Description

Google News and Updates

• Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time
• How the Dynamic Learning Project is building teacher confidence
• Smarter sharing of files with updated Google Drive Access checker

Kaizena (voice comments) (kaizena.com)

• Leave voice comments for students
• Discuss student work in an online hub
• Reuse commonly use comments
• Track and rate student progress

Highlight tool

• Highlight a document in different colors
• Pull highlighted text from a document and sort in a table at the end of the document

DocSecrets

• Hides and reveals text in a document
• Use a password to reveal hidden text

WriQ

• 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.
• WriQ auto-scores your students’ docs and tracks the following measures over time:
  • Time spent writing
  • Text Maturity
  • Spelling error rate
  • Grammar error rate
  • Punctuation error rate
  • Percentage error free
  • Correct Word Sequences score
• The teacher dashboard gives you a clear graphical view of your students’ writing activity, and let’s you track their progress over time.
• Video overview

Read&Write for Google Chrome

• Technically a Chrome extension but can use in Docs (and web)
• Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:
  • Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting
  • Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained
  • With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying
  • Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type
  • Collect highlights from the text in documents or the web for summarizing and research
  • Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs
  • Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting
  • FREE for teachers

Easy Bib Add-On

• The Bibliography Creator by EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper.
• Automatically cite books, journal articles, and websites just by entering in the titles or URLs. Format citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and over 7K other styles.
• When you're finished creating your bibliography, click Generate Bibliography and we'll alphabetize your citations and add them to the end of your paper.

BONUS: Equatio (chrome extension)

• Easily create mathematical equations, formulas, and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn.

• Renee Johnson (Oakhurst, CA) - ctrl+z - to add to another location in Drive … Add student work samples to PD folder for teacher training.
• Craig Klement (Garland, TX) - Same three questions on student forms: First name, last name, class period (drop down) … Spreadsheet: right click on awesome box, sort range (by class period, then by last name) Differentiate forms: three dots, section based on answer (if correct: to next question, if incorrect: YT vid, article, picture, do over or similar question)
• How to Differentiate Questions in Google Forms

• Matt - Creating a low-cost, printed school yearbook with Google Slides
• Kasey - Teachers Deserve #Respect

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