by Mendi Benigni | Dec 10, 2019 | Assessment, Communication, Google
Giving an infographic assignment is a great way to see if the students can: identify the most important information tailor communication to a specific audience demonstrate their research ability think creatively and critically about data or a concept demonstrate their...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 15, 2017 | Assessment, Google, Google, Productivity
OVERVIEW: Google Forms is an easy and efficient way for students to create forms/surveys for data collection. Google Forms integrates with Google Sheets (spreadsheet) for data organization and analysis. If you need more indepth analysis, you can export the...
by Laura Plotts | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Quick way to add images and YouTube videos to Google Slides. Open Google Slide Pull down the Tools menu to Research In the research window, click the triangle on the search bar and pull down to “Images” or “videos” Enter keyword search Pick...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 15, 2015 | Collaboration, Google, Google, Group Work, Planning, Productivity
Choice Eliminator, a Google Forms add-on, will eliminate a choice on a form once a specific criteria has been met. This can be used to allow students to sign up for groups or meeting time slots. For example, you want students to sign up for a meeting time. You only...
by Laura Plotts | Aug 3, 2015 | Collaboration, Google, Google, Group Work, Planning, Productivity
Description: The Appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. This feature is ONLY available with your CofC Google apps for education account. For steps on activating your CofC...
by Laura Plotts | Feb 27, 2014 | Content Delivery, Google, Google, Images, Multimedia
Think wordle for images and you have Imagequilts a Chrome browser extension that allows you to create and edit a tiled display of images resulting from a Google image search This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for creating an ImageQuilt. Uses: A visual...
by Mendi Benigni | Feb 25, 2014 | Collaboration, Communication, Google, Google, Group Work
Google+ Hangouts allows you to have a text-based, audio, or video chat with up to 10 people at one time. These Hangouts can be broadcast to the Google world (public) or can be narrowed to one or more of your Google+ Circles. In addition, they can also be broadcast...
by Mendi Benigni | Sep 5, 2013 | Assessment, Collaboration, Feedback, Google, Group Work, Project, Summative
Google Documents (part of the Google Drive suite) is a free, web-based, collaborative word processor offered by Google. With it you can create MS Word-like documents, collaboratively or independently edit those documents and easily share them for viewing or grading....
by Mendi Benigni | Oct 29, 2011 | Assessment, Collaboration, Content Delivery, Feedback, File Sharing, Google, Google, Presentation, Productivity
Google Docs (now called Google Drive) is similar to an online version of Microsoft Office. It contains a word processing application, a spreadsheet application and a presentation application. It allows you to easily share documents with others and do real-time...
