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Through Google Apps Scripts (n.d.), anyone can read these developers steps to add the free Google Slide translator onto their slides deck. This Google feature can be used to meet multilingual students needs and increase access to various content material. This helps empower student's to take change in their learning, in order to comprehend new knowledge being presented.

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Complete the steps described in the rest of this page, and in about five minutes you'll have created a Google Slides add-on that translates text in your presentation.

Set it up

1. Create a new Google Presentation.

2. From within your new presentation, select the menu item Tools > Script editor. If you are presented with a welcome screen, clickBlank Project.

3. Delete any code in the script editor and rename Code.gs to translate.gs.

4. Create a new file by selecting the menu item File > New > HTML file. Name this filesidebar (Apps Script adds the .html extension automatically).

5. Replace any code in these two files with the following content, respectively:

Select the menu item File > Save all. Name your new script "Translate Quickstart" and clickOK. The script's name is shown to end users in several places, including the authorization dialog.

Try it out

1. Switch back to your presentation and reload the page.

2. After a few seconds, a Translate Quickstart sub-menu appears under theAdd-ons menu. Click Add-ons > Translate Quickstart > Start.

3. A dialog box indicates that the script requires authorization. Click Continue. A second dialog box requests authorization for specific Google services. ClickAllow.

4. A sidebar appears. To test it, type some text into your presentation, then select it, and click the blue Translate button. To replace the text in the presentation, clickInsert.

Publish

Since this is an example add-on, our tutorial ends here. If you were developing a real add-on, the last step would be to publish it for other people to find and install.

Learn more

To continue learning about how to extend Google Slides with Apps Script, take a look at the following resources:

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Quickstart: Translate add-on for Google Slides | Apps Script | Google Developers

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Complete the steps described in the rest of this page, and in about five minutes you'll have created a Google Slides add-on that translates text in your presentation. Create a new Google Presentation. From within your new presentation, select the menu item Tools > Script editor.

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Blooket is an online platform that helps teachers access various content review games. This game increases motivation, competition, interaction and collaboration in content. It offers various types of games that can be used with content, minimizing the risk of bored students. These review games can help meet student's diverse needs by allowing them a chance to comprehend content through high interest gaming and engagement. Through Blooket, teachers can assign both synchronous live sessions or asynchronous assignments to help check for understanding and guide instruction.

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Pear Deck is a Google add-on that helps teacher create interactive, engaging lessons for diverse learners (Pear Deck, 2021). This tool can be used in any subject-matter. One way Language Arts teachers can implement Pear Deck to create personalized learning for diverse learners is by allowing students to use virtual tools; such as annotating. Once teachers add these tools, students can directly interact with the text and circle, highlight, add text and use a virtual pencil to mark up the text. As a result, diverse student learners will deepen their knowledge and increase literacy mastery.

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Lean in closely, Rich - I've got the perfect remedy for you, and a little trick to pass along to your students! Boosting comprehension is a breeze with Pear Deck - and it all begins and ends with one of the Slide Doctor's favorite words: Annotation!

What is annotation, anyway?

Annotation, put plainly, is note-taking. In the context of reading, it's the act of underlining, highlighting, and writing in the margins. Annotating helps students "cool their jets" (while reading, at least) in order to confront their understanding, ask and answer questions, and interact critically with text. Sounds good, right? To me, annotation is the key to getting your students to really think about the text they're reading. Let's dive in!

Annotate to your heart's content with Pear Deck

Pear Deck is perfect for annotation. You'll no longer have to print out papers or hand out pencils and highlighters. Instead, simply go into Pear Deck and create a Drawing Slide. Add the text you'd like your students to annotate, and watch them go to work.

Allow me to demonstrate! For this example, we're going to annotate one of my favorites: "The Raven'' by Edgar Allen Poe. Here's what it should look like:

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Dear Slide Doctor: Cultivate Comprehension - Pear Deck

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The Slide Doctor is back with advice and tips for making the most of your Pear Deck slides! Today, the doctor shares the many ways your students can use annotations and note-taking on slides. Help students interact critically with text and understand what they're reading with these tips.

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Educational Duct Tape Podcast offers tons of advice and knowledge on new media that could enhance diverse students learning capabilities (WordPress, 2022). This advice comes from various knowledgable people with some sort of background in education. After listening to just one episode one can learn from experts like instructional technology specialist and a special education analyst. These tools shared by these podcaster presenters are virtual tools that teachers can use to personalize virtual learning environments.

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Educational Duct Tape Podcast – Jake Miller

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The #EduDuctTape Podcast focuses on viewing #edtech as a tool used to meet goals, address learning standards, and solve problems in the classroom, much as duct tape is used as a tool that solves a plethora of problems in our lives. Each episode features a different inspiring educator helping Jake answer “teacher questions” with awesome ideas for using tech in the classroom.

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Through Phet, math teachers and parents can guide students to access various digital manipulatives, which might not be available in remote learning environments. Not only that, but Phet offers various simulations that can be used in math, science, physics and chemistry (University of Colorado, 2022). This helps educators personalize virtual learning environments for diverse students who may require additional virtual tools to help understand concepts, which are more hands on and visual (University of Colorado, 2022).

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By converting our sims to HTML5, we make them seamlessly available across platforms and devices. Whether you have laptops, iPads, chromebooks, or BYOD, your favorite PhET sims are always right at your fingertips.Become part of our mission today, and transform the learning experiences of students everywhere!

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CommonLit includes 2,000 reading passages for grades 3-12, "complemented by aligned interim assessments, growth-oriented data, and expert-led teacher development" (CommonLit, 2014-2022). English Language Arts teachers can create assignments, and link classes directly from Google Classroom. The reading passages in CommonLit are various lexile levels and contain additional virtual tools to support student's diverse needs in a virtual learning environment. For instance, students can use up to six highlighting colors to highlight text within passages, within annotation tools. In addition, there are guiding questions, assessment question and discussion questions (CommonLit, 2014-2022). Also, students are able to increase font size, translate in about 40 languages and access the read aloud feature (CommonLit, 2014-2022).

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Classcraft is more than just a virtual classroom management tool. Through this virtual tool, teachers can apply tiered intervention to meet special student needs (Classcraft, 2022). Students are motivated through gaming to complete meet class content learning goals and PBIS behavior expectations (Classcraft, 2022). For instance, for a student diagnosed with ADHD, a teacher can write specific school behavior goals that can earn the student game play time and avatar upgrades (Classcraft, 2022). Then, the student can participate in competitions with peers or collaborate with peers in reaching the game play goal.

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Discover how Classcraft for teachers is transforming classrooms by increasing student engagement, easing classroom management, and connecting with every student

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Loom is a free resource that allows anyone to record presentations (Loom, 2022). This helps personalize instruction for students in a remote learning environment. For instance, during current physical learning environments, several students have been absent due quarantine regulations. However, with Loom, teachers can record lessons further explaining to students how to complete assignments. This way students who need guided practice can access that extra layer of support and students who were present in the physical classroom can also access the lesson, which can be referred back to in order to hear clear instructions or have access to the teacher reteaching the lesson, with a click of a button.

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Best free online screen recording tool with advanced video editing and video storage trusted by over 21 million people and easy sharing from Loom.com.

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Flipgrip is a popular virtual tool for educators to use, in order to increase interaction between peers and teachers. Not only that, but it's a fun way for students to practice their public speaking skills, which include eye contact, voice projection, posture, and content knowledge. Both introvert and extrovert type of students practice speaking skills, editing and over time can boost their self-confidence. Flipgrid can be used for personalized learning in a virtual environment by using daily learning student reflections (Microsoft, 2022).

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Coming from a school district that uses Chromebooks for students, knowing how to use the 13 embedded accessibility features, is vital in order to meet student's diverse needs. Schools, and teachers can help provide students with a more personalized virtual learning environment by teaching students and parent how to access their device embedded features in order to help students make greater learning gains. A couple of there features include, Text-to-Speech, and Chrome Live Caption (Google, n.d.).

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Chromebooks include accessibility right out of the box, unlocking learning experiences for students with diverse needs, abilities and learning styles. Built-in settings and easy-to-use apps and extensions help customize the learning experience to include and engage every student.