Thursday, November 10, 2016

Google Tips, Kiddom, and Easel.ly


What is it:   Kiddom is a website that allows you pull resources from a variety of reputable sites to use self grading assessments and assignments.

How does it work?  Teachers create a class and invite students through a code. Teachers can then search within Kiddom to find a variety of self-correcting problems, games, and activities through reputable third party sites.  Has curriculum for most subjects grades 4-12.  However, most math and science resources pull from Khan Academy or CK-12, which are integrated into Schoology.



Clear Formatting

Sometimes when copy and pasting into a Google Doc, the source formatting can be difficult to change.  The easiest way to remove this is to keep the copy and pasted material highlighted, then select Clear formatting. 

 
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Research and Definition Tools

Great for words or topics within a document that students are exploring.  Simply highlight a word in question, right click, and choose either Research.... or Definition.... Either option will open a sidebar containing either the definition of the word, or opens a Google search within the document.


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What is it:   Easily create professional looking infographics from scratch or from template.

How does it work?  Go to easel.ly and log in with your Google account.  Simply start from scratch or use a template.  Templates allow you to take any format, change the text, colors, backgrounds, etc. to create any chart or picture.

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