Have a wonderful idea... working on your project... half way done and then, BOOM - the project has gone another direction? Carlos will be talking about the benefits and limitations of pivoting your project without any intentions!
Follow Carlos on his social media accounts at: ACEd.Tech
Twitter, LinkedIn, & TikTok: @eduGOOGdroid
I am Mr.G, I’m a Google for Education certified Trainer & Innovator. An exciting development from the last time I was here is that I started working on my Masters of Educational Technology. Instead of Mr.G, I’m looking forward to earning the title of Master G.
STUDENT’s Project (2nd Place): https://tinyurl.com/tyca21
What prompted your pivot?
A pivot in life and in innovation. I enjoy being a teacher. However, I think I can have a better impact in students’ lives by becoming an educational technologist. Similarly, in my innovator academy, I had a great idea. I just didn’t know how to bring it to completion. That doesn’t mean that I gave up on that idea, but I had another issue that came up. Teachers wanted to format text in google forms. So, I brought this idea up to Andrew Caffrey, who approved it. So, I pivoted in my innovator project. And I have finished.
You created something called G RTF. Tell us about that.
It is a chrome extension that allows you to emphasize text where text is not allowed to be formatted but unicode text is allowed. With any new system, unicode is usually allowed. There may be some old systems which may not work, but for the purpose of my project, it works great.
How does it work?
Let me show you on twitter... (@eduGOOGdroid)
However, that is not the only way. My original intent was for education. But, anywhere where there is simple text and unicode is allowed, this will work. Let me create a Google Form and show you…
What prompted you to create this?
How might we help educators emphasize key points in Google Forms so students can better understand the instructions? By using a Chrome Extension that converts simple text to rich text, educators can create better instructions.
Originally, I thought about using it for Google Classroom. However, that update came. Google Forms, however, still has that problem.
How has this impacted teachers you know?
It is still a work in progress, however, the goal is for teachers to be able to properly explain
How can others get involved in this?
Let’s go to the chrome web store...
Please add the links to any resources here.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/g-rtf-plain-to-rich-text/mogceicjmeopokfnobebnoepladkifdn
Thank you, Carlos! Best of luck to you in your educational and innovative pursuits! We are so thankful to have you on our podcast.
Best wishes,
Sandy and Karen
