Five on Friday

First a Google Tip! Did you know that you can publish a Google Doc as a web page? What a great idea for updating homework weekly without all the copy and paste mess. Not just docs but slides and sheets and drawings as well! Imagine! You and your students could make your own ​class book and then publish it online.  Here is a link to show you how but I would love to come in and help as well!  ​http://goo.gl/JXOVHD

2.  Have you heard of Google Lit Trips?  Google Lit Trips are interactive Google Maps based off of novels.  There is a website full of downloadable (or use as they are) lit trips.  This is a great way of helping students understand where and how a character moved around as the book proceeds.  Once you use some of the Lit Trips from Google, you may want to create your own.  http://www.googlelittrips.org/

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3.  I have had four people this week ask me to remind them about the quiz like website called Kahoot.  Kahoot is a collection of questions you create on specific topics. They are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment. And it is absolutely free!  ​https://getkahoot.com/  After your create your Kahoot you send your students to Kahoot It on any type of device, give them the game pin and they can interact with your game.  https://kahoot.it/#/.  The best part is you can log in with your Google account and Kahoot can send the results to your Drive on a Google Sheet!

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4.  Are you interested in creating videos of your instruction for a flipped classroom, blended learning experience or to just provide students with a way to remember the steps of a particular task?  Most of our classroom computers already have the capability to do this.  You can use a Smart tool called Smart Recorder.  In the list of All Programs on your computer you will see a folder called Smart Technologies.  In this is a folder called Smart Tools.  This is where you will locate your Smart Recorder and it is SIMPLE to use!  You can see it pictured below in front of a Smart Notebook document but you can use it with any program or website.  It has three buttons.  The red is record, the middle is pause, and the square is stop!  When you click stop a window will open asking you to name your video.  Simple!  You will need a microphone if you recording audio.  Ask your ITRT and she may be able to help locate one.  

5.  Friday at the Movies!