World History
- Personalized Urls
We normally start my classes with a five question quiz where my students can use their notes from their flipped video to answer the questions. It serves a few purposes. First I won't count the quiz grade if the notes aren't good enough...
- Catching Cheating Using Google Drive
Now that Google Classroom is finally getting better than using Google Drive, I will tell you how to catch cheating in Google Classroom later in the fall, but for now if your students turn in assignments using Google Drive below is a very quick video showing...
- 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...
- Google Drive Templates
My son is working on an assignment on Jamestown (4th grade history in VA is VA history) and is writing a newspaper account about 1619. So we found this link to Google Drive documents' templates. But it also has links to Presentations...
- Google Drive Presentations
Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) has its own version of PowerPoints called Presentation. Here is a tremendous e-sheet showing you everything you ever wanted to know in terms of using it. Above is a video showing some of the cooler features...
World History
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 in-service for our county on using Google Drive documents and PowerPoints (Google calls them Presentations).
Here is Amanda's e-sheet on creating a document and here is one on sharing documents. Here is how you create a Google Drive Presentation (PowerPoint).
The video above gives you an overview of the different things you can do in Google Drive and this video tells you how to have your students turn in assignments and grade them and this one tells you how to link it to Blackboard.
Here is Amanda's e-sheet on creating a document and here is one on sharing documents. Here is how you create a Google Drive Presentation (PowerPoint).
The video above gives you an overview of the different things you can do in Google Drive and this video tells you how to have your students turn in assignments and grade them and this one tells you how to link it to Blackboard.
- Personalized Urls
We normally start my classes with a five question quiz where my students can use their notes from their flipped video to answer the questions. It serves a few purposes. First I won't count the quiz grade if the notes aren't good enough...
- Catching Cheating Using Google Drive
Now that Google Classroom is finally getting better than using Google Drive, I will tell you how to catch cheating in Google Classroom later in the fall, but for now if your students turn in assignments using Google Drive below is a very quick video showing...
- 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...
- Google Drive Templates
My son is working on an assignment on Jamestown (4th grade history in VA is VA history) and is writing a newspaper account about 1619. So we found this link to Google Drive documents' templates. But it also has links to Presentations...
- Google Drive Presentations
Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) has its own version of PowerPoints called Presentation. Here is a tremendous e-sheet showing you everything you ever wanted to know in terms of using it. Above is a video showing some of the cooler features...