— Shared document: restaurants!
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*** A great use for collaborative documents: Collaborative notes
— Shared document: comment on an article
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*** A great use for comments: Rough drafts
— The apps: If you don’t have them already …
— gClassFolders to organize student work: gClassFolders creates a system of shared folders that you and your students can access. Click here for more information and to view the add-on you’ll need to use it.
— Graphic organizers (in shared Sheets or in Drawings on a computer): Google Slides and Drawings can be a great medium for students to create graphic organizers. Click here for a post with 15 pre-made graphic organizers you can use. (Note: Google Drawings isn’t supported by iPad. You can copy/paste the graphic organizers into a Slides presentation that’s shared with students so they can work with it.)
— Naming conventions: For any given assignment, give students a unique keyword (i.e. “bkrept2” for the second book report of the year) and ask them to add that keyword to the name of their file. Simply search for the keyword to get all of those documents!
Google resources:
The big finish: Epic Docs Animation!
Go to kahoot.it to play!
Click here for my best resources to go global with your students.
Skype, Google Hangouts and FaceTime are all iPad-friendly ways to get connected!
— Ngram Viewer: nGram Viewer searches all of the words in Google Books, dating from the 1700s all the way to 2008. It displays a line graph to show how often your keywords (either single words or phrases) are found in books throughout time.
— Google Correlate: If you want to dive deeper into the numbers, Google Correlate “finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends.” Search terms can be graphed over time (weekly or monthly) or compared across states in the U.S. on a map.
— Google Trends: This tool is geared more toward current events. Google Trends works from search terms entered in Google since 2004.
— Hot Trends: This tool displays popular search terms in a colorful matrix that can be customized (number of terms on the screen, location).
— Smarty Pins: Smarty Pins makes geography fun with gamified trivia using Google Maps. The game asks location-based questions.
— A Google A Day: A Google A Day challenges students to find very specific things online and then later gives them the answer to see how they did.
— Gone Google Story Builder: There’s something about watching people type words on a screen that somehow grabs our attention. Gone Google Story Builder takes advantage of that, allowing users to create music-infused text videos.
— World Wonders Project: Produced by the Google Cultural Institute, this project delivers street view imagery and 3D modeling of great places around the explorable world and beyond (i.e. the Great Barrier Reef).
— 16 ways to Google search like a pro
— YouTube Time Machine: YouTube Time Machine connects you with videos from specific years in the past.
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