Supplementary Resources for 50 Ways to Engage Students with Google Apps by Alice Keeler and Heather Lyon
Thank you for your purchase of the Book “50 Ways to Engage Students with Google Apps” by Alice Keeler and Heather Lyon. Since we can not put everything into the book we have added additional support and templates here. Please reach out to us on social media if you have any questions about the techniques so we can support you in using Google Apps for student engagement.
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Book Template and Resources
As we create new resources and tutorials we will post them here. If a template is broken in the book, we will update new versions here.
1. Breaking Patterns
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2. Interacting with Readers
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3. Using Active Learning
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4. Offering Choices
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5. Scratching the Mystery
Originally this was designed for Google Jamboard where you could slow erase content to reveal what was below. Unfortunately, Jamboard has been discontinued.
We have created a new template that uses Google Slides. Students will delete the “scratcher” hiding the content underneath.
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6. Reducing Participation Anxiety
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7. Sorting for Critical Thinking
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8. Jumping to Feedback
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9. Encouraging Group Discussions
10. Choosing from Categories
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11. Constraining Options
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12. Checking for Fluency
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13. Fostering a Low Risk of Failure
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14. Creating Clubs
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15. Choosing the Questions
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16. Incorporating Personal Interests
17. Recording Text Feedback
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18. Focusing on the Product
19. Replacing Assignments
20. Targeting for All, Most, and Some
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Pixel Art Templates
From the book Google Apps for Littles try using a Ten Frames template that utilizes pixel art to allow students to create 10 frames. Students type a single digit number
ELA Reading Log
Instead of a reading log try a picture log! Ask students to use pixel art on each tab of the spreadsheet to create a picture about what they read that day. Use the box in the template to describe the picture.
