Click here for a copy. Note this copy is owned by you and will automatically be saved in your google drive. Please move it to an appropriate folder in your My Drive.
The newer grey letterhead can now be utilised on a google Doc. See the example below.
Click here for a copy. Note this copy is owned by you and will automatically be saved in your google drive. Please move it to an appropriate folder in your My Drive.
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On the 31st October PD afternoon, Raewyn Donnell ran a google drive, docs and classroom session for beginners. She has put a range of instruction sheets together on various skills and tools within the google drive and docs environment. While her session was for beginners, some of the instructions are still useful for those more experienced staff to have a look at, in particular the one on voice typing. These are listed below
This is the PD session by Frances Cross on 31st October 2016. A good look at how you can use google apps to help support critical thinking in your classroom.
This will be an absolute game changer in our teaching programs. Google's latest update will soon allow students and teachers using the google apps on a MOBILE DEVICE (Ipad and Android tablet apps) to annotate, highlight, and draw freehand into a google doc. So what does this actually mean? Well, basically students can draw diagrams freehand into a google doc. Teachers will also be able to write and draw freehand on those student docs (exactly in the same way as you would on a piece of work on paper.)
The inability to draw diagrams and pictures that can't easily be created through adding shapes has held google apps back for some subjects. This change will allow students to not just create diagrams, complete brainstorms and in general take hand written notes if they chose but it may also help those subjects like Science and Maths that use subscripts and superscripts in equations. Students will also be able to show their workings for mathematical and science equations. This is a very similar type of software that will most likely be seen in some external digital examinations in coming years (starting for some subjects in 2018 - majority by 2020). So it is great for our students to be able to become familiar with this style of working prior to digital examinations. While at this stage it is only available to those on mobile devices and not laptops, I am sure google will be working hard on rolling it out on laptops as well. The gif (animated image) below shows this in action through a google classroom assignment.
During a session I was at with the beginning teachers yesterday, we discussed one of the issues they found students were having. When a teacher puts a document as an announcement and asks students to make a copy to write their answers in, they found that this was an annoying task for students and some students struggled with it. Of course you can set tasks as assignments and by doing this you can select to send copies to all students. However sometimes you don't want to do this for a variety of reasons. There is a way to put a link either into Google Classroom or in an email which forces the person clicking on it to automatically create their own copy rather than typing into your master copy. This is so quick and easy and can be used in a lot of different ways.
These instructions are from Klista Rader via youtube.
This post follows on from 'How to Upload a Word Doc' to google drive.
Converting a word doc to a google doc enables you to send worksheets via google classroom assignments to each and every one of your students very easily. The next blog post will provide instructions on how to send a document via a google classroom assignment. This blog post provides instructions for how to convert a word doc, the same process can be used for converting an excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint file. Click here if you would like to view these instructions full screen.
Of course pedagogy is super important, and admittedly this blog post is not heavy in pedagogy, however sometimes students and some of us teachers like things to look good!!! Here is a collection of new templates from google that I think could be useful for a number of different subjects. All of these templates can be found if you go to www.slides.google.com at the top, click on More and there are quite a few. Slides Carnival is also another useful website I go to for google slides templates when I want something a little different. These are all free of course!
I have also provided some templates to students via the Tech Wizards Blog. The templates were for a newspaper style google doc. I used this for a task in Health. Click here for this blog. And here are some other slides templates that are quite neat also created by the Slides Carnival website and on I've put on the Tech Wizards website.
And below is a new google doc template for completing Science Lab Reports. - click here for a copy.
Following on from the work that Megan Davidson does with students on referencing and creating bibliographies and of course the issue of plagiarism, I thought I would share with you some tools that you can use with your students to help them reference correctly.
During a research unit we complete with our Year 12 Outdoor Education class, prior to them starting to search for any information, we ask students to watch this video on how to use the Easybib add on in google docs. It's helpful for teachers to watch this so that you are aware of how it works. (It's 6 1/2 minutes long so not too bad!). Video: http://goo.gl/njw5dr (video also embeded below) These instructions are something you could put on the About page of your google classroom for students to find easily next time they need it. Last year I sent students a google doc as an assignment in google classroom that is their internal assessment. I did this before they began the researching component as well. This meant that they can search while in this document and enter in the references as they go. Last year I also tried to add the Easybib add on to all students and staff, however follow the steps in the video if the add on doesn't show in your google doc as an add on. (Hopefully it has worked but if not it only takes a minute to add the add on!) Anyway, here are the basic written instructions also. To Get EasyBib
To Add a Source to your bibliography as you go:
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