Noel Erskine, Technology Coordinator Norris Schools

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Monday, December 4, 2017


Google Tricks:  8 Sweet Tips For Your Classroom, Students, and Teachers Alike

Top 10 TED Talks For Teachers - If you have not looked at a TED talk - they are great. 


I have promoted this one before and ran across another reference to it... so I figured I would pass it along again. Great resource - Flippity.net - turn a spreadsheet into a wide variety of tools for students (flashcards, random name picker, badge/progress tracker, Jeopardy-like game, etc.)

ReadWorks is cognitive science-based, free, and effective. The largest, highest-quality library of nonfiction and literary articles, carefully curated to support reading comprehension



The 32 Best Google Docs Add-ons in 2017 

You have to check out this list. <---- Several great new ones in this list!

Great site for younger readers/teachers!  Elementary teacher- Check it out! 

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

Storyline Online receives over 100 million views annually from children all over the world.

The videos are free - they stream via YouTube.  (You can buy the book they are reading too.) 


Google Doc add-on for grading writing papers - Grab it now and use it to get it for free for life! 

Want to save time and effort when scoring your students' writing? Use WriQ...and help build a new writing metric!
WriQ is a new Add-on from Texthelp that helps teachers score and keep track of students’ spelling, punctuation and grammar errors so you can focus on the things computers can’t score.

Grab this one now if you can use it ... Because it will turn into a yearly paid service in the future ... but Free if...

As they state in the overview: And It’s Free…
WriQ is completely free for now, but over time additional “premium” features will be added. For a limited time, as a thank-you to everyone who scores 100 student writing passages to help us out, we’ll give you free access...for life!


Two Great Apps for your teacher Chromebooks from Gault!

These two sites/apps allow you to use your stylus to annotate on a blank white screen, picture, or PDF.  You can collaborate while annotating, share, and save your sessions.
NEW - Ziteboard - You can install it from HERE. (Chrome extension) Give it a try!  
Another good whiteboard "web" app is awwapp. (Website - no install!) 

Hour of code is coming! December 4-10!
Check out our Computer Science & Coding Resources doc - We just updated it with some great materials from Kahn Academy.   Don't' get overwhelmed with the long list of resources - just start out slow with an hour of code project!. 


Hyperdocs - Have you tried these? -Do you know what they are


Chrome extensions:

Easy Accents - This Add-on allows users to easily insert accents for different languages directly from a sidebar in their Google Doc. 

Extensity- Keep track of the extensions and add-ons you are currently using, turn off and on through the extension.

One Tab- allows you to share your tabs via website

Draft Back- see how students create


Tip -  Filter Your Searches in Google Drive!

At the top of the Google Drive is a search box with a down-arrow button as shown above. Clicking the arrow will let you see the box with search options to filter your search results. You can filter by file type, date modified and owner. If you are looking for shared files, you can filter the same by looking for the name of the person you’ve shared the file with.




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