You can create graphic organizers and so much more in Canva and set that as your background in Google Slides. Students then fill it in without changing the organizer.
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How to create parenthetical citations and a bibliography in Google Docs
In Google Docs go to "Tools" then "Citation"
In the side bar to the right, choose the citation style (MLA, APA or Chicago)
Then click "Add Citation Source" and select source type (book, website, article)
Add all of the source information that you can find.
Click "Add Citation Source" at the bottom, then click on "Cite."
You'll need to add a page number to your parenthetical citation.
When you're done, at the bottom, click "Insert Bibliography" to create the bibliography on a separate page.
Watch the video by Shake Up Learning for more help.
How to clip a Video in Slides
Google Slides gives us several options for formatting videos, like setting a start and end time (clipping a video), muting audio, and more.
Watch the video by Shake Up Learning.
How to Share Google Slides in a Google Meet
This will enable you to present, yet still see other tabs. Also, others will only see the presentation, not the working slides on the left.
Click "file" then "publish to the web."
Click yellow "publish" button, then "ok" in the box that pops up.
Now copy the new link and share it or use the embed code.
Watch the video by Shake Up Learning for more help.
Differentiate Assignments in Google Classroom from Shake Up Learning
1- Click the drop-down arrow next to students on your Google Classroom assignment.
2- Uncheck “all students.”
3- Select the student or group of students you wish to give the assignment.
Watch the video by Shake Up Learning for more help.
Preview files in Drive without having to open them
1- In your Drive, select the file you want to preview.
2- Click it once, to highlight it.
3- Hit “P” on the keyboard.
This is great for checking information in a document without having to open and close new tabs.
Watch the video by Shake Up Learning for more help.
Google Classroom Cleanup Tips for the Beginning or End of the Year
All of these tips are explained step by step from Kasey Bell with Shake Up Learning.
Tip #1: Reflect on the Year
Tips #2: Check Your “To Do” List in Google Classroom
Tip #3: Clean Up Folders
Tip #4: What to Do with All Those Calendars!
Tip #5: Set Up a Class Template for Next Year
Watch the video by Eric Curts for more help.
How to Force a Copy of a Google Doc, Slide, Sheet, or Drawing
This is mostly a trick that comes in handy when sharing with adults
1- Be sure you have shared your document either as “anyone with the link,” or “public.” This has to be enabled before you can use the force a copy trick.
2- * Open the doc, slide deck, sheet, or drawing you want to use.
* Click in the search box and look at the end of the link.
* Replace the word EDIT with the word COPY in the link.
* Click return/enter.
3- Copy and paste this new copy link wherever you need–in an email, on your website, presentation, newsletter, etc.
Not only can you use this speech-to-text feature in English, but you can even dictate in other languages!
Open a document in Google Docs with a Chrome browser.
Click Tools Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
When you’re ready to speak, click the microphone.
Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
When you’re done, click the microphone again.
More fully explained directions with screenshots by Shake Up Learning- Scroll down to Tip number 4.
Or watch the video by 1 Minute IT
Quickly create a new Google Doc, Sheet or Slide!
To quickly create a new Google Doc, Sheet or Slide, in the URL bar (or address bar or in Google terms-the Omni box) type in the word for what you want to create then dot new.
doc.new
sheets.new
slide.new
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Add files to multiple folders in Drive
Say you want to save a file in two or more places without having to make copies. Now you can in Google Drive. This can only be done in My Drive, not in Shared ones.
Click on the file you want in order to highlight it.
Then hold shift and click Z.
A pop up menu will appear. Choose move and then find the folder you want to put this file in.
Click "Add here."
You can go back and put the same file in multiple folders.
Watch the short video created by Shake Up Learning.
Add emojis to Classroom Topics & assignments
You can add emojis to Topics and Assignments in Google Classroom, as well as in Google Docs and Files.
Create a new assignment or click the three dots to the right of the topic or assignment you want to edit so that you can put in an emoji.
You can search for one, select it and it will go to the bottom of the screen.
Now click on it and it will copy it.
Go back to the Google Classroom and paste it in the rename box.
Watch the short video created by Shake Up Learning.
Stop assignments from appearing in the Stream in Google Classroom.
You can declutter the Stream in Google Classroom by hiding the notification of assignments. They already are under the Classwork tab anyways, so why duplicate it?
In Google Classroom, on the Stream page, click the settings icon (the spoked wheel) on the upper right side.
Under General, by "Classwork on the Stream," click the drop down arrow and choose "Hide Notifications."
Click on Save.
Also, still under settings, under General, by Stream, you can adjust it so that students can only comment and not post, or set it so that only the teacher can post and make comments in the Stream.
Watch the short video created by Shake Up Learning.
View students in Google Meet while still presenting using Dualless
Split your screen to view students while presenting / sharing your screen during a Google Meet call with your class. You can also use this if you don't want to have to go back and forth from one tab while working on another.
Search for the Dualless extension and install it.
Click open your Google Meet tab in order to separate this tab from any other tabs that you have open.
Now in the upper right corner click on the icon that looks like two screens side by side.
From the drop down menu choose the way you want you screen to look. Do I want the Meet window on the left or right and do I want it smaller or bigger or the same size as the other "screen>"
Your Meet tab is now separated and pushed to the side of the other window.
Now you can click the present button on your Meet tab, choose share window. You will still be able to see your students and they will only be able to see the window you are sharing with them.
Watch the short video created by TeachingForwardNet
Interactive Lessons in Google Slides
The key to making Google Slides interactive and more than a presentation tool is internal linking which means linking objects and /or words to different slides within the presentation, not in chronological order and not just outside links.
Create the main slide or make a copy and use this template
Make the rest of the slides that the links in the first one will link to.
On the main page, click the text or picture you want linked, click the link icon and select slides in this presentation and choose the slide you want it linked to.
Watch the short video created by Shake Up Learning.