Well Google Classroom is a great tool for both of these tasks. But beyond Classroom, there are some tools that can transform your classroom into a paperless at least a less paper environment. Google Classroom
Google Classroom is an amazing tool for organizing resources and collecting student work. I used to have a Google Site and use Google Forms to collect student tasks, but there were issues with students not changing the share settings properly which added additional time and effort to be able to access student work.
Google Classroom integrates into your Google Drive for both teacher and student and creates a folder in your Google Drive called Classroom where resources can be quickly located and accessed. The videos below share the process of setting up Google Classroom and the second video shows you what Classroom looks like from the student side. The first video is a guide to setting up Google Classroom. It is an overview video. The second video is much more detailed. If you are interested in setting up Google Classroom and would like some assistance in working through the process or ideas on how to utilize Classroom to its fullest potential, please let me know. I would be happy to sit down with you and share a book I have on 50 ways to use Google Classroom by Alice Keeler. If you want to see more of the student side, you can go to Classroom (sign up as a Teacher) and join my training class using code 2a7gig0 (if the last one isn't a zero try capital O). You will then be able to explore what students see. The main points of the student view are the ability to submit and unsubmit assignments and also be able to Add products to an assignment that may or may not be Google Apps for Education products like Google Docs, Google Drawing, Google Presenations, etc. They could add files from their desktops, or links to websites as well. Screenshots as a tool for learning
Screenshots are a great way to capture information quickly and share it with others. Our team uses screen shots frequently to create directions you can use to assist you with IC for instance. We have an example of how to use Screenshots on the following page- How to use Screenshots.
I was working with students the other day in the LMC of one of my buildings and noticed many were using a program called Geogebra. I have heard great things about this math program and saw students creating examples of their understanding and solutions to problems. One thing that stood out to me was that they were printing the final results of their graphing assignment. I started to think about how we could use Screencasts to avoid printing and still provide the teacher an opportunity to provide students with feedback. Screenshots added to Google Drawing can create a new product that the teacher can then use Google Drawing tools to annotate and comment to provide students with feedback. Screenshots and Google Drawing
I think the situation arises often when students are asked to diagram, label, or identify things on a visual platform.
In Science students are often asked to label diagrams. If teachers take a screen shot and insert it into Google Drawing, students could label the image to demonstrate their understanding. In Biology, students during a dissection lab could take a picture of the insect, plant or animal they are studying and insert it into Google Drawing to add more detail to their labeling and create a visual study guide to assist them throughout the unit or term. In Social Studies, students are often asked to map out regions or annotate maps. Using screenshots in conjunction with Google Drawing, students can create annotated maps. Another alternative would be using Google Maps to add information to a map where they could add pictures and videos.
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Teachers and students are often asked to create visual presentations. One common mistake that is made is not looking at copyright information before selecting an image. Checking for this information may seem like a daunting task, however the video below shows you how to make that easier. It begins with how to do this in Google which many students will go to by default and then 4 other options for finding free images. In each there are steps you or students need to take to verify that you are selecting images that are free to use. In addition to the video, GBAPS offers some applications that students can also access images like Discovery Education, Culturegrams, Britannica Image Quest, to name a few. Use the resources in the video at your discretion. One aspect of these options is there is not login for students or sharing of personal information if used as described in the video. Google Draw- Google Drawing is a great way to create visuals for a multitude of applications. It allows you to pull images into the program using the Research tool (under the tools tab) and dragging and dropping the image. You can layer images, add text and shapes. There are a multitude of tools available via Google Draw. I wanted to share 2 things that have come up for me this week. Cropping and Saving. Cropping Images Google allows you to crop images you insert. Cropping is a function that I am sure most people have heard of, and is included in many products, including many camera phones. What I recently came across is the ability to crop an image into a shape. You click on the image- then the crop icon appears with a drop down arrow next to it. Click the arrow and you will see shapes appear. Choose a shape and you will change your image. See Below- Saving Google Draw images
I was asked about sharing/emailing images to the print center. The image that we were looking at wasn't able to be saved as a PDF which is the preferred method for the print center. We inserted the image into Google Drawings and then clicked File Download As and chose a PDF. This allows the image to be emailed to the print center. |
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