Today is Teacher Appreciation Day and Google may have given us teachers a great gift, Google Classroom. This might be the best teacher appreciation gift I get today, even better than the buy 1 get 1 free deal at Chipotle. A free, easy to use LMS that incorporates Google Docs and should include some great…
While Google+ has not been a huge hit with the general public, it has been used extensively in the classroom environments. Using Google+ you can increase communication and collaboration in and out of the classroom. You can connect with other educators or groups of educators to share and collaborate or you can even create your…
One thing that was useful for me this year was the ability to have people sign up for times on my calendar so we can meet. They could easily see if I was available or not and when they selected the time they wanted to meet, that time was automatically added to my calendar. I…
True learning involves a process that never ends, we are continually growing and changing as we learn. The learning process is one that should make us continually evaluate what we “knew” before and allow to us make changes to everything as we learn something new. Learning involves a process of trying things out, possibly failing,…
There are a few features that many teachers want to be added to Google Forms to increase their effectiveness as an assessment tool, both formative and summative, in the classroom. One of these, which can make it a little bit more difficult to cheat, is the ability to randomly rotate the choices in a question.…
I was working on a couple of papers for my Masters classes this weekend when I decided to give the Easybib Add-On for Google Docs a try. It allowed me to easily create a list of the resources I was using for my paper and then inserted them where I wanted. They were in proper…
What was a useful tool before is now even more useful. Lucidchart is a concept map, venn diagram, chart creating tool that works very similarly to a Google Doc and can be connected to your Google Drive. There is a collaborative feature to Lucidchart where multiple students, or teachers, could be working on the same…
With the addition of Add-Ons to Google Docs and Sheets, Flubaroo has been now made into an Add-On. This is nice since it means that once you download it, it will be available in any Sheet that you use. There are no big changes to Flubaroo other than it is a little quicker to use.…
With the introduction of the Add-ons into Google Docs and Sheets, we can now finally use our favorite script Doctopus with the new Google Sheets. Not only can we use it but it has been updated to include more features built in and make it even easier to use than before. The main idea with…
Like an unexpected birthday present, Google has introduced a new set of tools that are integrated with Google Docs and Sheets. Some of these tools are just the updated versions of scripts and extensions we had before but there are also some new tools to use to make your work more efficient and effective. The…
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