Tech workshop
- 1. Tech Tools for Differentiation
Presenter: Wendy Scruggs, NBCT, Pinecrest High
wscruggs@ncmcs.org
Practice with Google
1. Open your home school’s website.
2. Under the Staff link, click Google Docs.
Click on this blue link that
tells you how to access your
county Google account.
3.
4. The first screen you’ll see is an gmail account.
5. Now we’ll go into other Google options. At the top
left side, click the little squares.
Here
- 2. 6. Go to sites by clicking the sites Icon.
7. Now click the red button in the top left side Create
Name your site
You can select a template or blank template
Then you can select a style.
When you finished customizing, then you
scroll back to the top and hit the red Create
button.
Once you create it, go to the top right corner
where you see Share in blue. Click that.
When you see this, if it’s a site you want
students to post work on, then select specific
people. You can add them in later. If it’s a
parent site with no student names or work,
then you can open to either anyone with the
link or public on the web.
7. We will look at some ways to use google by looking
at my class sites quickly.
**The key is that they will have to provide you
with an email at the beginning of your course. I’d
- 3. also make sure that you have parents sign a
permission form.
8. Now let’s explore my favorite: Google Docs.
Click on Docs.
Now you’ll see these notes in the All items
folder.
Type a sample word document and upload by
clicking on the “upload” button on the top left
underneath the words “Google docs.”
Now we’re going to look at one that I use with
my classes.
If you look at the docs my students uploaded,
you can see how we use this for peer-editing.
It’s a great way to provide feedback your
students can access from anywhere they have
internet access. You can share the doc
account and invite students to join by feeding
in their emails.
I used this same technique to create
discussion sites for our AP Language summer
reading assignments.
This is also a great way to review with
students. You can upload homework for kids
that are absent, homework calendars, anything
you want them to have access to for your
course.
You can also create a chart, spreadsheet,
whatever, and create a simple wiki by posting
a question at the top of your form, then having
students type in their answers onto the same
form!! It’s a great way to do an interactive
study guide or workshop for group projects.
Other Cool Stuff for Free
- 4. 1. Voki. You can create an avatar by using www.voki.com.
Try the Create your own voki.
2. Slideshare. www.slideshare.net You can create a free
account and upload powerpoints into it so they can be
embedded into your website or Edmodo. My kids love
these. You can also upload pdfs and documents and
make them interactive. It allows you to favorite,
download, and search for items related to your content.
3. Padlet. www.padlet.com My student love this. We use
it for all kinds of quick things on the smartboard with
laptops and/or smartphones. It works with both.
4. Livebinders. www.livebinders.com can be used by you
for resources and shared with your class/parents, have
students create eportfolios, etc.
5. Animoto. www.animoto.com. It’s free if your clip is 30
seconds or less. Try to make one now by signing up
(top right of page).
6. Glogster. www.glogster.com. Make a free one by
clicking the try it now.
7. Toondo. www.toondoo.com allows you or your students
to create their own cartoons to illustrate lessons you do
in your classroom. Try it now for free.
8. Wordles. Create these as warm-ups, reviews,
conversation starters, etc. www.wordle.net/create
9. www.textbooksfree.org . This site as tons of free books,
reviews, lecture notes, etc. One I like is Academic Earth
for video lectures from professors from all over the
country. Select one of the topics on the left to preview
something to use in your class. Try the
www.hippocampus.org link for interactive lessons with
algebra, biology, history, environmental science, and
more.
- 5. I hope this helps you find lots of free and great resources for
you and your students to use in the classroom!
- 6. I hope this helps you find lots of free and great resources for
you and your students to use in the classroom!