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Google Forms Assessment Fundamentals

Learn how to develop formative and summative assessments with Google Forms. You will learn how to include images and videos into assessments. Media is an excellent way to provide differentiation. We will use the quiz option to grade our assessment.

Learn how to develop formative and summative assessments with Google Forms. You will learn how to include images and video into assessments. Media is an excellent way to provide differentiation. We will use the quiz option to grade our assessment.

Learn how to use data validation to check short answer responses for us. We will use the same feature to accommodate for alternate versions of the same answer. We will learn how to provide feedback during an assessment. I will show you how to create a question for assessing spelling, grammar, or punctuation in a sentence.

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Bar Charts with Google Sheets

Create various bar charts with basic data. Nothing too complicated. The goal is to understand the process. Insert charts into Google Docs or Google Slides publish charts online in a variety of formats.

Create various bar charts with basic data. Nothing too complicated. The goal is to understand the process. Insert charts into Google Docs or Google Slides publish charts online in a variety of formats.

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Illustrate stories with Google Drawings

Learn how to use Google Drawings to illustrate stories. We will use these illustrations in Google Slides. Drawings is good for creating book covers. It is also good for creating social media images. We will cover each of these options. Along the way, we will learn some tips and tricks for working with images in Drawings.

Learn how to use Google Drawings to illustrate stories. We will use these illustrations in Google Slides. Drawings is good for creating book covers. It is also good for creating social media images. We will cover each of these options. Along the way, we will learn some tips and tricks for working with images in Drawings.

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Google Keep for instruction and lesson planning

Learn to use Google Keep to collect lesson resources, take notes, and collect images. Annotate images. Present and annotate for the class. Use Keep's canvas to demonstrate and illustrate. Organize notes with tags. Group notes and distribute to Google Docs. Use iOS and Android devices with the Keep app.

Learn to use Google Keep to collect lesson resources, take notes, and collect images. Annotate images. Present and annotate for the class. Use Keep's canvas to demonstrate and illustrate. Organize notes with tags. Group notes and distribute to Google Docs. Use iOS and Android devices with the Keep app.

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Graph linear and quadratic equations with Google Sheets

In these lessons, you will learn how to graph linear and quadratic equations. Create formulas using Google's powerful math tools. Graph linear and quadratic equations using charts. Manipulate the values to demonstrate how to solve a variety of problems. Very good as a teaching tool for the introduction to linear and quadratic equations.

In these lessons, you will learn how to graph linear and quadratic equations. Create formulas using Google's powerful math tools. Graph linear and quadratic equations using charts. Manipulate the values to demonstrate how to solve a variety of problems. Very good as a teaching tool for the introduction to linear and quadratic equations.

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Introducing Google Team Drive

Google Team Drive provides greater flexibility for sharing and collaborating with Google applications. Team Drive provides a work environment where teachers can share, collaborate, and distribute content. Team Drive provides exclusivity features that are helpful when we want to limit access. This proves useful when dealing with sensitive student information. With Team Drive you can implement strict sharing and download limitations.

Google Team Drive provides greater flexibility for sharing and collaborating with Google applications. Team Drive provides a work environment where teachers can share, collaborate, and distribute content. Team Drive provides exclusivity features that are helpful when we want to limit access.

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Google Sheets Bar Charts

Create bar charts using Google Sheets. Learn how to format the bar charts to represent information and trends. Create stacked and horizontal bar charts. Get a copy of the data in the lessons so you can follow along. Learn to publish charts using Docs, Slides, Sheets, or Sites.

Create bar charts using Google Sheets. Learn how to format the bar charts to represent information and trends. Create stacked and horizontal bar charts. Get a copy of the data in the lessons so you can follow along. Learn to publish charts using Docs, Slides, Sheets, or Sites.

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Google Sheet Pivot Tables

You will learn how to use a pivot table to organize and make sense of data. We will be using data collected about volcanoes. Students like volcanoes. We will learn how to use use a pivot table to organize the information in the datasheet. This pivot table will help answer some questions we have about volcanoes. We will take the data and create charts.

You will learn how to use a pivot table to organize and make sense of data. We will be using data collected about volcanoes. Students like volcanoes. We will learn how to use use a pivot table to organize the information in the data sheet. This pivot table will help answer some questions we have about volcanoes.

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Google Slides Interactive Stories

Google Slides is useful for more than presentations. Slides include a variety of options that are useful for creating interactive slides. Shapes like rounded rectangles are used for navigation buttons. Speech bubbles in the shapes palette are used for conversations between characters.

Google Slides is useful for more than presentations. Slides include a variety of options that are useful for creating interactive slides. Shapes like rounded rectangles are used for navigation buttons. Speech bubbles in the shapes palette are used for conversations between characters. Search the Internet within Slides to find appropriate characters for stories. All image searches return images in the creative commons or in the public domain. Add backgrounds on slides to enhance the story with more visual interest. Use Google Drawings to create custom backgrounds. Include voice-over narration with embedded video. Use slide animations and transitions to enhance the story. Create your own animated Gifs with free Chrome browser applications.

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Google Suite sharing and collaboration

Explore ways to share documents for collaboration. This includes giving other users edit access. Edit access allows others to freely add and modify content. Google provides three options for sharing. The options include edit, view, and comment permissions. The edit permission is often used for collaboration. Edit permission gives that user the same options to change the document as the owner of the document.

Explore ways to share documents for collaboration. This includes giving other users edit access. Edit access allows others to freely add and modify content. Google provides three options for sharing. The options include edit, view, and comment permissions. The edit permission is often used for collaboration. Edit permission gives that user the same options to change the document as the owner of the document.

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Pragmatic Google Classroom

A major drawback to google classroom is that a classroom must be created every year and assignments must be re-created every year. As teachers, we don’t teach the same way each year but the materials and resources remain fairly consistent. It would be nice if we could refer to these resources without the need to re-create the classroom and assignments. A way to work around the limitations is to have a Google site that accompanies classroom assignments. It doesn't have to be a Google site, but a Google site provides ready access to resources that are probably already on your Google drive.

A major drawback to google classroom is that a classroom must be created every year and assignments must be re-created every year. As teachers, we don’t teach the same way each year but the materials and resources remain fairly consistent. It would be nice if we could refer to these resources without the need to re-create the classroom and assignments. A way to work around the limitations is to have a Google site that accompanies classroom assignments. It doesn't have to be a Google site, but a Google site provides ready access to resources that are probably already on your Google drive.

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