Adding images to Forms

Now you can add images to Google Forms.  When in Drive and Chrome pulldown the insert menu, then add the image.

Looking forward to hearing about your successes,
SW

Smart Notebook Tip

Ever had that REALLY cool visual that you wanted to be able to write on with the Smart Board, modify, and/or save with your notes?  I’ve often been frustrated because Microsoft Office will let you write, but what you write won’t stay with the text in the program.  Same thing goes for Adobe PDFs.  Did you know you can put your documents/text into Smart Notebook?  A really cool feature is Smart Notebook Print Capture.  It’s very simple but SO cool!  First, make sure you do not have any Smart Notebook applications open (unless you want to insert this into an existing Smart Notebook document). Then, open the item you would like to put into Smart Notebook.  Click on “Print”.  Once your print dialogue box opens up, select “SMART Notebook Print Capture” as your “printer”.  Click on “print”.  Your document/text will then be imported into Smart Notebook.  You can then write on it and add  pictures and notes AND save it so that you can refer to it again without all of your work disappearing.  Hope this works for you!  I use this all the time with writing and math activities.  What a great “hidden” aspect of Smart Notebook!

Google Forms -

A great way survey your student's depth of prior knowledge before planning a unit! 

http://www.sgisd.net/Uploads/68/misc/f213765.pdf  A short note about the value for Google forms from  the 21st Century Fluency Project

http://wn.com/Google_Forms  an 11 minute video created by Anson Alexander

I hope to use Google Forms this fall as a pretest, gathering understanding of what is already known by a class.  The same test will be used at the end of the year to measure understanding.

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts can be used to video chat with up to 9 people at once. Anyone with a Google account, a webcam and microphone can use the hangouts with just a few simple steps. Educators have found a variety of ways that Google Hangouts can enhance their student learning experiences. Mary Beth Hertz recently wrote about How Educators and Schools Can Make the Most of Google Hangouts at Edutopia.com. A film school uses hangout to broadcast their classes online so that absent students can catch up on what they missed.

If you want to learn more about Google Hangouts, visit http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

If you want to watch a video that details setting up a hangout for the first time, view Account Setup for Google Plus Hangouts & HOA (Hangouts on Air).

The easiest way to try out Google Hangout is by going into your Gmail and click on the hangout button near your contacts list.