Category: Google/Chrome

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DocuTube Add-On for Google Docs

Interested in viewing video from a Google Doc without having to leave your document?

Google Docs does not allow you to embed videos directly into a document leaving you having to jump in and out of your document to view the video. Introducing DocuTube!  This add-on creates an embedded YouTube video in a popup using the links in the document.

Things to know about DocuTube:

  • Plays videos without having to leave the document
  • Easy to set up as the creator and as the viewer
  • Only plays videos that are on YouTube
  • DocuTube add-on must be installed for viewer
  • Users need editing rights in the document in order to use the add-on
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Tour Builder With Google

Did you know that Tour Builder is not simply a tool for geography or map skills? Tour Builder can be used cross-curricular. It’s a free tool created by Google.

With Tour Builder, you can create virtual tours or tell a story on a map that includes locations, images, videos, descriptive narratives, and hyperlinks. These tours can be the retelling the events from a novel, tracing locations of a historical event, visiting different biomes or landforms around the world, showing animals and their habitats, visiting ancient cultures, or famous landmarks in history.

Tours can be viewed by others in Tour Builder, or take it a step further and import them into Google Earth for a full 3D experience!

Example Tours below (provided by Eric Curts).

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Naming Versions for Writing in Google Docs

Rough Draft, Revised Draft, or Final Version?

If you use Google Docs for writing, check out this new feature now available in the Version History.

The option to name versions makes it even easier to see student progress and provide better feedback and assessment. This provides more support for student writing to be a process, with the goal to improve their writing over time with feedback, reflection, and revision.

This would work within the Schoology platform as well.

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Insert Learning Supercharges Schoology

This Chrome extension is a must have tool for teachers and students for online studies. Insert Learning add new levels of interactivity to Schoology pages.  No need to reinvent the wheel when you can assess students through questioning within their readings and engage discussions right from the online source. Highlighting and sticky notes are also provided.

View the short video (3:41) below for a glimpse of Insert Learning at work. I’m confident you will be amazed at what this free Chrome extension offers.

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Google Arts and Culture

Attention teachers who teach science, history, and art!

This resource is fabulous.  Google unveiled a resource for you that will help you and your students discover works and artifacts, allowing you to immerse yourself in cultural experiences from a myriad of museums across 70 countries around the world. Search projects, experiments, artists, mediums, art movements, historical events, historical figures, and places. Watch the intro video and check out the examples below.