Keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs

To open a list of keyboard shortcuts in Google Docs, press Ctrl + / (Windows, Chrome OS) or ⌘ + / (Mac).

You can also use menu access keys. Open any application menu using the keyboard, then type the underlined letter for the item you'd like to select. For example, to open the Insert menu on a Mac, press Ctrl + Option + I. To select "Image," type the underlined letter i.

The Best Highlighting Tools for Students

@ericcurts put together his recommendations for 3 tools for highlighting web pages and Google Docs. He has thorough documentation and a video on how to install and use them.

Image: https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2014/05/02/21/53/highlighter-336379_960_720.png

TWITTER 101: Links, Tips And More

A collection of resources from David Theriault on getting started with Twitter for professional development.

Super Quiz

Super Quiz adds brilliant functionality and assessment tools to a quiz made with Google Forms. It works as an Add-on in Sheets

Super Quiz adds brilliant functionality to a quiz made with Google Forms. By completing the quiz once with an answer key, all future submissions are automatically graded correct or incorrect. What’s more - you can get a break down of class understanding and a list of incorrect students for each question - perfect for intervention!

By filling out a few cells of information, you can also generate personalised differentiated written feedback emailed to students as soon as they submit a response. No need to monitor and ‘re-grade’ - just set-up and go!

You can split your quiz in up to 4 different topics, and provide specific feedback on each. If you don’t want to email students, you can choose to print feedback on a 2x2 array, too.

EdCamp Maine - March 5

What Is EdCampME?

• An interest driven, purely organic, professional development opportunity that encourages true professional dialogue
• A gathering of motivated and intelligent educators from a range of content areas and grade levels
• A series of sessions that may explore a technology tool, a discussion of best practices, or a collaborative presentation focused on current issues
• An opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer sharing, and to make professional connections
• A focus on how we use technology to enhance learning experiences

FMI: edcampmaine.org

Google Keep

Google Keep is a digital sticky note tool. Enter a note with your voice, add a photo, or just type a list. All your notes are instantly saved across your devices. It has voice recording and you can send notes to Google Drive.

Differentiating Instruction with Google Keep

Send a note to Google Drive

Chrome Extension: Side Panel This extension serves as a shortcut to keep.google.com, but also much more. You'll find at the bottom of Keep's sidebar (click the hamburger icon (☰) to open it), a new link entitled "Send to Panel." Click that to open Keep in an always-on-top panel.

Hyperdoc: Unsolved Case, The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe

This lesson uses research, questioning, critical thinking, collaboration to dig deeper in to the content.

Essential Question:  What is most important in this text? How can I tell? What questions should I ask about the text?

Created by @MsMarshallCMS 

Padlet of her other #hyperdocs

Pixar and Khan Academy Release Free Online Course for Aspiring Animators and Math Teachers

This new series of behind-the-scenes introductory videos and online exercises introduces computer science fundamentals by taking a closer look at the tools Pixar engineers and artists use to craft some of your favorite animated movies. There are two series with a couple dozen videos each which give the animation nerds in your life, young and old, a chance to get a sense of what it’s like to work at Pixar.

This new release follows on a successful inaugural season of a dozen of lessons that touch on the math behind the movies, like how parabolas are helpful in modeling grass in Brave or how combinatorics helped Pixar build a diverse crowd of robots in WALL-E.

Pixar in a Box

Educator's Guide

NASA’s Giving Away Brilliant Space Travel Posters For Free

These WPA-style artworks from NASA’s design studio are wonderful. And they’re free, too.

Hyperdoc: The Silk Road

This lesson is both project based and game based. Students do research and create games based on the Silk Road. It was created by @MsMarshallCMS

Virtual Field Trips

Links from a session about Virtual Field trips at the #DLDMedfield (Digital Learning Day at Medfield High School

100+ Great Google Classroom Resources For Educators

This is a terrific collection of resources from Vicki Davis

Flippity: Random Name Generator

Flippity is an online tool that works with Google Sheets. The directions for the Random Name Generator are here and a You Tube demonstration from @cshiel

January 2016 - New England ISTE News

January 2016 - New England ISTE News

2016 Free Webinar Series

5 Good Google Tools for Social Studies Teachers - And How to Use Them

• Richard Byrne - Free Technology for Teachers
• Tuesday, February 9th at 7 PM
• Zoom Room - https://zoom.us/j/323964235

Teaching Digital Narratives using GAFE and a TON of Student Imagination

• Jeffrey Bradbury from TeacherCast
• Tuesday, February 23rd at 7 PM
• Zoom Room -  https://zoom.us/j/557831489

Registration will open soon for the following webinars:

GAFE and SAMR

• Alice Barr
• Thursday, March 31st at 7 PM

Don’t Assist Me, Empower Me: The nABLE Framework for Technology Integration

• Luis Perez
• Thursday, May 26th at 7 PM

Online Math Tools for Challenged Learners

• Cheryl Oakes
• Thursday, June 7th at 7 PM

Hyperdocs: Interactive History Lesson

This is an example of an interactive lesson done by @slogue89 in Google Slides. It's called a hyperdoc because it links out to a number of other tools including Google Docs and Peardeck.

You can search for more examples on Twitter (you do not need a Twitter account to do this.) using the hashtag #hyperdocs

My Maps for Historical Timelines

This activity asks students to provide descriptions of various location points of the Civil War. The places are plotted on a collaborative map (through Google Forms and Sheets). Students then add photographs with citations to the map. 

In this activity, students used Forms, Sheets, and My Maps to make a map of the Civil Rights Movement events that they were studying.

My Maps Cheat Sheet by Jenn Judkins

Padlet

Padlet is the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world. It works like a sheet of paper where you can put anything (images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, from any device (pcs, tablets, phones), together with anyone. It can be used for everything from teaching, brainstorming, note-taking, website publishing, bookmarking, selling goods, and blogging.

How to use Padlet by @coolcatteacher

Examples:

• Word of the day: http://padlet.com/wall/1rbmyjr47x 
• Brainstorming: https://twitter.com/histcoach/status/695669462050152449
• Gamification resources: http://padlet.com/mourakd/6m9zvuivamfo 
• Discussions: http://padlet.com/mmatp/innovativepd2016
• Lists or resource collection: http://linkis.com/padlet.com/marshall9/wj57b