If you type _popup before the question mark on the web address of any YouTube video, then it will take off all of the ads and any other surrounding videos that the students could possibly click on. For example, this video on adding fractions has a YouTube URL of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQipFjAoT8. If I change it and add the _popup, it looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tDQipFjAoT8. Now it opens full screen without any annoying ads.
This fabulous free Chrome extension allows you to annotate on any website and take a screenshot of it. This makes it perfect for creating handouts for students or adult learners. You can even blur out things on the page, like student names.
I don’t know about you, but I am constantly closing out the tab of a website that I need to continue using in Chrome. Now there’s a way to prevent that. Open the site you want to keep open. Right-click on the tab of the site and select Pin Tab. Now the tab won’t close, even if you close out of the browser. It will still be there when you reopen Chrome. To unpin the tab, do the same thing and select Unpin.
Open a new Google Slide
Right-click on the slide and select Apply Layout — Blank.
Click on Insert — Image — Search the Web. (By the way, did you know that the graphics you find here are legal to use in your work and for your students?)
In the Search for Images box on the right-hand side of your screen, type in something you would like to use as the background for your desktop (clouds, beach, brick wall, etc.). Find one you like and drag it onto the slide (or click on the background and then click Insert on the bottom right). Resize the picture by dragging with the handles until it covers the slide.
Send it to the back.
Go to Insert — Shape — Shapes and find some shapes that you want to use to create boxes on your desktop. (These boxes can hold shortcuts to your folders and files and help to keep them organized.) Create the boxes and place them where you want them to appear.
Add color with the Fill option.
(If you have a Bitmoji of yourself, feel fee to add it in now.)
Save the whole thing as a JPEG.
Go to your computer settings and the JPEG as a background.
Use this to add a picture and remove any background image elements that are not transparent that you do not want to show in your picture.
There are a variety of uses for Bitmoji. Look at You tube videos for creative ways to use bitmoji's in your classroom.
Would you like to take a Computer slide and be able to bring it to a printer to make Vector graphics to use on a T Shirt?
Word Art, Text and Shapes can be converted to a Vector Graphics. If you want an image on your T-shirt, then use www.flaticon.com. Flaticon =.com has free and for pay images to use.
This is a link to a tutorial videos by FriED Technology. The Google Trainings (both educator and administrator) have helped us leverage our staff to better promote (google Toosl)." Cody Levrets Tyler ISD Coordinator Instructional Technology
Tutorials and suggestions on using Doodle Buddy
Doodle Buddy
An app of endless possibilities!
Doodle Buddy is a FREE iPad or iPhone application that is literally like an enhanced, digital whiteboard. It can be used for so many purposes and by people of all ages from Pre-K to an adult, and by people of all technological capabilities. It is user friendly, easy to use, and the possibilities are endless. Using Doodle Buddy, you can draw, write, virtually finger paint, and even stamp pictures onto fun backgrounds that are provided within the app.Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE! AGES: 6-12.
“ChatterPix Kids” does not collect any personal information or include sharing features.
These are very funny game templates for children. All the slides contain cute illustrations to set your kids’ imagination in motion. Bright colors are a good way to keep their attention at all times, and the typography is casual and cool. But the main highlight here is the proper slides: there are several trivia questions with audio clips and clickable buttons, turning it into an interactive experience. This means you can enter your own questions and then link them to other slides according to your needs. Go ahead and design your own quiz game!
15 Free Power Point Game Templates for teachers
You can include question on these game templates to encourage, letter knowledge, number identification, vocabulary enrichment, and much more. Some of the games are more appropriate for older children. However, most of these have a feature that you add the question. The only limit is your imagination.
This padlet is a collaboration of prekindergarten teachers in Texas. The padlet was started by ESC 9. All prekindergarten teachers in Texas are invited to contribute and use these resources.
Make your own linking activities that children can use when they hover over that icon on the image. or can link to a video. Your imagination is your only limit.
Create your own games that are similar. The format is similar to kahoot
Wakelet is a combination of Pinterest, a bookmark manager and padlet. Use Wakelet to organize and store your favorite website links and ideas.
This shared google slides link will take you to over a dozen premade art frames to use in your google slides.