Lemon Tech Tidbits

In Alice Keeler’s latest blog post, she explains how you can easily create a self-grading form and share it with your students in Google Classroom to help expand their critical thinking skills.  To create a self-grading form, one of the tricks is to NOT use the Quiz Assignment in Google Classroom. Alice explains that creating the form directly in Google Classroom, it makes it harder to reuse in more than one class. Alice Keeler does include a video of all of the steps but in my opinion, I find it is easier to follow the steps she includes along with gifs showing you exactly what she means. For this, you will need to make sure you go to her blog post: https://alicekeeler.com/2020/04/15/self-grading-google-form/ The video of her instructions can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ROTRZMl0LA&feature=emb_logo

In a post written by Jill Staake in WeAreTeachers is a list of free sites and apps that can be used alongside Google Classroom to help teach your curriculum. There is a little bit of everything included from lesson plans, instructional videos, textbooks, exercises, and a whole lot more. Some of these sites may be new to you and others you may have already heard of. Here are a few of my favorites from the list: EdPuzzle - allows you to upload a video and then insert questions to make sure students are understanding the content. Explain Everything - need a whiteboard? Here you go. Flipgrid - one of my favorite sites for all students to create and share videos. Wakelet - share gathered platform easily with students in one spot.