Have you seen the new Ditch That Textbook?

Matt Miller has shared many resources in his blog- now, in a redesigned site, you can find all his resources and videos.  Check it out here.

Stop Motion with Google Slides

Wanda Terral (who I follow on Facebook) is a Google guru.  She recently shared several of her presentations from a Georgia tech conference.  Here’s the link to her Stop Motion presentation.  She includes step by step directions as well as several templates.

We are thankful

During this Thanksgiving season, I had the chance to use ChatterPIX and iMovie to create some classroom videos.  The process was the same for each class. The students drew a picture and then using ChatterPIX, we recorded what they were thankful for- put them all together in iMovie and they are below. Special thanks to Ms. Greene, Ms. McDade, and Mrs, McNamara for allowing me to work with their classes.

Making feedback more alive!

Alice Keeler may have coined the phrase autopsy feedback in her blog post here.  Basically, she reminded me that all the comments I wrote after the fact were not really useful to the students.  She suggests adding a feedback date and then including response to feedback as part of the feedback. Using any Google tool (ie, slides, sheets, docs) assigned via classroom gives you access to the student work before it is turned in.  How could this help your students?

Learning Google Drawing Tools

I am thankful for this video by Lauren Conti- in it, she walks you through the Google Drawing tools to create this cute turkey.  Perhaps you could have your students try on their own before sharing the video.

Wish you could start to create stickers (digital badges)?

With this script from Alice Keeler, the hardest problem will be stopping!  Using her script, you can add images, word art, and more. This article contains some of my creations.

Download each slide as a png file and then add to your students’ work!  Read all about it here or see the video below.

Is Classroom moving too slow?

Alice Keeler has a suggestion- just duplicate the tab and while you are waiting for action in one tab to finish- you can work in the other tab.  Read all about it here.

Want to make your classroom a gameshow?

That’s the question Matt Miller (Ditch that Textbook) posed in a recent blog post.  From Quizizz and a slew of online assessments- you might find some inspiration.

Randomize your slides

Do you have a slide deck and like to switch up the order?  Consider using Slide Randomizer.  Add this add-on and you can automatically rearrange your slides.  For more information, please see Richard Byrne’s blog post here from Free Technology for Teachers.

Want to up your Slide game?

While I frequently use Slides Carnival to add style to my Google slides, I didn’t realize there are other vendors.  Thanks to Eric Curts, you can now review several slides sites with templates to make your Google/PowerPoint  Slides shine. Please see Eric’s blog post here.