🪻 March's Featured Resources 🪻

LINK: Brisk Chrome Extension

🤖 Featured AI Tool

Brisk Teaching Chrome Extension

Brisk is an Artificial Intelligence powered Chrome extension that can save you hours of time! Not only can it generate resources directly from webpages and Google Docs, Brisk can analyze student writing in order to leave feedback using a rubric. After installing the extension from the Chrome Web Store, the Brisk icon will appear at the bottom right of the screen. When a student's Google Doc is open, activate the Brisk extension and select Give Feedback. The three free tools are Glow & Grow, Rubric Criteria, and Next Steps. Each option will generate feedback that can be inserted into the student writing sample. Leaving targeted feedback is a premium feature that will highlight specific portions of the student's writing and leave a comment.

You can activate a three-month free trial to test out all of the premium features by completing THIS 20-minute certification course.

Kids Think Wide

Kids Think Wide is a free collection of beautifully curated images generated to spark student curiosity. The site's creator believes that great images will inspire better discussions, richer insights, improved writing, and student confidence.

Each picture includes prompts for students to build a story and/or warm-up discussion questions for the students to ponder. Kids Think Wide also includes Choose Your Own Adventures activities for teams of students to unleash their creativity using picture prompts as their muse.

Picture Sparks on the site can be animated to add an additional level of whimsy using the ✨ "Sparks away!" icon.

Kids Think Wide - Picture Prompts For Creative WritingCaptivating picture prompts for creative writing to spark students imagination. Perfect for elementary students each picture has an accompanying writing prompt.

📢📢New Google Features

Recording 🎥

Recording Slides

Google Slides now has a record feature that will allow you to create 30 minutes of video content using your Google Slides! Videos are stored in your Google Drive & will need to be shared with others using the same process used to share other Google files.

Show Line Numbers 🔢

Show Lines

Collaborating on a long document? You can now add line numbers in Google Docs to easily refer to specific areas of the text. The line numbers will appear on printed documents as well. The same process used to turn lines on can be used to turn lines off.

QBall 🎤 Throwable Wireless Microphone

The EdTech department has 10 QBalls available for a one-week checkout. To use the QBall you'll need a speaker with a 3.5mm input audio jack. We can also connect the QBall to the ViewSonic or your SurfacePro speakers. Interested? Fill out the Google Form below.

QBall Google Form

👀 Visual Thinking Templates 👀

🎲 Virtual Story Dice

Virtual Story Dice- Creative Writing

Have you ever played Story Cubes? Icons are used to guide the introduction, development, and conclusion during the student creative writing process. There are countless ways to build a story since each learner can interpret the icons in a different way. File ➡️ Make a copy.

Link: Flaticon

➡️ Visual Directions

TEMPLATE: Visual Directions EduProtocol

Worldwide, icons are used to guide non-native speakers of a language. Ask students to use icons to explain a process in a way that makes sense to them. With Google Slides' record feature, students can now record themselves describing the icons they chose. File ➡️ Make a copy.

Link: Noun Project