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Cynthia Nixon

@TeachingTechNix

Ed Tech Coach

Santa Fe Christian Schools

Solana Beach, CA

www.TeachingTechNix.com

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@EdTechSpec

Josh Harris

Ed Tech Director

Alisal Union School District

Solana Beach, CA

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Hook Your Teachers with These G Suite Tools

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Google Drawings

Google Keep

Google Sheets

Google Slides

Google Docs

Google Forms

Google Chrome

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Google Docs

Table of Contents

Everything in your doc marked with a “Heading” style becomes a clickable link on your table of contents.

Bookmarks

Bookmark spots in your doc and create links. Use the link to send people directly to that spot.

3 Modes

Did you know there are 3 different modes with which to view a doc?

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Digital Assignment Dropbox

Don’t use Google Classroom? Easily collect

any assignment with a URL. #NoMoreHassle

Google Forms

Parent Conference Notes

All your parent conference notes in an organized, searchable, and sortable spreadsheet. #Perfection

Anecdotal Student Notes

Digital Assignment Check

All your student notes in an organized, searchable, and sortable spreadsheet. #ABeautifulThing

Quick and easy check of student progress on anything you want!

#FantasticForms

File Upload Question Type

Easy way to collect files, even large ones, from students or even parents.

#EasyPeasy

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Google Slides

Link to Another Slide

Link text or shapes to another slide

Think ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ style

Edit the Master Slide

Put objects and text in the background of the slide so students cannot edit it. Create your own slide “themes”.

Create Learning Journals

Writing journals, reflections, exit tickets, faux blogs, you name it. Create a learning journal that is quick to grade.

Create Digital Newsletters

Include pictures, embed videos and links, easy to manipulate. Hand out one link - all year. You can even embed your Newsletter Slides into your class webpage!

Drag and Drop

Create drag and drop activities for younger students using the grey workspace around your slides. Anything in the grey space saves too!

Bonus Tip: Change the slide size to whatever you want - including 8.5 x 11!

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Google Sheets

Fill out a spreadsheet with personal information, or use one from a Google Form & send out a customized email for each row with automatically.

Send Personalized Emails With formMule Add-on

Quickly Autofill Cells

Select a cell. Click the blue square on the lower right corner of the cell until you get a “+” cursor. Drag down to duplicate contents or continue pattern.

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Moving Objects: Pixel Nudge

You can select an object in your drawing and use arrow keys to move it around. Bonus - hold down the shift key while you use the arrow keys and it will move one pixel at a time!

Crop Images into Shapes

Did you know you can crop your picture into any shape you can insert into a Google Drawing? All the shapes, arrows, callouts, and equation options can be used to reshape a photo!

Make Infographics or Posters

Students can create beautiful infographics, posters, memes, etc. using Google Drawings. Shapes, images, and text can quickly become links. Objects and text boxes can be manipulated and moved around far easier than in Google Docs. You can even change the canvas size to be whatever you’d like!

Google Drawings

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Quickly put a word, phrase, passcode, or URL in large print across your screen so the class can type it in, copy it down, etc. and you don’t have to keep repeating it!

Google Chrome

Google Docs Quick Create

Create a new Google doc, slide, drawing, sheet, or form without going to Google Drive.

CraftyText

CraftyCursor

Highlight your cursor with a colored circle to help your audience track with your mouse movements, see what you click, and what you type on the big screen.

Tab Scissors & Tab Glue

Put two open browser tabs side by side with one click, then with one click put them back full screen again.

Tab Cloud

Save all your open tabs as a “set” to be reopened again next time you need them.

*Click on the icon image to be taken to the Chrome Web Store page for that extension.

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Google Keep

Website

Keep.google.com = digital sticky notes! There’s an app for your phone, too!

Extension

Use the Google Keep Extension to quickly save URLs to your Google Keep notepad.

Integration with Docs

You can now open your Keep notepad from within Google Docs, Slides, and Drawings!

Drag and drop notes!

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