Are you ready for another awesome Google Script? Check out Doctopus! Crazy name...awesome tool!Doctopus works with gClassFolders to distribute documents to your students directly from your Drive. Teachers can use the gClassFolders Spreadsheet file to run the Doctopus script...making the process extremely easy!For a simple Doctopus tutorial, created by me, please click here. (Just a side note...the ... Read More about Doctopus in YOUR Classroom
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Create a Google Classroom with gClass Folders
Are you a Google school? Looking to run a totally paperless classroom? Excited about a "cloud-based" classroom? Check out gClassFolders!If you've read my previous post about Flubaroo, you know that I, like many others, am NOT totally comfortable with Spreadsheet or Excel. I just don't use it enough to be fluent with the formulas and functions, etc. So, after tinkering with the gClassFolder script, ... Read More about Create a Google Classroom with gClass Folders
Google Moderator: Great Discussion Board Tool
You know I LOVE Edmodo. However, there are actually a few aspects I don't really like. For example, when my students are taking part in a "discussion board," I want them to respond directly to another students' post. On Edmodo, students can't do this. They can, however, respond to another student within the discussion thread, but must begin their point with "I agree with Student A," or "Student A ... Read More about Google Moderator: Great Discussion Board Tool
Classroom Collaboration
Encouraging students to collaborate with one another is extremely important and beneficial. If you are lucky enough to have technology rich classroom environment, encouraging student collaboration can be fun and easy! Below are some tools to use to encourage online, real time collaboration with your students. Enjoy!PadletThis is BY FAR my favorite tool for collaboration, brainstorming, questions, ... Read More about Classroom Collaboration
Current Events: So Important, and So Little Time to Devote to Discussion
As a Social Studies teacher, I constantly find myself torn between teaching content which will be on the standardized test (ahhh a teacher's favorite topic) and discussing current events with my students. There are tons of great topics we could discuss that would be relevant to our curriculum, and would be extremely interesting to my students. However, I just don't feel like there is enough time ... Read More about Current Events: So Important, and So Little Time to Devote to Discussion