Math in Google Docs and Forms (for math and STEM and science!)

Alice Keeler (in this blog post) shares a new Chrome extension EquatIO - Math made digital. You only get the premium features for 30 days for free (see the chart below for feature comparisons).  What do you think?

Highlighting with word problems

Eric Curts shared a technique for helping students work their way through word problems.  Please see his blog post Solving Story Problems with the Highlight Tool Add-on for Docs.  It also includes this link to highlighting tools.

Letter the text speak

Do you have students who would benefit from listening to the text on a web page?  Speak to Text is a chrome extension (free) that you can install.  Then just highlight the text on a web page and right click.  Be sure the sound is on!

Think about the option- you could take text from Discovery Education resources and convert it to an ebook!  You can access Speak Text from the Chrome Store here.

How to see student progress (in Google slides)

When using Google Docs, going back to look at progress is easy- all you need to do is select File- See Revision History.  But how can you tell what your students are doing when working in slides or on a website?

Alice Keeler has created a Chrome extension that will:

1. Take screenshot every minute.
2. At the end, upload all the shots to a Google Slide presentation.
3. The student can then annotate to explain their learning.
4. The slides can be shared with the teacher.

I thought this was a novel idea, especially when the student is working on slides or sheets.

For complete information from Alice, please click her post here. To access and install the Chrome extension SlideShot, please click here.

Side by Side

Alice Keeler shared her Chrome Extension in a recent blog post.  It will allow you to open two windows side by side- in the example, you can see Google classroom as well as a student document. Please read her post here for all the details.