google apps for education Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/google-apps-for-education/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:33:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 Customized email newsletters for every kid with Google Forms https://ditchthattextbook.com/customized-email-newsletters-for-every-kid-with-google-forms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=customized-email-newsletters-for-every-kid-with-google-forms https://ditchthattextbook.com/customized-email-newsletters-for-every-kid-with-google-forms/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:32:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5258 Make solid connections with families by creating custom email newsletters for every student. It's easy with Google Docs, Sheets and Forms. Classroom newsletters are kind of hit and miss. You know how they usually look. If you send one, you're probably printing and copying a standard newsletter that every kid gets -- in hopes that maybe, […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/customized-email-newsletters-for-every-kid-with-google-forms/feed/ 10 How to create media-rich, interactive maps for deeper learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:39:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4842 Google MyMaps lets students create maps with custom-pinned location. The magic, though, is in what you put in those pins. If we want to use technology in the classroom, we can’t just do the same kind of learning we did before it. Technology should improve the learning. Kick the lesson up a notch. Otherwise, our technology […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning/feed/ 6 Google’s buried treasure: 20 hidden tricks and tools https://ditchthattextbook.com/googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools https://ditchthattextbook.com/googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:45:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5342 Google is a behemoth. With all of its tools and apps and programs and initiatives, there’s no way to keep tabs on everything. As such, it’s easy for newer Google tools — and even some that have been around for a while — to slip through the cracks. The problem with that: there are some really powerful, […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools/feed/ 9 The Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide + resources, tips and tricks! https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-classroom-quick-start-guide-tips-and-tricks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-google-classroom-quick-start-guide-tips-and-tricks https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-classroom-quick-start-guide-tips-and-tricks/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:45:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=2423 Google Classroom makes organizing and managing all of your Google Apps activities streamlined and easy. Set it up in minutes.Google Classroom was created to focus less time on tech and more time on teaching. And it certainly has lived up to its billing.Classroom has streamlined the classroom workflow and makes communication easier between teaches and […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-classroom-quick-start-guide-tips-and-tricks/feed/ 60 20 tips to use Google Classroom effectively and efficiently https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-tips-to-use-google-classroom-effectively-and-efficiently/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-tips-to-use-google-classroom-effectively-and-efficiently https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-tips-to-use-google-classroom-effectively-and-efficiently/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:29:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4004 Google Classroom can be even more powerful with a few tips and strategies to make it efficient and effective.Google Classroom streamlines the management of student work — announcing, assigning, collecting, grading, giving feedback and returning. It has certainly saved many teachers hours of work. Without a solid workflow and some strategy, grading digital work can be cumbersome. […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-tips-to-use-google-classroom-effectively-and-efficiently/feed/ 28 Creating eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:29:17 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4891 Infographics are visually stimulating and force us to summarize well. These brain-friendly student creations can be a great change of pace for essays and research papers.  Infographics are everywhere. I first started noticing them on the front page of USA Today as a journalism major in college. As Pinterest became more popular, the long, tall […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-eye-popping-infographics-with-google-drawings/feed/ 19 20 digital bell ringer activities to kickstart class https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1 https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:21:56 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5720 Quality bell ringers are crucial — quick activities to get students going at the beginning of class, when the bell has just rung. For these first five or ten minutes of class (OK, probably more the five than the ten), we have our students’ most attention. It’s the most focused they’ll likely be for us all […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/feed/ 4 The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-google-drawings-manifesto-for-teachers/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:31:05 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5453 Google Drawings is a blank slate for your students’ creativity. Find lots of tips, tricks and teaching ideas in this post.Google Drawings is the hidden gem in the core G Suite tools for education. Everyone is familiar with Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. They correlate nicely with the Microsoft Office products we used for […]

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