From the TBC PL Google+ Community
New in Classroom: saving time while marking
For those of you using Google Classroom, here is a list of recent updates you may not be aware of:
“We built Classroom to save teachers time, and we know that grading is one of those tasks that can involve a lot of little time wasters. In fact, students have turned in more than 200 million assignments via Classroom to date, which adds up to a lot of grading hours. HERE IS THE LINK TO THE FIRST EASTER EGG
5 Chrome Apps for Student Creation
What some other tasks than just creating a document or a presentation? Here is a list of 5 really good content creation tools that students can use with the Google Chrome browser. I’ve used Powtoon in class to get student’s to create short explanations of scientific concepts and found it works really well.
Tips, Tricks and Traps
EDpuzzle: Google Classroom Awesome Integration
EDpuzzle is an online app that allows you to ‘push’ a video resource out to students, then be able to see who has watched it and you can even add in questions to check for understanding. It now works really well with Google Classroom and will ‘pull’ the class lists from Classroom (so you don’t have to add individual students) and can also automagically post to your Stream. Enough from me – watch the Video. Site is www.edpuzzle.com
E-Learning workshops
If you’ve been to one of the e-Learning workshop chances are the presentation file is on this site. Feel free to link them in to your appraisal document.
More tips and resources @ TBC PL Website
Things that make you go hmmmm….
Teacher gobbledegook gets glossary
Appearing in the papers last week was news that education has a heap of jargon – wow, surprise surprise. Either go straight to the ERO’s glossary or read the news article.
“Digital natives have emerged from the cave to gather at the watering hole where they’ll ponder their cognitive wobble. Confused? You’re not the only one. Try translating systemness, digital immigrant and scaffolding from the classroom into plain English….”
