David Lee EdTech

"The goal of this session is to improve communication, collaboration, and quality of feedback." -Art Schultz This blog post showcases the presentation I created and used for the "Google Documents For Your Classroom" training session at my school.  It also contains a cheat sheet of different Google document features, and an example of what a document would look like if some of the features were used. I want to thank the KIS EdTech Team for helping me create this presentation, as well as giving me valuable feedback. Presentation: Features Cheat Sheet: What you can create with these features:

This video showcases a grammar activity that integrates Twitter and Google's Docs Story Builder website.

Here are some teacher tricks & tips I think you might find useful when using  Google Documents  in your Google Apps school. You can find more information at the  Google Apps Education Training Center . Some of these features must be enabled by your Google Apps administrator at your school. URL to Your School Account Google Docs drive.google.com/a/URLOFSCHOOL For example, since my school's URL is  kis.or.kr , our calendar URL is  drive.google.com/a/ kis.or.kr . Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office (Not available for Mac) If you are a teacher who uses Microsoft office suite applications, this is for you!  Google Cloud Connect  is a plug-in that allows you to share and edit  Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents in real-time.  Download this plug-in here . Image from  Google's Edu Training  site. Google Docs Offline (only for Chrome) Not having Internet connection when using Google Docs can be a prob...

"I got such a lovely letter from ??? today - it really made my day..... I can't tell you how happy it's made me!" This is the email I got from a teacher who received a friendly letter from one of my students. We have been learning how to created digital letters with Google docs based on the 2nd grade  writing content standard : 2.2 "Write a friendly letter complete with the date, salutation, body, closing, and signature." A great feature Google documents has now is the ability to create an image using Google Drawing.  It was so easy for my students to share their friendly letters with their teacher.  Resources You Can Use for the Friendly Letter Unit 1. This is my  Google Presentation  I showed my students. This slide was empty at first. I asked the students what was the purpose of sending a friendly letters, and typed their ideas onto the slide.  2. Letter Generator by ReadWriteThink 3. Type a Friendly Lett...