Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Explore Sending an Email in Gmail Sending an email seems easy enough… but sometimes it is not obvious that features are hiding under your nose. Try these 5 things when writing an email. 1) Click the To When composing a message it is not obvious that the word “To” does anything. Clicking on the word…
Use Google Slides Q&A to Get Your Audience to Ask a Question The TCEA conference sent out a tweet reminding participants to ASK A QUESTION! Google Slides has an easy way to let your audience ask a question even if they are afraid to raise their hand. You know how at the end of a…
Color Code Your Google Sheets with a Checkbox I like to joke that the greatest invention of my lifetime is checkboxes in Google Sheets. They are SO EASY! Use the Insert menu and choose checkbox. Boom! Now when you check that checkbox, you want something to happen. How about cells light up?! Template Highlight Range…
How to Manage Retesting in Google Forms One of the issues with using a Google Form for testing is that it is the exact same test when you retest. You can set the questions to shuffle and the answer choices to shuffle… but still the same questions. Step 1: Create a Big Form Create your…
How do you copy an entire folder in Google Drive? If you need to copy one folder over to another account or just a folder within the same Google Drive Alice Keeler has tips to help you make this happen.
Eliminate No Subject How often do I get an email from students, including my college students, that has no subject line at all? Or something that does not help me to prioritize the email? I am sure like me, this drives you nuts. Medium Choices We have lots of medium choices when we assign students…
Create a Default Google Form The assignment was to answer the multiple choice questions at the end of the chapter. I cringe to think of teachers spending their valuable time grading this. We can’t do everything, so I choose to give up grading things robots can grade. However, it seems unfun to type up the…
Want to print out a bunch of student work from Google Drive? Try PDF my Folder by Alice Keeler to quickly download as PDF’s and print!
Hide Sections in Table of Contents One of the features you can insert onto a page in your Google Site is a table of contents. This automatically creates a list of the sections on the page. However, not all your sections are relevant to the page navigation. Google Sites Google Sites is a website building…
New Features in Google Sites As always, Google is always getting better. Google Sites is no exception. Some exciting new features have come to Google Sites recently. Sites is an easy way to create a website that integrates Google Drive documents. Simply double click and choose Drive files to embed. Use Google Sites to create…
TemplateTab Copies a Graphic Organizer Per Student TemplateTab is one of the first things I ever coded, and I think one of the best things I’ve coded. Special thanks to Alicia Williams and John McGowan for helping me get this published to the G Suite Marketplace. All Students in the Same Spreadsheet If you have…
Why Be Boring? The default background in Google Docs is white. But why not be more colorful! See this activity in a Google Doc where I changed the background to brown. alicekeeler.com/eatabrownie Page Setup Use the File menu in your Google Doc to choose “Page Setup.” Not Printing Depending on what you are making, there…
Add Shared Files to Your Google Drive It is important to understand that “Shared with me” is not a folder. It is a filter. When checking the “Shared with me” filter on the left hand side of Google Drive you may run into some “quirks” that frustrate you if you’re thinking it should behave as…
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 without opening up any student slides….
Email Collaborators in Google Docs is a happy tool! Learn this trick for working with others, including students, on Google Docs to make for a more collaborative experience.