Category: Technology

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Boom Cards – Your Next Interactive Tool

Boom Cards are interactive lessons created by teachers for teachers. Think of them as a cross between flashcards and quizzes.  While free, other memberships range from basic to power to ultimate and are very reasonable.

  • INTERACTIVE – game feature keeps students engaged and asking for more.
  • SELF-GRADING – easily assign lessons to students which are self-grading.
  • PAPERLESS – no printing, photocopying, cutting, or laminating.

Boom Cards are perfect for mobile devices with apps for iOS, Android, and the Kindle.  They can also be used on a Chromebook.

Please follow the links in my post to take a look around and sign up for your free or basic account today.  You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

The gallery below is Mrs. Howard’s 3rd graders using Boom Cards for the first time. Students were given an activity on an author’s purpose. Then they read an article printed by the teacher and commented in their See Saw digital journal. Lastly, students watched a video as an intro to the next lesson on Rome.

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Story Speaker With Google Home

Encourage students to write a story in a Google Doc that includes twists and turns for an exciting story. Stories lead down one path or another where outcomes vary based on prompts you write in your story. Story Speaker lets anyone create talking, interactive stories with no coding required. You just write your story in a Google Doc with a basic template, add your directives for making it interactive, then play your story with Google Home.

If you have a Google Home device, you will want to add the Story Speaker extension! Storytelling has never been more fun.  Watch this short video to see how easy it is to use Story Speaker.

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Answer Garden for Feedback

AnswerGarden is a social word cloud that makes it easy for teams and audiences to brainstorm or share ideas, opinions, and knowledge in an easy and immediate way.  It can be used by teachers to establish the knowledge level of a class on a certain topic. It can be used as icebreakers at conferences or workshops in a fun and interactive fashion. It can be used for online brainstorming sessions.

AnswerGarden is completely free, requires no registration, and takes only 2 minutes to set up.  Take part in my AnswerGarden by clicking on the logo below!

 

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Google Math Add-On for Google Drive

Google Drive Math Add-on

Create and insert Math Expressions and Graphs in Google DOCS, SHEETS and FORMS using a new add-on for Google Drive called g(Math).  This guide has instructions for accessing the g(Math) add-on and step-by-step instructions for using it.  Use g(Math) with Google Forms to create online math quizzes and tests.  For multiple choice quizzes, you can use the Flubaroo add-on in Drive to grade the quiz for you!

Google Math Images showing directions

Google Add-On showing ways to use

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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