All Things Google
Google Classroom
|
Classroom is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized. Students can keep track of what’s due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom. Get tutorials and resources here.
|
Google Drive
|
Click here for tutorials & ideas for using Google Drive, docs, slides, sheets, forms, drawings & much more. Learn how to Upload Files and Folders to Google Drive. Click here for Google Support Center |
Google Slides
Slides is the most widely used Google App for instruction & assessment. Some great tips for using Slides in these video tutorials.
Crash course; Google Slides for beginners
|
10 Quick Tips in under 4 minutes!
|
Share a Full Screen but stay interactive!
|
Free customizable templates
|
Add audio using the MOTE extension
|
> Google Slide Deck Templates!
These are two great sites for getting kid-friendly, engaging templates for jazzing up your Google slide decks.
|
Google Drawing
|
Check out resources & ideas for using Google Drawing in the classroom here. It is a very versatile app with TONS of connections to curriculum! Google Drawing provides opportunities for students to explain their thinking, diagram, justify, develop, plan, describe, create and more. Students can collaborate in real-time to create graphic organizers, concept maps, timelines and much more. Learn all about it here. |
Google TranslatE
|
Learn how to easily use Google Translate to translate text, documents and websites into other languages. Google Translate is free to use and you can use it with or without logging into Google. |
Google quiz
|
A Google Quiz is just a form, until you "make it a quiz!' Turn on the quiz feature in your settings and you can create an answer key, add points, customize instant feedback, automatically grade student responses, and automatically export the grades to your Google Classroom! Learn all about it here. |
Google Keep
|
Google’s free, note keeping, list making, "stay organized" app! Google Keep integrates with all your other Google apps. It is extremely useful in 'keep'ing you super organized and highly productive!
Learn all about how to use this very handy app here. |
google calendar
|
Google Calendar is an essential part of your Google workspace. It is a powerful tool that helps you to connect all of your Google apps together. Quickly schedule meetings and events and get reminders about upcoming activities, so you can stay organized.
This video will guide you through Google Calendar basics and you will be up and running in less than 30 minutes. For an additional step by step tutorial, tap here. |
Virtual Reality Experiences for Students
|
Google Expeditions is a virtual reality teaching tool that lets you lead or join immersive virtual field trips all over the world — get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks, and even visit outer space! Imagine exploring coral reefs or the surface of Mars in an afternoon! From Machu Picchu to Antarctica to the International Space Station - where will you take your class?
Learn more here. |
CLEAN UP & ORGANIZE your Google Drive!
Anytime is a good time for you and your students to clean up your Google Drive!
Use Google Docs to Create Learning Menus
Looking for ways to incorporate student choice and to differentiate learning? Visit the ShakeUpLearning.com website to learn how to create learning menus (aka choice boards) that are interactive, digital, and super dynamic! "Learning menus are flexible, can easily be created and adapted for just about any subject area." Click here to learn more details & to find examples like the one pictured below. Click here to make a copy of this template to your Google Drive. |