Beginning of the year activities to introduce students to tools:
- Create a Google Form to gather student information and/or feedback on the week. Embed it on your Haiku page. Analyze summary of responses and use conditional formatting in the response spreadsheet to help analyze written data.
- Push out a Google Drawing to students to have them develop a mind map or collage with pictures, text, shapes, etc. Post the Google Drawings in a class wikiproject.
- Push out a Google Slides for students to use for a presentation. Have students add images and videos straight from Google Slides and talk about using appropriately licensed pics & videos. Show students how to find appropriately licensed images and videos from Google Images search as well as other Creative Commons websites.
- Push out a “Treasure Hunt” Google Doc to students to help them explore the features of Google Docs, including items from the following menus:
- Insert - images, links, equations, drawings, tables
- Format - all items
- Tools - word count, research, define, spelling
- Table (once have table) - merging cells
- Collaborative features - comments, “editing/suggesting/viewing” mode
- Add-ons - Easybib
- Create a Padlet wall for students to post something to (a written response; an image or video that relates to the topic online, an introduction to themselves - with webcam photo). Embed the Padlet wall on the class Haiku page. For moderation, set it so you have to approve each post and changes to avoid inappropriate images being posted.
- Find an image (or bank of images) for students to annotate using Thinglink. Embed the Thinglinks on a class wiki-project on Haiku.
- Create an Office Mix from one of your PowerPoint presentations to deliver instruction to students asynchronously. Include quizzes in order to gather formative data. Challenge: Have students transform their presentations (can download from Google Slides into PowerPoint) into an Office Mix and submit their link to you in a Google Form for you to view & grade. Post well-done Mixes on the Haiku page for other students to learn from.
- Transform one of your PDF worksheets using GoFormative and have students complete online. Project the “calendar view” responses live while students are working on it and have students collaborate and help each other.
- Import one of your slide decks (PowerPoint or Google Slides) into PearDeck and transform your instruction experience with live feedback from students, including opportunities to analyze mistakes, ask questions on the fly, and follow up with struggling students.
Feedback Tools (from student to teacher) | Content Delivery with Feedback | Presentation Tools | Creativity Tools | Discussion Tools | Reading and/or Writing Tools |
Peardeck ($) Formative Socrative Kahoot Padlet Poll Everywhere Answer Garden Desmos Activity Builder GoogleForms Wordle / Tagxedo ? GoSoapBox | Office Mix Educanon Zaption DocentEDU TouchCast | Google Slides PowerPoint Thinglink (images / videos) Google Drawings Office Sway PowToon Videoscribe Adobe Voice Piktochart Lucid Press Animoto | Thinglink (images / videos) Animoto Google Drawings Haiku Wikiproject Discovery Streaming “Boards” Canva Office Sway PowToon Videoscribe Adobe Voice Piktochart Lucid Press Easel.ly | Verso App TodaysMeet Haiku Discussion Board | Newsela Diigo Actively Learn Curriculet Booktrack Librovox Kaizena |
Math-Specific | Music-Specific | Science-Specific | Foreign-Language | Currently Uncategorized | |
Learning and Modeling Tools Desmos Calculator Teacher.Desmos.Com activities Desmos Activity Builder Geogebra Practice Tools: Khan Academy TenMarks Kuta ($) | Online-Voice-Recorder.com Music Composition (Noteflight, MuseScore, Finale Notepad) | App - Elements 4D | Google Voice for listening and speaking | Videonot.es Quizlet Office OneNote Class Notebooks Twitter hashtag for students Students creating videos Screencast with Screencast-o-matic Doc Cam lesson thru Sphere Aver PlugIn for Powerpoint Aurasma Student blogging |
Google Drive | Google Docs | Google Sheets | Google Slides | Google Drawings | Google Forms |
creating new documents uploading file to Drive uploading folder to Drive organizing documents into folders renaming documents sharing documents with specific people sharing documents with a link (view, comment, or edit) understanding live collaboration ability of Google Drive /copy feature on individual docs Doctopus Google Classroom | commenting on sections of document chatting within document accessing revision history using research toolbar accessing word count accessing dictionary Editing text (font, size, bold/italics, alignment, bullets, etc) creating and editing tables hyperlinking inserting images cropping and editing images inserting equation inserting footnote inserting page numbers inserting Table of Contents Creating bookmarks throughout longer document inserting Drawings inserting tables changing formatting of tables (painting cells, changing border, etc) Changing page background Changing page margins | merging cells conditional formatting changing column width / row height wrapping / unwrapping text freezing headers sorting filtering sum formula vlookup formula countif formula inserting chart inserting drawing inserting image | Changing theme Adding animations Adding Slide Transitions Adding Text boxes Adding images Adding youtube videos Adding word art Adding lines and arrows Adding shapes Editing text (font, size, bold/italics, alignment, bullets, etc) Importing PowerPoint Slides Changing Layout of individual slides Inserting Table Ordering objects front to back Aligning objects horizontally or vertically Distributing objects evenly horizontally or vertically Rotating objects Grouping objects Resizing objects | Changing Canvas size Adding Text Block Adding Image Adding Word Art Adding lines or arrows Adding Shapes Adding Tables Ordering objects front to back Aligning objects horizontally or vertically Distributing objects evenly horizontally or vertically Rotating objects Grouping objects Resizing objects Editing text (font, size, bold/italics, alignment, bullets, etc) Adding borders of different types and colors around objects Hyperlinking Text | Creating new form Automatically creating associated spreadsheet Requiring TUSD Login Collecting TUSD Username Adding Multiple Choice Question Adding Checkbox Question Adding Text Question Adding Paragraph Text Question Adding “choose from a list” question Adding scale question Adding Grid question Adding a section header Adding a page break Sending different responses to different pages Adding images Adding videos Adding MathType Sending multiple forms to same spreadsheet Embedding Form Getting live form link Changing theme Adding customized header |
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Google Chrome | Classroom / District Technology | Windows 8 / Laptop | Haiku | ||
Bookmarks (synced across devices) Extensions (OneTab) Extensions (Tab Scissors/ Tab Glue) Extension (One-Click Timer) Extension & App - Awesome Screenshot Extension - Goobric Extension - Padlet Mini Extension - Multiple Tabs Search Extension - Diigo Extension - Grammarly Extension - Tab Carousel | Haiku Document Camera & Recording Interactive Whiteboard | Snapping windows by dragging or with windows key Zooming in and out with ctrl +/- | Haiku - Creating new classes Haiku - making copies of former classes Haiku - linking rosters from AERIES Haiku - Adding pages and subpages Haiku - Adding Text, File, or Link Content Blocks Haiku - Adding Google Drive, YouTube, or Image Content Blocks Haiku - Adding "embed the web" content Blocks Haiku Announcements Haiku Calendar Haiku Quizzing Haiku Discussions Haiku WikiProjects Haiku Page Organization |