Five on Friday

1.  View and compare historical news coverage in the Google News Archive .   Google has compiled archives of newspapers as far back as the 1700s. Users can browse newspapers by name or search the archives by keyword. Instead of seeing how textbooks and websites summarize history, students can see how it was treated in the media first-hand.

Students can grab screenshots of historical newspapers for their projects, summarize them or link to them to compare/contrast or add additional details to what they’ve found in other sources.

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2.  Add images ethically and responsibly with Google Images.  Not all Google Images searches are equal. A standard image search returns mostly copyright-protected images. However, by selecting Google Images from a Creative Commons search, users can find images tagged with Creative Commons licenses that grant usage rights to anyone (as long as they follow the license’s instructions).

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3.  Create flow charts and informational graphics in Google Drawings.  Drawings is one of my favorite tools!  Gail got hooked on drawings first-I was not impressed by it.  After playing with drawings in the past year, as I said, it is one of my favorite tools. They can create new images and graphics from scratch. This helps students organize and present ideas and information more clearly and attractively.

Students can add text, images, lines and shapes to a Google Drawing to create a thinking map or informational graphic to illustrate new ideas.

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4.  Great Exit Ticket Ideas!!! 

• ​Google Forms-The Form that I created and frequently re-used simply asked students to respond to "what did you learn today?" and "what questions do you have for next class?"
• I started using Padlet back when it was called WallWisher. Padlet enables me to have students not only share exit responses as text, but to also share exit responses as hyperlinks. Plus you can upload your own image so the students could reply by putting a "post-it note" on a thinking map image.  
• You need to check out Plickers as a student response system.  This is a tool that I learned about from Erin Calhouon from Amherst Elementary.   Plickers uses a teacher's device (phone or tablet-Apple or Android) in conjunction with a series of QR codes to create a student response system. Students are given a set of QR codes on large index cards. The codes are assigned to students. Each code card can be turned in four orientations. Each orientation provides a different answer. When the teacher is ready to collect data, he or she uses the Plickers mobile app to scan the cards to see a bar graph of responses. In your teacher account on Plickers you can view and save all of the data that you collected from scanning your students' Plickers cards.  I also love the fact that I can use slides or powerpoint to create your questions.  That way you can also add images to your questions.
• PingPong provides you with a free and easy way to collect feedback from students in the forms of multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. PingPong also lets you collect sketches from students which is a great way to have students illustrate solutions to mathematics problems or to submit diagrams to answer a question.
• Google Slides!!!  Here is a template that I was given at a GAFE Summit the ITRTs attended last year.  Upload this to Google Classroom and allow every student to edit the slide.  Once you load this template just go to file->make a copy

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5.  Friday at the Movies-Something to make you smile on this dreary Friday.