TwosDay - Cory - Late and Missing Work in Google Classroom

All of the digital items that are now out there with tests and assignments have the potential to leave you quite disorganized.  This is generally compounded when students miss days or accomplish a task later than the rest of the class.  Try letting Google Forms and Google Classroom work together to minimize the digital distress. A checklist that you can revisit or bookmark is a simple setup for keeping your class up-to-date. 

TwosDay - Sean - Edu Documentaries For Cold Winter Days

As we look straight into the dark, cold, frozen future of this week, we may be wondering what the heck to do with all of our time. Have no fear! Netflix and Amazon Prime have some pretty great stuff for us teachers to cozy up in front of a fire with and get our learn on. You can access these shows quickly through the links here in the blog below.

Netflix: 9 Education Documentaries on Netflix in 2019

Amazon Prime: 8th Grade & The Brain

TwosDays - Allison Google Translate in Sheets

Translating to other languages can be fast and easy! (Or should I say "Rapido y facil" or... "Rapide et facile" or... "高速かつ簡単に"?!)  Right within Google Sheets you can easily translate words and phrases into more than 60 world languages with this simple formula.



=GoogleTranslate("Cell you want to translate", "source language","target language")



Example: =GoogleTranslate("A2", "en","es")

Here is a link to all the supported languages & their "codes."



This feature offers a lot of great opportunities in the classroom...

-ELL student support with assignments or text (think difficult or unknown vocabulary)

-Students collaborating in World Language courses to build and share live vocabulary lists.

-Globally connect with professionals and resources!

-Develop interview questions to talk with authentic experts in the field of topics you are discussing in class without language being a barrier!



If you need help with this feature, other formulas in Google Sheets, or anything else, come on by the HOTSpot!

TwosDays - Bob - Tech Tools for Monitoring Marzano Goals

Pear Deck, Padlet, Nearpod, and Socrative all offer teachers ways of administering formative assessment questions to students in an engaging way. They also record the data so teachers can track student progress and the effectiveness of their implementation of any DQ strategy. Teachers can use these tools to follow through on the crucial step of monitoring student performance and progress from developing, to applying, to innovating on the Marzano Scale.

TwosDay - Amanda - Slide Carnival For Google Slides

Google Slides has so many wonderful features; however, their design templates are lacking big time. Before students start any slide deck, I encourage them visit this website to find an awesome design to spice up their presentation! I think teachers will find it equally as resourceful. Enjoy! www.slidescarnival.com

TwosDay - Mystery Guest - Google Classroom Organization Tips

An Alice Keeler blog post earlier in the school year gave a great tip to help my students quickly access my digital materials. The “#Today” topic stays on the top of the classwork feed, so it is the first thing my students see when they log in. And, the drag and drop feature allows me to move them to the right topic once the assignment is over.  I think by using this feature you can help streamline your classroom like I did for mine.

TwosDay - Sean - On The Spot Formative Assessment Hack

As we begin the new semester, it’s often a goal to implement or try something that can make our instruction more crisp and efficient. A go to for many of us, Google Forms, can be leveraged in a way that allows a teacher to collect student responses to ANY question at ANY time, without ANY real time lost in class. With just a small amount of set-up work, I created a “General Questions Form” that I have all my students bookmark in week one of the semester. Once they have access to this form, since it’s set up in a generic nature, I can send them there to give feedback on anything at any time without having to create a new form and waste time in class getting it set up and sending out the link. Check out how this looks and works.

TwosDay - Cory - Printing Google Doc Comments

Paper can certainly be the best option for students to work with, but sometimes it is hard to turn the digital into a physical piece to use.  Google Docs has the ever so useful feature of comments, and at times, it would be great to get those comments onto a physical piece of paper for the students to work with.  Sadly, Google does not have a native way to do this, but here is a very simple work-around that may be useful for feedback in your classroom.