Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Have Students Respond in a Spreadsheet This morning I woke up to see this tweet “What about first graders responding to a question in graph format through Google classroom?” There are many ways to accomplish this but here is a suggestion for how first graders might do this. This gives me some great ideas! What…
Create a List of Your Google Calendar Events Have you ever wanted a simple list of every event on your Google Calendar? Use this Google Sheets template to extract a list of your events. Template alicekeeler.com/listcalendar Calendar ID When you create a copy of the template you will notice a spot in cell B2 on…
Design Your Own Infographics Report Card I saw on Twitter that @teachtech4kids was thinking about creating an Infographics report card. BRILLIANT! I got sucked into the idea immediately and started to create a template to help facilitate that. The problem with a traditional infographic is that you’re going to have to make a copy per student…
Take the Winter Break Challenge Holiday break is upon us! If your idea of relaxing is learning something new I have a list of challenges you might want to try this winter break. I have over 50 activities on the spreadsheet! Find a link in column I with more information. Put an X in column…
Google Sheets Template for Monitoring Progress When looking at skills, objectives, and goals it is not always a one and done that we can check off. I like to say that the English standards are more habits of practice than something you can check off. So how do we monitor students doing something repeatedly over…
Kids Do Love Fractions I’m a troublemaker and have started giving busting out math problems at dinner when I’m over at someone’s house or if my kids bring friends over for dinner. Whoa to you if you say to me “I’m not good at math” or “I don’t like fractions.” OF COURSE YOU ARE GOOD…
Google Slides Essay Template A little tongue in cheek I like to say “Don’t use Google Docs.” When we go digital we want to take advantage of what digital offers that paper did not. Oftentimes what we might use a Google Doc for we would really want a Google Form or to use something like…
Have Students Analyze A Graph The New York Times is putting out an amazing resource for teachers. Every week they are posting a graphic and asking students to determine what information the graph is providing. What an excellent way to have students use real data, to analyze over memorize, and engage in class discussion. Link…
Teach Peer Feedback Peer feedback can be powerful for learning, but only if students do a good job at it. Analyze and critique can be higher critical thinking levels than doing the task in the first place. I guarantee if you ask students to give peer feedback the quality of the feedback will not be…
Frayer Model in Google Slides The Frayer model is a graphic organizer to help students make connections with vocabulary words. Here is a template in Google Slides. Template alicekeeler.com/frayermodel Individual or Collaborative Why open 30 documents when you can open one! Using Google Slides allows each student to add a slide, put their name in…
GroupDocs Add On for Google Sheets It’s always a good day for me when I can get a little coding in. Yesterday I updated my GroupDocs Add-on for Google Sheets. This Add-on randomizes your roster and puts students into groups. It then makes a copy of a document from Google Drive for each group and…
Teach students place value with this Google Slides template that uses dice to help students to understand place value.
Use Collaborative Google Slides to Create Historical Tweets I love to share a good idea! Ashley Fort shared how she has students use a Google Slides deck to create a fake Twitter profile of famous people they have researched. The students then tweet as the famous person within the Google Slides. This is a 21st-century…
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…
Play Farkle in Google Slides Previously I had blogged on playing Farkle and provided a template in Google Slides and Google Sheets. The Google Sheets spreadsheet had a menu I coded to allow students to roll dice within the spreadsheet. I think using actual dice is better but when we do not have access to…