five on Friday

1.  Here is a tip I picked up at the Google Summit this weekend.  Have you ever had a Google document that you wanted displayed full screen for students?  

• First locate the word edit at the end of the url in your document.

• Replace the word edit with the word preview.  This takes out the menu bar at the top leaving you with a cleaner view to teach from.  

• The next time you open your document, the menu bar is back so that you can more easily edit.
  

2.  I absolutely LOVE Flipgrid and if I were a classroom teacher with a set of Chromebooks, this is a site that I would be using all the time!  With Flipgrid, the teacher creates an assignment or "grid" and students respond to a prompt.  Try it!  Here is a grid that I would love you to respond to.  Why did you decide to become an educator?  The free account allows you to create one grid.  For $65 a year, you can create unlimited grids.  I am seriously thinking about upgrading.  Why not combine with a couple of teachers in your grade level and split the cost of the account?  Even at $65 it isn't a bad deal.

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3.  Here is a resource I got from the Summit.  This is a great project idea!  Have the students create a "playlist" for learning.  In this project, the student researches a topic and then creates a hyperdoc to teach classmates about their topic.  I love this idea!!!  I would be willing to work with you to do this in your classroom.  Click the image and then go to File-Make A Copy to have an editable version you can post in your Google Classroom.  This takes flipping a classroom to a whole new level.  Make your students the teachers!

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4.  I sent this file out last weekend but wanted to post this here as well.  This file is full of templates you can use to create TEI questions using Google Slides.  To get to the templates, click the image and then File->Make A Copy.

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5.  Friday at the Movies - Seagulls (Stop it Now)  
This was shared with us at the conference.  Just wanted to make you smile!