November 19, 2019

Read and Write for Google Student Activity: Grades 3+

Many educators truly appreciate the benefits of using the Read and Write for Google Chrome Extension by TextHelp! When students use the Read and Write extension they have access to a variety of tools that may help all learners with their reading and writing skills. Read and Write provides support for Google Docs, Google Slides, websites, PDFs, and ePub files....

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April 19, 2019

New G Suite Feature: Add Audio to Your Slides

Google Slides just recently received the capability to add audio to your slides! Simply click on INSERT and select AUDIO to add a file from your Google Drive. Unfortunately, the ability to upload files from your computer is currently unavailable. Why add audio? How may I add audio? Unfortunately, you cannot record audio directly within the application. You will need...

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January 30, 2019

Digital Storytelling: Google Slides Picture Books

Why Google Slides? Teachers and students are loving Google Slides for digital storytelling projects. Google Slides was mostly known as a great application for creating presentations similar to Power Point. Over the years, educators have discovered hundreds of innovative ways to use Google Slides in the classroom. Google Slides allows students to collaborate, add music and videos, receive feedback, insert...

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December 18, 2018

Google Sheets Holiday “Shopping”

Teach an introductory lesson to Google Sheets by doing some holiday shopping! Link to Template (Click TEMPLATE in the right corner to make a copy) What will students learn? Students will learn how to enter data, enter basic formulas, use FUNCTIONS, and create a graph by following the directions in the second tab. They can even check off the items as...

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November 15, 2018

Evaluating the Authenticity of Websites

Attention Grabber It is so important that students learn to think critically about information found online. I decided to grab students’ attention by introducing the following (fake) websites and requesting student feedback. The results were far from shocking. Grade 3: Third graders decided I should NOT send my dog to Dog Island as it did not seem like a nice...

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October 3, 2018

How to Write a Quality Comment

There are quite a few apps that allow students to leave comments. Tools such as Google Classroom, Flipgrid, and Seesaw allow students to post their work and receive timely feedback from their teachers and classmates. Timely feedback provides students with an authentic audience and has been found to be extremely important for student growth. However, the quality of the feedback...

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February 13, 2018

Digital Hall Passes using QR Codes

This Fall, educators are doing everything they can to provide sanitized materials for our students. But what about those old, laminated bathroom passes or sign-out notebooks? If your students have access to a device that can scan QR codes you may want to consider using digital hall passes. Most all newer model SMARTphones, tablets and laptops are able to scan...

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December 14, 2017

The Hour of Code and The Hechinger Report!

The Hour of Code This month, thousands of students in my district participated in the Hour of Code. The Hour of Code is a global movement by Code.org and Computer Science Education Week to inspire millions of students across the world to learn how to code and learn about computer science. After sharing my article detailing my thoughts and experiences...

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