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Monday, December 3, 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Incredible Live Closed Captions in Google Slides!
While using your microphone in Google Slides, if you turn on live captions, Google will display real-time captions at the bottom of your screen as you present to your audience. You'll need to present your slides using Google Chrome. It's only offered in the English language so far. When you're ready, select "Present" and select the "CC" button. Speak into the microphone connected to your computer.
For more information on how to add real-time captions in Google Slides,
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Free Online Video Creation Courses!
TechSmith Academy offers free online courses to assist you in the creation of videos. A few examples are:
- Getting Through Your First Video Alive - Video Survival Course
- Basics: Setting Up to Shoot Video
- Basics: Syncing Audio and Video
- Basics: Recording Your Screen
- Basics: Writing and Using Scripts
Check out their videos HERE!
Monday, October 22, 2018
What is Content Curation?
Start by checking out the content creation tool,
With wakelet, hosting student projects is easy. You may have them document their thoughts or illustrate their collections and share them with the class. Guide students in the creation of their own digital storytelling like a chronological historic event or a fictional story. Wakelet makes it easy to promote independent interests and projects. You can also create your own engaging lessons through the planning process by embedding resources and placing all your multimedia in one place.
Check out an example here:
Friday, September 14, 2018
Google Forms Quizzes: 24 Tips!
Brought to you by: ControlAltAchieve.com and Eric Curts
Adding different types of questions:
- How to add multiple choice quiz questions
- How to add checkbox quiz questions
- How to add short answer quiz questions with more than one right answer (also see my earlier blog post for more details)
- How to add an image to a quiz question
- How to add images to the answers of a quiz question
- How to add video to go along with a quiz question
- How to add open-response paragraph questions
- How to add extra credit questions
Quiz settings:
- Collecting email addresses
- Requiring school login
- Limiting to one response
- Enabling the quiz feature
- Shuffling questions
- Shuffling answers in a question
- Changing the theme
- Setting preference to make all questions required
Assistive tech for students taking a quiz:
- Have the quiz read aloud to students with Read&Write for Google Chrome - Chrome web extension link
- Have students dictate their answers to the quiz with the VoiceIn speech-to-text extension - Chrome web extension link
Grading and feedback:
- How to provide global feedback to students per question
- How to provide individualized feedback for just a single student per question
- How to grade an open-response paragraph question (also see my earlier blog post for more details)
- How to give partial credit for checkbox questions
- How to grade extra credit questions
- How to import grades into Classroom
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Dropbox Add-on for Gmail
This tool integrates Dropbox and Gmail, and introduces the new partnership between the two. With the Dropbox add-on for Gmail, you’ll be able to view, store, and share any file—from the smallest doc to the largest video—without leaving your inbox. This integration offers a cross-browser, cross-platform addition to the existing Dropbox for Gmail extension for Chrome. This new add-on will work with any browser, as well as the Gmail app for Android and—coming soon—iOS.
Pick it up at the G Suite Marketplace.
With the Dropbox Add-on for Gmail, you can:
- View, save, and share any Dropbox file – big or small, including photos, videos, presentations, docs, project work, and more – from the Dropbox Add-on for Gmail.
- Easily find and sync your Dropbox files in Gmail anytime, on any browser or device.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
35 Google Classroom Resources That Will Make Your Day
Brought to you by
The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast Episodes About Google Classroom
Google Support:
Books:
Monday, August 27, 2018
Time to Clean: Creating Filters in Gmail
Time to Clean: Creating Filters in Gmail
Want to batch delete unimportant emails from your inbox, or automatically send unwanted emails to the trash or other folder? All you need to do is set up a few filters in Gmail.
Brought to you by:
Jessica Green at zapier.com
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Check out Twitter's #FlipgridFever + Flipgrid is now FREE!
Search for #FlipgridFever on Twitter
and
best of all
Flipgrid, used by more than 20 million educators,
students and families
across K-12 and higher education,
is now
FREE
for Schools!
Thanks, Microsoft!
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Incredible Auto-Complete. Thanks, Gmail!
Brought to you by: CNET
Google has introduced a magical autocomplete feature for Gmail, which is similar to Gmail's Smart Reply (introduced last year) you see when you reply to messages on your android phone. Though it's not available quite yet, you can try it out by enabling "experimental access" in your settings menu.
Check out an illustration of how it works here.
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Gmail, Where Are My Contacts?
I love the new Gmail with it's snooze function and the hover options for individual emails. However, finding my contacts was a challenge! A post from How-ToGeek by Justin Pot has a great set of screenshots to guide you through it.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Google Docs & Grading: Instantly Add Comments with CheckMark
Brought to you by
Rapid Feedback in Google Docs with CheckMark
EdTech Team recently launched CheckMark, a Chrome extension that lets teachers instantly add frequently used comments from a built-in menu.
Check out how to use and install CheckMark here:
Monday, April 30, 2018
Kapwing: No Registration-No Installation-Free Online Video Editor!
Introducing Kapwing: The Video Editor for Classrooms
by
In her post on EmergingEdTech, Julia introduces Kapwing features, plus 7 reasons why Kapwing is great for schools.
Check it out here: https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/03/kapwing-video-editing-editor-for-classrooms-schools/
It's FREE!
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Why Not Have Students Make the Quizzes?
Students can create quizzes with Google Forms, and by turning on the quiz features, they can add their own feedback to answers. Students gain knowledge from a different perspective because, as many of us know, creating a respectable quiz isn't an easy task! This is also a clever way to flip teaching and learning.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Google is Rolling out its Gmail Redesign - with Snooze!
Brought to you by:
Google is planning to launch its redesigned Gmail in the coming weeks.
Here are a couple of the new features:
1. Smart replies on the web-the same feature from mobile Gmail that provides suggestions to quickly reply to emails.
2. Snooze feature-lets you temporarily remove emails from your inbox until
a certain time, so you can avoid certain email threads until you’re ready to reply.
For more info and a screen shot, visit The Verge here.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Google Tour Builder: A Virtual Reality
Google Tour Builder for Any Subject
Session brought to you by: Eric Curts
Google's Tour Builder is an easy to use but powerful tool for students to create virtual tours, including locations, images, videos, descriptions, hyperlinks, and more. These tours can be used in any subject area such as retelling the events from a novel, tracing the locations of a historical event, visiting different biomes or landforms around the world, and more. Tours can be viewed by others in Tour Builder, or even imported into Google Earth for a full 3D experience.
Cheating Detection: Google Apps Edition
Brought to you by Eric Curts (www.ericcurts.com),
this video will look at Google tools to help teachers and tech staff prevent
and detect plagiarism and other issues, including revision history.
Friday, March 2, 2018
News Flash! Dropbox Partners with Google/GSuite
Google is partnering with Dropbox to allow G Suite users to open and edit G Suite files directly from Dropbox folders on the hard drive and on the web. You'll be able to open Google Docs, Sheets and slides from within Dropbox on the hard drive and on the web!
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Voice Typing: Yes, You Can!
What's the one thing you always want more of?
Time!
Voice Typing, or speech-to-text, will save you lots of time. You can pen your thoughts to text almost anywhere, almost anytime. Sure, it may need a little editing at the end, but the bulk of your thoughts will ultimately be sitting there in a document waiting for you to finish rather than an empty page waiting for you to start. Instead of waiting until you get home while stuck in that traffic jam, put your ideas to paper or dictate that email you want to send out later with voice typing. All you'll have to do is make corrections and copy/paste. You can send texts and tweets, too. The options are limitless.
The average person types around 40 words per minute.
Voice typing = 120 words per minute.
How do you get started? The best way is to try it out when you're alone. That way you'll get over any inhibitions you may have. It might feel a little strange at first, but once you get used to it, you won't feel so self conscious.
Ditch That Textbook has a great article on getting started here:
Getting Started with Android:
Getting Started with iPhone:
You'll need to get used to inserting punctuation with your voice, but that will become second nature in no time!
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Google Forms Add-On for Quizzes will Email Custom Certificates
Want to automatically send a certificate to students who pass quizzes or exams?
Check out Certify'em, a Google Forms Add-On created by
Certify'em is an "Add-on" for Google Quizzes. It extends the functionality of Quizzes by allowing you to send a certificate (PDF) when someone passes, and keep certification records.
Check out the FAQ here
Sample Easy 3-Question Exam
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