World History
Google sites is a great platform that allows you to create a class website where you can embed assignments, video clips, and even Google Forms for short assessments. Google gives you more flexibility than Blackboard and has more apps that work seamlessly with Google sites.
My colleague, James Dahlgren, and I presented different ways to use Google sites at the 2013 VSTE (Virginia Society for Technology in Education) Conference in Roanoke this weekend. Here?s a link to our presentation that shows you the steps involved in creating a site. And here's a link to a site we created for our AP World history class. We link the site to Blackboard so that when students open Blackboard they are taken directly to the Google site.
- Google Classroom
Until recently I was not convinced that Google Classroom was any better than Google Drive. But Google recently announced that you can now add apps on it and one might assume that it is going to get better. The best part is that the students...
- Adding A Video Into Google Forms
Yesterday Google added the ability to insert a video into Google forms. All you need to do is to go to the "insert" tab and then go down to "video" and then find it on Youtube. Alternatively you could watch this one minute video to do it....
- Using Google Drive In Your Classroom
One of my former teacher-students, Amanda Lombardi has been proving for a long time that special education students are great for using technology in the classroom (and this year I am going to prove that with ESOL kids). Tomorrow she is doing an...
- World Wonders Project
A lot of us use Google Earth to show our students important historical sites. Well now Google Earth has put 132 historical sites into one location called the World Wonders Project. which includes Google Earth images as well as information abou...
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...
World History
Google Sites for Education
My colleague, James Dahlgren, and I presented different ways to use Google sites at the 2013 VSTE (Virginia Society for Technology in Education) Conference in Roanoke this weekend. Here?s a link to our presentation that shows you the steps involved in creating a site. And here's a link to a site we created for our AP World history class. We link the site to Blackboard so that when students open Blackboard they are taken directly to the Google site.
- Google Classroom
Until recently I was not convinced that Google Classroom was any better than Google Drive. But Google recently announced that you can now add apps on it and one might assume that it is going to get better. The best part is that the students...
- Adding A Video Into Google Forms
Yesterday Google added the ability to insert a video into Google forms. All you need to do is to go to the "insert" tab and then go down to "video" and then find it on Youtube. Alternatively you could watch this one minute video to do it....
- Using Google Drive In Your Classroom
One of my former teacher-students, Amanda Lombardi has been proving for a long time that special education students are great for using technology in the classroom (and this year I am going to prove that with ESOL kids). Tomorrow she is doing an...
- World Wonders Project
A lot of us use Google Earth to show our students important historical sites. Well now Google Earth has put 132 historical sites into one location called the World Wonders Project. which includes Google Earth images as well as information abou...
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...