Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
5 Google Search Tips We all search, here are 5 tips for using Google Search. 1) Know the Menu After doing a search options for filtering the search are offered. By default “All” types of results are shown. Consider clicking on “News” to filter down to news stories about the topic. Click on “More” to…
UPDATE: Google Apps have the camera option back! Below are some good options for snapshots regardless. Take a Snapshot to Google Apps “Everything is digital when you can take a picture of it” –Jon Corippo It is my opinion that one of the important features of G Suite is the ability to use the webcam…
Students Submit Bitmoji to Google Classroom First let me warn you that Bitmoji has some really inappropriate Bitmoji’s. Drinking beer and other things. I would not recommend to students that they install Bitmoji. Some students already have it and their parents know about it. In that case I am okay with them using it, I…
Insert Charts into Google Slides from Forms Actually, this trick is to insert charts into Google Slides from a Google Sheets spreadsheet. However, it’s highly likely that where the spreadsheet data came from is Google Forms. Interact A key element when considering EdTech is interactivity. Not how can you talk at students, but rather how…
Sheets Add-on: Bathroom Sign Out One of the early projects I coded was a bathroom sign out sheet for Google Sheets. I was surprised how many people liked the spreadsheet. Since I first coded the bathroom spreadsheet, Google Apps as added Add-ons. I have updated the sign out sheet to be an Add-on with some new…
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…
Some Twitter Tips The number one users of Twitter are educators! I don’t use Twitter like Facebook and I don’t follow people who do. One of the best things you can do for yourself as an educator is to create a Twitter handle just for teaching and tweet about teaching. Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck.com to…
Paper List to Slides I was given… No joke… A 7 page packet of papers with short phrases on it. Carrying around a packet of paper is not something that is going to work for me… So how do I get this into Google Slides? Google Keep My first step to getting paper into a…
Find an Individual Student Slide in Collaborative Google Slides When designing lessons my first thing I consider is “how will student’s collaborate?” My go to on this is collaborative Google Slides. I create ONE Google Slides and give all students edit access. In Google Classroom this is a snap by selecting the tiny triangle next…
Preview Student Work Side by Side With Google Classroom One way to give students faster feedback in Google Classroom is to preview student work instead of opening student work. Step 1: Open the Assignment In the Google Classroom Stream click on the assignment title to view the assignment assessment screen. Step 2: Click the Drive…
Teach Students to Create Gmail Signatures Guest Blog Post by Don Yerks On October 1, 2017, I received an email from a student asking me to check on an assignment. To my amazement, she had placed a “Signature” in the message area of the email. When I saw her in class the next day, I…
Google Slides Explore Tool Color Match Google uses machine learning in Docs, Sheets, and Slides to help us to be more productive. The Explore tool in each of these products reads your content and gives you suggestions for information you may want to know. In Google Slides you can not only explore content from your…
Code Increasing Row Height If you use Google Forms (ha “if”, of course you use Google Forms) you may format the spreadsheet of results the way you like it. However, when a new Form submission comes in a row is INSERTED so the formatting you set doesn’t apply. Any easy (no for real) way to…
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…
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