Google is constantly listening to teachers and updating Classroom to better meet the needs of many. You do have to remember that this is a free and lightweight service so you should not be expecting full LMS features but this is a great tool to use to help organize and streamline many things. It is…
Kaizena was updated lasted night and is now accessible as an Add-on through Google Docs. For those that are new to Kaizena, it is a way to leave voice and text comments in a Google Doc as well as include resources and tags related to the learning. Leaving effective feedback should be a goal of…
Using a Google Form to get information and data from others is very easy to do. What you do with that information can be a bit tricky but there are simple things to do, like viewing the summary of responses which creates, automatically, graphs and charts of the data. However, you really do not want…
The Autocrat Add-on allows you to use a Google spreadsheet to create files that contain the information from the spreadsheet. You could create a form to give feedback to students using the Add-on by creating a template document first and then placing the information you want into the spreadsheet. Autocrat will take the information in…
Like me, you may have run into a dilemma where you have a lot of information you want to share on a Google Site but no easy way to organize it all. Previously I listed all of my digital tools onto a single page and would try to categorize them and include links to any blog posts I…
As we try to change our instruction to better meet the needs of students, we find that we need to differentiate more and more to meet the different learners that we have. To get to this differentiation we need to start with data, information from assessments or surveys, in order to determine the needs of…
Despite what many people think, you can work on your Google Drive files offline. You need to enable offline mode for your Google Drive which saves your files into your browser so you can access them when you lose your connection. This is working better in the updated Google Drive but if you are still…
With the update of Google Drive available to people and will more than likely be pushed to everyone soon, there is a new sharing window that pops up. You have pretty much the same options as before but you just need to click in different spots. The official Google Drive post can be found at http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/09/sharingupdates.html.…
Thanks to Andrew Stillman and his crew, you can now use Goobric with assignments created in Google Classroom. Doctopus is still a very useful tool and has features that are not available in Classroom yet but they are working hard to make Doctopus work with Classroom. Goobric allows you to use rubrics to assess and…
As a GAFE school, there is a tool that is readily available that makes it easy to carry out student blogging in the classroom. Student blogging can serve many purposes as part of the learning process, from reflective writing to posting student creations to share with others. There are tools that make using Google Sites…
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