Snagit for Chrome and Google Classroom This post is part of a series around using TechSmith Snagit for Google Chrome with Google Classroom. For those of you in the Google Apps for Education world, you’ve no doubt been waiting excitedly for the release of Google Classroom. That day has finally come, which means it’s time to start playing to learn just what it can do. Fortunately, we were able to get our hands on Classroom a bit early, and found that there are already some great ways to use it with Snagit for Google Chrome; let’s take a look! The first thing to keep in mind is that Google Classroom works very closely with Google Drive, which is what makes Snagit such a great match, because everything you capture with Snagit for Google Chrome automatically saves to your Google Drive. Attaching something from Google Drive to a new assignment in Classroom. When you make an image capture with Snagit, that capture, along with all of your annotations, is automatically saved and synced to Google Drive. Can’t see the embedded video?
Use Your Voice to Give Students Feedback on Google Drive - Cool Kaizena Updates This is a guest post from Greg Kulowiec of EdTechTeacher.org, an advertiser on this blog. This post first appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Kaizena is an outstanding web based tool that allows teachers to provide audio feedback on student work that has been created and shared through as Google Docs. Kaizena is not a native tool in a Google Drive account, but can be added through the Google Drive apps store. Alternatively, teachers and students can go to the Kaizena website and connect the app to an existing Google Drive account. Providing students with audio as well as text-based feedback, and getting that feedback back to students, can now be a streamlined process. Alternatively, teachers can go directly to the Kaizena website and pull any existing Google document into the feedback platform. The process of creating feedback consists of highlighting a section of student work and tapping on the microphone to record audio feedback. NEW Features to Kaizena
www.treasuretrovegafe.com I refer to this training series as 'Treasure Trove' featuring Google for Education, focusing on authentic and valuable ways to use the Google Tools. This training is hosted at individual schools, organizations, conferences, and Google Summits & Cloud Camps' worldwide. These lessons keep the beginner in mind while providing those ready to ‘level’ up with unique uses and tips for using Google apps in the classroom, organization, for productivity or collaboration. Topics in the Treasure Trove Series....
The seven messages of highly effective reading teachers In 1982, the late, great NZ reading researcher Marie Clay identified a group of children having difficulty learning to read as “tangled tots (with) reading knots”. She was referring to children who, despite having no condition that potentially affected their ability to learn, didn’t seem to benefit from reading instruction. She hypothesised that such children “had tangled the teaching in a web of distorted learning which blocked school progress”. I’ve met many such children (and their teachers) during five decades of anthropological research in hundreds of classrooms. There were also classrooms which either didn’t have “tangled tots” or, if they did, had more success in untangling their “reading knots”. When I looked more closely at these “non-tangling” classrooms I discovered they had something in common. So far I’ve identified the following seven messages. 1. Teachers communicated this in many ways. 2. This was another dominant message in these classrooms. Semantic information: 3. 4. 5.
Lathund: Kom igång med Google Classroom | Digitala Verktyg Google Classroom (GC) är ett GAFE-verktyg som organiserar elevmappar och inlämningar, och underlättar kommunikation lärare-elev. GC är relativt användarvänligt och hanterar dessa funktioner riktigt bra. Det finns andra funktioner som man kan sakna i GC, t.ex. smidig sortering och arkivering av kursdokument, men det går att lösa på olika sätt. Nedan finns länk till lathund "Kom igång med Google Classroom". Klicka på bilden för att komma till lathunden (Google-dokument). Lathunden kommer att kompletteras efter hand. Lycka till med Google Classroom!
#GAFE, Vad kan man använda det till? Igår så tweetade Katarina Lycken Rüter en hel del tankar kring Google Apps For Education, även kallad GAFE. I skolSverige är det väldigt olika kring hur man kan/får använda detta i sin undervisning. På min skola använder vi GAFE tillsammans med våra elever och har mycket nytta av detta. Använder det själv varje dag, både på jobbet och privat. Då jag tycker att alla borde få använda detta verktyg i sitt arbete tillsammans med eleverna gick jag lite igång på detta. Här kommer mina tio-i-topp grejer att använda GAFE till (utan inbördes ordning) 1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Phju! // Camilla, ser framemot releasen av Google Classroom efter sommaren! samarbete snabba puckar
Klartecken för avtal om molntjänster i skolan Bild: Colourbox Datainspektionen har godkänt ett avtal mellan Simrishamns kommun och Google gällande användandet av företagets molntjänst Google apps for education (GAFE) i skolorna. Avtalet är principiellt viktigt och blir sannolikt vägledande. – Nu kan skolor känna sig trygga med att det är lagligt att använda molntjänster i verksamheten, säger Per Mosseby, chef för avdelningen för digitalisering på Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting (SKL). På grund av det osäkra rättsläget har många kommuner hittills valt att avvakta med att använda molntjänster. Andra har valt att ingå avtal med Google trots att dessa, enligt Datainspektionen, inte levt upp till kraven i personuppgiftslagen (PUL). Det har visat sig vara ganska besvärligt för skolor att använda sig av Google apps utan att bryta mot PUL. Båda punkterna är åtgärdade i det nya avtalet. Helt fritt fram är det dock inte.
Några skript som underlättar en lärares vardag Vi som följer Sven Järgenstedt på Twitter har förstått att han håller på att arbeta fram ett smart sätt att använda Googles kalkylark för att föra in elevresultat etc för att skapa bra möjligheter för läraren och eleven att följa upp elevens utveckling. Ett sätt som dessutom ska underlätta lärarens vardag. Här berättar Sven Järgenstedt mer om hur han gör. Känner ni igen känslan? Jag har länge använt kalkylarket i Google Drive för att hålla koll på vad mina elever gör och hur jag uppfattar att de ligger till i olika kurser. Egentligen är det bara den gamla anteckningsboken som flyttat till datorn. Men, att hålla på att klippa och klistra in resultat tar tid. Exakt vad är det då jag vill göra? Jag vill utgå från ett kalkylark där jag har alla eleverns namn på ett grundblad (kallas nog ofta mastersheet). Det kanske inte tar jättelång tid att skapa 30 flikar i 5-7 kurser/ämnen med 30 elever i varje klass men det är väl onödig tid om det kan göras automatiskt? Hur fungerar det då? OK.
Kaizena Blog Google Tools for the College Student - Tips and Tricks for University Student Write your papers, keep in touch with your family, and find the local pizza joints, all for free. Here are the best tools from Google to help you with your college life. Whether you have your own computer or you're stuck using the computer labs, Google has a lot of tools that will help you get the most out of college, academically and socially. 1. Google Docs is Google's online word processor. Import and export in Microsoft Word format, and save your files as Adobe PDFs for emailing to your instructor. 2. Want to keep in touch with your friends and family while you're away? If you've got a popular blog, you might even insert some Adsense Ads for extra spending money. 3. Google Spreadsheets lets you make spreadsheets that can be imported and exported from Excel. You could even use it to keep the peace with your roommates and track who's turn it is to vacuum this week. 4. Rather than relying on the campus email system, why not give your friends and families your Gmail address? 5. 6. 7. 8.
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100+ Google Tricks for Teachers It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Gmail 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Google Calendar 44.
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. This work is created by Sean Junkins from SeansDesk. Google Docs
100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom 100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom by onlineuniversities.com Students and educators have a wealth of learning and productivity tools available to them online. Google offers some of the highest-quality resources on the web to meet all your study and teaching needs, and all you need to access them is an internet connection. The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. Ed note: This is an older post, so some of these features or links may be out of date. Keyboard Shortcuts Navigate your documents and screen a lot faster when you use these keyboard shortcuts for formatting and more. Productivity Hacks These hacks will make your Google Docs experience even more efficient and streamlined. Features & Tools Make use of features and tools like Docs Translation or CSS Editing to customize your docs and make them work for you. Collaboration Files, Folders and Filters Organization