Since Google is becoming more popular in classrooms, here are some of my recommended add-ons that not only teachers but students can use in the classroom! Enjoy!
Materials Generators
As Roblyer mentioned, “these materials generators help the teachers and students produce online and paper instructional materials.”(Roblyer,2016, p. 141)
- This generator can be used for multiple subjects as a review game!
- It has many different size bingo cards to choose from as well.
- It allows over 80 different types of barcodes!
- Teachers can insert QR codes to allow students to go and view information that they deem relevant in the classroom.
Testing & Grading Tools
The testing and grading tools allow teachers to keep track of the progress of each student in the classroom. This way, it can be easily measured in the end to see the progression of learning.
- Allows teachers and students to easily create rubrics and give feedback for assignments
- The teacher or students also get to choose the criteria for each assignment
2. Flubaroo
- This tool allows teachers to see the average grade of the entire class as well as other grading groups.
- It allows teachers to email a student's score to them and provide them with individualized feedback.
Graphics Tools
Graphic tools “allow images to be manipulated to illustrate documents and web pages.” (Roblyer, 2016, p.141) This could mean adding more than just words to support what we are talking about on an assignment.
- Can be used to help show a student's creativity on projects for class.
- Can be used as a way students show off what they know about certain topics.
2. Mind Meister
- This tool allows the users to turn a bullet point list, into an image that is easily editable by whoever sees it.
- This is a great tool to use during writing when a teacher is trying to see a student's thought process.
Planning and Organizing Tools
These tools simply allow teachers to organize their ideas in a concrete way to make their lives easier and less stressful during the day.
- This tool is essentially adding ease to lesson planning for a teacher's busy work schedule
- It allows you to plan lessons online and then track the progression of each lesson
- Can also be used to track attendance of students
- This is good for highlighting information that students or teachers may need to understand on websites
- You can choose different colors to signal the importance of the idea or thought on the page (For example, you could use red to mean you MUST know this, while green may just be used to highlight common information.)
Research & Reference Tools
As Roblyer mentioned, research and reference tools “ let students look up information in electronic versions”, rather than a hard copy of what they normally use to aid in research. (Roblyer,2016,p 141.)
- What is not to love about encyclopedias? They have information on just about anything you want to search.
- This extension will show on you what articles this encyclopedia deems as accurate and reliable.
- There is also the actual website you can search for as well!
2. Paperpile
- This tool allows its users to organize and label their papers so they are easily found.
- It also allows its users to save documents and import them to where everything is locatable(i.e. Google Drive)
Sources Cited:
Roblyer, M.D. (2016). Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching. New Jersey: Pearson
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