Collaboration in the Classroom with Quizlet - Start Your Game in 60 Seconds!

Want Your Students to Collaborate 

in a High-Energy, Fun Way?

Quizlet Live can create that electric atmosphere.

by Matt Miller at ditchthattextbook.com

1. It gets students the valuable repetitions they need to remember key content — the kind that will enable them to do bigger and deeper things later.
2. It’s easy on you as the teacher. You can start a game in a matter of seconds.
3. Plus, you can get unique games every time. A set as small as 20 flashcards can yield more than 125,000 12-card combinations needed for a Quizlet Live game.

Step 1: Pick a flashcard set

Step 2: Load up the game

Step 3: Students join the game

Get the details + tips & tricks from Matt HERE!

Google Forms: Student Peer Group Evaluation Template

Brought to you by:

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

1. Alice shows you how to use the drop down question type to paste your student        roster in order to avoid them typing in names (which would result a messy set of data).

2. Step-by-step, she guides you though generating a spreadsheet and formatting 

the columns to automatically update the rules.

Click HERE for the instructions!

Click HERE for the template!

Google Docs: Organize and Save Ideas by Color Code

Have an extra large Google document with lots of ideas to keep track of? 
Want to pick out specific concepts and turn them into individual documents? 

BetterCloud MONITOR shows you how!

BetterCloud MONITOR How-To

Sharing & Collaborating with Google Drive: A Guide

This guide is brought to you by Eric Curts, and features a video to walk you through the different stages of turning your classroom into a paperless environment through the features and functionalities of Google Drive and Google Docs. 

Here's a sample of Eric's Table of Contents:
Overview
How to name documents and folders
How to choose sharing options: Edit, Comment, and View
How to share a document with specific people
How to share a document as a link
How to use folders
How to create folders for your documents
How to put your documents in folders
How to share a folder
How to use folders as staff handout folders
How to use folders as student turn-in folders
How to use forms to turn in assignments
How to use comments in the grading process
How to use revision history
Use Voice Comments

Other resources

Access Eric's guide here!

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University of Hawai`i Google Drive Sharing Graphic:

by Suzy Mehlhorn

Google Drive: Set Automatic Expiration Dates for Shared Files & Folders

This script is awesome for teachers or anyone who doesn't want to share files or folders forever. This will work for both publicly or privately shared items. 

Here's the guide from Digital Inspiration:

The script will run at the specific time and remove all the sharing permissions from your file or folder making them private and the shared links would no longer work. Here’s how you can use the script.

1. Click here to make a copy of the Google Script into your Google Drive.
2. Add the URL (link) of your shared Google Drive folder or any file hosted on Google Drive in Line #3 and put expiration date in Line #7 (remember to use the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format).
3. Open the File menu, choose Project Properties and select your Timezone from the dropdown. The date and time that you set in the script will use this timezone.
4. Go to the Run menu, choose Start and authorize the auto-expiry script to run at the specified time. This is open-source Google Script and none of your data is shared with anyone.

That’s it. You can close the Google Script editor window and it will automatically disable the sharing options for the specified file or Drive folder at the specified date and time. You can even specify sub-folders that are anywhere in the Drive Tree.

http://www.labnol.org/internet/auto-expire-google-drive-links/27509/

New **Google Slides for iPad & iPhone**

Google Introduces Slides for iOS!

Create, edit, and collaborate with others on presentations from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with the free Google Slides app. With Google Slides you can:

* Create new presentations or edit any that were created on the web or on another device 

* Share presentations and work together with others in the same presentation at the same time

* Open, edit, and save Microsoft PowerPoint files* Get stuff done anytime -- even without an internet connection* Add and rearrange slides, format text and shapes, and more

* Present right from your device* Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type

FREE in the APP Store

iBooks Author for Education: 3-Part Series!

Want to create an interactive masterpiece? Now anyone can produce classroom textbooks, history books, research books, and more for the iPad.

The Center for Teaching Excellence is proud to present a 3-part series on iBooks Author for Education at UHM in fall 2013. Look for our announcement, or check out our calendar: www.cte.hawaii.edu/OnlineReg.html

Voice comments in Google Docs for students, collaborators

Want to leave voice comments in Google Docs instead of typing them out?

Link:

http://youtu.be/Llv1Nh4Om0c

Please comment if you've tried out the voice comments!