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Google News and Updates

• Customize text size and position for captions in Google Slides
• 13 ways to conjure up a spooky smart home this Halloween
• 15 years of Google Books
• NGram Viewer
• If it has audio, now it can have captions

Featured Content

• Custom Drive Templates 
• Drive Template Gallery
• Templates from the Apps Homepage
• Template Links
• Stop Asking How to Put a Worksheet in Google Classroom

Making templates to assign to students through Google Classroom …

• Blog post: How to create classroom templates in Google Docs and Slides
• What tool should you use? (Matt suggests Google Slides.)
• Locking items down using background images
  • How to Create Drag and Drop with Google Slides
• Assigning templates to students with Google Classroom
• Making a copy (or a force copy link)
• Re-using templates to save time next time

HyperDocs -- Step by step templates to guide students through the learning process

• Hyperdocs website: HyperDocs.co
• HyperDocs templates: https://HyperDocs.co/templates
• Teachers Give Teachers (database of pre-created HyperDocs): https://hyperdocs.co/teachers_give_teachers
• Episode 072: The Power of Hyperdocs and Lesson Design with Lisa Highfill
• Episode 071: Hyperdocs with Sean Fahey
• 9 reasons why HyperDocs can transform your class (post by Sean Fahey)

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Chelsey Greer (Connecticut) - Students need assessments read aloud. Easier way to add to Google Form quizzes? Record self, upload to YouTube, insert video. Easier way? FYI: Add-ons are blocked in her district. 

• Read&Write for Google Chrome
• Screencastify 
• YouTube: Link to specific time in video
• Talk to your special education staff about what you may have available

Kelsey Jones (California) - I've been listening to your podcast during my commute and love all the ideas you've been sharing! My goal is to incorporate Google into my classroom and reduce as much paper as possible. I've been using Google Forms for assessments, I love how it can auto-grade. My question is, do you guys know if there is a way for students to save their work while using Forms? For example, if they have a 30 question assignment and they are only able to get to 10 of the problems. Is there a way for them to save what they've done and resume where they left off later?

https://alicekeeler.com/2019/07/17/google-forms-finish-filling-out-later/

On The Blogs

• Matt - How to create a digital escape room for your class or PD (guest post by Mandi Tolen)
• Kasey
  • Halloween Magnetic Poetry Template
  • 15 Ways to Use Google Classroom in Professional Learning

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