Choose Your Own Adventure Google Slides Templates - CYOA Tutorial

This short tutorial with Gareth Cook of Mr. Cook's Corner will walk you through how to create a template in Google Slides for a Choose Your Own Adventure project. 

8 Engaging ELA Activities for Google Docs

In this video, Eric Curts of ControlAltAchieve, explores eight engaging ELA activities with Google Docs including:

• Highlighting for summarization

• Creating blackout poetry

• Emojis for writing and summarizing

• Cloze reading activities

• Making "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories

• Prewriting with embedded graphic organizers

• Writing less to write better

• Generating punctuation practice 

Session document - bit.ly/curts-eladocs

5 MORE Google Tips for Teachers

John Sowash is joined by New EdTech Classroom's Sam Kary and Thom Gibson to look at 5 helpful tips for your favorite Google tools! These hidden features will help you and your students be more productive and creative while using Docs, Gmail & Drive.  

Must-Have ADD-ONS for Google Classroom Teachers

In this video, New EdTech Classroom Creative Director Thom Gibson is joined by founder Sam Kary and Google Certified Teacher and Teacher Tech blogger Alice Keeler to explore several must-have add-ons for Google Classroom teachers. During this session, they will discuss what is an add-on and take a deeper dive into 15 add-ons for Google Classroom.

Quick Tips for Improving Google Slides

In this short video, Kyle Niemis shares five quick and easy tips to really bring your Google Slides presentations to a whole new level.

How to Use Canva/Training

In this training video, Jennifer Hall with Tech Tips 411 walks users through the basics of getting started with Canva. Learn tips and tricks for creating engaging documents, headers, and other materials that both teachers and students can create using Canva's vast library of free resources. 

Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides

Many times we think of Google Slides as just a program for creating multimedia presentations. However, with just a few tricks you and your students can actually use Google Slides to make stop motion movies. This can be a fun and creative way for students to share their ideas and express their understanding in any subject. Learn, in this recorded webinar by Eric Curts with Control Alt Achieve, how to use Slides to create and share stop motion movies with photos, shapes, text, audio, and more.

Find Google Classroom Assignments Quickly

In this very short video, Kasey Bell with Shake Up Learning shares a useful tip for quickly finding assignments in your Google Classroom with a keyboard shortcut she learned from Alice Keeler. Kasey also shares a helpful idea for organizing all those assignments.

Google Forms

Sethi De Clercq, creator of Flipped Classroom Tutorials, shares tips for using Google Forms. Topics covered include:

• Templates in Google forms

• Setup the Forms theme and custom theme colors

• Upload a header image to Google Forms

• Adding a question, removing a question, requiring a question

• Using Sections for Choose your own adventure activities

• Find the Form responses

• Collaborate on Google Forms

• Use Google Forms for assessment or quizzes 

Google Sheets

Mr. Cook's Corner Education for Educators - hosted by Gareth Cook, is all about helping teachers grow their craft in an increasingly digital world. In this short video, he shares three Google Sheets Hacks for teachers. Learn how to:

• Power paste in columns and rows using the fill box

• How to quickly format an entire worksheet

• Inserting checkboxes

• Rotating text

Google Keep

Matt Miller, author of Ditch That Textbook, shares tips on using Google Keep. This application is one of Google's well-kept secrets that can improve workflow and help you and your students get organized. Google Keep integrates with many of the other Google applications helping it go beyond being just a virtual sticky note tool to my favorite Google classroom (and personal) resource!

• create a to-do list with checkboxes

• take and share notes

• add images and annotate/draw on them

• color code notes/add labels

• access from any device

• add clips from books, magazines, or online resources (you can annotate

Google Classroom

Sam Kary, Founder and CEO of New EdTech Classroom, shares tips on using Google Classroom as your class information hub for students. Topics covered include:

• What to post in Classroom

• Notifications

• Student Comments

• Organizing Topics

• Using Labels

• Assignment Bundles

• Organizing the Classroom

• Sharing Links

• Comment Bank

• Audio Notes