Let's get to know each other! Casey Bell, describes Keep as "a robust G Suite tool that can help teachers and students create and share notes, lists, and reminders". On a basic level, Google Keep is a digital sticky note. The best way to better acquaint yourself with Google Keep, might be to check out Casey's Cheat Sheet below and through Matt Miller's video
I love how Google Keep works within Google Drive! Quickly you can access feedback, instructions, etc. for quick responses. You can see an example of this with Eric Curts video and post.
Be sure to introduce your new friend to your students as well!
Enjoy your new friendship with Google Keep! I'm sure your new friend will help you in some way -- organization, collaboration, save time, etc.
Credit for this idea/hack again goes out to Matt Miller and his "Meaningful Tech Workshop". Google Drawing Hack -- Graphic Organizers Matt says, "Drawings gives users a blank canvas where they can add text, shapes, lines, etc. When done, they can save their work as image files or PDF files and can add those images to documents, slides and spreadsheets. It’s a perfect medium for creating graphic organizers." Matt has created/collected some graphic organizers that are ready for use! All you will need to do is make a copy. For a complete folder of organizers visit here or click on only the one of interest from the images below.
Want to try to make your own? Start with a Venn Diagram!
Need help? Let Carol know. Enjoy hacking Google Drawings! Credit for this idea/hack again goes out to Matt Miller and his "Meaningful Tech Workshop". Google Drawing Hack -- Photo Comic Strips Matt says, "Take photos of students using a webcam and add them to a Google Drawing. Add speech bubbles to the photos. Then save those images and add each one to a different slide in a Google Slides presentation." I would add that you could start with an online photo and Google Drawings search makes it easy to find photos for use in projects! To get started click here (drawings.google.com/create)
 In order to make it more of a frame look - I added the outline. To do this make sure that your photo is selected.
Another tip- You can change the size of your page!  I love Google Drawings more and more - with each awesome hack/idea that I find! It is a very under used tool, in my opinion.
Now you have one more way to put it to use! And here's a resource to check out for more information and ideas: Comics with Google Tools & Creativity Games Have you ever wished to have the text off of a picture, PDF or handwritten note in a typed document? Did you think that the only way that you could achieve such a feat would be to start from scratch re-typing the entire thing?! Google Drive to the rescue! The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature in Google Drive can convert an image of a physical page of text into an editable Google Doc! Presto Chango!
As you can see in the above example, the conversion isn't perfect...especially from this handwritten note. However, it is much more accurate with a PDF. Take a look at the process below in the animated GIF.  Need more of a "how-to"? Check out the video below!
Thanks to Erica Shook for the email on Google Quizzes! She writes: "In case you have not seen it yet, Google Forms has a new option called Google Quizzes that has some really cool features--features that no longer require the use of Flubaroo. And the best news? The forms you may have already created as quizzes can be switched to the new quiz format with the change of one simple setting. No retyping! And, whereas with Google Forms/Flubaroo, you could not collect student emails to send them their quiz results because this also allowed them to send themselves their answers to forward onto others, now you can collect those emails. There are additional settings that let you choose what options students have available and when you release quiz results. Plus, the data that Google Quizzes provides you with student responses is incredibly helpful and much easier to read than Flubaroo! " Tutorial To make use of Google Quizzes begin by creating a new Form. Then under the settings (gear icon), click on "quizzes". The image at the left shows the view once quizzes is selected. Click on the slider beside "make this a quiz". The slider will turn purple to signify that quizzes is active. Additionally, you will be able to choose the quiz options and what respondents can see. Then click save after making your selections.  Below is an example of the data that was collected from my quiz answers. An overall summary is given as well as individual responses.  Built in feedback Add question specific feedback  Add specific feedback for incorrect and/or correct answers. You can even link to a website or video that could further explain the concept.  Did you know that Google Docs has a voice typing option build right in? *Be sure that you are using Chrome browser
Click on "click to speak" (as shown above right). You may be directed to allow google docs to use your microphone. Choose to allow use or it will not work correctly. Once use to your microphone is allowed, you are ready to use voice typing. A red dot will be flashing on the tab with your document and the once black icon on the page will now be red. If you would like to stop using the feature, just click the icon pictured on the bottom left. It will return to the black microphone as pictured above.
Voice CommandsHere is a list of commands you can use while voice is typing:
Original article credit: Tech Tip: Capture Ideas with Voice Typing in Google Docs |
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