Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
4 Tricks for Copying and Pasting Off the Internet I know I know you’re thinking “Alice, it is not ethical to copy and paste off the Internet.” I am so glad you said that. You are correct, other people’s ideas and words are not yours for the taking. Knowing how to properly cite and also…
Try Out the 5 E’s Lesson Plan The 5 E’s lesson plan template is relatively new, did not exist when I was in my teacher prep program (or at least to my knowledge.) It was specifically designed for math and science but is a great outline for any subject area. I previously blogged on this…
Open Fewer Documents One of the most effective things we can do to improve student writing is to give students feedback WHILE they are writing rather than after they submit their writing. Feedback given during the process is formative. No matter what way you cut it, the learning students receive from your feedback AFTER they…
? Emoji Your Drive ? Guest blog post by Beth Mossholder Make your Google Drive a little more interesting with Emojis. Color coding can work out great when organizing folders in your Google Drive; but does nothing to help differentiate individual files in Drive. Emojis can also be inserted into titles and text lines where other…
Send Messages to Google Drive If students do not have email it can be challenging to send feedback messages or notifications. I coded the ability to create a Google Doc per student on your roster and to push comments to their document like email. Students would make a habit of checking “Recent” in Google Drive…
Do It In Google Slides Rather than using a Google Doc can I encourage you to consider Google Slides instead? What can you do in a Google Doc that you can not do in Google Slides? I think Slides kicks it up a notch. If a student needs help on question #7 you need to…
One Space After the Period Two spaces are for typewriters. If we are not using typewriters then two spaces are outdated and obsolete. We are educators, should we be teaching kids outdated and obsolete practices just because we still do them? I’m 41, I owned a typewriter and learned to put 2 spaces after the…
Email a Word Doc or PDF It isn’t often but sometimes I am needing to send someone a PDF or Word version of my Google Doc. Google Docs will automatically create the attachment for me. File Menu Use the File menu and choose “Email as attachment.” PDF The default attachment type is PDF. Click on…
Use the View Menu Google has recently made a few changes to the menus in Google Apps. This is a good time to click on all the menus in your Google Doc and take account of what options are there, and which ones have moved. View Menu Let’s take a look at the View menu…
Use Shift Enter in Doc to Slides Add-On The Doc to Slides Add-on allows you to take your text from a Google Doc and put it into Google Slides. Each paragraph becomes its own slide. Template Enter Makes a New Paragraph What creates a paragraph in the Google text document is the enter key. If…
Google Docs to Slides Add-on Copying and pasting content into individual slides can be tedious. There has to be a better way! Now that Google Apps Script allows us to code Google Slides I have some new templates for you to try! The Doc to Slides Add-on will allow you to take content from a…
The Google Docs Tools Menu When using any program explore the menus to find those extra features that increase your productivity. Take a look at the Tools menu in Google Docs. Here are 3 noteworthy items in the Tools menu. 1. Document Outline To the left of the document, the Document Outline should be visible….
Download Images and DRAG On a Mac or PC when you download a picture it shows in the download bar at the bottom of the screen. This indicates the image is saved to the downloads folder. Instead of hunting down the downloads folder to drag the images into my Google Docs or Google Classroom you…
Toolbar Icons in Google Apps G Suite is always updating and adding new features and upgrading interfaces. I like to say that the essential tech skill for students is “adaptability.” When given a new tech tool do they sit and wait for someone to show them what to do or can they figure it out…
Bitmoji is You I have a theory that Bitmoji makes learning better. We know relationship building and having a connection with students has a significant impact. Including Bitmoji or another avatar of ourselves in our digital documents puts that personal touch because IT IS YOU. A new feature in Android keyboards is the ability to…
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