Five on Friday

1.  I was commenting last week that I am turning to Facebook more and more for my own professional development.  When I was at the Google Summit with the ITRTs, one of the presenters told us about a Facebook group where folks make and share hyperdoc resources.  Here is a resource I found on that page.  Dozens of hyperdocs for every grade and subject area all organized in a LiveBinder.  Way cool!  Let me know if you need help in making these your own.  What is a hyperdoc?  A hyperdoc is an instructional means of organizing the assignments for your unit of study so that your students can work through them. Check it out.

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2.  Check out WatchKnowLearn.  This is a directory of over 50,000 free educational video links that are organized by subject matter.   Not only do you have access to videos in their collection but you can also upload your own videos on a subject matter.  

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3.  Here is a SUPER tip I learned about Google Classroom!  Have you ever noticed the 3 dots in the top right corner of your posted Google assignment in Classroom?

If you click on those three dots you will see an option to copy link.  This will copy the link for that post only!!  Why would you ever need to do this?  You could post the link on your website for homework and when the students log in, they will be taken to that post directly.  Or you could post the link to that post in your ABOUT section so that students would have resources from that post easily accessible.  How about using Google Forms for an assessment and then posting the link to an assignment they can work on after the assessment is completed.  You could email parents the link so that they could help the student complete a missing assignment.  Maybe you could link it on a hyperdoc.  

4.  We have all heard about how next year we will be expected to pair reading:  fiction and non-fiction.  Here is a great Chrome extension that removes clutter and ads from a web page so that you can post it into your Google Classroom for students to access.

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5.  Friday At the Movies - Sketchnoting - Have you heard about these?  Research says that by combining doodles with information, our minds remember the information much easier.  Learn even more here.

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