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"Now if you visit my PD site you will find a series of activities that you can use to introduce teachers and students to various Google tools including Google Sites, Blogger, Advanced Search, Google Maps, Books, Bookmarks, Google Docs, and Google Groups. Feel free to use and adapt the activities I've outlined the next time you're introducing teachers or students to these helpful Google tools." The site referred to has an amazing number of lesson ideas and links to tutorials on using Google applications for education.

"Google Books can be a good research tool for students if they are aware of it and know how to use it. These are the activities that I often use to teach students and others about the features of Google Books." This blog entry includes short videos to provide directions. T/H R. Byrne

"Bookcase for Young Writers is a free web companion to our book Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in Fall 2019. "This online bookcase features virtual shelves filled with literature, apps, and interactive digital tools to inspire children from preschool and kindergarten through the upper elementary grades to become confident, expressive, creative young writers. "It includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry as well as picture books, chapter books, and e-books. It has links to child-engaging information and topics related to the all writing ideas in the Bookcase. "This bookcase is intended as a starting point for children, teachers, families, librarians and other adults who want to read books that will inspire writing. T/h B. Maloy

"You could use Google Maps Engine Lite to create your own classroom version of Novels on Location. Ask your students to write short short book reviews in the placemarks that they add to a shared Google Map. If you have students creating video book trailers, those videos could be added to their placemarks too. If could be a fun challenge for your call to try to collectively "read around the world" by locating stories set on each of the seven continents. " A nice tool and an interesting lesson using it. T/H R. Byrne

"Virtual Impersonation "Creating social media posts and profiles for people (real/fictional), places, plants, and animals has proven to be an engaging and thought-provoking experience for students. From creating FaceBook pages for endangered species to Tweets from Abe Lincoln, virtual impersonation can be a powerful tool for learning. I recently shared a great Google Slides Instagram post template. A coworker was looking for something a bit more interactive that would allow for multiple posts, so I built a multi-slide profile/gallery template. "The Instagram template is available for Keynote, Google Slides, or PowerPoint. Students just replace the profile text (name, job/title, description, location), then begin replacing picture placeholders with images of their choosing. Each small image placeholder is hyperlinked to a separate slide for that image's post." Impersonating an historical figure or book character, et al., is a great way to really get into the content. T/H to Nick LaFave

"Discover, purchase, and share educational apps, books, and videos easily with Google Play for Education - a new online destination just for schools." "Browse content by grade, subject, or standard; purchase with school PO (no credit card required); distribute apps via cloud." "This page also shows how to set up tables to allow use of content and to find approved apps."

Book on how to use Google Wave

R. Byrne's article on using MapFAST, a Google Maps app: find books about nearby places. A great way to get students interested in local -- or distant -- history and geography.

"One of the best book creation apps on iPad is now available for all Android Devices, as BookCreator makes the jump onto the Google Play store (click here to view). The iPad app has found its place as a key educational app in classrooms across the world, putting publishing into the hands of students and enabling teachers to collaborate with classrooms in other countries."

R. Byrne: "A featured resource on MoMA Learning is this video containing five tips for teaching with works of art. The video not only lists the tips, it contains examples of using these tips to teach art history and art appreciation lessons to students." Most of the great art museums and natural history museums of the world have websites with instructional materials of very high quality. It's worth some time to explore what they offer and figure out how to adapt their resources for your classes. One of the other excellent resources on MoMA Learning is this glossary of art terms. In many cases the definitions in the glossary contain links to multiple examples of each term. You might also like: Three Good Places to Find Art Lessons Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum 390 Free Online Art History Books Linkwithin 33 at 7:05 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Art, Art History, art lessons, Free Technology For Teachers, MoMA, MoMA Learning Links to this post Create a Link Newer Post Older Post Home LinkWithin Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... TW FreeTech Banner Dark Blue (1) freetech4teachers HelloTalk new seesaw-468-60 Midwest Teachers Institute Banner 468x60 isd-richard-byrnes-ad-2014 ettipad-boston15-CFP-200x200 prepfactory DE_WILKES_EDGE_AD_200x200.jpg Browse The Archives ► 2015 (707) ▼ 2014 (1243) ► December (115) ► November (86) ► October (112) ► September (116) ► August (102) ▼ July (114) ► Jul 31 (5) ► Jul 30 (4) ► Jul 29 (2) ► Jul 28 (4) ► Jul 27 (3) ► Jul 26 (2) ► Jul 25 (5) ► Jul 24 (5) ► Jul 23 (4) ► Jul 22 (5) ► Jul 21 (5) ► Jul 20 (2) ► Jul 19 (2)

This is a BYU-sponsored archive of a wide variety of copora. May be of use in vocabulary work. Includes a Wikipedia corpus, TIME Magazine, Google Books in American and British English, as well as Spanish.

"An Online Drawing Tool That Makes Everyone an Artist AutoDraw.com" t/h to Nick LaFave. AutoDraw turns sketches into more professional looking cartoons. By Google Creativity. Use to illustrate ideas about readings, or one's own storyline.

"In addition to YouTube videos, pictures, and voice recordings Metta also provides options for including content from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Metta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation. Applications for Education You could have students create Metta projects in which they create book trailers using video clips, images, and their voices. Students could use Metta to create a digital collage of media around a current events topic that they're studying. Metta might also be used by students to create a showcase of their best digital works of the semester. "