23 Gsuite Concepts to Excite Your Children About Studying #iste19 #notatiste19

Eric Curts @ericcurts  teaches us twenty-three methods to make use of Gsuite instruments in our classroom. With concepts for Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings for all topics and ages, you will wish to scroll down and observe the hyperlinks in our enhanced present notes.

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Transcript of Episode 516: 23 GSuite Concepts to Excite Your College students about Studying with Eric Curts

VICKI:          Many people are on the point of introduce the G-Suite of instruments within the classroom for these of you who don’t know what that’s. That’s all these Google instruments. And Eric Curts @ericcurts from Control Alt Achieve   and co-leader of their larger Google Educators group has so many incredible concepts. You’d undoubtedly wish to examine the transcript and present notes for all of those concepts.

This weblog submit is being added to 100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators. This useful resource has a curated checklist of Gsuite sources, books, and suggestions.

You may undoubtedly wish to go to Eric’s web site Control Alt Achieve and his YouTube channel.

VICKI:                    So Eric, give us some cool ways in which we are able to use G-Suite to begin of the college 12 months with a punch.

ERIC:               What I’m going to check out right here as we run by way of these right now are simply among the widespread Google instruments that we have a tendency to make use of however perhaps have a look at them from a unique angle and a few enjoyable methods they can be utilized. So why don’t we begin off with Google Docs. http://www.controlaltachieve.com/docs

Immediately, Eric goes by way of some partaking concepts for utilizing 4 of the Gsuite apps:

    ERIC:               Most individuals consider that as Google’s phrase processing program which clearly it’s and that’s a incredible manner for college kids to jot down experiences and wrote tales on all the conventional issues. However some enjoyable twists which you can placed on this, some people don’t know that Google Docs help emojis. You may truly insert emojis proper from the ‘insert particular characters’ menu and it’s going to open up loads of actually enjoyable actions for college kids.

Concept #1: Write Emoji Tales

Concept #2: Summarize One thing You have Seen or Learn Utilizing Emojis

Should you’re searching for a solution to get them engaged and excited early on within the 12 months, they can write emoji stories or they’ll summarize a narrative or a film or one thing they’ve seen lately utilizing emojis.

See: 5 Emoji Activities for Google Docs  the place Eric describes learn how to do all of those emoji actions together with the emoji math image proven under.

Concept #3: Use Emojis to Clarify Math Variables

ERIC: They’ll additionally incorporate this into math. Sure, I was a math instructor so I simply have a delicate spot for math.

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Emojis will be a good way to interchange variables to carry a greater concrete understanding of what you’re doing when fixing math issues. After which there’s loads of different doable neat examples. And such as you stated within the present notes, there’d be hyperlinks to all of my weblog submit that go into the particular particulars on these. However that’s a enjoyable factor.

Emojis assist variables come alive and make sense. See Eric’s weblog submit on emojis in Google docs to learn to do that.

Concept #4: Black Out Poetry in Google Docs

ERIC: Whereas nonetheless on the subject of docs one other neat factor to do is to make use of the spotlight instrument however not for highlighting. Let’s flip it on its head and use it to black things out. In Google Docs you should use the highlighting instrument to do blackout poetry the place college students begin with some textual content after which take away all of the phrases besides what they wish to go away for his or her discovered poem, it’s also possible to use the very same instrument to do summarization.

Concept #5: Article Summarization with Black Out in Google Docs

It’s a course of referred to as textual content discount technique which is usually accomplished with an enormous black marker and an precise piece of paper or an article, however you are able to do it in Google Docs as effectively, you possibly can take an article from one of many many glorious web sites like DOGO Information, throw that in there and have the scholars undergo and take away every part that’s not vital in order that they find yourself with their summarization of the article. It’s a good way to assist transfer college students towards these summarization expertise.

Learn Extra: Improve Reading Comprehension with Google Docs “Black Out”

Concept #6: Select Your Personal Journey Tales

Past that, a number of different enjoyable issues you are able to do embody creating choose your own adventure stories. Create one for college kids to work collectively in a bunch the place they write a narrative and use hyperlinks within the doc to leap to completely different pages as they write their select your personal journey tales.

These are simply a few Docs concepts.

Learn Extra: Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs

Concept #7: Educate Anchors and Hyperlinks

VICKI:          And plus, select your personal journey, we provide the capability to show about anchors and educate about hyperlinks. There are such a lot of issues you are able to do with these concepts. I like them, Eric.

A hyperlink hyperlinks to a different internet web page. (Simply go to insert –> Hyperlink.) Nonetheless, an anchor hyperlinks inside the doc. This allows you to skip down a protracted web page. I do that a simple manner in a protracted doc by making headings. Then, insert a desk of contents. The headings mechanically grow to be anchors. You can even insert anchors manually.  they’re an enormous time saver for college kids and teaches on lengthy paperwork, for instance, in case you’re writing a e book.

ERIC:           Completely.

VICKI:          Okay, what’s subsequent?

ERIC:            Positive. Let’s bounce over to Google Slides. http://www.controlaltachieve.com/slides

A variety of occasions we consider Google slides because the presentation instrument, which after all it’s, and there’s nothing fallacious with that, please don’t get me fallacious. It’s incredible for teenagers to only do a presentation. Rise up in entrance of the category, do a e book speak or speak about their explorer or their animal. However there’s loads of different enjoyable issues you are able to do with slides.

Concept #8: Comedian Strips with Google Slides

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ERIC: One solution to do is to create comic strips with Google Slides.   And what you are able to do is consider every slide as a unique panel of the caricature. And college students may then insert clip artwork and animations and speech bubbles. And once they then printed that to the online you’ve received a web-based animated caricature, whether or not it’s to elucidate a vocab time period or science idea or retell a part of a narrative.

Learn extra: Creative Slide Uses for Students

Concept #9: Create eBooks or Storybooks with Google Slides

In the identical vein you possibly can create eBooks or storybooks with Google Slides   the place every slide is a web page of the eBook and you might be allowed to alter the web page dimensions, it doesn’t need to be the conventional panorama. You can also make it portrait, you may make a sq. to make it no matter measurement e book you need.

Learn: Google Slides for Student Created Storybooks

Concept #10: Create Cease Movement Animations in Google Slides

Different enjoyable issues embody cease movement animation. This can be a enjoyable trick you are able to do with slides the place mainly you simply velocity up the slide present by hacking the URL just a bit bit on the presentation so that you just get every slide going by perhaps 1 / 4 of a second and you’ll both take precise pictures utilizing the built-in webcam of your Chromebook or no matter system you will have or you possibly can simply add pictures and transfer them round from one slide to the opposite.

Learn: Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides

Concept #11: Dr. Seus Manipulative Slide Present

However, once more, it’s one other nice artistic manner for teenagers to inform tales or specific their understanding. Past that, another enjoyable issues you are able to do particularly with the little ones – I do have a bunch of manipulative kind slide exhibits. We’ve received a one-fish, two-fish, red-fish, blue-fish sorting activity,   that’s nice whenever you’re doing Dr. Seuss stuff.

Learn: “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” Sorting with Google Slides

Concept #12 Construct a Snowman Creation and Writing Exercise with Google Slides

I’ve additionally received a Construct a snowman one.    Chances are you’ll wish to grasp off on that a little bit bit additional into the winter month, there’s nice template that enables college students to construct their very own snowman with a large assortment of eyes and noses and mouths and ears and hats and all types of different issues. And they also copy and paste these onto their snowman after which there’s a field the place they write a little bit story about what their snowman has accomplished that day or what he’s going to be going off to do.

So a number of actual enjoyable issues that you possibly can do with slides apart from only a conventional presentation.

Learn: Build a Snowman with Google Slides

Concept #13: Pixel Artwork in Google Sheets

VICKI:          Now, all these hacks, you will have cute little movies and tutorials and issues to assist us. So we’re simply providing you with academics an summary after which you possibly can decide what you need. So do we’ve time for an additional?

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ERIC:                Positive. Google Sheets  is one other enjoyable one. We normally consider Google Sheets as one thing for math or for doing charts and graphs and it actually is. Don’t overlook that it’s all the time nice for that. But it surely’s additionally a good way to do issues like pixel artwork.   I’ve a template that you should use the place you merely put in some letters there and it creates a coloured in field for every a type of and you may make pixel artwork.

Learn: Pixel Art Activities for Any Subject with Google Sheets

Concept #14: Random Writing Immediate Generator with Google Sheets

ERIC: Or how about language artwork with Google Sheets? Completely. Sheets are nice for randomization.

So I’ve received two templates for random writing immediate mills.  One offers works being randomly put together…

Learn: Random Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets

Concept #15: Random Emoji Writing Immediate Generator

ERIC:  …one other one is random emojis being put together.   And each locations, it lets you generate an entire bunch of random writing prompts that will probably be nice for journal entries, brief tales or poems.

Learn: Emoji Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets

Concept #16: Create Graphic Organizers with Google Drawings

ERIC: Past that, if we are able to nonetheless squeeze one thing in I’ll throw in Google Drawings. http://www.controlaltachieve.com/drawings

One among my favorites, I feel it’s neglected loads of occasions as a result of it’s form of hidden down within the menus there however Google Drawings is a good way to do a great deal of issues together with graphic organizers…

Learn: Language Arts Graphic Organizers with Google Drawings

Concept #17: Create Interactive Posters with Google Drawings (These are like Thinglink)

ERIC: …interactive images which is like ThingLink, individuals are conversant in that.  You should use Google Drawings to make pictures and put hyperlinks on that department out to movies and web sites and extra info.

Learn: Googlink: Creating Interactive Posters with Google Drawings

Concept #18: Magnetic “Drag and Drop” Poetry

ERIC: Google drawings is a good way for creativity with magnetic poetry, drag and drop poetry.   It’s additionally incredible for math.

Learn: Eric has two articles on magnetic poetry

Concept #19: Use Manipulatives and Tangrams in Google Drawings

ERIC: A variety of great manipulatives and interactives you are able to do reminiscent of educating congruent figures and comparable figures,  partitioning shapes…

Learn: Pattern Block Templates and Activities with Google Drawings

Concept #20: Obtain Templates to Educate Shapes and Algebra So You Do not Need to Create Them Your self

ERIC: we’ve received algebra tile, sample blocks, heaps and many templates that I’ve created which you can simply hit the bottom operating with these.

Learn: 11 Ways to Teach Math with Google Drawings

Concept #21: Create Greeting Playing cards Utilizing Google Drawings

ERIC: However Google Drawing additionally providers effectively as a desktop publishing instrument as a result of it actually isn’t one thing constructed into Google Suite that fairly does what Microsoft writer does. And so Drawings is a pleasant stand in for that for issues like creating greeting cards, I’ve received a few templates for that…

Learn: How Your Students Can Use Google Drawings to Make Greeting Cards

Concept #22: Make Motivational Posters in Google Drawings

ERIC: in addition to making educational, motivational posters.  We’re used to these huge black posters with the large image and phrase on the backside with a neat saying. These will be accomplished for precise motivation subjects or you possibly can decide a vocab time period of the week after which add an acceptable picture to go together with it and a definition in your personal phrases.

Learn: Have Students Create Educational “Motivational Posters” with Google Drawings

Concept #23: Discover Templates on Eric’ Website

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ERIC:                    And all of these once more, these templates are all out there on the management of the ControlAltAchieve.com web site.

Learn: Right here is an index of templates on Eric’s site. What a incredible useful resource!

VICKI:          Lecturers, I do know your thoughts is blown however right here’s the factor, you’ve all received nice concepts, whether or not it’s emojis for variables in algebra there’s so many concepts. So one of many best issues to do with children is to point out them one thing they’ve by no means seen earlier than. And one of the best time to try this is within the first week or two of college. Blow their minds.

Observe the hyperlinks within the present notes and I like Eric web site explicit as a result of he exhibits us learn how to do stuff but in addition all of the free templates. I’ve been tweeting out and sending out stuff of his all day, the day we’re taping right here simply because I adore it. It’s nice useful resource for G-Suite. And good luck with again to highschool. And get in there and use these instruments and have some enjoyable.

Thanks for listening to the Ten-minute Instructor Podcast. You may obtain the present notes and see the archive at coolcatteacher.com/podcast. By no means cease studying.

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Bio as Submitted

Eric has been in training for 25 years, and is at present serving as a Expertise Integration Specialist for the Stark Portage Space Laptop Consortium in Canton, Ohio the place he oversees Google Apps for Schooling implementation, coaching, and help, in addition to on-line studying and different know-how integration initiatives.

Eric is a certified Google Schooling Coach and a Google Licensed Innovator and supplies Google Apps coaching to colleges, organizations, and conferences all through Ohio and throughout the nation. He’s a co-leader of the Ohio Google Educator Group (GEG) at tiny.cc/geg-ohio and runs the award-winning weblog www.ControlAltAchieve.com the place all of his Google Apps and edtech sources will be discovered. Eric is married with 4 kids.