10 Things You Can Do With Google Sheets As I mentioned yesterday in my run-down of ten ways to use Google Forms, Google Forms and Google Sheets is the part of G Suite for Education that I get most excited about teaching to others. My excitement comes from seeing how many applications for Google Forms and Google Sheets teachers develop once they understand the basics of how Forms and Sheets work. Here are ten ways that you can use Google Sheets once you understand the basics of how to use Sheets. 1. Send personalized emails to everyone in a group. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Register for Google Forms & Sheets for Beginners to get started on using Google Forms for any or all of these purposes.
Nik's QuickShout: Make PDF Texts into Interactive Online Activities for Blended Learning Pages Monday, 25 September 2017 Make PDF Texts into Interactive Online Activities for Blended Learning This tool enables teachers to build onto more traditional course book based courses and add a blended learning element. You then give your students a code to register on the course and they can access the texts, make notes and annotate the text and build discussions around them. When you register as a teacher you need to tell the site which school you teach at. Sign up for my twice monthly free newsletter and get a free copy of Digital Tools for Teachers at: My eBooks: Best Nik Peachey Labels: blended learning, course book, course creation, interactive © Nik Peachey at Monday, September 25, 2017 No comments: Post a Comment Newer PostOlder PostHome Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) My eBooks & Lesson Plans 20 Tech Enhanced Activities for the Language Classroom£3.49 Read More Thinking Critically through Digital Media£6.99 Read more Exploiting Infographics£2.49 Sumo
time How long do you think the average work email goes unread? 10 minutes? 5 minutes? 1 minute? Try 6 seconds. From Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked: In reality, 70 percent of office emails are read within six seconds of arriving. Yes, Houston, we have a problem. Adam Alter is a professor of marketing at NYU and author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Some might say that they’re not addicted to technology — they just enjoy it. Well, people average 3 hours a day on their phones. There’s a study that was done asking people, mainly young adults, to make a decision: if you had to break a bone or break your phone what would you prefer? And if you have kids, this issue is even more serious. No doubt, Steve Jobs changed the world with the iPad. Alright, “scared straight” time is over. Are We Really Phone Junkies? Phones aren’t drugs. If it was, you would literally be addicted to chocolate. 5) Dr.
What's the best, most effective way to take notes? If it feels like you forget new information almost as quickly as you hear it, even if you write it down, that’s because we tend to lose almost 40% of new information within the first 24 hours of first reading or hearing it. If we take notes effectively, however, we can retain and retrieve almost 100% of the information we receive. Learning how to retain information The most effective note-taking skills involve active rather than passive learning. They must also be thinking about the thinking (metacognition) involved in engaging with the material. Studies have found note taking is most effective when notes are organised and transformed in some way or when a teacher gives examples of good notes. Students often tell teachers they have excellent memories and don’t need to take notes because they can easily recall information. The goal of effective note taking is to help recall what has been learned and retain that information over time. What are the most effective ways to take notes?
10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking - 10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking by Terry Heick Social media is here to stay. No matter how much we lament a loss of privacy, too much screen time, superficial identity, or countless other worries, media has been around since language was invented, and we have always sought to make that media as social as locally available technology would allow. From chisels and tablets to the printing press to radio and television to twitter and Facebook, as long as we continue to have thoughts and ideas, we will continue to seek to publish and socialize them with others. Technology & ‘Social Emotion’ It would make sense that as technology becomes more integrated, more accessible to all socioeconomic classes, and “smarter” itself, those connections will only deepen as we our priorities–and the tools we use to express them–change. Scientific American published an article discussing why being ‘connected’ matters. See also ‘Stop Worrying About Screen Time’ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
12 Free Web Annotation Tools for Teachers to Draw, Add Notes, and Highlight Sections on A Web page 1- Diigo Diigo is the first web service that comes into mind when talking about web annotation. . Diigo has a tool that lets you annotate web pages, add notes and colour specific chunks of a paragraph to share with your colleagues. 2- Sharedcopy This is another great bookmarking and annotating web service. 3- Awesome Screenshot This is one of my favourites. 4- Bounce This is also a great annotating tool. 5- Markup.io This is mainly a bookmarklet that you can drag and drop onto your browser toolbar. 6- Screen Draw This is an awesome extension from Firefox that allows users to annotate their selected webpages. 7- Webpage Screenshot This is a Chrome extension that allows users to take a screenshot of a webpage and add their own drawings or arrows. 8- Jing This is another awesome tool that allows users to create annotated screen capture images. 9- Crocodoc This a great tool that lets users annotate , edit and share their PDFs, Power Point files, and Word Documents.
The Epic BYOD Toolbox PowerSchool Learning: (Previously Haiku Learning.) This is a full learning management system (LMS) that I’m trying to get our school to adopt. It’s multiplatform and robust, which makes it a great fit for our BYOD environment. It also works on top of Google Classroom, so I have all those features too, plus my grade book. There are many other content-sharing platforms, like Moodle, Canvas, and CourseSites. Screencasting and Capturing What Happens in Class If you’re going to share and interact with your students in the electronic and physical spaces (as you should), you must learn how to screencast. In some exciting news, Apple has announced that iOS 11 (out later this year) will include screen recording capabilities and new screenshot features. Screencast-O-Matic: This is my go-to app. Cloud Syncing Dropbox: If you shoot video and need to get it onto your computer, Dropbox is essential. Expression Blogging Ning: Ning looks like a social media site because it is. Written Expression
5 Free Annotation and Collaboration Tools for Web Projects This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Specific, contextual feedback is crucial for teams collaborating online, which is why it's so important to make receiving it as fast, efficient and easy as possible. Asking for feedback can be tedious and is often done out of context, for example, via e-mail. However there are numerous tools available to make the task of gathering and giving feedback for web projects simpler and swifter. Here are five of the best free tools to annotate and collaborate on the web. 1. MarkUp lets you express your thoughts and ideas quickly and easily on any webpage. When you click the publish button and slide to confirm, you will receive a unique URL with the image and notes captured, making it easy to share with anyone, seeking feedback where necessary. 2. Bounce is a lightweight application for giving quick feedback on a web page.
An Introduction to Twitter Education Chats Teachers must be models of lifelong learning, but besides occasionally reading books and blogs, attending conferences, and collaborating with a handful of colleagues at school, how can we extend both the reach and frequency of our interactions with our fellow educators? Twitter education chats (edchats) are the answer for an increasing number of teachers and administrators, who eagerly participate in these online sessions because doing so meets their professional growth needs as well as their desire to contribute to the education conversation. Building a strong and satisfying personal learning network (PLN) through edchats gives you your own professional support system and a reliable resource for the cutting edge in education—all in real time. Once you become part of this global community of educators, you’ll find a sense of professional camaraderie that will help you through the tough times. Finding the Edchats to Grow your PLN Lurking, Learning, and Leading
Take Note: How to Curate Learning Digitally Note taking lies at the heart of curricula around the world. Beginning in elementary school, we teach students to "take notes" so that they can maintain a record of the content disseminated to them by the teacher. And yet, with mobile devices replacing paper notebooks, this process has become increasingly complex as students (and teachers) struggle to apply previous strategies to new tools. In the past, I wrote about the 4Ss of Note Taking With Technology. Supports their learning needs Allows them to save across devices Possesses search capabilities Can be shared While I realize that younger students need scaffolding to learn any system, older students need to think beyond just transcribing information. Curate Recently, a middle-school teacher mentioned to me that her students could not keep track of everything. Curation implies more than just collecting resources into a folder or notebook. Synthesize Reflect For the first time in 14 years, I am a student again -- and in an online program.
G Suite Training App The GSuite Training is a Chrome extension that provides interactive tutorials on a variety of Google Apps including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Sites, Classroom, and Slides. The extension exists within each app and the tutorials change depending on which app is open. When you open the extension you will see a searchable list of tutorials. When you open a tutorial, an audio clip begins to play and the extension takes over your screen. Applications for Education Schools can install this extension for all of the users in a domain.
Sketchnoting Resources Sketchnoting is not just an attractive way to take notes, it can improve retention and learning. These sketchnoting resources will get you started with your students. You don’t have to have a ton of talent, just a little know-how. I’ll update these sketchnoting resources, so tweet me or leave a comment to add your favorites. Don’t get overwhelmed, just get started. Twitter Tip: If you want to find and share great sketchnotes, follow the #edusketch hashtag on Twitter. Most Valuable Sketchnoting Resources Sketchnoting Tools 10 Habits of Bloggers that Win, Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote of the ebook by Vicki Davis Places to See Awesome Sketchnotes Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote Flickr Account – Sylvia sketches relevant things for educators today.Sketchnote Army WebsiteSketchnotes on Pinterest (this is a search for the tag, you must filter to find the ones you want, but I love trolling for ideas here.)Sacha Chua’s Evernote Notebook of Sketchnotes (hat tip Todd Finley for pointing me to her!)
7 Ways to Use Google Keep in Your Classroom This week's Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week featured a demonstration of how to use Google Keep to annotate images. That is just one of many ways that you and your students can use Google Keep. G Suite for Education users, remember that Google Keep is now a core product in G Suite. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What is Sketchnoting? - Verbal To Visual Are you curious about what sketchnoting is and how you might use it? Here’s an overview for you, pulled from a resource kit that I built called Sketchnoting In The Classroom. Sketchnoting is a form of note-taking, hence the “noting” part of it, but as you might guess it involves bringing more visuals into the process compared to typical note-taking, hence the “sketch” part. The whole idea behind adding sketches to your notes is that it taps into parts of your brain that would lie dormant if you only use words to explore ideas. It’s the combination of the two that’s most powerful – using both words and visuals while taking notes. That’s what will fully light up your brain. What’s nice about sketchnoting is that it’s not a strict format. It doesn’t say you have to take notes this way. Instead, it presents you with a variety of tools for you to choose from and create your own customized note-taking process, one that works well with your learning style and your personality. Cheers, -Doug