First Slide: Push a Slide to Students

by admin | Nov 5, 2019 | Advanced, Apps Script, Google, Slides, templates

Update Student Slides with First Slide When you make a copy of a document for every student it is slow to open and give feedback. It just takes time for digital documents to load, especially if the internet is not super fast. First Slide allows you to give feedback...

Google Slides – Badge Maker

by admin | Nov 3, 2019 | Apps Script, Google, Slides

Create Badges in Google Slides I definitely have a coding addiction. For fun I created an Add-on for Google Slides that will make gamification badges for you. Template alicekeeler.com/makebadges This makes is fast and easy to add digital stickers or badges to student...

File -> Email Collaborators

by admin | Nov 1, 2019 | Advanced, Docs, Google, Sheets, Slides

G Suite is About COLLABORATING I love that G Suite is designed first around collaboration. I had a buddy in Ireland I was chatting with the other morning and I told him to make a Google Sites (http://sites.new) and share it with me. I go to Google Drive and click on...

Push a Prompt to Slides

by admin | Oct 31, 2019 | Apps Script, Google, Slides, templates

Push to Slides If you would like to assign each student a different prompt or question I have coded an Add-on for Google Slides that will allow you to take a list of prompts, randomize them, and push them to an individual Google Slides per student. Template...

Water Bottle Flipping – The Game

by admin | Oct 7, 2019 | Gamification, Google, Intermediate, Slides, templates

Play the Water Bottle Flipping Game I am a day late and a dollar short on this one. Water bottle flipping is no longer the in thing, but I suspect some students would enjoy the game anyway. Divide the class into 2 teams. Each team gets a water bottle. Each person in...

The Office is on Fire – Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration

by admin | Oct 5, 2019 | Classroom, GC - Intermediate, Google, Intermediate, Lesson Design, Slides, templates

ELA Lesson: Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration The art of the lesson plan is knowing your students and creating an engaging lesson for the students you actually teach. This is the problem with pre-made lessons from the publisher, they don’t know your students. An...