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Distraction Free YouTube Chrome Extension

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How to install the Distraction Free YouTube extension for Chrome. Removes related videos and ads.

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National Writing Project: Online Publishing Opportunities

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National Writing Project: Online Publishing Opportunities

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A Collection of Online Publishing Opportunities for Student Writing - National Writing Project

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A key part of the writing process for Writing Project teachers has always been publishing-the exciting moment when writing finds an audience beyond the classroom. In fact, the mere possibility of publishing a piece can strengthen a student's sense of purpose and spark a heretofore hidden passion.

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Free visual storytelling tool -https://storybird.com/educators/

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Storybird Introduction for Educators Part

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Educators in more than 400K classrooms use Storybird to inspire young writers and readers. Students build literacy skills while creating beautiful books that they can share and save. With our new Fundraiser tool, teachers can also raise money for school needs in minutes. Learn more at http://storybird.com/fundraisers

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Can be public or password-protected. Teacher controls approval.

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Student blogging has never been easier. Seesaw Blogs are a simple way to share a selection of work from Seesaw digital portfolios on a classroom blog. Teachers can also connect to other classrooms through Seesaw Connected Blogs. Develop digital citizenship skills!

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Free video response program. "Bring the back of the room to the front of the room!"

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Flipgrid: Getting Started Tutorial with New 2017 Features

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This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating an account, setting up a grid, and creating your first topic. It will also highlight new features that were added to Flipgrid on 8/10/17.

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Google add-on that helps assess writing. Provides metrics (# of sentences, # of words per sentence, time spent writing, etc.) and has built-in genre-specific rubrics.

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WriQ allows teachers to quickly analyze students' writing in Google Docs and provides useful metrics like word and sentence count, time spent writing, and grammar, punctuation and spelling errors. Watch this video to learn how to quickly install the add-on, score a document, and provide feedback to the author.

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16 Ideas for Student Projects Using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms

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16 Ideas for Student Projects Using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms

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As you probably know, Google Drive is far more than a place to store files online. It also includes a suite of versatile creation tools, many of which perform the same functions as the ones we use in other spaces. These include Google Docs, a word processing program that behaves similarly to Microsoft Word, Google Slides, a presentation program similar to PowerPoint, and Google Forms, a survey-creation tool similar to Survey Monkey. Although Drive also includes other tools, these three are particularly useful for creating rigorous, academically robust projects. If your school uses Google Classroom or at least gives students access to Google Drive, your students are probably already using these tools to write papers or create slideshow presentations, but there are other projects they could be doing that you may not have thought of.

Below I have listed 16 great ideas for projects using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms.

Docs

Annotated Bibliography
By the time a student reaches the later years of high school, and certainly by the time she's gotten to college, it's likely that she'll be required to write an annotated bibliography, a list of resources that not only includes the bibliographical information of each source, but also a short paragraph summarizing the resource and reflecting on its usefulness for a given project. Usually an annotated bibliography is required as a part of a larger research paper, but it could stand alone as an assignment that tasks students with seeking out and evaluating sources just for the practice of doing so. And the research tools in Google Docs allow students to locate, read, and cite their sources all in one place. To learn more, see this guide from Cornell University Library on How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography .

Book Review
Instead of a book report, have students write a book review instead. This is certainly not a new idea, but publishing the work electronically allows students to enhance the final product with the book's cover image, a link to the book's page on Amazon, and even links to other titles the author has written or articles on related topics. For models and inspiration, elementary and middle school students can read student-written reviews on sites like Spaghetti Book Club . Older or advanced students might work toward more sophisticated, nuanced review styles like book reviews written on Oprah.com .

Book Review

Any kind of research paper can be given a big boost when done in a Google Doc, because students can insert images, drawings, and links to other relevant resources, like articles and videos. Using the Media-Rich Research Paper
research tools built into Docs, students can research their topics and include in-text citations with footnotes.

"Blog Posts" without the fuss, written in Google Docs.

Instead of creating a job chart yourself, have students build it from scratch.

Slides

These could take a variety of forms: mini-textbooks, children's books, cookbooks or how-to manuals, personal art or writing portfolios, even yearbook-style memory books. To learn more about the possibilities, see my post from earlier this year on E-book
Student E-Books.

Click the image above to watch a sample Museum Kiosk in action.

Students can upload their own images and add text boxes to a slideshow to create an animated story, then record the slideshow with a Google extension called Short Film
Screencastify. They can either record their own voice as narration, add background music, or both. There are so many different kinds of films students could produce: illustrated stories or poems, final reflections for a 20 Time or Genius Hour project, video textbooks on content-related topics, or news-like feature stories of school or community events. In this quick sample, I added music from YouTube's library of royalty-free music that anyone can use to enhance their recordings:

Using the same screencasting software mentioned above, students could also create their own video tutorials by creating a Slides presentation on their topic (such as "How to Open a Combination Lock"), then recording the slideshow with narration. This would make a nice final product for a unit on informational writing or a way for students to demonstrate their learning at the end of a unit in science ("How to Take Care of Lab Equipment"), social studies ("How to Measure Distance on a Map"), or math ("How to Multiply Fractions"). Student-made tutorials could even be created to teach classroom procedures. And any tutorials students make could be stored for later, so other students can also benefit from them. Video Tutorial
Learn more about how Screencastify works right inside Chrome.

Forms

Whenever students need to gather data to support an Peer Survey
argumentative essay or speech, let them gather data quickly and easily by creating a survey with Google Forms. Links to the survey can be sent out via email, QR codes, or through a post in a learning management system like Edmodo or Google Classroom. When results come in, students can use them to support whatever claim they are trying to make in their argument, or make adjustments based on what they discover in their research.

Way Beyond Worksheets

Just this morning on Twitter, someone posted a comment along these lines: "A worksheet on a Google Doc is STILL a worksheet. Students should be using tech to create!" I've heard this sentiment over and over, and it's exactly why I've put this list together. Google offers some incredibly powerful tools if we know how to use them. I hope this list has given you a few new ideas to put into your students' hands. ♦

There's a lot more where this came from.
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Your students probably already use these tools to write papers or create presentations, but they could be doing other projects you may not have thought of.

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Using Google Keep to copy & paste comments

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Using Google Keep to copy & paste comments

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Saves time!

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One of the great features of Google Docs is the ability to leave comments in the margin. This is a useful way to provide helpful feedback to students when grading their work. You can offer suggestions, point out areas that need correction, highlight great work, and even provide links to additional resources or videos.

As great as that is, one of the challenges has been getting easy access to your list of comments. Over time, you may have collected quite a large list of often used comments. Rather than have to type them in each time, it would be much easier if you could simply pull up the list and copy and paste the comments you need.

Certainly there are creative ways to accomplish this, such as having another Google Doc with all the comments listed, and then switching back and forth between that Doc and the one you are grading.

Thankfully though there is now an even easier way to do this. Recently Google announced that Google Keep is now integrated right into Google Docs. That means anything you record in Keep can easily be accessed in a panel in Docs. This can be an easy way to organize all of your comments in Keep, pull them up when in Docs, and copy and paste the ones you need.

See below for details on how to do each step of this process, as well as a short tutorial video.

Tutorial Video (7 minutes)

Step #1 - Creating Your Comment Lists in Google Keep

The first thing you will want to do is to go to Google Keep and create lists with your commonly used comments. You can make multiple lists for different types of projects or for various skills you are assessing.

Go to Google Keep at https://keep.google.com

In the "Take a note" text box at the top, click the "New list" button.

This will let you enter a list of items.

In the "Title" location type in the name for this list. If you are making several comment lists, then you can name each to match its list, such as "Mechanics", "Grammar", "Usage", and "Style".

Next in the "List item" section you can type in your individual comments.

If you already have all the comments typed up elsewhere, such as a Google Doc, you can simply copy and paste the entire list. Keep will make a new list item for each line break in the list you paste.

Also note that you can include hyperlinks in the comment that take the student to a related webpage or video with additional help resources.

Finally, click the "three dots" button at the bottom and choose "Add label".

Because you may have a large amount of notes in Keep, many of which have nothing to do with grading comments, you want to make it easy to find your comments later. This can be done by adding a label to all of your comment lists. Something simple such as "comments" should work fine.

Click "Done" when finished.

You can now repeat this process as needed to add more lists of comments. If needed you can always click on an existing list to add more comments or edit the current list of comments.

Step #2 - Accessing Your Google Keep Comments in Docs

Now that you have created comment lists in Google Keep, you can access them while grading a student's paper in Google Docs.

Open the Google Doc you are grading.

Click "Tools" in the top menu bar.

Choose "Keep notepad" from the drop-down menu.

This will open a panel on the right side of the screen with all of your Google Keep notes.

Since you may have lots of notes that are not grading comments, you can use the search feature to display only your comment lists.

Click the "Search" button at the top of the Keep panel.

Type in the label you used for your comment lists, such as "comments".

Now only your matching comment lists will display.

Step #3 - Adding Your Comments from Keep to Docs

Now that your comment lists are displaying in the Google Keep panel, you can easily copy and paste selected comments as needed.

Find something in the student's document that needs a comment, and highlight that text to select it.

Click the "Add a comment" button that pops up to the right of the text.

This will open a box where you can add your comment to the student.

In the Google Keep panel, scroll down to find the comment you want to add.

If needed, click on the title of the comment list to expand all the comments to you can see all of them.

Use your mouse to click and drag over a comment to select it.

With it selected, copy the comment (Ctrl and C, or Command and C)

Now click inside of the comment box in Docs and paste in the copied text (Ctrl and V or Command and V)

Click the "Comment" button to save the comment in the margin of the Doc.

Repeat as needed for other portions of the student's document.

Providing feedback is a powerful tool to help students revise and improve their work. There are many options for offering feedback (see my earlier post " Four Fantastic Feedback Tools for Google Docs" for more details).

By using Google Keep, not only can you provide helpful comments and resources to your students, but you can stay organized and save yourself time in the process.

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Note: For the examples above and in the video, the lists of comments were created by Tim Bowers and can be found on his blog at: http://englishteachertech.blogspot.com/2015/12/essay-grading-comment-bank.html. For a direct copy of the comment banks, you can use the following link: Google Doc link

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Force Users to Make a Copy of Google Drive Files

Here's an easy way to help users make a copy of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides or Drawings!

Ever share something and instruct your students to go to file>make a copy, and instead they all start typing on the document like it's their own? There are lots of ways to make a copy and distribute to students, like using Google Classroom or Doctopus, but this little trick is super simple! (Thanks to the FABULOUS Alice Keeler for sharing this!)

Here's how it works! Grab the link of the doc, sheet, slide or drawing-the one you see when you are editing. (Hint: this link has the word "edit" at the end.) Then simply replace the word EDIT with the word COPY! The user will then be prompted to make a copy of the file. Once they click the "Make a Copy," button, it will make a copy of the file and add it to their Google Drive. AWESOME!

Remember, your sharing settings will still apply so users/students will still have to have viewing rights to the file in order for this work. See how it works in the animation below:

This tip is similar to another tip I posted a few months ago: Amazing Shortcut for Sharing Google Docs. This allows you to use the word "Preview" in place of edit to see a preview of the file. So there are three keywords that can go here:

edit = editable file
preview = view only
copy = prompt to make a copy of the file
Check out all the Google Tricks and Tips here!
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Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc!

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Pinterest Force Users to Make a Copy of Google Drive Files Here's an easy way to help users make a copy of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides or Drawings! Ever share something and instruct your students to go to file>make a copy, and instead they all start typing on the document like it's their own?

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Make a copy of the template and save to your Drive. Students can work on it independently or collaboratively.

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Collaborative Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings!

That's right! I've created a magnetic poetry interactive template with Google Drawings that you and your students can use to get creative during National Poetry Month.

You can use this as an independent activity, or take it a step further and make it a collaborative activity and see how the poetry evolves.

You can use the "magnets" included, or even add your own to extend the activity (tutorial and FREE mini-course information below).

Get the FREE Collaborative Magnetic Poetry Template!

Click here to use the template | Click here to make a copy.

UPDATE!: See fifth-grade students having some fun with magnetic poetry below. Please feel free to share your kiddos. I love seeing this! Thank you to Lynn Kleinmeyer and her students in Iowa for sharing.

Here is another fabulous example from Mrs. Kane's 8th grade class in New Jersey!

And here are some high school examples from Virginia! Thanks @Techy_Margaret!

Share your poetry and your student's poetry in the comments below! I'd love to see what you create!

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Collaborative Magnetic Poetry (FREE Template)

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That's right! I've created a magnetic poetry interactive template with Google Drawings that you and your students can use to get creative during National Poetry Month. You can use this as an independent activity, or take it a step further and make it a collaborative activity and see how the poetry evolves.

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Chrome extension that dims the screen to put the focus on the video.

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Turn Off the Lights Browser Extension for Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Microsoft Edge

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#BookSnaps with Google Drawings - R.E.A.L. Talk w/Tara M. Martin Episode 9

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To create #BookSnaps watch this quick video. BookSnaps may be used to annotate and share excerpts from what one is reading. *This app creates a QR PDF for Gallery Walks, etc. Other #BookSnaps benefits: * Diagramming the plot/conflict * Making commentaries or notes * Key elements, imagery, figurative language * Text features * Text evidence to support a claim, main idea, etc...

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Chrome extension that lets you play a VIDEO of the revision history of any doc you can edit (can see if students copied & pasted huge chunks of text)

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Draftback is a Chrome extension that lets you play back any Google Doc's revision history (for docs you can edit). It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write.
Download it for Chrome here Download it here
Since Draftback is a Chrome extension, your Docs data never leaves your own computer, and, unless you explicitly publish an excerpt, the extension never communicates any sensitive data with any server-it just fetches it over a secure connection from Google. All the computation for rendering the playback is done by your own computer, and it's stored there, too.

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Draftback is a Chrome extension that lets you play back any Google Doc's revision history (for docs you can edit). It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write.