Google Slides Q & A

Google has just introduced a new feature that allows your audience to ask questions as you present. Then, at the end you can review their questions, and even sort them by popularity! Very cool.

To access the new feature, go to present in the upper right. Click the arrow for the drop down menu and choose "Presenter View" "Use the new audience Q&A and view with speaker notes."

Here is a video that shows how it might work.

Search in Google Drive

From Shake Up Learning blog.

Link to site

Tech Tip - Contact Lists

Another instructional video from John Sedwick. This one talks about creating contact lists within your Gmail account. This will be a more and more valuable tool as teachers want to communicate to specific classes as we head 1:1

Link to video.

Immediate Feedback! Using sheets.

Here is a quick video that uses Google Sheets to set up a spreadsheet that can be used to give students immediate feedback for a specific task. Includes example for Math (numbers) and Science (word answers).



This might be a neat way to introduce or review vocabulary.

Google: Force A Copy

This will allow you to create a doc and send it so that students automatically have an editable copy in their drive.

Link to the blog where this was found.

Video embedded from You Tube.

Slides Carnival

Whether you use Powerpoint or Google Slides, this site has some great templates to choose from. Just follow the directions for the format you choose.

Using Google in the Classroom

Link to the post

Teach for Google

Want to hone your Google skills? Need some ideas? Interested in spicing up your lessons? Whatever level you want to take it to, Teach for Google can help.

Everything from instructional classes for teachers to lessons and ideas. Check it out here.

Google Docs 101

Found this site. Seems to have some good, basic info on Google Docs.

Creating Contact Groups in Gmail

9 Tutorials on Chromebook

Okay, I found this on Pinterest. Yes, I use Pinterest, but only for work, I promise.

One thing that I did not like about Chromebooks was the fact that there was no caps lock. Apparently, I was wrong. And did you know there is also a delete function? Me neither, until today.

So much to learn!

Here is the link to the site I found.

Google Keep

If you are OCD like me, then this is the app for you!

Seriously, if you put up Post-It notes to remind you that you need to buy more Post-It notes, this will help. Or, if you get back from the store without Post-It notes because you didn't have your Post-It note reminding you to get more Post-It notes, this should help!

Google Keep allows you to makes lists and notes from any device and then syncs those so you can access them anywhere, any time. Need to remember to pick-up some bread on the way home? Note it on your Chromebook, pull it up on your phone after you leave school. Have a fender-bender? Take pics and add annotations for your insurance records. You can even set reminders and share your to-do lists! List getting too long? Import it directly into a Google Doc. Yeah, it does that and more...

Click here to go to a post giving more details about using Google Keep! Then try it out!

Flubaroo Grading for Google Forms

This is a great instructional video on using Flubaroo to grade quizzes and tests submitted on Google Forms.

The second video  not only shows Flubaroo, but goes through the steps for creating a quiz using Google Forms.

Chrome Apps and Extentions

From Shake Up Learning...

Favorite Google Chrome Apps

• Lego Build
• Voice comment on student work
• Publisher functionality in Google Apps
• Newsela
• Desktop notification from Google calendar
• Powtoon - Create animated presentations
• Geometry tools
• Collaborative Whiteboard App
• and others...

Favorite Chrome Extensions

• Boomerang - schedule the sending of e-mails
• Extension manager
• Grammarchecker
• URL shortener
• Last Pass - Password manager
• Omnibox timer - Set a timer from your Omnibox (address bar)
• Omnidrive - Search your Google Drive from the Omnibox
• Save to Google Drive - Save web pages or browser screen shots
• and others...

Also, if you go to Shake Up Learning website blog now, they are offering a FREE PDF, "Google Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students," a 32+ page PDF e-book. All they ask is that you sign up for their newsletter.

Google Calendar Tips

Here is one site with tips.

Here is another.

And yet another .

Google Basics

Here are some tutorials on some of major practical Google Doc tips that need to be mastered.

Click here to go to the site.

Found on the site

Here is a direct link to the google doc where the information is. Teachers and students should all have this reference doc!

Google Drawings - Cheat Sheet

From Shake Up Learning...

Google Drawings Cheat Sheet



Here is a link to the PDF (for those with ACS e-mail)

Google Classroom

Link to Article: Google Classroom: 9 Tips for Attaching Google Drive Files.

Boomerang for Gmail

Want to write an e-mail but send it later? Worried about forgetting to take it out of drafts and remembering to send it? Then you might want to add Boomerang to your Gmail account.

www.boomeranggmail.com

Gmail Search Functions - list

Here is the link to the Google Doc.