I finally got my invitation to join Google Classroom! Have you? I never thought it would arrive! Of course, I dove right in...literally I checked my email at 10:30 one evening and couldn't go back to sleep :) My favorite aspect of Google Classroom is the ability to send documents to my students directly without having to make copies of the document or walk through tedious scripting ... Read More about Classroom by Google is AWESOME!
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Google’s Geography Game
Looking for a fun, free, interactive geography tool for your students? Check out Google's "smarty pins!" This game combines trivia questions from a variety of genres with geography skills, encouraging players to not only know the answer to a question, but to also know where an event occurred.This game works well on many platforms. I've tried the Chrome and iOS versions with great success. The only ... Read More about Google’s Geography Game
Book Club Discussions with Google Drive
With the increasingly emphasized Common Core standards, teachers both in and outside of the English/Language Arts classroom are looking to incorporate more reading and writing in their curriculum. Wouldn't a book club be a great way to accomplish this task?Recently in my classes, I encountered an issue...I teach four sections of dual credit Social Studies classes in which only about half of the ... Read More about Book Club Discussions with Google Drive
Using Google+ to create a Google Classroom
Google+ is the new (er) guy on the social media scene. It's not quite Facebook, not quite Twitter, but somewhere in between. Using Google+, along with other GAFE features, teachers can create a totally Google classroom, possibly eliminating the need for an additional Learning Management System.Of course, when Google releases Classroom later this year...who knows what will happen!Here are some ways ... Read More about Using Google+ to create a Google Classroom
Classroom by Google
Have you heard the news?! Google will debut "Classroom" sometime in September of this year!This begs the question...what is Classroom?From Google's brief and surprisingly vague description, Classroom is a Google App and Learning Management System. Teachers who use Classroom can easily organize, share, assign, collect, and grade student work. Classroom will give teachers the option of sharing ... Read More about Classroom by Google
