Year: 2021

We have talked about Google Classroom custom banner images before. Let’s kick it up a notch though, have you ever considered changing your Google Classroom banner image often if not daily? It is a neat little way to keep the interest of your students and encourage those virtual students to check in daily out of curiosity and anticipation. You can include significant notifications in the Banner image, Lesson based images, Holiday themes, Ask anticipatory critical thinking questions based on the new banner image, or include clues to an assignment, etc. What other ideas can you share with us about how to use this idea?

I created a Google Slide show of templates that you can edit for your classroom.

Has Google Classroom made your Google drive a disaster with student copies of files? Hold on hopefully it isn’t as bad as you think it is. Take two minutes and check this out. Hopefully it clears things up for you.

Would you like to have a little more warning about meetings or events you have set up on your Google Calendar. Google Calendar is pretty smart and will add things sometimes based on emails you receive or someone else signing you up for events on Calendar. Have you ever had one of those surprise calendar events pop up on you that start in 5 minutes? To avoid that stress in my life I set my default notifications to 45 minutes before and a second notification 15 minutes before. Maybe you need a whole 24 hours ahead notification to mentally prepare for that ARD or staff meeting. You can set custom notifications to meet your needs.

Here is a Google Docs verbs activity for your students or teachers. This activity can be posted in Google Classroom. It includes answer boxes for students to type their answers in.

Here is a Google Docs activity for your teachers.  This can be assigned in Google Classroom and students have boxes to type their answers in. 

Here is a Google Forms auto grading multiplication basic facts quiz that you can assign to your students in Google Classroom. There are 56 questions on this quiz that cover all multiplication between 1 and 10. It is set up to shuffle the question order so every time you reassign it for practice your students will get a different quiz. It is also set up to give the students instant feed back of their grade. This is designed to allow students to repeatedly practice their multiplication facts knowledge.

We are going to take a look at how to embed an audio file in a Google Slide.
You might want to record some directions or include a song or other recording that supports the information on the slide. Let’s take a quick look at how to do that.

I got a neat little Quick Tip for you today!
Do you want to throw in a little explanation of your own to a Google Slide? Maybe you want to enhance a set of notes you made in a slide show. You can use your webcam to record and embed a video on a Google Slide.
Let’s take a quick look at how to do that.
We are going to use this Chrome extension tool to make it easier to record and save our video to Google Drive

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alice-keeler-webcam-recor/ljkchdmiefjpclcpniabljokcaedooaa