HOTSpot - Amanda - Course Surveys with Google Forms

One thing I’ve decided to work on in recent years is using student feedback to improve instruction and to help me reflect on what and why I use certain projects and activities in my courses. Google Forms allows you to easily collect data and customize the questions in order to get this data. The hardest part about creating these surveys is deciding on what questions to use. So here are a few examples to get you started! Gov Survey Example AP Test Example Bio Survey Example Jr. Leader Example.

HOTSpot - Chris - Google Classroom Cleanup

Now that I am in year 2 of total immersion into Google Classroom, having archived my previous year’s classes has come up big as a time saver when pushing out assignments to my students. It has also served as a great way to answer that age old question “What did I do with this lesson last year?” Archiving classes is super easy and will pay dividends for the 2017/18 school year. The most important thing to remember going into this summer is DO NOT DELETE YOUR CLASSROOM FOLDER!

HOTSpot - Cory - Class Checklist

If you’re like me, a good old paper checklist is great to carry around for the end of the semester with all the missing assignments, grades, and specific tasks to take care of. Having a flexible template for each class can easily allow you to adjust categories and quickly print a list that can serve your needs. It’s the age old approach that you can tailor for ease of organization.

HOTSpot - Shona - Podcasts

Want to incorporate listening and comprehension skills AND mix up your lessons? Well, Listenwise is an awesome resource for current podcasts. Listenwise.com teams up with NPR to offer short podcast that are relevant in almost any subject with a focus on ELA, social studies, and science. Although the premium version offers pre-generated quizzes, varying listening speeds, and text to read while listening, the free version offers a wide variety of resources that include language levels, pre-made comprehension questions, discussion themes, T-charts, and various textual organizers for the listener to complete or generate class discussions. You can link the podcast directly to your Google classroom or create a quiz using Socrative. This website really makes it easy for you and your classes to get connected with another literacy tool!

HOTSpot - Sean - Consolidate Docs

This time of year has us in a spot where we’ve got a LOT of stuff. Most teachers AND students are looking to consolidate and clean up before we head out for the summer. There’s a great tool to consolidate Google Doc work into one spreadsheet- for us and our students. Just click here to get the template tool and check this out...