Norris teachers, are you ready for the Fall? Can you make the grade? Check out our "Remote Learning Teacher Tools and Skills for the 2020-21 School year" document to find out.
Google Docs assistive writing features coming soon to our EDU G Suite Product.
Google is rolling out two Google Docs assistive writing features—Smart Compose and Autocorrect. These features will be showing up sometime this month. More info here.
New document save status and offline indicator for Docs, Sheets, and Slides - More info here.
Improvements to layouts in Google Meet - More info here.
Edit Calendar events directly from Gmail and Docs - More info here.
Super quick and easy way for students to make a comic strip: Witty comics.
Type in your child's name or any word. The site automatically opens a new window and then fills the page. Take me back to my childhood days.
Our KnowBe4 Phishing training and testing product now allows us to log in directly with Google. At the bottom of the Waffle-Iron menu you will find our KnowBe4 login.
Towards the bottom:
10 easy ways to clean up your Google Classroom
A few misc. tech tools and tips:
- Newspaper Clipping Generator - (To Cool!! Have fun.)
- Plagium helps you to ensure the originality of a text by detecting and identifying possible plagiarisms. (1000 character limit with their free search tool)
- PaperRater is a great resource to check grammar, spelling, plagiarism detection and more. Their free tools give you enough to make it worth looking at.
- Need some free sound effects for a project? This site has a ton.
- Artsonia is the world's largest collection of student art, published by teachers and students from around the world. Parents and family can view the art online, leave comments and order keepsakes featuring the artwork. (Earn money for the classroom too.)
- Interactive Learning Menus (Choice Boards) with G Suite – FREE Templates. Great idea to give kids choices with their projects and learning.
- Check out the interactive mathematics teaching resources. Great resources for the K-8 classrooms! Use it with your Chromebook and cast! Your projector, Mimio, etc...
- Google Earth Tour Guide: 14 Virtual Tours You’ll Want to Check Out
- https://www.fileconverto.com/ and https://www.oneimagevideo.com/ offer some great online tools and converters.
- 15 Tips on Using Media in Google Slides.
- Seven Ideas for Flipgrid Activities We have included this in our FlipGrid resource document. This is one of our must use tech tools!
Distance Learning For Educators
Google just added this new Distance Learning For Educators course to it's skillshop/training.
More Google Slides Resources!
We have updated our Google Slide templates and ideas doc. We have added Slidesmaina to our list of template resources along with some more great tips.
Tab Groups Are Available in Google Chrome
I am not sure if this is that great of a feature, but some may find it useful. This 2 minute video will walk you through it.
Google Lens can now copy and paste handwritten notes to your computer Check it out. (I tested it and it's pretty cool! (Thanks to Katy Dornbos for finding this one!) Get the Google lens app. (You may already have it and not even know it!)
Kahn Academy just made a step by step guide for teachers. Check it out!. (We have this built into Clever so accounts will automatically be created for you going through Clever. Ask us about this when you start using it!) This is a top shelf online resource that is almost too good to be free. It's on our top list of OER resources for Norris Staff.
Interactive slides for remote learning - Answer Pear Deck!
What if you could set up some slides for students to see -- but add clickable interactive elements, like multiple choice, drag and drop, or drawing?
Now, what if you could assign it for students to do on their own time at their own pace?
The answer is PearDeck student-paced mode. Pear Deck lets you create interactive elements on your slides for your students. Lots of teachers are using it for remote learning right now. Pear Deck has enough features in it's free package that it's definitely worth using.
What if you could set up some slides for students to see -- but add clickable interactive elements, like multiple choice, drag and drop, or drawing?
Now, what if you could assign it for students to do on their own time at their own pace?
The answer is PearDeck student-paced mode. Pear Deck lets you create interactive elements on your slides for your students. Lots of teachers are using it for remote learning right now. Pear Deck has enough features in it's free package that it's definitely worth using.
Matt Miller just did a webinar for Pear Deck showing how student-paced mode works and how it can be used for remote learning. Check out there 20 ways to use Pear Deck to engage students article to get some ideas on using Pear Deck.
Learn how to run a student-paced session of Pear Deck Flashcard Factory (2 mint. video.) (free for all)
Did you know Google Sheets can translate?
In Google Sheets you can use the function:
=GOOGLETRANSLATE(A1, "en","fr")
To translate the English text in cell A1 to French. These functions work using two letter country codes (es, es, ru, de, he, etc).
=GOOGLETRANSLATE(A1, "en","fr")
To translate the English text in cell A1 to French. These functions work using two letter country codes (es, es, ru, de, he, etc).
Khan Kids — Now for Teachers!
If you’re a preschool or early elementary educator, you probably know that Khan Academy Kids is a great app to recommend to parents of 2-7 year-olds.
It’s engaging (including amazing content from National Geographic), comprehensive (everything from early literacy to socio-emotional learning), and free (no ads, no subscriptions).
But did you know that you can now use it directly with your students?
That’s because Khan Kids now has teacher tools!
But did you know that you can now use it directly with your students?
That’s because Khan Kids now has teacher tools!
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