10 Things You Can Do With Google Sheets As I mentioned yesterday in my run-down of ten ways to use Google Forms, Google Forms and Google Sheets is the part of G Suite for Education that I get most excited about teaching to others. My excitement comes from seeing how many applications for Google Forms and Google Sheets teachers develop once they understand the basics of how Forms and Sheets work. Here are ten ways that you can use Google Sheets once you understand the basics of how to use Sheets. 1. Send personalized emails to everyone in a group. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Register for Google Forms & Sheets for Beginners to get started on using Google Forms for any or all of these purposes.
Nik's QuickShout: Make PDF Texts into Interactive Online Activities for Blended Learning Pages Monday, 25 September 2017 Make PDF Texts into Interactive Online Activities for Blended Learning This tool enables teachers to build onto more traditional course book based courses and add a blended learning element. You then give your students a code to register on the course and they can access the texts, make notes and annotate the text and build discussions around them. When you register as a teacher you need to tell the site which school you teach at. Sign up for my twice monthly free newsletter and get a free copy of Digital Tools for Teachers at: My eBooks: Best Nik Peachey Labels: blended learning, course book, course creation, interactive © Nik Peachey at Monday, September 25, 2017 No comments: Post a Comment Newer PostOlder PostHome Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) My eBooks & Lesson Plans 20 Tech Enhanced Activities for the Language Classroom£3.49 Read More Thinking Critically through Digital Media£6.99 Read more Exploiting Infographics£2.49 Sumo
Wikipedia Putting a Focus on Media Literacy in the Digital Age | EdTech Magazine For K–12 students, there has never been a time in their lives when information wasn’t just a Google search away. But does that mean that these digital natives are savvy when it comes to knowing what information to trust? The answer is overwhelmingly no, reports Stanford’s History Education Group (SHEG) in a 2016 study. “Our ‘digital natives’ may be able to flit between Facebook and Twitter while simultaneously uploading a selfie to Instagram and texting a friend,” reads the study. In the study, SHEG asked students in middle and high school to determine if the content was unbiased based on its source — a piece of sponsored content for middle schoolers and a National Rifle Association chart on gun laws for high schoolers. Earlier research revealed similar outcomes. “We teach online reading comprehension to middle school classrooms,” says Ian O’Byrne, who served as a fellow at the lab. Educating Students to Evaluate Digital Sources
time How long do you think the average work email goes unread? 10 minutes? 5 minutes? 1 minute? Try 6 seconds. From Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked: In reality, 70 percent of office emails are read within six seconds of arriving. Yes, Houston, we have a problem. Adam Alter is a professor of marketing at NYU and author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Some might say that they’re not addicted to technology — they just enjoy it. Well, people average 3 hours a day on their phones. There’s a study that was done asking people, mainly young adults, to make a decision: if you had to break a bone or break your phone what would you prefer? And if you have kids, this issue is even more serious. No doubt, Steve Jobs changed the world with the iPad. Alright, “scared straight” time is over. Are We Really Phone Junkies? Phones aren’t drugs. If it was, you would literally be addicted to chocolate. 5) Dr.
What's the best, most effective way to take notes? If it feels like you forget new information almost as quickly as you hear it, even if you write it down, that’s because we tend to lose almost 40% of new information within the first 24 hours of first reading or hearing it. If we take notes effectively, however, we can retain and retrieve almost 100% of the information we receive. Learning how to retain information The most effective note-taking skills involve active rather than passive learning. They must also be thinking about the thinking (metacognition) involved in engaging with the material. Studies have found note taking is most effective when notes are organised and transformed in some way or when a teacher gives examples of good notes. Students often tell teachers they have excellent memories and don’t need to take notes because they can easily recall information. The goal of effective note taking is to help recall what has been learned and retain that information over time. What are the most effective ways to take notes?
Google Everything Teachers Need to Know about Digital Literacies Digitality has radically redefined the concept of learning expanding its breadth to unprecedented extremes. New epistemologies have seen the light and with them comes a bunch of new literacies, some call them digital literacies others call them 21st century literacies, but regardless of the nomeclature, these new literacies have rapidly morphed into learning forces driving much of the learning taking place in our current era. The purpose of today's post is to provide you with a list of some great books to help you learn more about digital literacies in terms of what they mean to us as teachers and educators, their theoretical foundation and the social practices constituting these literacies. 1- Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) , by Colin Lankshear (Editor), Michele Knobel (Editor) “This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. 4- Digital Literacy by Paul Gilster
10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking - 10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking by Terry Heick Social media is here to stay. No matter how much we lament a loss of privacy, too much screen time, superficial identity, or countless other worries, media has been around since language was invented, and we have always sought to make that media as social as locally available technology would allow. From chisels and tablets to the printing press to radio and television to twitter and Facebook, as long as we continue to have thoughts and ideas, we will continue to seek to publish and socialize them with others. Technology & ‘Social Emotion’ It would make sense that as technology becomes more integrated, more accessible to all socioeconomic classes, and “smarter” itself, those connections will only deepen as we our priorities–and the tools we use to express them–change. Scientific American published an article discussing why being ‘connected’ matters. See also ‘Stop Worrying About Screen Time’ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
12 Free Web Annotation Tools for Teachers to Draw, Add Notes, and Highlight Sections on A Web page 1- Diigo Diigo is the first web service that comes into mind when talking about web annotation. . Diigo has a tool that lets you annotate web pages, add notes and colour specific chunks of a paragraph to share with your colleagues. 2- Sharedcopy This is another great bookmarking and annotating web service. 3- Awesome Screenshot This is one of my favourites. 4- Bounce This is also a great annotating tool. 5- Markup.io This is mainly a bookmarklet that you can drag and drop onto your browser toolbar. 6- Screen Draw This is an awesome extension from Firefox that allows users to annotate their selected webpages. 7- Webpage Screenshot This is a Chrome extension that allows users to take a screenshot of a webpage and add their own drawings or arrows. 8- Jing This is another awesome tool that allows users to create annotated screen capture images. 9- Crocodoc This a great tool that lets users annotate , edit and share their PDFs, Power Point files, and Word Documents.
EPIC Databases Kia ora and welcome to EPIC. EPIC is a venture between New Zealand libraries and the Ministry of Education, giving schools free access to a worldwide range of electronic resources. EPIC resources are purchased annually through the EPIC consortium on a subscription basis by the Ministry of Education for access by all New Zealand schools. What is available? Through EPIC schools can access databases containing curriculum related content from thousands of up-to-date, full text international and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, biographies, substantial reference works, images, e-books, multi-media resources and much more. Visit the Databases page for descriptions of the resources, and to filter by learning area and school level. How do I access EPIC? Use the links below (and from the Databases page) to access the EPIC resource that you are interested in searching. For EPIC school login queries email: epic@epic.org.nz Who can use EPIC? Where can I find more information?
The Epic BYOD Toolbox PowerSchool Learning: (Previously Haiku Learning.) This is a full learning management system (LMS) that I’m trying to get our school to adopt. It’s multiplatform and robust, which makes it a great fit for our BYOD environment. It also works on top of Google Classroom, so I have all those features too, plus my grade book. There are many other content-sharing platforms, like Moodle, Canvas, and CourseSites. Screencasting and Capturing What Happens in Class If you’re going to share and interact with your students in the electronic and physical spaces (as you should), you must learn how to screencast. In some exciting news, Apple has announced that iOS 11 (out later this year) will include screen recording capabilities and new screenshot features. Screencast-O-Matic: This is my go-to app. Cloud Syncing Dropbox: If you shoot video and need to get it onto your computer, Dropbox is essential. Expression Blogging Ning: Ning looks like a social media site because it is. Written Expression
5 Free Annotation and Collaboration Tools for Web Projects This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Specific, contextual feedback is crucial for teams collaborating online, which is why it's so important to make receiving it as fast, efficient and easy as possible. Asking for feedback can be tedious and is often done out of context, for example, via e-mail. However there are numerous tools available to make the task of gathering and giving feedback for web projects simpler and swifter. Here are five of the best free tools to annotate and collaborate on the web. 1. MarkUp lets you express your thoughts and ideas quickly and easily on any webpage. When you click the publish button and slide to confirm, you will receive a unique URL with the image and notes captured, making it easy to share with anyone, seeking feedback where necessary. 2. Bounce is a lightweight application for giving quick feedback on a web page.
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