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 Docs: Copies with Comments

Want to Include Comments and Suggestions in Your Google Document Copy?

This new option makes it so much easier for instructors to make a copy of their document and include the comments. Students will appreciate the extra assistance, and instructors will appreciate the ease with which they can include their comments and suggestions.

This new tip comes from Control Alt Achieve, written by Eric Curts.
See the full article HERE!

Students Exploring Events & Telling Stories with My Maps

One of the "10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for your Classroom"

from Shake Up Learning's Kasey Bell

There is a power in students creating their own maps to help them visualize information or to tell a story. An example of this is two students who collected the Oral Histories of Route 66 and displayed it on a map. My Maps is can be used for students as they explore events in literature, historical events or even as they study current events. The beauty of My Maps is they are collaborative and can be exported to be brought in as a layer of Google Earth. Kim Randall, @scubagirl812 did a super session on Mapping Made Easy with Google My Maps!

SAMPLE MAPS:

Meteorite Craters on Earth

European Exploration & Discovery

U.S. Civil War

Check out the tutorial HERE!

Bibliography Add-on for Google Docs

Get students to cite their work!

EasyBib is unbelievably easy! Check out this video for quick instructions:

PLAGIARISM INFO (for college students)

Make Grading Comments Easier!

Yet another great tip 

brought to you by: 

Control Alt Achieve

Are you tired of copying and pasting comments from another doc into Google Docs? Now that Google Keep is integrated into Google Docs, anything you record in Keep can easily be accessed in the panel. 

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!

Jeopardy for Your Students Using Google Slides!

Eric Curts, from Control Alt Achieve, has designed a Google Slides template for you to create your own Jeopardy game for students. Check out his article and templates here: 
http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/01/jeopardy-templates-google-slides.html
Check out his webinars (live and recorded) and tutorials, too!


Curts, E. (2014, February 14). Jeopardy Game Template for Google Slides - Apps User Group. Retrieved January 28, 2016, from http://www.appsusergroup.org/news/jeopardy-game