Ms. Johnson’s class recently completed Author Studies using Google Docs. Students worked in small groups to find information about authors in their upcoming novels. The Fourth Graders learned how to cite information using the Google research tool and how to properly use images found on the internet in school projects. If you would like to view these projects visit Ms. Johnson’s Author Studies page on her class website.
Thinking about using Edmodo in your classroom? Not sure where to begin? Here is a Livebinder created by Tricia Rodriguez and Steve Ryan that was highlighted on Diigo. You can find everything from the basic start up to lesson plans, safety tips, rubrics and webinars for teacher training information.
First Graders at Wilson School just wrapped up a unit study on Fairy Tales. The students are now working on creating their own Fairy Tales using My StoryMaker. My StoryMaker was created by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and named one of the Best Websites for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians.
Kern Kelley, an Educational Technologist in central Maine, Tweeted out a list of the forms that he has developed for teachers and principals. You can make a copy of all of these forms by clicking on the titles and opening them in your Google Drive account.
You can also view his page of additional project ideas by clicking on the “Projects” tab.
Edina Public Schools launched a Chromebook implementation as a part of a district grant called iSquared. This is a resource for teachers to use to help implement Chromebooks into the classroom and to support a Classroom in the Cloud.
Want to create a Google Form but not sure where to begin? View this quick tutorial created by Lee Webster. When creating forms for students within our district Google account, remember elementary students cannot access email. You will need to embed the link to the form on your class website or blog.
Some tips at the elementary level:
1. Make sure you do not check the box that requires a student to sign-in
2. Create a question on the form for students to enter his/her name and make sure that question is marked “required” so every entry has a name.
3. Don’t mark all questions “required” unless they are mandatory (or you know they will have time to finish the entire form). For example, if you have activities at the bottom that students may not get to leave the “required” box unchecked so students can submit the rest of the form without being prompted to finish first.