g suite for education Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/g-suite-for-education/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:49:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Google’s buried treasure: 20 hidden tricks and tools https://ditchthattextbook.com/googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools https://ditchthattextbook.com/googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:45:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5342 Google is a behemoth. With all of its tools and apps and programs and initiatives, there’s no way to keep tabs on everything. As such, it’s easy for newer Google tools — and even some that have been around for a while — to slip through the cracks. The problem with that: there are some really powerful, […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/googles-buried-treasure-18-hidden-tricks-and-tools/feed/ 9 20 digital bell ringer activities to kickstart class https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1 https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:21:56 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5720 Quality bell ringers are crucial — quick activities to get students going at the beginning of class, when the bell has just rung. For these first five or ten minutes of class (OK, probably more the five than the ten), we have our students’ most attention. It’s the most focused they’ll likely be for us all […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-digital-bell-ringer-activities-to-kickstart-class-part-1/feed/ 4 Tapping into creativity with Google Drawings (GTT036) https://ditchthattextbook.com/tapping-into-creativity-with-google-drawings-gtt036/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tapping-into-creativity-with-google-drawings-gtt036 https://ditchthattextbook.com/tapping-into-creativity-with-google-drawings-gtt036/#respond Mon, 25 Dec 2017 13:34:49 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6292 Google Drawings is like a blank slate. It’s a simple digital sheet of paper just waiting for your images and text. In this episode of the Google Teacher Tribe podcast, Wanda Terral talks about lots of cool ideas to let students work visually with Google Drawings. Some ideas we talk about include: Meme yourself Timeline […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/tapping-into-creativity-with-google-drawings-gtt036/feed/ 0 Gearing Up for Hour of Code (GTT030) https://ditchthattextbook.com/gearing-up-for-hour-of-code-gtt030/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gearing-up-for-hour-of-code-gtt030 https://ditchthattextbook.com/gearing-up-for-hour-of-code-gtt030/#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:16:44 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6031 Think of the most important languages students could learn to prepare them for the future. What makes your list? Chinese? Arabic? Spanish? (Deep down inside, my Spanish teacher heart hopes you picked Spanish …) What about code? Coding — the language used to create apps, computer software, anything on the Internet, etc. — is definitely […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/gearing-up-for-hour-of-code-gtt030/feed/ 0 Ditch That Marking: 5+ ways to improve grading https://ditchthattextbook.com/ditch-that-marking-5-ways-to-improve-grading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ditch-that-marking-5-ways-to-improve-grading https://ditchthattextbook.com/ditch-that-marking-5-ways-to-improve-grading/#respond Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:57:38 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6021 [callout]This post is written by Ben Whitaker, a religious studies teacher and Google Certified Educator/Trainer from Oswaldtwistle, England. It was originally published on his own blog here. Find him on Twitter at @itsbenwhitaker and at his website, itsbenwhitaker.weebly.com.[/callout] I had a pile of assessments to mark (grade). I knew was going to take the best […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/ditch-that-marking-5-ways-to-improve-grading/feed/ 0 Creating moveable digital activities with Google Drawings + Slides https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-moveable-digital-activities-with-google-drawings-slides/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-moveable-digital-activities-with-google-drawings-slides https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-moveable-digital-activities-with-google-drawings-slides/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:22:44 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5996 A teacher sent me a link to a video recently. I think it was probably from Teachers Pay Teachers, and she asked, “How do you make something like this in G Suite?” The video showed a document with three columns and a bunch of words at the bottom. The words at the bottom were moveable. […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/creating-moveable-digital-activities-with-google-drawings-slides/feed/ 8 How to use Google Classroom’s secret productivity tool: the mobile app https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-use-google-classrooms-secret-productivity-tool-the-mobile-app/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-use-google-classrooms-secret-productivity-tool-the-mobile-app https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-use-google-classrooms-secret-productivity-tool-the-mobile-app/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:34:08 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5880 The education world is starting to get used to Google Classroom. It was released in August 2014 to much fanfare and basic features. Since then, the updates have come fast and furious, and as of January 2017, Google Classroom has more than 70 million users: students, teachers and others. We’re finding ways to become more […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-use-google-classrooms-secret-productivity-tool-the-mobile-app/feed/ 5 How to manage Google Classroom like a boss with notifications https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-manage-google-classroom-like-a-boss-with-notifications/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-manage-google-classroom-like-a-boss-with-notifications https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-manage-google-classroom-like-a-boss-with-notifications/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:45:26 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5801 When you’re using Google Classroom to manage your class’s workflow, there’s a lot going on. There are assignments and announcements that you’ve created. There are student comments to respond to. There’s grading — and the comments that go with that. It can feel like you’re doing Google Classroom’s bidding — like it’s this cruel taskmaster […]

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