HOTSpot - Sean - Google Classroom Individual Assignments

A new feature in Google Classroom has made it fantastically convenient for us teachers to individualize instruction. We can now assign tasks / projects / challenges to individual students within a class, instead of being locked into assigning everything to the entire class. I’ve also found that this gives us a great work around with group projects. In group projects, I am now picking one kid per group to be the “digital point person” and only those students receive the assignment. They share their copy with their partners for working purposes and then they turn it in when the task is completed. This keeps them and me more organized throughout the course. I love this new feature, and I hope you find it useful for yourself as well.

HOTSpot - Sean - Marrying Google Docs & Drawing

A lot of times we want our students (or even ourselves) to be able to communicate and display their knowledge in both written and visual formats. Google allows us and our students to do that very smoothly by integrating a seamless way to use Google Drawing INSIDE of a Google Doc. Check this video out to see how easily this can be done!

HOTSpot - Shona - Using Google Slides to crowdsource

Using Google Slides as a tool for crowdsourcing has many benefits in your classroom. It can be utilized in various ways with various tools as showcased in Sean’s video. This two minute video specifically outlines using crowdsourcing with Google Slides. The following are some benefits of using Google Slides as the tool: 1). Creating a structured platform where students have some autonomy within their slide, 2). Having an automatic presentation platform when they teach the rest of the class content, 3). Giving students access to all content when the slide show is complete.