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The Power of Google Drive

Good evening! I am getting a little overwhelmed with the amount of school work I have right now, but at least it's all fun and interesting!! I start my second classroom placement in a few weeks. This time I will be at the middle school where I attended. It will be so fun to go back! In Instructional Technology last week we learned about using Google Drive/Docs in the classroom. I had to create a pretend grade book in Google Spreadsheets. It was fairly easy because it works a lot like Microsoft Excel. One thing I found to be useful was creating charts. In many ways it is easier to do extra things like this on Google Spreadsheets than in Excel. It was easy to manipulate the data that I wanted to include. I liked the variety of charts/graphs and also how easy it is to customize them. Here is a screenshot of my grade book! I also used Google Forms to create an online math test. I had used Google Forms once before, but this was fun to see how I can use it in the classro

New Classroom Tools

Hello! In class I was introduced to 2 new technology resources, Piktochart and Inspiration. Piktochart is used to create info-graphics and posters. I only tried the free version, but it was still fun. There are many templates, layouts, and images to use! I decided to create a tool for students to use when learning about simplifying expressions. It shows the simplification strategies and links to a video for more examples. (Using the CPM Math curriculum.) Inspiration is a computer program that teacher and students can use to create graphic organizers. I signed up for a free trial, but when I have my own classroom I would like to have access to this program! I created a concept web for the types of solutions you might get after solving an equation. Unfortunately, If you don't have the program, my links won't work. I see this as a disadvantage to using this program and am still trying to figure out a way around this. What do you think? Would you use these re