Nice collection of forms designed for educators. I like the quiz, Virtual Inbox, HS Document Collector and Viewer, and website collection and presentation form. I haven't looked at all the forms yet, but those stood out for me.
"students turn to when tasked with an assignment. Whether it's for research, real-time results, or just a little digital exploration … it's important they know how to properly Google." Here are some helpful lessons to do that
Anyone interested in Chromebooks might want to take the 60 minutes to get a nice overview of Chromebooks in education. Presented by Google and includes sharing by a teacher who piloted them in his classroom.
Richard Byrne discusses two great ways to collect student work online, whether it be a Word or Google doc/presentation, etc. Powerful way to cut down on paperwork and filling your email Inbox.
Even if you can't get paperless, these strategies will help reduce the amount of paper you have on your desk, in files, etc. I like the "scan & shred" as a way to reduce paper kept. You could scan and store in folder in files backed up to a server, Google Docs, or Dropbox. For more sensitive documents, I would store in files that are stored on a school server that can be passed along, when necessary.
Fantastic resource that not only provides resources for teachers and students, but allows for CURATION & customized collections. This could be a great way to have students learn CURATION skills - an important digital literacy. Google Apps integration.
Katlin Tucker, a dynamic high school teacher presents her approach-pedagogy-instructional strategies to transform teaching and learning. She demonstrates ways she helps engage students and grow skills in several areas, including communication, comprehension & critique, collaboration, content knowledge, etc. A couple of her main tools include Collaborize Classroom and Google Docs.
Nice example of how to use Google Forms to capture information by students on how they perceive different aspects of your courses. Class evaluations shouldn't be something to fear, but to welcome as a lifelong learner and give students a voice into your reflection process.
Here are some great tools for students and teachers for taking/accessing notes - both on mobile devices and computers. I prefer using Evernote, but if I wasn't using a mobile device, I might consider using Google Docs as my 2nd choice.
"ThinkB4U offers interactive videos to educate viewers about things like protecting online reputations, avoiding scams, research and critical thinking, and responsible text messaging."
Ideas on how to embed and use Google Forms to track the understanding of students when watching assigned videos, either lectures or other videos. Using the form makes is easy to compile the response of students and provides for discussions and additional teaching of concepts. This teacher copied and pasted the response into Wordle and it gives a sense of what students found to be of significance in the video.
gClassFolders is a tool that allows for management of all the files that students share with teachers and allows for sharing easily with students. The setup is straight forward and sets up three folders for students for a class - Edit, Preview(Read Only) and Dropbox to turn work in. If your school can't afford Hapara or you don't want to spend lots of time setting up folders, this may be the tool for you.
Some cool tools to edit video online - some will allow downloading in different formats after the editing is completed. This makes it easy then to upload into Prezis, Schooltube, or Google Docs, and then share the videos.
Good look at the pros and cons of Cloud storage and 15 free tools to give any teacher more than enough storage. Many of these tools allow you to access files on computers and mobile devices that sync with each other, so you have the same version on every device. I have almost all of my files in cloud storage. My favs are Google Docs, Dropbox, Box, and Sugar Sync. I'm going to try another - Docuter (http://www.docuter.com/) that has 25GB of free storage.
Holly Clark, aka EdTechDiva, provides some great points about how to help improve search skills for students AND teachers. There are other skills, as well, but these are a good start. Google also has resources for building these important skills.