One of the things we need to teach students the most is how to manage all of the tasks and due dates they have to deal with throughout the course of a school day. While many schools are making use of tools like Canvas or Google Classroom to manage the digital workflows of class, students…
In the last couple of years, Google has added a lot of functionality to Google Docs by incorporating tools that can be used in highly effective ways. One tool that I think many people are not fully aware of are the Smart chips. Smart chips are ways to better insert information like dates, people, places,…
The Building Blocks feature in Google Docs can make it very easy to create tables that support students when assigning large projects or assignments. You can easily create a table that has the major components or checkpoints of their assignment, a section for descriptions or notes, a drop down to indicate where they are with…
I fully believe that we can give better feedback using digital tools than we ever could with analog tools. The ability to give quick feedback that is effective and targeted, will allow us to better help our students in the learning process. Hattie lists effective feedback as one of the most impactful things we can…
This year at ITEC I presented about how to use some basic equations to do more with your data in a Google Sheet. There are about 10 equations that I use on a frequent basis when I am dealing with large amounts of data and I can easily move the data around to create the…
UPDATE! – It looks like you can’t publish Chrome Extensions for free anymore if you are just doing it in your school district accounts. The developer fee is $5. If anyone has a way around this, please feel free to tweet at me @donovanscience. I will add that the new interface for publishing extensions is…
Earlier this month, Google released a great update to Classroom to help keep Parents/Guardians informed of class assignments and announcements for their students in Classroom. Teachers can enter the Parents/Guardians email address in the Student section of classroom where it says to “Invite Guardians”. You should easily see if their email address is already in…
Google released some great updates this week to get ready for the new school year. You can easily annotate assignments in the mobile Classroom app, add parent/guardian emails to send weekly reports from Classroom, create Topics for sorting in Classroom, and add images to options in multiple choice or similar questions in Google Forms. You…
Another new update to Google Apps this summer was the introduction of the new Google Sites. The new Sites will be the standard Sites sometime in the next year or so but you can still use the old Sites for the time being. The new Sites are very simple and easy to use, which is…
Over the summer Google added a Quiz option to Google Forms, similar to what was available before using Flubaroo. This new feature allows you to easily mark questions correct or wrong when using a selected response question. This is a great feature for quick checks, exit tickets, or any other type of quick formative assessment.…
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