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!
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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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