Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Try Formative for Gathering Feedback from Students

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Try Formative for Gathering Feedback from Students

Formative is a free tool for gathering feedback from students on quiz questions and surveys. One of the best features of Formative is the option to have students sketch responses to questions. They can sketch on their tablets, Chromebooks, or laptops and submit those sketches to you in realtime. In the video embedded below I provide a…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Quickly Create Vocabulary Study Sheets from Documents

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Quickly Create Vocabulary Study Sheets from Documents

Vocabulist is a neat tool that enables students to quickly create vocabulary study sheets from a document. Each word extracted from a document is matched to a definition through Vocabulist. If the definition rendered isn’t exactly right, students can modify it within Vocabulist. Once the list of words and definitions is set students can download the list…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Freehand Drawings in Google Slides
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Freehand Drawings in Google Slides

Google Slides, like most good programs, has a number of features that often go overlooked even though they’re in plain view. One of those features is the drawing tool that can be used to create freehand drawings on a slide in Google Slides. If you’ve never given it a try, take a look at the…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create a Random Name Selector in Google Sheets
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create a Random Name Selector in Google Sheets

Flippity.net publishes a number of useful Google Sheets templates. The latest template released on Flippty can be used to create a random name picker in Google Sheets. To create a random name picker from a Google Sheet simply use the template provided by Flippity and modify the spreadsheet to include the names of your students instead…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Short Comic Stories

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Short Comic Stories

As I’ve mentioned many times over the years, creating comics is one of my favorite ways to get reluctant writers interested in writing short stories. For many of those students creating a comic strip does not seem as intimidating as simply writing a story from scratch. Make Beliefs Comix is a multilingual comic strip creation service…