Canva (Template-based Design)
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Canva for Education
Canva is a creativity tool that was reference at the recent district techoogy meeting to be like Photoshop. This temlate-based program is much easier to use than Photshop, and yet you can create something that looks a professional made it. You can make posters, resumes, presentations, certficates, and SO much more.
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Screencast Demo of Canva
Google Scholar - Little-Known Features
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a great tool for retrieving scholarly research. Most peolple have used scholar, but there are some little-known features that are invaluable tools for students (and teachers). This guide and video will demo how to: create your GS library, create a GS alert (to know when any new research arrives, cite your sources easily, and access your college library (for those of you heading off to college).
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Step-by-Step Guide
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- Screencast Demo of Google Scholar
Symbaloo
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Symbaloo - Organizing & Sharing Resources
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Step-by-Step Guide
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Symbaloo is a great tool for organizing and for resource sharing. Teachers can use Symbaloo to collect and bookmark important resources and then share them with their students or colleagues. Students can use Symbaloo to gather all of their resources on a topic and have them at their fingertips at all times. They, too, can share these resources with teachers or other students. These collections of resources may also be embedded into teacher websites.
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Screencast Demo of Symbaloo
Below it a Padlet Wall with instructions for making a Padlet Wall ;-)
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Screencast Demo of Padlet
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Chrome Extensions
Extensions are programs you can install into Chrome. that enable you to tailor Chrome’s functionality. I have installed several educational and productivity extensions that have made my job, and life, easier.
To the right is a document including a description of some of my favorite Chrome extensions, apps, and add-ons. |
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Click on a square below to go to the Chrome store
& download the extension.
Screencast Demo of My Favorite Chrome Extensions
Google Slides - Little Known Features
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Google Slides - Little Known Features
We all know Google Slides. This lesson goes over much more than the basics. I've included how to do thins such as: create an e-book, create shadow boxes, inserting live Q&A sessions, stop motion animation, recommended extensions, embedding your presentation, and much more. Many of the features would be great for distance learning
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More Great Tools
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Prezi Next - Creative & Unique PresentationsPrezi Next is a free presentation tool that allows teachers and students to make unique, interactie presentations. Powerpoint and Google Slides are great tools, but Prezi Next takes presenting to a new level. Prezi Next offers a myriad of templates for easy to create presentations. If you'd rather, you can also start from scratch and build your own design. Students love working with Prezi Next.
To sign up: https://prezi.com/
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Smore
Smore is a great tool for sharing information and resources. It is the program that Matt uses for his newsletter and that I use for my library newsletters. I also use it when I want to send all of you invitations to major events, and to share pics fro these events. It is SO easy to use looks great, and is free. (trifecta in my book)
https://www.smore.com/ |
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Kami
Kami is one of the Chrome extensions I mentioned in my Favorite Chrome Extensions lesson. I wanted to highlight this one, because it is SO helpful for students and teachers.
Kami allows the user to make PDFs and annotate them. You can save your completed work (with your annotations) or send your work to your Google Drive or Google Classroom. This is a great tool for taking notes, highlighting important passages, etc. Kami is a free app or extension in the Chrome store. During the Covid crisis, teachers and students can even use the paid premium features for free. This is truly an amazing tool. |
To sign up: http://www.weebly.com
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Weebly
The Most User-Friendly Website Creator I Know
I think all of you are familiar with Weebly by now. If you haven't already created a website with Weebly, now is the time. This free website creator is extremely easy. All you need to know is how to drag & drop and how to upload. It's that easy. This would be a great time to create a website of resources you will need as you prepare for serious researching. It can be your own personal learning space.
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Google: New Ways to Use Old Faves
This unit covers little-known features that can be discovered in many Google classics. It covers new ways to use, and get so much more out of, old Google faves, such as: news, maps, images, advanced search, Chrome and more. I made this into a lesson for seniors in the past, and everyone ended up learning something new that helped them feel like a Google pro.
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