November 2019

Nov 7th- Closed Captioning in Slides

Did you know that there is Closed Captioning in Google Slides?

If you turn it on while in presentation mode, your students will see a transcript of what you say on the screen.

You can also move this CC bar to the top of the screen or change the text size in case that is easier for your students to see.

I am sure you can think of at least one student in your class who this may benefit.

Check out this blog on the topic to watch a video tutorial and get some tips for making the most of it!

November 13th- Seesaw Drafts

Another new Seesaw Update!

In case you haven't seen this, drafts are now a real thing in Seesaw!

This is great for the kids who aren't able to finish in the time allotted and need to come back to it later.

November 21st- Iron Chef Slides

At Midwest Google Summit, Josh Gauthier of DePere presented this amazing group project idea that gives you, as the teacher, a fast assessment of student knowledge without taking weeks to have students complete a project.

Start by making an Iron Chef template (in Google Slides) for students to copy (See example here).
Embed the research sources on each slide for students to explore.
Share template with students. One student in each group (of 4 or 5 students) makes a copy of the template and shares it with their group.
Each student is assigned a different slide (subtopic of the larger topic).
They have 30 minutes to research and enter their information on their slide. Then after 30 minutes each group shares out.
This idea works best if you do a fun topic first to get them used to the process before you use this process for content knowledge/review.

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