Here are your 3 tips that you can use in your classroom today for the week of October 8, 2018.
1 -Quizlet Diagrams
Quizlet flash cards were cool, Quizlet Live was awesome, and now Quizlet Diagrams are fantastic!!! Students get bored of text on screen, even with illustrations on the flash cards, and visual learners hate just text. Quizlet Diagrams allows you to bring in a whole new way of learning to the online classroom that promises to engage more students and deepen the learning.
2 - Google Voice
If you haven’t found Google Voice yet I have come up with my 5 most favorite things about using Google Voice as a teacher. If you’re lucky enough to have a phone in your classroom, there is still value and use for Google Voice, however – if you don’t have a phone in your classroom and you have to compete for time with a common phone, listen up because you’re going to like what you see!
1. Google Voice is a FREE telephone number you can use to call and text from. It handles it’s own voicemail and is accessible via your browser or an app on your phone.
2. You control when you check your Google Voice – if you just start with the mindset of people have to leave you a message then you aren’t bothered until you are ready to be bothered.
3. It’s mobile (browser or app access). So you can take your call log, or replay voice mails left for you while you are in a parent conference. It’s awesome at documenting the not so easy to document voice communication.
4. Google Voice can send Text Messages!!! There are other apps that do that too – but this sends it just like a real SMS text. I’ve found parents way more likely to respond to a text than a phone call.
5. It keeps you private. You never again need to give out your actual cell phone or home phone number. (Not even to your fellow teachers if you don’t want) Just be smart about it, but this is your free to use, keep you organized and documented, only pesters you when you are ready, classroom phone!
2. You control when you check your Google Voice – if you just start with the mindset of people have to leave you a message then you aren’t bothered until you are ready to be bothered.
3. It’s mobile (browser or app access). So you can take your call log, or replay voice mails left for you while you are in a parent conference. It’s awesome at documenting the not so easy to document voice communication.
4. Google Voice can send Text Messages!!! There are other apps that do that too – but this sends it just like a real SMS text. I’ve found parents way more likely to respond to a text than a phone call.
5. It keeps you private. You never again need to give out your actual cell phone or home phone number. (Not even to your fellow teachers if you don’t want) Just be smart about it, but this is your free to use, keep you organized and documented, only pesters you when you are ready, classroom phone!
3 - Ginger Grammar Addon
So we have all been typing along and with 15 things on our minds, we miss a typo or 3 before we hit send, submit, save, ect… Sometimes the app or program we are using has a built in spell checker or maybe even a grammar check. Google has a pretty decent one that works in some applications, but then there are those times that there is nothing, or you have to click through several steps to activate the spell check. That’s where Ginger shines! Ginger is the extension that grammar and spell checks everything you type within your browser window. You don’t need to do anything other than mouse over the highlighted text and chose to accept the suggestions (which so far have been 100% on target).
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Search by Owner in Google Drive
If you are using the new Google Drive you can still search by owner!
Owner:emailaddress
Type the word “owner” followed by a colon. No space and then the email address of the owner. This will filter your Google Drive for all of the documents that are owned by that email address.
To:emailaddress
You can also filter by typing the word “to” followed by a colon. No space and then the email address. This will filter Google Drive for documents that are shared with that email address.
From:emailaddress
Instead of the word owner you can also use the word “from.” In other words, Google Drive is filtering documents that are from that person.
