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60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom ~ TeachThought
“Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology.
“It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, or the student credibility of a BYOD program. It may not be as forward-thinking as we’d like here at TeachThought, but Google Classroom excels in providing solutions for a broad swath of teachers who have a variety of expertise and comfort level with education technology. It also uses Google’s familiar template that many teachers have used for years. As such, it scratches the itch for many teachers in many classrooms right here, right now.
“So below are (at least) 60 thing you can do with Google Classroom. We’ll be updating this list as new ideas come in, the platform changes, and we learn more about its subtleties on our own.”
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50 Surprisingly Simple Ways To Promote Your Book
If your an author looking for more ways to promote your book, then we have solutions. We’ve gathered 50 of our best ideas to help you promote your book online and offline. Easy!
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Quote of the day from Sir Kenneth Robinson
I number of years ago, I helped out on a low budget independent film. I remember someone accusing the film makers of being “wannabes”. Don’t we all start out as wannabes? If you are engaged, as Paul McCartney points out, the ambition grows, you learn more and you practice more. I can’t help but think that the job of a teacher is to encourage and nurture the engagement that leads to the ambition to learn. What will engage us is different for everyone of us. Sir Kenneth Robinson passes on some wisdom from Paul McCartney. I found this on Larry Ferlazzo’s “Websites of the Day” site. Larry’s site is a great resource for all educators.
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SafeShare.tv
Safeshare.tv is a service that allows you to convert a YouTube link so that the viewer only sees the video. The up next list that normally appears to the right of a YouTube video is not visible. While that list is useful for finding similar videos, often the featured video are not school appropriate. Bottom line is that safeshare.tv eliminates all distractions and shows just the movie you wish to watch or show. The service is legal. It also offers a download option and the video can be shared in a multitude of ways. This is a very useful tool for teachers who want to show or share a video without the usual YouTube distractions.
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Everything Teachers need to know about Google Classroom from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Many of the teachers in the Governor Wentworth Regional School District have been making use of Google Classroom It is an excellent way to organize assignments, provide formative assessments, archive student work and save time. It is a very useful addition to Google Apps for education that we are all using. It is free and easy to use. Now that our district has increased bandwidth at all of the schools, we now have the power to use Google Classroom effectively. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has posted an excellent, easy to understand tutorial on how to us this great tool. Everything Teachers Need To Know About Google Classroom.
20 Chrome Apps Every Teacher Should Know About And An Interesting Article On Narrative Writing Across All Content Areas
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning have created a list of 22 Google Chrome Apps that are useful for education. The list is not exhaustive but I have found most of these to be useful.
Here is another article that is interesting look at Argument Writing across Content Areas by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. I am reading Minds Made For Stories by UNH English Professor by Thomas Newkirk. Professor Newkirk challenges the idea that narrative writing and informational writing are different. He maintains that narrative storytelling is, in his own words, the Mother of all Modes” of discourse. Both Wolpert-Gawon’s and Newkirk’s arguments are very compelling and should be considered as the Common Core calls for more emphasis on information reading and writing.
Google has added speech recognition to its Google Docs add-ons
I have been playing with Google’s Speech Add-on. It actually works quite well. It appears to recognize some speech recognition commands but not all. For example, saying “new line” starts the next sentence with a capital letter. “Saying “full stop”creates a period, “question mark” creates one. Google “speech recognition commands” to get a full list of possible commands. The add-0n is at the Google Store. This works better than most speech recognition software I have tried in the past and it is free.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to a six year asking about the meaning of life
This is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to a six year old that asked him about the meaning of life.