Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler
Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Students Have Work in “Your Work” Google Classroom allows students to submit their work digitally. To access their work they need to click on the assignment stripe on the Stream or on the Classwork page click on “View Assignment.” This takes them to the assignment screen with the full directions posted. Your Work Bubble In…
Students can learn to code by using Minecraft Education Edition.
Make Google Apps Available Offline I want to fully live in the cloud. I want ONE version and 100% confidence that it is the correct version. NO COPIES. I do not want to work on a document, share it with someone else and we have two different versions, different documents. If I make updates…
Black or White Out Your Google Slides Presentation A new feature in Google Slides is while you are presenting you can switch to a black or a white screen. Press B While in presentation mode press the B key to switch to a black screen. Press the W key to switch to a white screen….
Use the Shift Key When Using Tab When filling out a Google Form (or any form) use the TAB key to move between the fields of the form. Use the mouse less! However, what if you need to go back UP the Form? Shift Tab Hold down the Shift key and press the Tab key….
Do Documents TOGETHER Why do I use Google Docs (and Google Apps as part of G Suite)? Collaboration. This is one feature I can not give up and no one does it better than Google. Always Collaborate Almost never am I creating something that I will use only for myself. My first step when creating…
Split Up Text in a Spreadsheet When pasting text into a spreadsheet sometimes you do not want one cell to have all of the text. The best example being when you have first and last name in the same cell. Data Menu Highlight the cells that have text you wish to split up. Use the…
Be Notified When Your Form is Filled Out Google Forms has a built in notification when your Form is submitted. 3 Dots Menu If you are a G Suite user, 3 dots should make you excited! On the Responses tab, click on the 3 dots menu. Select, “Get email notifications for new responses.”
Google Classroom to Share Privately I was asked this question Looking for a suggestion… A music teacher wants for all our elementary music teachers to be able to video 30-60 seconds of a class and for the rest of the department to view the videos… Not for public, but for idea sharing within the department……
Link to an Assignment in Google Classroom While students are able to find their assignments organized on the Classwork page there is sometimes a need to direct students to a particular assignment. 3 Dots Use the 3 dots on the assignment stripe on the Classwork page to “Copy link.” This copies the link to directly…
Talk Less Have Students Do More One of my things I promote is leveraging technology to allow you to talk less so students can do more in the time they have. This also frees you up from talking at kids to talking WITH kids. Much more powerful. Is there anything better than sitting next to…
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