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On the first day of Christmas Google for Education gave to me:
12 Drawings Doodling
11 Photos Giffing
10 Notes a Keeping
9 Links Directing
8 Maps a mapping
7 Sheets a sharing
6 Add-ons Adding
5 Google Searches
4 Canned Responses
3 YouTube Subscriptions
2 Calendar Reminders
and a Doc with revision history.
On the first day of Christmas Google for Education gave to me:
12 Drawings Doodling
11 Photos Giffing
10 Notes a Keeping
9 Links Directing
8 Maps a mapping
7 Sheets a sharing
6 Add-ons Adding
5 Google Searches
4 Canned Responses
3 YouTube Subscriptions
2 Calendar Reminders
and a Doc with revision history.
12 Drawings Doodling
Use Google Drawings to create images and move around text boxes for activities. This is a tool that often gets forgotten about, but it is an easy way to add word art and build images to use on a document or slide. You can even bring in your own images.
11 Photos Giffing
Did you know Google Photos creates animated gifs from a series of photos you take. Take a few and look at the assistant and you may see a few you didn’t know you had. The assistant will also make stories and movies from photos you have as well as stylize your photos for you. This is a great place to backup your photos.
10 Notes a Keeping
You can keep track of your to do lists or throw in an image to take a note about. On your notes you may set reminders, share them with others and color code them for you to easily find later. Google Keep can be used on mobile devices and from your computer.
9 Links Directing
Goo.gl is a classic must have Chrome extension. Use this extension to shorten a URL to create a QR code, share a resource on social media or track the hits.
8 Maps a Mapping
There is so much you can do with Maps! Create your own maps to record events. Check out directions and measure distance between locations. Drop Pegman on a map to take a look around at a location’s street view.
7 Sheets a Sharing
Google Sheets is quickly becoming a new favorite of mine because you can look at data in ways you can't when it is just text. The power of collecting information in a form and then adding equations, formulas and graphs to look at the information in a different way. Then sharing it with colleagues in a PLC can add even more great discussion.
6 Add-ons Adding
Google Add-ons are scripts that make your sheets, docs and forms more powerful. Here are 6 of my personal favorites for you to take a look at: Autocrat (think mail merge to docs on steroids), formMule (email merge with multiple templates), Kaizena (add voice comments and links to a Doc), g(Math) (create math equations and graphs in a Doc), Doctopus (create docs for each of your students) and Flubaroo (quickly grade assignments).
5 Google Searches
Google searching is more than just for looking up information. Did you know you can do math conversions, search for copyright free images, check a flight status, define words or check a live sports score? Here are some tips for searching.
4 Canned Responses
If you find yourself sending the same type of message over and over again, it is a great idea to save the message as a canned response and then you can reuse it! Go to your Gmail settings and to Labs and enable it first. Then compose your message and go to the bottom right and click on the arrow and you can save your first canned response to reuse.
3 YouTube Subscriptions
There is a lot of great content on YouTube. Three that I recommend would be C.G.P Grey (fun quick videos that teach you a lot in a funny quick way), TEDEd (some lessons from the creators of TED), and since we are talking Google how about the Guru (a bunch of Google how tos).
2 Calendar Reminders
You can set default reminders for every calendar event, but I like to shut that off and add the notifications on each event. I like to have 2 (that's how many times I hit snooze in the morning), but you can add up to five pop-up or email reminders per event.
and a Doc with revision history.
This is one of the little things that makes Google docs great. All of the changes are tracked, so you can go to File--> See revision history and see exactly what has been added and by whom. Then there is always the option to restore back to that previous version! Merry Christmas!
~Stacy Behmer, Coordinator of Digital Learning - @sbehmer +StacyBehmer
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