This often overlooked app is quite possibly the most powerful Google app you’ve never used! This simple tool can help you annotate over content or create graphic organizers, posters, mind maps, flow charts, infographics, interactive personalized lessons and even memes! Students can use it to demonstrate their understanding, collaborate with others and showcase their creativity. Click through the slideshow to gain ideas, and click the link below for TONS of templates that are ready to use in your classroom.
Think of Google Drive as the flash drive you don't have to carry around with you. Google Drive stores all types of files (without converting them) and allows you to access them from any computer with internet access. For even more convenience, I highly suggest downloading Google Drive for Desktop on your computer. This creates a Google Drive folder that looks just like all the folders in your computer, but the difference is that items placed in these folders automatically sync online!
Check out the resources below for some helpful tips on how to stay organized in Google Drive. I also have instructions created by our tech department on how to download Drive for Desktop on your school computer.
Organize digital learning opportunities, post resources and links, allow for easy collaboration without the mess of document sharing between the teacher and students, collect work digitally with a click of a button, allow students to present work quickly and easily, share and post resources between teachers, and so much more!
46 Ways to Utilize Google Classroom
This guide provides you with several ideas for how to use this tool in your classroom.
Google Classroom Tips, Tricks and Training Resources
This exhaustive list of resources, tutorials, and websites will help you find answers.
Google Classroom Instructions for Teacher Evaluation
If you are on-cycle, these instructions will help you access and complete your evaluation document.
Student Quick Guide to Google Classroom
This handy infographic may be enlarged and printed for quick reference.
Google Docs offers tons of opportunities for student collaboration and creation. This tool is awesome for peer review of writing using the commenting and suggesting features. As a teacher, you can use File>Revision History to see all changes (along with who made them) which helps you combat against copy/paste and plagiarism.
Have you seen the fonts available in Google yet? Many teachers get stuck on the default fonts, but if you click the down arrow next to the font, and then choose "More Fonts" from the bottom, it will open up a whole new world of possibility!
Finally, by inserting a "Drawing" into Google Docs, you can get around the lack of formatting options by inserting shapes, text boxes and graphs and placing them wherever you'd like on a page.
This lesson was created in Google Docs by Tom Rademacher. It allows students to collaboratively explore a topic, and use the commenting feature to add links, facts, and other resources to contribute to the understanding of their peers.
Steps to create your own collaborative reading in Google Docs: