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Chrome Extension: SCRIBLE Toolbar - Research Tool - Annotate web pages and save to library in the cloud
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Google Drive Tips: Comments
Overview of comments and discussions
Comments let you have a conversation about something you're working on. Comment threads, called discussions, help you keep track of comments, address your comments to specific people, and respond to and follow comments from your email inbox.
Inserting Comments
Comments are a handy way of adding notes to your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that are visible to viewers and collaborators. These can be invaluable for communicating with collaborators about specific parts of the document, as well as making notes about changes you've made or would like to make.
To add a comment, follow these instructions:
- Highlight or select the text, object, or spreadsheet cell you'd like to comment on. If you're working with a presentation, you can highlight an entire slide by selecting it from the list of slides on the left.
- From the Insert menu, select Comment. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + M (Cmd + Option + M on a Mac) to insert a comment.
- Type your comment in the box that appears to the right of the document.
If you'd like to address your comment to a specific person, type a plus sign followed by their email address, like this: +johndoe@google.com. That person will receive an email with your comment.
Working with Comments
After inserting a comment, there are two main places you can work with it — within the yellow comment box, or from within the discussions thread, which you can access by clicking the Comments button in the top right-hand corner of your browser window.
You can reply to a comment with a new post, edit or delete a previous comment you’ve inserted, and resolve the discussion when you’re ready to remove it. Resolving a discussion removes the discussion from your document, spreadsheet, or presentation, but resolved threads will always be available under Comments in the right-hand corner of your document.
Your profile photo (the picture you use in Gmail or on your Google+ profile) will be displayed with your comments.
Discussions
From the discussion thread, you can review all discussions, including those discussions that have been resolved. From this menu, you can also change the notification settings for discussions.
Sometimes it can be tedious to have to scan through all the comments you and your collaborators have made on an item. If you open the discussion thread with the Comments button, you can keep track of all of an item's discussions, including those that have already been resolved.
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gClassFolders Helps You Organize Google Drive Files Shared by Your Students
Google Drive is a great tool that can help you create a paperless classroom. The challenge for teachers who have a lot of students spread across multiple courses is management of all of the files that students share with you. gClassFolders is a Google Spreadsheets script that can help you manage the flow of Google Drive files that are shared with you.
gClassFolders is a script that will create folders for you for as many course sections as you need. The concept behind it is this; students have a "dropbox" folder in their Google Drive accounts that you have shared with them. To submit work students drag files into that "dropbox" folder. From there gClassFolders sorts submissions to the correct folder for each student. There are some file naming conventions that you and your students must adhere to, but if you can do that gClassFolders should help you manage shared Google Drive files. You can get detailed set-up directions here from the gClassFolders developer. Watch an overview of the set-up process in the video below.
Free Technology for Teachers: gClassFolders Helps You Organize Google Drive Files Shared by Your Students
gClassFolders is a script that will create folders for you for as many course sections as you need. The concept behind it is this; students have a "dropbox" folder in their Google Drive accounts that you have shared with them. To submit work students drag files into that "dropbox" folder. From there gClassFolders sorts submissions to the correct folder for each student. There are some file naming conventions that you and your students must adhere to, but if you can do that gClassFolders should help you manage shared Google Drive files. You can get detailed set-up directions here from the gClassFolders developer. Watch an overview of the set-up process in the video below.
Free Technology for Teachers: gClassFolders Helps You Organize Google Drive Files Shared by Your Students
File Preview Options in Google Drive
You can quickly visually flip through files in your Google Drive account just by tapping the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. There are a couple of ways that you can access the new preview option. If you right-click on the name of a document or file you can select "preview." The preview option automatically appears if you click on the name of a PDF, image, or video. Either way, once the preview pane is open you can quickly flip through visual previews of all of your files.
Free Technology for Teachers: New File Preview Options in Google Drive
12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education - Edudemic - Edudemic
Are you a Google Drive / Google Docs fan? Do you take notes, compose papers, construct spreadsheets, and build presentations in real-time on the web while collaborating with others? I’m not necessarily promoting Google Drive; just merely pointing out a few of the powerful ways the free tool can help you save time and keep you better organized.
I’ve had a post about how to effectively use Google Drive in education on the back burner for several months. It’s been sitting as a ‘draft’ and is now finally ready for primetime. That’s because I stumbled across a fabulous new visual guide put together by Susan Oxnevad on Glogster . In the graphic, she showcases a dozen different ways to easily and effectively integrate Google Drive into your classroom.
Google Drive In Education: A Couple Recommendations
From building a self-grading quiz (yep, it can do that) to simply reducing the amount of paper used in your classroom, there are plenty of reasons to start considering using Google Drive for your classroom needs. Personally, I’d recommend using it as a useful tool for project-based learning where students can collaborate in real-time, hold chats, and even finalize a project from different locations. The Android and iOS apps let students (and teachers) do this from virtually anywhere. In fact, you can literally do it anywhere considering there is an ‘offline mode’ for Google Drive so you don’t even need a web connection to keep your online collaboration document or project humming along.
The other big way I’d recommend trying out Google Drive would be for mind maps. You can create mind maps using a presentation in Google Drive and work on it with others at the same time. Imagine having an assignment involve creating a mind map about a particular topic (the Civil War, for example) and having students aim to finish the map by the end of the school day. Students can collaborate, research, and complete their project with ease. What a world we live in, eh?
Google Drive is also compatible with Microsoft Office products so fear not. You can download your project as any format – from open formats to Microsoft-based formats. Great for all types of classrooms!
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23 Great Sources For Free Educational Videos Online - Edudemic - Edudemic
Students like to watch videos.
Teachers like videos, too. They can bring relevant material to the classroom in a format that will garner students’ interest and in many ways, help them to learn something without feeling that they’re being ‘taught’ in the same way that a lecture might.
There are a lot of sources of video out there for teachers to use. From services like Netflix and Hulu to iTunes, there’s a lot of content out there to choose from. But what about the free content? While there is definitely a ton of free content easily available to teachers for use in their classes (think: borrowing actual DVDs from the school library), it is often the case that the desired video isn’t available for free. We already know that teachers spend enough of their own money on supplies for their classroom (definitely take a look at the graphic and especially the comments in this post! )
We’ve put together a quick list of some sites that offer free (Free!) educational video online that you can put right to use in your classroom. Some are specific to one or a genre of disciplines, but many cover a variety of subject matter. Do you have a favorite site that we’re missing? Feel free to add it in the comments section at the bottom of the post.
Sites That Offer Free Educational Videos
ABC DocumentariesFree Documentaries OnlineScience Network
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10 Innovative Educational Programs Run By Google - Edudemic - Edudemic
Their educational programs provide opportunities, funding, and build the next generation of innovative computer science workers and teachers. From these programs, we have compiled a list of the most cutting-edge and interesting educational programs that Google has recently initiated.
Google Code-In
Google Code-In is a yearly programming competition for 13-17 year old students still enrolled in school. These students are required to complete complicated tasks with writing code, performing documentation, as well as to learn about outreach and research. Winners receive certificates and t-shirts while the 10 top contestants win a trip to Google Headquarters in Mountain View California. There, they tour Google, meet with software engineers, and engage in other interesting activities. It encourages students to consider computer science as a career and to further their education in a college computer science program. As one participant said, “I’d like to personally thank you and the other guys at Google for the program. It’s the first time I had someone ‘nagging me’ to sit and code something big for an open source project (did some small stuff before), and I’m proud with the result. I learned a lot, gained lots of experience, and had fun.”
LEAD for Computer Science
The Leadership Education and Development program from Google helps high-achieving Native American, African American, and Latino high school students learn about careers in computer science. It is a summer residential program where students stay in campus dorms to get a taste of student life at some of the best universities in the US. The Level 1 Section is hosted at Stanford and is designed as a preliminary course for rising 9th grade students and lasts for one week. The Level 2 Section is hosted at UC Berkeley and the University of Virginia for three weeks. It is designed for 10th-11th grade students and is more comprehensive than the Level 1 Section. The programs also have current minority computer science college students to mentor the participants.Students attend lectures, tours, and talks from Google, with partial and full scholarships available.
Rise Awards
Google’s Roots in Science and Engineering or RISE gives monetary awards to NGOs and other organizations that are focused on educating K-12 and university students in science, technology, engineering, and math-enrichment programs. Once they receive the funding, they are obligated to invest it back into their community. NGOs from over 125 countries have already participated.Awards can vary anywhere from €1,000 to $25,000 that have already been awarded to as many as 75 NGOs in the past three years.
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Doodle 4 Google
The Doodle 4 Google Award is intended for K-12 students who must create a new design to be featured on Google’s homepage. If a student’s artwork is selected as the winner, they will receive college scholarship money as well as grants for their school. The participants are given themes like “What I’d like to do one day” that they must draw.
Android Camp
Now that Google’s Android has become the most popular mobile platform in the world, they have created Android Camp . With Android Camp, first-year and sophomore college students strengthen their developing, publishing, and software testing skills as well as learn how to develop apps for Android. This all-expenses paid affair lasts one week at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Zeitgeist Young Minds Awards
The Young Minds Competition held by Google every year is for innovative and entrepreneurial 18-24-year olds worldwide. Each participant makes a YouTube video that explains how their work or project will change the world. The 12 selected winners go to Google Zeitgeist Conferences in North and South America and in Europe. At the conferences, world leaders come and discuss how to fix the world’s major problems, with past keynote speakers including Bill Clinton and Stephen Hawking. Some past successful projects have been the education of immigrant girls in Canada and a project concerning internet literacy for at-risk urban youth.
Geo Teachers Institute
This is a Google-sponsored free professional training seminar for educators who want to use Google’s Geo Technologies in the classroom. To help increase its applicability, Google partnered with National Geographic and the University of Southern Maine at Lewiston-Auburn College to host the seminars in DC and Maine. All the participants learn how Google Earth and Sketch Up can help them to become more innovative educators.
Online Marketing Challenge
Google’s Online Marketing Challenge is done in professor-created teams with students at the undergraduate level. They must develop an online advertising strategy for an NGO or business only on a $250 budget. This is a world-wide competition that can raise serious money for NGOs. Each team that wins for creating a marketing strategy for a NGO is eligible for a Social Impact Award, with prize money upwards of $15,000 going towards the NGO.
Google Faculty Institute
This institute is designed to improve teaching technology for professors and teachers . Here, they are taught how to effectively use Google’s technology to improve their students’ learning experience. During the 3-day institute, the educators hear speeches from other professors, essay writing and case studies from California teachers, and attend workshops with tech-education professionals.
Google Research Awards, Faculty Program, Visiting Faculty
The Google Research Awards are given to deserving faculty members who are doing exceptional research related to Google’s mission.
The Google Fellowship Program is intended to support and award graduate students for outstanding work in the field of computer science. There are 12 unique fellowships in different technological fields such as speech tech, computer security, and machine learning.
The Visiting Faculty Program at Google gives deserving leading academics the opportunity to work at Google from six months to a year. During this time, the participants work with difficult research problems that Google is currently facing and Google’s vast amount of data. Additionally, they learn about computer infrastructure and have the opportunity to showcase their research for a million-plus audience around the world. As past participant Frank Stajano PhD from the University of Cambridge said, “I like to work on practical problems that have a connection with the real world. Even after I returned to university full-time, I still maintained connections with industry, mainly through consultancy jobs. I feel this helps keep my research honest, as it makes me work on problems that have practical relevance.”
The Google Fellowship Program is intended to support and award graduate students for outstanding work in the field of computer science. There are 12 unique fellowships in different technological fields such as speech tech, computer security, and machine learning.
The Visiting Faculty Program at Google gives deserving leading academics the opportunity to work at Google from six months to a year. During this time, the participants work with difficult research problems that Google is currently facing and Google’s vast amount of data. Additionally, they learn about computer infrastructure and have the opportunity to showcase their research for a million-plus audience around the world. As past participant Frank Stajano PhD from the University of Cambridge said, “I like to work on practical problems that have a connection with the real world. Even after I returned to university full-time, I still maintained connections with industry, mainly through consultancy jobs. I feel this helps keep my research honest, as it makes me work on problems that have practical relevance.”
Google’s educational programs and awards inspire people at all education levels to learn more about science and technology. These programs present great opportunities to engage more with computer technology and how to make the world a better place with Google. Otherwise, so many students as well as educators may not have reached their potential had they not been involved in Google’s education programs. Google improves and changes lives throughout the education spectrum by building a better world through technology education and opening up so many people to endless possibilities.
About The Author
I’m Emily Lucas. I’m experienced freelance writer and blogger. My areas of interests are very wide. My aim is to share my ideas with young audience and provide useful tips for education and private life. My website is topbritishessays.
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4 Ways To Start Using Active Learning In The Classroom - Edudemic - Edudemic
By areese on July 15, 2013@@thefeelingbooks.com
4 Ways To Start Using Active Learning In The Classroom - Edudemic - Edudemic
Figuring out the best way to bring video into the classroom can be tough .There’s YouTube EDU, TED Talks, TeacherTube, and a slew of other video sites.But none are dedicated to helping bring first-person stories into the history classroom. That’s where IWitness comes in . It’s a free educational website / web tool developed by the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. IWitness brings the human stories of the Institute’s Visual History Archive to secondary school teachers and their students via engaging multimedia-learning activities. Designed to be participatory, academic and student-driven, IWitness addresses education standards from the Common Core State Standards Initiative (United States) and the International Society for Technology in Education, among others.
Get First-Person Perspectives
IWitness provides access to nearly 1,300 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. Students can watch testimonies and use them in individual or group multimedia projects; teachers can assign activities as classwork or homework, and can even custom-build their own lessons and activities. The testimonies are searchable by more than 9,000 keywords, enabling students to pinpoint exact moments of interest within each testimony, which averages two hours in length.
The IWitness video editor gives students the freedom to integrate testimony clips together with footage from other sources as well as photos and maps, voiceover audio, music, and text. In a way that transcends traditional print materials, the interactive, audio-visual form of IWitness connects learners with contextualized first-person views of history while training them to master the digital and media literacies necessary for the future.
Being Tested Around The World
IWitness is highly scalable and can be adapted for a broad array of learning environments and cultural needs. The web site, currently in beta, is being tested in classrooms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Rwanda, and Australia. To date IWitness has been accessed by over 6,000 high school students and nearly 2,200 educators in 36 countries and all 50 U.S. states. The American Association of School Librarians recognized IWitness as one of the “Best Websites for Teaching and Learning” in 2012.
By integrating testimony-based education with the development of digital literacy and other 21st-century competencies, IWitness encourages critical thinking and self-reflection, and helps students get a sense of their own place in history and of the profound impact their words and actions can have on the lives of others.
The IWitness Video Challenge
Earlier this year, USC Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg announced the IWitness Video Challenge, a contest that challenges secondary school students to honor the legacy of Schindler’s List by engaging in community service inspired by survivors’ testimonies and showcasing their action in an IWitness video essay. Students will be guided in their community service projects by the testimonies they watch in IWitness. As part of the IWitness Video Challenge activity, students are asked to create a one-to four-minute video essay with an easy-to-use video-editing tool on the IWitness website, allowing them to link their voices to those in the archive who inspired them to act.
Teachers interested in signing up their students in the IWitness Video Challenge can do so on the website and submit video essays by October 31, 2013. USC Shoah Foundation will fly the IWitness Video Challenge winning student, a guardian/parent and teacher to Los Angeles in March 2014 to screen the video essay as part of the Institute’s 20th anniversary activities.
For more information about the IWitness Video Challenge, visithttp://iwitness.usc.edu/SFI/IWitnessChallenge/ .
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