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Teen Librarian Toolbox
by Amanda MacGregor
July 27, 2017 by Joyce Valenza
Over the course of the past couple of years, I’ve become particularly fond of a few Chrome tools that I consider too good to miss. These would be handy across the board, but especially in Google Classroom and Chromebook environments. Here’s a rundown of nine of my favorite discoveries in no particular order: 1. Google Keep is […]
April 18, 2017 by Joyce Valenza
The concept of HyperDocs is spreading all over edtech land. HyperDocs are perfect opportunities to grow teacher librarian/ classroom teacher partnerships. A true extension of what TLs do or should be doing in a hyperlinked information landscape, HyperDocs are all about curation and collaboration, instruction based on engaged inquiry, as well as our mission to […]
May 6, 2016 by Joyce Valenza
When you are presenting or teaching, it helps to know what your audience is thinking. A little while back I gathered a little round-up of interactive presentation tools. This week, Google Slides announced a very handy new feature. Slides Q & A allows presenters to accept questions and vote them up or down during a […]
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December 12, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
I just discovered Orange Slice, a Google Add-on that offers both teacher and student rubrics. A handy productivity tool, Orange Slice plays nice with Google Classroom and makes it super easy to evaluate student work in Docs. The Orange Slide Teacher Rubric allows teachers to add rubrics to students’ assignments for grading. The Orange Slide […]
October 25, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
I make lots of presentations and I use presentations as a platform for instruction. For so many reasons, Google Slides is my go-to platform for creating presentations these days: It’s collaborative. I often work on presentations with partners. So do our students. It updates easily and save automatically. I can easily examine revision histories and […]
September 4, 2015 by Joyce Valenza
Hooray! I rely heavy on voice typing for messaging and searching on my phone. I type pretty darn fast, but I talk and think way faster than I type and I just lose ideas before they make the page. Along with several other enhancements (a See New Changes feature and research tools that I will […]
December 31, 2014 by Joyce Valenza
Lately, finding stuff in my Drive has been a lot like finding stuff in my closets. Sure, I’ve created lots of folders to help me. But the problem now is that I have lots of folders. I’ve starred lots of documents too. But the problem is that I’ve starred lots of documents. Sadly, my closets […]
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