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Examples of Google Apps by teachers

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"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction."

In Conquering the Paperwork Mountain, two schools show how they have implemented new strategies in dealing with overwhelming admin, and demonstrate how schools can take the load off their staff, allowing them to get on with what they do best - teaching!

I really like this visual by Sylvia Duckworth of Mark Anderson (@ICTEvangelist) 4 stages of teacher confidence in the use of technology. My favorite piece are the 4 different character roles.

"At EdTechTeacher, we believe in supporting all educators. This section of our web site is dedicated to providing the best possible resources to help teachers leverage technology to improve teaching and learning."

"Applications for Education: You can assign Quill activities to your students through your teacher dashboard. Once you create an account on Quill you can create a class and distribute assignments. Your class will have a code that your students enter when they sign in to use Quill. After creating your class you can start to browse through the pre-made Activity Packs. Each Activity Pack is labeled according to skill type, grade level, and Common Core standards."

"A teacher was having her students work on an ongoing project where the students would save multiple documents to a folder in Google Drive. To make this process easier, I wrote a Google Apps Script file to automatically create and share the folders with the students."

This site covers the weather and atmosphere with games, videos, images and activities. There are also teacher activities you can use right away in the classroom.

Here is another resource for teachers to use with students when covering digital citizenship as required by federal law. 

"Footsteps2Brilliance, Inc.™'s Academic Language Program for Students (ALPS) delivers a robust library of stimulating ebooks and educational games to parents, children and teachers anywhere/anytime through innovative mobile gaming technology. Developed by educational experts usingthe latest research on cognitive development, ALPS provides young learners with 1,000 essential vocabulary words through interactive eBooks that are sure to engage today's digital students whether at school or home."