The haze we have experienced over the past few months in Singapore has brought the conversation of palm oil to the front of everyone’s thoughts. This website does an amazing job of exploring the use of palm oil and uses a variety of media such as videos, infographics, sounds, text, photos and interactive elements. We…
Category: Google
Digital Bytes October 5, 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes will change your life! There are 3 fantastic articles: Converting photos of text into actual text using Google Drive, the importance of school leadership understanding the digital world and 33 digital tools for formative assessment.
Digital Bytes August 24, 2015
This week’s digital bytes includes articles about using safari reader view to get rid of distractions on webpages, 14 essential search tips for students when using Google and teachers sharing their thoughts on how to develop student digital portfolios.
Digital Bytes March 16, 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes is loaded up with Google tools. Within every YouTube account is Creator Studio which allows you to listen to and download free music that you can use for a variety of purposes. Have a look at Google Keep for note taking and keeping yourself or a group of students organised. Finally, if…
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…
Sharing Student Work on Google Sites
At UWCSEA we use digital tools frequently for student learning. Grade 3-5 students have a Google Site which they are using to house their digital content. Below are some workflows for sharing student work to Google Sites easily. From Pages/Keynote Google Sites does not integrate easily with .pages or .key files, but there is a…
An Introduction to Google Docs
We make extensive use of Google Docs here at school and think it may be a great tool for our Class Parents to use, especially when there is a lot of organizing to do. This video ‘Google Docs in Plain English’ by commoncraft explains why we use Google Docs: What is a Google Doc? Google Docs…
5 Minutes to Safer Searching & Viewing
We always want to help our students find the most relevant information when searching or viewing content online. Here are two great suggestions which can lead to a safer online experience for our students. 1. View Purewww.viewpure.com is a site which allows you to ‘purify’ YouTube videos by stripping away the comments section and the…