13 Take Away Resources
1. Google Search
2. Google Play for Education
3. Read Write for Google
4. Fluency Tutor Basic practice for fluency (free parts and for pay parts)
5. Teach for Google (First two lessons free)
6. Snapverter (10 free intially and 1 free per week)...converts documents, etc...to pictures that can use the ReadWrite tools.
7. 4C's Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity! Mark Garrison's Resources
White Bear 4Cs
8. Themespark Create Rubrics easily!
9. Activelylearn.com Literacy Tool! Can scaffold reading, add questions integrated within, integrated with Google Classroom
10. Extensions: Save to Drive; Ad Block; Spotlight; Extensify (puts all in one tab); Black Menu, Scrible; Form Filler; Speak it; Google hangouts (Go to store and click extensions on left side-- search for these extensions and add!)
11. Google Maps Sean Beaverson, Bloomington Public Schools (check out his resources second page!)
Google Drive, New-- Google My Maps!
Sandbox Demo (Kristin Donley) Can layer maps, add media (pictures and video and links), make maps by pulling in information from questions on a Google form, etc...
Map made in class with all attendees off of a Google Form
Great starting games for Geography!
Smarty Pins
Mercator Puzzle
Geo Guesser
12. Interactive Sites! Tip- Use Google Drawings to add buttons, etc... looks more professional!
13. Start, Stop, Share Start small somewhere, Stop doing outdated things and throw it away, Share with others