drive: Courtesy of Google Drive Help.
The First Step In EdTech Integration? Connecting With Students - The First Step In EdTech Integration? Connecting With Students by Rachelle Dene Poth You can always find a lot of discussion about the best ways, tools, and ideas for integrating technology in the classroom. Educating yourself about the tools available and best strategies for integrating technology into the classroom is important to stay up to date with your profession. Teachers may find themselves on varying ends of the spectrum of being technology savvy. I have grown up in the age of computing, and as a result, incorporating technology into my classroom was not something I was afraid to do–nor was it a seamless process either. So where to begin? For my classroom, it came down to what I have referred to as a “disconnect” between my students, our class and their access to vital resources. “Edtech integration,” I wondered to myself “has to start there.” The Need For Communication Resources So how did this impact my classroom? Think connections. The First Step In EdTech Integration?
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Step by Step Guide on How to Create Interactive Presentations Using The New Google Slides Features May 6, 2016 After posting about the new Slides’ Q&A feature, we received a couple of questions regarding its usage. So we created this visual guide to walk you through the process of integrating questions in your presentation. But let us firs start with a refresher about what Slides Q&A is all about.This is a new functionality that allows members of your audience to engage with your presentation by asking realtime questions while you are presenting. Here is how to start a live Q&A session during a presentation with Google Slides. ‘Open a presentation in Google Slides.At the top, next to "Present," click the Down arrow.Click Presenter View. In the new window, click Audience tools.To start a new session, click Start new.To resume a recent session, click Continue recent.To stop accepting questions, click the on/off switch in the Q&A window.’ This is how to show questions from the audience: To present questions live to your audience: Source: Docs Help Center
25 Tips For Teaching With Apps 25 Tips For Teaching With Apps by Terry Heick We’ve done tips in the past for teaching with tablets. 1. If you’re going to use something important, interdependent, and new, you’re going to need some kind of model or framework to contextualize it. “Despite the rhetoric around m-learning virtually guaranteeing contextualised learning, very few of these scenarios rated highly in the scales for authenticity. It is mobility and access that underscores learning through apps, and using this technology without adjusting the design of learning experiences could yield underwhelming results. 2. There are a lot of apps, tools, and platforms out there. They call themselves a “discovery engine,” and that’s exactly how they function. You can create your own app collection, or see other collections created by other teachers, along with comments and feedback, which apps are trending, how many collections certain apps are included in, and so on. 3. You can’t download everything at once. 4. 5. 6. Not magic.
Back up photos & videos - Android - Google Photos Help Teaching With YouTube: 197 Digital Channels For Learning Teaching With YouTube: 197 Digital Channels For Learning If you don’t have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there’s a good chance you’re behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons. These channels allow instructors to share information and blend media in unprecedented and exciting new ways. From teaching Mandarin Chinese to busting myths about Astronomy, the educational possibilities are diverse and dynamic. Here are the top channels worth following based on views, subscriptions, and quality of content: General YouTube EDU: Launched in 2009, Youtube EDU centralizes content from over 100 universities and colleges, providing access to lectures, research, and campus tours. Physical Sciences Engineering & Technology Mathematics Mr. The Arts
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 3 Great Grading Add-ons for Google Docs July 3, 2016 Below are two Google Docs add-ons that you can use to grade students assignments and provide written feedback to them. The apps will absolutely facilitate your grading and save you some precious time to spend on other instructional tasks. Check them out and share with us your feedback. Enjoy 1- Grading Help ‘GradingHelp leverages Google Docs comments, so you can easily link between the student's text and the related comment, which appears in the margin. 2- OrangeSlice: Teacher Rubric ‘OrangeSlice: Teacher Rubric increases the teacher’s grading productivity by eliminating repetitive clicks, presenting the rubric selections in an easy to use format and presenting the final grades in a consistent, professional format. 3- JoeZoo Express
7 Ways You Can Use Texting to Your Advantage in the Classroom If you were to take a glance around a classroom in which no smartphone policy has been set, it would be easy to conclude that texting at school is nothing but a distraction. Just look at all of those bent heads and rapidly moving thumbs! Take a look at the caliber of those texts — “wat r u doing l8er” — and it would also be easy to assume texting will one day bring about the end of literacy and analytical thought, if it hasn’t already. This may be true — and it may also not be. The studies in this area are even newer than texting itself, and results are mixed, with one study indicating that texting makes students worse in one academic area while another study finds the opposite. Photo credit: Gordon Mei Why Texting May Not Be As Bad As You Think It Is 1. Texting, just like conversational speech, is loose in structure and lacks any concern for the rules. Considered in this light, texting in itself is its own dialect. 2. What’s behind this? 3. The same goes for texting. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Creating QR Codes If you would like to create QR codes for your class here is a workflow that works for me. Using the Chrome web browser install the ShortenMe chrome extension. Click Here What this extension allows you to do is create a short URL and a QR code from any website. Create a new Google Slides presentation from Google Drive. Choose a white presentation. I am going to make each slide a large QR code. Go to the websites you want to direct your students to via QR code. The ShortenMe Chrome extension looks like 3 dots. By default the short URL will be copied to your clipboard. Back in Google Slides, use the insert menu to insert an image. Rather than uploading an image, choose the “By URL” option along the top of the insert image screen. The QR code will be small on the slide. Insert a blank slide in the Google Slides presentation and insert another QR code. QR codes are made to be printed. Like this: Like Loading...
iTeach with iPads | Innovating learning and literacy with iPads in kindergarten Prof Numéric: Saisie vocale Google Docs : 6 pistes pédagogiques Des mises à jour très intéressantes sont arrivées cette semaine dans l'outil collaboratif gratuit de Google Apps, c'est-à-dire Google Documents. Il y a notamment l'historique des révisions qui a été bonifié pour rapidement faire défiler, une par une, les modifications apportées à un document. Plusieurs nouveaux gabarits de mise en page ont également été ajoutés. Ces ajouts font le bonheur des enseignantes étant donné qu'il permet également d'utiliser la saisie vocale dans les documents collaboratifs (ordinateurs). La saisie vocale de Google Documents ne fonctionne que sur le navigateur Chrome pour le moment. La saisie vocale m'a particulièrement étonné par sa justesse et sa rapidité d'exécution. La saisie vocale dans mes ateliers Google Drive est gratuit lors de la création d'une adresse électronique chez Gmail. Voici les étapes à suivre afin de saisir vocalement du texte dans un document collaboratif. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6.