Want to make your Google Drive more visual? The link to Emojipedia is here. If you are looking for a great Google Extention–try this one, it will allow you to save images/files directly to your drive when in Chrome Our featured image is courtesy of Flickr and Greg Wagoner.
Category: Google Apps
A Beginner’s Guide to Google Apps for Education
At a recent parent forum, we had requests for a workshop on Google Apps, so parents can understand what their child is doing at school and support them at home. We focused on Google Docs, Google Drive and GMail. You can see a summary of what we spoke about in the presentation below. We used the…
Digital Bytes 6th June 2016
Google Drive Templates – Because Caring is Sharing Who doesn’t love a good template? Erifili Davis has collated a post full of excellent Google Drive Templates, including the FakeBook one shown here. Check out her suggestions on timelines, presentations, written projects and social media templates. What Students Feel Learning in a State of Flow “Flow,”…
Leaving Well with Google – updated!
[Editor note: We have updated this very important post from our previous 2013 version! The information below is current as of 6 May 2016.] This is always a difficult time of year as we say “see ya later” to colleagues, students and families who are leaving our school. To make the transition a little easier,…
Digital Bytes June 8th, 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes has a number of great articles. There are a set of great templates for Google Slides presentations that include icons that can be manipulated in terms of size and colour. Kick off your summer reading with 13 great Minecraft books for yourself and your students. Finally, there is a fantastic article…
Bling up your Google Forms with Images and Fonts
Google have updated forms with some great custom options for Google Forms. You can read about the update on their blog. This is really exciting news for those of us who use forms a lot as the standard themes had become a little tired looking. The now you can select from a wide variety of…
Digital Portfolios – Organising your Google Drive Folders
At UWCSEA East, we are using Digital Portfolios for Grades 3-5. These take the form of Google Sites. One technique we are using is embedding Google Drive folders in their sites, so content can be populated automatically. Students already have folders set up in their Google Drive (via Hapara, or Teacher Dashboard), so the following…
Changes to Tabs in Student Google Sites
A couple of changes need to be made to Primary student Google Sites so they can work more effectively. 1. The literacy tab needs to be renamed Reading Workshop.2. A new page needs to be added to Writing Workshop. See the video below for details: Student Google Site Page Changes from UWC South East Asia…
Adding a Page to your Class Google Site
This tutorial will take you through the process of adding a resources page to your class Google Site Adding a Resources Page to Class Google Site from UWC South East Asia on Vimeo.
Email, Spam, YouTube Subscriptions and Snopes
One of the many wonderful things about having Google Apps at our school is that our students are able to have GMail accounts. This really does enable them to have the functionality we adults enjoy with having an email, with the added bonus of learning to use it in a supportive school environment. It allows…