gsuiteedu Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/gsuiteedu/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:10:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Crash! Bang! Boom! How to add Google Drawings comic strips to your class https://ditchthattextbook.com/crash-bang-boom-how-to-add-google-drawings-comic-strips-to-your-class/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crash-bang-boom-how-to-add-google-drawings-comic-strips-to-your-class https://ditchthattextbook.com/crash-bang-boom-how-to-add-google-drawings-comic-strips-to-your-class/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:46:38 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6262 Comic strips captivated us as children. Tap into that energy in the classroom with Google Drawings comic strips! Here’s how. (Icons via TheNounProject.com with a NounPro account.) This post is co-authored by Ditch That Textbook’s Matt Miller and Cori Orlando, a teacher on special assignment (TOSA) from Simi Valley, California. Find her blog, Leading in Limbo, […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/crash-bang-boom-how-to-add-google-drawings-comic-strips-to-your-class/feed/ 4 Rock these creative Google Slides templates in class (GTT034) https://ditchthattextbook.com/rock-these-creative-google-slides-templates-in-class-gtt034/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rock-these-creative-google-slides-templates-in-class-gtt034 https://ditchthattextbook.com/rock-these-creative-google-slides-templates-in-class-gtt034/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:34:47 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6214 It’s nice to have some ideas to help kickstart our creative thinking when it comes to using Google Slides in non-traditional ways. That’s where Ryan O’Donnell can help. He’s a technology TOSA (teacher on special assignment) and former social studies teacher from Rocklin, California. Ryan has created some amazing Google Slides templates that you can […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/rock-these-creative-google-slides-templates-in-class-gtt034/feed/ 0 Mind-blowing Google tricks with Jake Miller (GTT033) https://ditchthattextbook.com/mind-blowing-google-tricks-with-jake-miller-gtt033/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mind-blowing-google-tricks-with-jake-miller-gtt033 https://ditchthattextbook.com/mind-blowing-google-tricks-with-jake-miller-gtt033/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:38:21 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6169 When Ohio tech integration specialist Jake Miller shares his Google tricks on social media, they’re enough to catch your eye. When he creates them in amazing animated GIF images, the amazingness is without question. In this episode of the Google Teacher Tribe podcast, you’ll get plenty of both. Jake will share some of his favorite […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/mind-blowing-google-tricks-with-jake-miller-gtt033/feed/ 0 Mobile Learning with Google (GTT032) https://ditchthattextbook.com/mobile-learning-with-google-gtt032/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mobile-learning-with-google-gtt032 https://ditchthattextbook.com/mobile-learning-with-google-gtt032/#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:55:30 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6111 Students carry these high-tech devices to school in their pockets all the time. Cell phones. The mobile devices so many students are equipped with have plenty of processing power — and plenty of potential to amplify learning. It’s so easy to shut them off. Put them in a shoe holder. Confine them to the lockers. […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/mobile-learning-with-google-gtt032/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 Deep thinking with G Suite (GTT029) https://ditchthattextbook.com/deep-thinking-with-g-suite-gtt029/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deep-thinking-with-g-suite-gtt029 https://ditchthattextbook.com/deep-thinking-with-g-suite-gtt029/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:58:26 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6010 It’s easy to replace what you were doing in the classroom before with a technological version of it. Some would use the SAMR model and label it substitution: direct tool substitute with no functional change If you’re using all of this cool technology to do the same things you were doing before, it feels like […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/deep-thinking-with-g-suite-gtt029/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 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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