Google My Maps: Lesson Ideas - Teacher Tech Google My Maps allows students to create using customized maps where they create the content. Students can they locate places around the globe and see them at street view. Students can drop markers onto the map and embed text, photos or YouTube videos into the markers. Create a route. Measure size and distance. Contribute to My Maps Lessons This collaborative spreadsheet was crowdsourced and lists some My Map lesson plan ideas. Sample Map Review this sample map that Donnie Piercy helped contribute to. Install the Android App Google Play Ditch That Textbook Matt Miller, author of “Ditch That Textbook” has a blog post on “20 ways Google MyMaps can enhance lessons in any class.” Free Technology for Teachers Richard Byrne has a post on “How to Use Google’s My Maps in Your Classroom.” Some Tweets Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2016
Google Classroom Today we're launching an integration with Google Classroom, so that you can use the Classroom Share button to send out Quizizz games. How does it work? Just begin a Live or Homework game as you normally would. On the page where you get the game code, you'll now see a Classroom Share button. Click on the Google Classroom share button, It will ask you to select the class you want to share this game with. Afer this you can send out this as an assignment or announcement containing a link that the students can use to join the game. Students will see a new post in their classroom account to join the game. When your students click the link, they will prompted to login with their Google accounts. In the reports screen, you'll see their actual name from their Google account, as well as the name they picked for the game. How does it help? There are a number of useful benefits of Google Classroom: 1.
30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education 30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education by TeachThought Staff As the search engine that’s become its own verb, Google’s success is difficult to frame. One of the most telling examples of their gravity in search is how few legitimate competitors they have. (Some would say they have none.) But cataloguing and indexing humanity’s digital wares isn’t easy, especially with an entire cottage industry trying to sabotage the integrity of a search for their own personal gain (among these trends, nefarious Search Engine Optimization). That leaves education in a sticky place. To provide students with unchecked access to the internet (via Google) creates a sink-or-swim scenario that no longer works in education. The secret, then, is to let them play with digital media. So below are 30 innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom. To build search literacy in 21st century learners, consider having students:
Wheel Decide on onnenpyörä, joka aktivoi helposti – ritakeskitalo Muutama päivä sitten löysin Pinterestistä Wheel Decide– sovelluksen. Se on selaimessa toimiva onnenpyörä, jota voi hyödyntää esimerkiksi erilaisissa päätöksenteko tilanteissa ja peleissä. Pyöritellessäni sivuston onnenpyöriä, päätin kokeilla onnenpyörää heti seuraavana päivänä 8. luokan biologiassa. 8. luokan biologiassa olimme käsitelleet eläimiä jo useita oppitunteja. Onnenpyörän avulla oppilaat voisivat pienissä ryhmissä kerrata eläimiin liittyviä asioita. Tein onnenpyörän totuus vai tehtävä – tyylisesti eli kirjoitin sen joka toiseen sektoriin totuus – kysymyksen ja joka toiseen toiminnallisen tehtävän. Oppitunnilla kerroin pelin tavoitteet (kuten sisältöjen kertaaminen ja oppiminen, vuorovaikutustaidot) sekä jaoin Eläimet – onnenpyörän oppilaille QR-koodin avulla. Oppilaat pelasivat peliä kuuden hengen ryhmissä koulun eri tiloissa ja pyörittivät onnenpyörää omalla puhelimella. Oppilaat pelasivat peliä koko oppitunnin ajan eli lähes 75 minuuttia. . Tässä on tekemäni onnenpyörät:
5P’s for a Positive Digital Footprint | Teaching in the Primary Years Teachers and students learning together in 21st century classrooms are capable of achieving great things. Devices allow students to connect, communicate and collaborate online and publish their work for a global audience. Any content published online will begin to create a digital footprint for each individual. As educators, we need to ensure we model and teach our students how to post content to ensure the digital footprint they are creating is positive in nature. As teachers we have a duty of care for our students. The 5 P’s for a Positive Digital Footprint, developed by the Queensland Government, is a great framework to implement in classrooms. Like this: Like Loading...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Handy Infographic Featuring 10 Important New Google Forms Tips for Teachers June 21, 2016 For those of you who haven’t tried the new Google Forms yet, the visual guide below will help you get started. It features 10 important features that will help you create engaging forms, polls, and surveys. As a teacher, you can use Forms for a variety of purposes including: planning an event, making surveys and polls, creating quizzes, collecting feedback and other information from students and many more. 1- Create a survey, poll, or quiz Go to docs.google.com/forms.In the bottom right, click Plus Expand icon.A new form will automatically open.Type in a title for your question and choose one of the following questions types:Multiple choice, Checkbox, Short answer, Paragraph…2- Create a form from a spreadsheet in Google SheetsWhile working with a spreadsheet, click Insert Form.To edit your form click on Add questions hereA new form will automatically be created.
Google Sheets 101: The Beginner's Guide to Online Spreadsheets Humans are great at processing images, making connections between words and concepts, and remembering obscure trivia. But we're bad—really bad—at mentally processing and storing accurate, easy-to-use data sets. We invented Data Tables—more commonly known today as spreadsheets—to organize arrays of information that our brains can't recall. The practice actually dates back thousands of years, to the papyrus spreadsheets in the diary of Merrer, an Egyptian Old Kingdom official involved in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Kufu. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Back then, paper was one of your only options for cataloguing huge amounts of data. When VisiCalc, the first digital spreadsheet, was released in 1979, it eliminated the need to physically write data, calculate values, and store paper spreadsheets. There was only one problem: these spreadsheets were tied to a single machine, which made it difficult to share data. Getting Started with Google Sheets 1.
New Google Docs Cheat Sheet to Use in Class September 15, 2014 Here is a new Google Docs cheat sheet that is ideal for classroom use. This free downloadable document is created by the awesome Shake Up Learning . If you still remember, I have recently featured some of their wonderful Google Drive visuals here in this blog.When I first saw this new visual I thought about teachers who are going to use Google Docs with their students for the first time. This could be a very good introduction to some of the features of Google Docs. Using this cheat sheet students will be able to learn about how to edit documents (both Google docs and Windows Word files).They will also learn about the different components of Google Docs menu and will explore the various functionalities nested in the Insert menu. To this is added another section that visually features items under the Tools menu and the Toolbar.
Verkkosovelluksia opiskelun tueksi Osaan sovelluksista täytyy kirjautua. Jotkut sovelluksista voi myös ladata tabletille tai muulle mobiililaitteelle. Nämä sovellukset ovat maksuttomia. Monesta on tarjolla kuitenkin myös maksullisia, ominaisuuksiltaan monipuolisempi, versioita. Verkkokansiot ja pilvipalvelut Kaikilla opiskelijoilla on käytettävissään Officen toimisto-ohjelmisto ja tallennustilaa omilla tunnuksillaan. Käsitekartat ja miellekartat (Kannattaa tutkia, voiko kartan jakaa, tallentaa ja tulostaa) Text 2 Mind Map Ohjelma luo käsitekartan ohjelmaan syötetyistä käsitteistä.Popplet Sopiva työkalu miellekarttojen tekemiseen - ideointi sujuu näppärästi.MindMupCMapTools Ohjelma täytyy ladata koneelle.MindMeister Muistiinpanojen tekeminen / keskustelualustat / esitystyökalut pinterest.com Pinterestiin voi koota kuvakirjaston / nettisivukirjaston.padlet.com Padlet on erittäin helppokäyttöinen työkalu. Kyselyt ja koetyökalut Verkkosivujen tallentaminen ja luokittelu Aikajanan luominen Monenlaista tekemistä Linkkejä vinkkisivuille
Let it go: Giving students choices Empower students by giving them choices in how they learn and how they demonstrate that learning. In schools around the country, the push for technology integration is all the rage. Buzz phrases such as “bring your own device,” “digital-age learning,” and “engage students with technology” are making headlines, but what is true technology integration? Effective technology integration is not about installing the coolest new app, trying a fun website, or blogging about which tablet is the best. It is about instruction. It is about giving students the opportunity to learn with powerful tools that transform the way they learn and how they show what they have learned. In Forsyth County, we begin our design process by first looking at what standards need to be taught. In addition, we have an unspoken 5th C in Forsyth that we embed into instruction to engage students and further prepare them for the real world: choice. How can teachers promote choice in the classroom? Getting Chromebooks?
10 tips to use Google Classroom effectively and efficiently Google Classroom can be even more powerful with a few tips and strategies to make it efficient and effective. Google Classroom streamlines the management of student work — announcing, assigning, collecting, grading, giving feedback and returning. It has certainly saved many teachers hours of work. Without a solid workflow and some strategy, grading digital work can be cumbersome. Sometimes, a few quick tips can make all the difference. Here are 10 tips to help you use Google Classroom more effectively and efficiently: 1. 2. 3. Adding class comments: Do this by adding a comment in your class stream on the “outside” of an assignment or announcement. 4. 5. 6. When you reuse a post, you can even choose to create new copies of all the attachments you used before. 7. 8. 9. 10. Looking for more? Click for full-sized infographic! For notifications of new Ditch That Textbook content and helpful links: Interested in having Matt present at your event or school? Related