How to use Google Apps to improve student learning.

1. Surefire Ways Google Apps
Can Ignite Your
Blended Learning Classroom

2. Sharing is Caring
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3. Goals
● To discover new ways to use GAFEs to enhance a Blended
Learning Classroom
● How to use GAFEs to improve teacher-student feedback

4. Quick Meet and Greet

5. Agenda
● How to create dynamic directions (HyperDocs) and rubrics,
and “living” goal sheets using Google Docs
● Different ways to use Google Drawings to annotate
● How to use Google Sheets to improve student feedback
and teacher accounting of student knowledge
● 5 new ways to use Google Slides

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8. What to Consider
Skills ✹ Understanding ✹ Knowledge
Learning ✹ Assessment ✹ Feedback
Lesson Schema

9. What You Need to Know
Internal and External Links
Publish to the Web
Using Google Drawing
Make a Copy
Making Screencasts

10. Dynamic Directions and HyperDocs
Linked
Directions
● Project w/ Screencast
● Assessment
● Basic
● Project
Learning
Activities
● Understanding Activity
w/ Goal
● Skill Activity w/ Goal
● Knowledge Activity
● Activity Schema
Mini-Units
● Mini-Unit List
● Dynamic Unit - Science
● Dynamic Unit - SS1
● Dynamic Unit - SS 2

11. Remember...
Skills ✹ Understanding ✹ Knowledge
Learning ✹ Assessment ✹ Feedback
Lesson Schema

13. Dynamic Directions and HyperDocs
Resources:
HyperDocs.co - Templates, examples, info galour!
Padlet Share - Shared HyperDocs created by @KarlyMoura

14. Google Sheets to Improve Organization
Shared
Sheet
Teacher updates - use
color coding to see
student progress
● Example
Collect
Student
Work
Use Forms to Collect
Student work and Sheets
to keep it organized
● Forms Example
● Sheets Example
Imported
Ranges
Teacher Sheet “links” to
student w/ live changes
● How To Video
● Student View

15. Living Goal Sheets and Active Rubrics
Living Goal Sheet
● Make it “Living” - come back to it often
● Make it Relevant - connect to learning
● Make it Student Friendly - “I” statements using student
language
Active Rubrics
● Make it a Tool - used for learning, not just grading
● Give students Time - build in time to use it
● No “Glass Ceiling” - Give students chance to revise

17. Using Google Drawings to Annotate
How To
● Insert
● Order
● Group
10 Ways to Use Google Drawing
● Turn Students from Consumers to Producers
● Imbed into Google Docs

19. 5 New Ways to Use Google Slides
YouTube Playlist eBooks, Comics, Digital Posters
Dynamic/Interactive Units
Backdrops
Interactive
w/ PollEverywhere