Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
Great news ! Google Classroom Schedule Assignments and More
I am noticing more hits on these newsletters each week. Thank you for taking the time to check these out. These newsletters are put together for the purpose of sharing free and easy to implement tools that will help facilitate your instructional goals. Please feel free to reach out if I can help you with any of these. Your efforts to take advantage of new tools to educate our students are appreciated. I hope you had a wonderful teacher appreciation week!
Great news ! Google Classroom Schedule Assignments and More
Many of you are already using Google's free Classroom tool to organize and distribute lesson content to your students. It's also a great way to create interactive assignments and quizzes through Docs and Forms. Over the past week, Google has rolled out a new scheduling feature. Assignments, quizzes, and classroom announcements can be created behind the scenes and be set to "go live" with students when you decide. You can also use it to create assignment drafts behind the scenes. This is much needed functionality and adds convenience.
This fall will lead to some very specific features towards communicating with parents and guardians. Google continues to improve their free tools based on teacher feedback. Do not hesitate to send them a wish list a features through the feedback tool. You are the target audience so you can help drive the direction of Google Classroom.
Flipboard and 10 Terrific Tools for Teachers
If you haven't used Flipboard, it's a wonderful tool. It organizes news on the web into organized categories that are updated daily. There are many categories dedicated to education that can be personalized to your specific interests.
One of the articles that caught my eye this week was by Eric Curts. I have mentioned him before and am a big fan of his website. This week, he wrote an article sharing 10 Terrific Chrome Extensions and Google Drive Add Ons that make a teacher's job easier. Many of them are new and are well worth checking out.
