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EdTechTeacher Awesome Assessment App Smash: Google Drawings and Google Forms - EdTechTeacher

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In my work as an instructor for EdTechTeacher, I have the pleasure of working with teachers from all over the country in both face-to-face workshops and online learning modules. As the teachers and I work together to explore new ideas, strategies, and tools, we learn and grow together.

Recently, a Webster Public Schools cohort of teachers were exploring Google Drawings in an online learning module I created. As we discussed ways to utilize Google Drawings in an educational setting, we explored student and teacher uses of the program. Through our discussions, I began to consider how the combination of Google Drawings and Google Forms could be a powerful way for teachers to customize assessments in ways that students will more successfully decipher and learn from them.

One of the science teachers at Bartlett High School, Shari McCarthy, created an awesome image of a cell that she shared with the group in the discussion forum. She challenged her Biotechnology students to create a similar drawing. The requirements for the "Cell-fie" project included creating a "well-labeled model drawing of a plant or animal cell that clearly identifies the structure and function of the organelles in a cell."

In her discussion post, Shari explained:,
"I actually used this Google Drawings module to reinvent an old lesson. In Biotechnology, students need to know the main organelles of the cell, something they have studied in biology since middle school. There are various ways on the web to practice cell organelles and their functions, but I tweaked a lesson to include google drawings. Here is my example and a screen shot of the assignment. The students were given the option of this Google Drawing assignment or a hand drawn 'cell-fie'. The submissions were about a 50/50 split. I also allowed students to try other online drawing programs if they chose."

As we corresponded about her "Cell-fie" project, Shari explained that she really liked using Google Drawings because most standardized tests use obscure, rudimentary drawings that never resemble the textbooks. She felt that this type of activity requires student interpretation - a skill that they rarely get to practice.

The concept of using a teacher-made image that was created or annotated in Google Drawings immediately resonated with me, and I started thinking about the power of the combination of Google Drawings and Google Forms. Now that images can be integrated into both the questions and responses in Google Forms, teachers can completely customize their assessments or activities with images created in Google Drawings.

In the accompanying image, Bartlett High School teacher Sean Hansen uses arrows to annotate a map for his students. Sean says, "The ability to annotate images on Google Drawings is one of its greatest attributes in my opinion! Google Drawings seems like a great tool to use with my 9th grade students to help them visualize concepts and make maps really pop, which is what I've attempted to do here. I took a map that highlights the wide array of ethnic groups that lived within the borders of Austria-Hungary just prior to the outbreak of World War I and created color-coded arrows to provide an extra visual that showcases where these groups resided within the empire."

Once created, the image can be downloaded in a variety of formats including a JPG. A JPG can be stored on a local hard drive or in Google Drive and can quickly and easily be imported into a Google Form for analysis. Teachers can also create images to be used as possible correct and incorrect responses in a Google Form. For example, in the screenshot of the Google Form, the teacher is asking students to identify the capital of Illinois. The four response options were created in Google Drawings by placing a red star in different locations on the Illinois map.

Conversely, an image could be part of the question in a Google form as shown in the accompanying screenshot. In that question, the image of the girl and the water was annotated with thought-bubbles by using the drawing tools in Google Drawings.

As Shari and Sean have discovered, as these form examples demonstrate, Google Drawings has great power to help students develop their knowledge and skills. Combined with Google Forms, it becomes a powerful, customized assessment experience.

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Google Drawings, available in G Suite for Education, offers a wide range of possibilities for student creation. Though often overlooked in favor of the core G Suite apps like Docs, Slides and Sheets, Google Drawings offers a wide range of opportunities for all curricula. From Kindergarten through high school, endless possibilities exist, limited only by the imagination of teachers and students. It is with that in mind that we will explore one of those potentials - creating interactive Google Drawings.

Interactive images allow students to incorporate many different media into one static image. The secret to creating these interactive images involves the ability to attach links to outside content and embed those links within the image itself making the drawing "clickable".

For example, students can lay a static image of a Venn Diagram onto a Google Drawing canvas. Now, instead of simply writing a few sentences about each topic, students can expand on those thoughts by inserting links to other documents, videos, articles, etc. directly on top of the Venn Diagram. Imagine your students hyperlinking a video or audio argument they make in favor of entering into WWI and then creating the alternate viewpoint in another video and linking it on the other side. Follow this link for an example: WWI Entry Venn Diagram Example.

While copying and pasting a link into a text box in a Google Drawing works, there is a cleaner and more efficient way of accomplishing the task: using inserted objects. These objects can include lines, shapes, or images inserted into the Drawing. When a student adds one of these objects onto a Drawing canvas, that object can then be hyperlinked to other existing web content. When a user clicks, they launch that new content to learn more.
Here is the process for creating interactive Google Drawings:

1. Insert an object (shape, image, line, or arrow) by selecting "Insert" from the toolbar, and making a selection from the dropdown menu.

2. While the object is highlighted, select the Link icon from the toolbar (the keyboard shortcut is cmd-k or ctrl-k). You can also right-click on the object, and select Link from the menu.

3. A small window will appear with a space to paste a link. After you paste the link, click Apply.

4. That's it. Now the student, or any viewer, can click on the shape and be taken to the linked website.

Ideas for Using Interactive Google Drawings
Create an archive of student learning on a topic:
Science students in an anatomy class learning about the human body could insert an image of the body into a Google Drawing. As students explore each body part or system, have them create a new hotspot linking to an external source on the topic or perhaps the student's notes taken in a Google Doc for more information. Likewise, Social Studies teachers could insert a map as the background and have information about parts of the map linked out to new content. English teachers could insert the cover of a novel as a background and students could create hotspots linking out to the content they created over the course of reading the book in class. The possibilities are endless!
Revamp your study guides:
Instead of handing students a study guide with 25 different questions on it and asking them to respond in the text area below each question, place the topics covered on the study guide into a Google Drawing and have the students create an interactive document linking to information on the various topics. Students may welcome the ability to link to a YouTube video to watch for review in place of re-reading a text book.
Create interactive Graphic Organizers:
Students can utilize images of graphic organizers and create various hotspots to content based on the topic of the graphic organizer. As mentioned above, this works very well in creating interactive Venn Diagrams. Additional ideas for these types of interactive Google Drawings include timelines, flowcharts, and mind maps of essays before they are composed.
WWI Entry Venn Diagram Example Use Interactive Google Drawings with a Visible Thinking Routine from Project Zero See - Think - Wonder Example Circle of Viewpoints Example Wrap Up :
Visible Thinking Routines are great for pushing students to ask questions and make their thinking visible. Have students create an interactive Google Drawing with the aspects of a visible thinking routine outlined and then insert text and links into the drawing to support the view points they uncover. For example, if students are completing a See-Think-Wonder Routine, they could take a picture of the object they are observing, then use a text box to type their responses to what they think and wonder. When that is complete, they could investigate their "wonders" by inserting hotspot links to articles or sources that have information on their questions.

Google Drawings has boundless possibilities, and creating these interactive Google Drawings is one way you can push your students to go further with information while being creative at the same time.

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Google Drawings, available in G Suite for Education, offers a wide range of possibilities for student creation. Though often overlooked in favor of the core G Suite apps like Docs, Slides and Sheets, Google Drawings offers a wide range of opportunities for all curricula.

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EdTechTeacher 3 Strategies for Using G Suite for Education in the K-3 Classroom - EdTechTeacher

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G Suite for Education provides opportunities for students of all ages to learn and grow. When combined with a Chromebook or laptop, the core G Suite programs create a powerful platform for learning. By designing interactive learning experiences for students in the K-3 classroom with G Suite, we also provide opportunities for students to start building the skills that they will need to be successful in the intermediate grade levels and in our digital world.

By engaging students in Google Drawings learning experiences, teachers are creating opportunities for students to engage in sequencing, classification, evaluating, analyzing, as well as demonstrating their understanding of math, language, social studies, or science concepts. Additionally, students are interacting with icons and menus, strengthening their touchpad or mouse skills, and navigating Google Drive as they work with files and folders. These activities also provide opportunities for students to begin to explore concepts such as URL, website, hyperlink, and file. Building working definitions for these concepts is a key component in successfully navigating more complex systems and sequences.

Google Drawings provides a blank canvas for generating almost anything! It combines a drawing interface in which images can easily be moved and positioned with text boxes, creating a simple desktop publishing environment. Additionally, with all the same features as Docs - such as sharing, comments, revision history, and the explore tool - Google Drawings has great power!

Google Drawings provides gray space on either side of the drawing canvas where teachers can place images, text boxes, and other elements that can later be manipulated by students. Teachers can create a wide variety of interactive learning experiences in which students move images and text around as they work through sequencing and classification activities. Follow the links to see examples of both.

Using the new Explore function in Google Drawings, students can also search for images to complete graphic organizers, charts, or diagrams. Even math activities can be created easily using Google Drawings. Using the Insert Shape function, teachers can construct simple math manipulatives such as base-ten blocks or images representing coins. Tables can also be inserted for activities such as place value and simple data charting.

Google Forms has recently added the capability of inserting images as responses. For our youngest learners who may still be developing their reading skills, the option to associate an image can help them decode the written word. One example of a form for younger students might be a Morning Check-in. Second grade teacher Stacy O'Sadnick uses a morning check-in form with her students to get a better feel for how they are feeling each day. Stacy said that the answers in the form help her better meet her students' needs. Another example of a Google Form for young students is a or a shape recognition activity. Dawn Johnson, a Kindergarten teacher in Northern Illinois, uses Google Forms to create money recognition activities for her students. These activities are excellent formative assessment opportunities, helping to make student understanding and perspective visible to the teacher.

Although it is important to expose our K-3 students to digital learning environments and experiences, most of their day will be spent physically DOING. Primary students write, draw, cut, paste, move, sing, speak, and listen. The artifacts of learning that are created most frequently are physical - not digital. However, recording and chronicling these artifacts can be a great use of the opportunities created by G Suite and a Chromebook or laptop.

In Google Slides, the Insert Image option allows users to Take a Snapshot from the webcam of their laptop or Chromebook. By using this option to take pictures of physical artifacts of learning, students can record their work. This activity could be the beginning of a digital portfolio that might be used to chart growth and development over time and possibly shared with parents. But it could also just be an opportunity for students to practice skills such as taking digital pictures with the computer, inserting those images into slides, creating new slides, and typing letters into text boxes.

G Suite for EDU provides a platform for a wide variety of activities for K-3 students. Manipulating images and text in a drawing environment, responding to images in formative assessment activities, and making physical artifacts digital through the use of the webcam are just a few of the ways that G Suite can help students build the skills they need to be successful in our digital world!

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EdTechTeacher 10 Next-Level Classroom Applications for Using Google My Maps - EdTechTeacher

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Google My Maps offers teachers and students across disciplines an ability to bring map-making into the classroom. For an in-depth look at how to create a Google My Map, please check out my previous post: Bring Map Making to Any Classroom using Google My Maps . If you are ready to discover how maps can assist in expanding learning for your students, then read on!

1) Teachers can expand a map activity outside their classroom walls.

My Maps allows users to import data into a map from a Google Sheet, KML file, or CSV file. Teachers can use a Google Form to collect data and then import the Form's data into a new My Map. Teachers and students can share their form via social media and ask for information from people anywhere in the world!

Presentation Attendee Locations - In this example, I have imported data from a Google Form I shared out during a conference presentation.

2) Students can create a worldwide weather map to show earth's weather patterns .

Students can look up current weather information from specific locations across the world. They can then add those locations to their map, add the respective weather data, and create a worldwide weather map.

High Temperatures Map - In this example, the map has a collection of high temperatures from across the world for students to explore.

3) Students can look up local newspaper headlines around the world and add them to a collaborative Google Map on current events.

By collecting newspaper headlines from a variety of places, students will see how various events are covered in different locations. Students can also see how the news cycle is far different in other countries than in the United States as they compare and contrast it with their own.

Newspaper Headlines - In this map, students have collected various news headlines from multiple newspapers in the United States.

4) Students can screencast their maps using a Google Chrome extension, such as Screencastify .

S tudents can use a screencast tool to capture their map and talk through the map's markers. Students can become virtual tour guides and provide a virtual field trip .

5) Students can open their custom map in Google Maps and use Street View to get an actual camera view of their marker.

After publishing their map, students can open the map in Google Maps and have access to Street View. Students can then explore the actual image of the area they are working on and not simply the location of the marker.

6) Students can plot the movements of historic campaigns and how they impacted each region encountered.

History teachers can have students find the path armies took during times of war, and document how battles and stops along the way affected the area. Students can find most battlefield locations using Wikipedia.

Sherman's March to the Sea - In this teacher-created example, the points on the map identify the various engagements undertook by Sherman's army. Students are able to visualize the route Sherman's army took en route to Savanna.

7) Teachers (or students) can create latitude and longitude scavenger hunts, prompting students to discover why certain places on the map are important.

Students can enter Latitude and Longitude points into the search bar in My Maps. Doing so allows students to locate specific points on a map and analyze the importance of the area.

8) Students can follow and track the route of explorers as they made their journeys.

In a social studies classroom studying the Age of Exploration, teachers can have students track the routes of explorers as they journeyed from Europe across the world. Students can mark each stop they make with a description and analysis of the location.

European Exploration Map - Found in the Google Maps Gallery - This is a great example of the potential Google My Maps has and showcases the power of sharing maps through the Maps Gallery.

9) Students can track the movements of major characters in a novel.

Students reading a book with characters moving throughout a non-fiction location can track their stops and document what is taking place during the journey. For example, students can document the stops of the Joad's in Grapes of Wrath as they journey from Oklahoma to California along Route 66.

The Grapes of Wrath - Rt. 66 Journey In this great map by Grant Sento, he uses My Maps to outline the trip of the Joad family from Oklahoma to California and all their stops in between.

10) Students can contribute their map to the Google Maps Gallery for anyone to find and use.

When students finish building their custom My Map, they have the ability to publish their map in the Google Maps Gallery. The gallery showcases maps created on any number of topics, from Pokemon Go gym locations to tracking Lewis and Clark's expedition across North America. Having students publish their maps to this gallery gives them the chance to contribute to a wider audience, and potentially help someone looking for the specific information that they created in their map.

There are many more than ten ways to use Google My Maps in your classroom and I hope that this list gives you some ideas to kick off map making with your students! If you have other ideas, share them with me on . I'd love to know how you are using Google My Maps!

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The news is out there! We made a seamless integration with Google Classroom. We? Yes, BookWidgets!

We had lots of nice reactions on the integration from over the world. From "Create, assign, and score @ibookwidgets right inside Google Classroom. Booooom! 💥💥💥" to "I'm gonna guess that Google will eventually buy this out and add it as a standard feature to GC." Thank you all! 🙌

We know that BookWidgets is a lot to handle. Especially when you're a beginner. That's why in this post, we're going to give you a hand. Ready to create a quiz that gets automatically corrected and graded? Once you get this, you'll get everything.

Create a BookWidgets quiz in Google Classroom

Just take a look at this video and you'll be fine.

If you're lost, you can read the post for more detailed information or take a look at this tutorial.

1. Install Chrome plugin

To be able to use BookWidgets right into Google Classroom, you have to install the BookWidgets Chrome Plugin. Just add it to Chrome and you're ready to go.
(Not a Google Chrome user? That's cool too: just head over to the extended tutorial)
2. Open the BookWidgets editor in Google Classroom

Open Google classroom and pick a classroom. Click on the "+" button in the bottom right corner and choose for BookWidgets.

The BookWidgets editor opens right into Google Classroom. If you created widgets before, they'll be right here waiting for you to put into Google Classroom, along with some examples and tutorials for inspiration and support.

3. Create your first widget

To create your first widget, click on "create new widget". Now, you'll end up in the widget library, where you can choose the widget or exercise you want to make. Let's pick "quiz". You immediately enter the quiz widget editor.

4. Add questions to your quiz

You'll end up in the question tab, where you can start adding questions. Before you do that, give your quiz a name in the upper left corner. Then, click on "add question" and choose one question type out of the 26 different possibilities.

Now, let's show you something cool:

In this post I'm making a quiz with 3 fun question types. Subject: European countries and capital cities.

Question 1: Choose for the "annotate picture" question type

This question type is all about letting your students fill out images, diagrams, maps or charts. Just insert a background image, and add a few "fields" students have to fill out. Here's a post with a tutorial.

Follow these simple steps:

1. Type in your question

What are the capital cities of this country?

2. Import a background image. This is the image you want to annotate.

Image: a blank map of Europe

3. Click on "add Input Field" to add a field on the image that students can fill in.

Field name: Brussels / Correct answer: Brussels / Position: place the marker on Brussels on the blank map an draw an answer box next to it.

4. Add another Input Field

Keep on adding fields on the map. For example: Rome, Paris, Madrid,...

5. Click on preview

Check if there aren't any fields overlapping. You can now see what students are going to see.

Question 2: Choose for the "picture ordering" question type

Go back to "questions" and add a second question. This time, pick the "picture ordering" question. This question asks students to put pictures in the right order.

Let's see how you can make a question like that:

1. Type in your question

Order the following countries from the most inhabitants to the least inhabitants.

2. Add images in the correct order

Images of: 1. France, 2. Italy, 3. Belgium, 4. Denmark

3. Click on preview

You can now see what students are going to see. Try it out if you want!

Question 3: Choose for the "Word - picture match" question type

Go back to "questions" for one last time and add a third question. Choose the "word - picture match" question. Here students have to link words to pictures.

I'll show you how:

1. Type in your question

What city refers to what monument?

2. Click on "add".

Text: Paris / Image: "Arc de Triomphe"

3. Add other pairs

Amsterdam: Bridge / London: Big Ben

4. Click on preview

You can now see what students are going to see. Try it out if you want!

5. Send the quiz to your students

When you're done adding questions, you click on "done" in the upper right corner. It takes a few seconds for BookWidgets to process the quiz. After that, a screen will pop up. Now you can send the quiz to the right classroom. Pick a classroom, optionally a due date and click on "send".

6. Up to the students now!

Let's see how easy it is for students to make the quiz and send it back to the teacher. Students will see a new update in their stream. When clicking on the title of the assignment or on "Open", students get directed to a new screen. Here, they see that the assignment is still marked as "Not done". When clicking on the link of the BookWidgets assignment, the quiz opens immediately after. Students can start making the quiz.

When they finish the quiz, they just push the button "Submit" to send their answers to the teacher. Students don't have to type in the teacher's mail address. Everything is connected smoothly.

Students will see now, that their work is automatically marked as "Done".

7. Correcting and grading student work

After students have submitted their work, you can start grading. Just kidding: you don't have to grade these tests anymore 😲 Taking a quick look and giving feedback will do just fine.

Your stream automatically updates when students submit their work. Click on the title of the assignment or on "Done/Not Done" to take a look at your students' work. On the left, you'll see that the work is already graded. But, you might want to take a look at the student's answers as well.

To see their answers just click on the work they have submitted. A new tab with will open. Here you see your student's anwers to the questions of the quiz.

You can see that BookWidgets already automatically graded them. But, no worries, you can still adjust it by clicking on the pen in the middle at the top of the worksheet. In this example, Alix had the capital city of Italy right, but she made a typing mistake. The computer took it as a mistake, but you could still give her a point for that.

Another good thing about this adjustable worksheet is that you can give personal feedback in general, or on each separate question. Save the changes by clicking on the cloud in the middle at the top of the worksheet. You'll see that Google Classroom automatically adjusts the grade again.

8. Returning student work

Once back in Google Classroom, you're ready to return the student's work. On your left, you can tick off the boxes of the students whose work you want to return. Then, click on "Return".

9. Students: Opening returned work

The last step is for the student. All there is left is to open their returned work and take a look at their grades.

Once the teacher has returned the student's work, the student immediately notices. When the student opens the work, he can see his grades and he can open the quiz to see the teacher's feedback and wrong answers.

Inspiration

So that's it! That wasn't so hard, was it? Now you're ready to try out the other 40 widgets. You can also gamify your Google Classroom with the learning game widgets. You'll love it!

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