October Connected in the Middle

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Quizlet Week 4 Challenge

This week your challenge is to:

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• create your own Quizlet Account
• Here is a quick start guide to creating a Quizlet Account
• create a Quizlet Set and share it with me 
• Here is a tutorial to help with sharing sets
• have a great week

October Toilet Talk

Share that Symbaloo

Today I had a great question on the easiest way to share Symbaloos with learners. Google Classroom was our first option but then we discussed simply sharing the Symbaloo address with students or to use bit.ly to shorten the URL. If you aren't using bit.ly I think it's a great tool to quickly share items. Go to bit.ly/symbaloohowtoshare to see our thoughts or click below.

Quizlet Week 3 Challenge

Week Three Quizlet Challenge

• Play the Why Use Quizlet set using the Match game
• Continue to get to know your colleagues
• Lewis and Clark
• Riverside set 1 and Riverside set 2
• Check out Quizlet FAQ’s for teachers

If you haven't signed up for the Live event, go to bit.ly/livequizlet to have a great time! 

Quizlet Week 2 Challenge

Week 2 is here!

• Get to know your staff members by playing your school set
• Riverside
• Lewis and Clark
• Then, compete for the fastest Gravity time to win a prize next week! 
• Learn what Quizlet is by watching the below video
• Don't forget to sign up for the Quizlet Live Event

Congratulations to last week's winner, Julie Smith!

Response Validation in Forms

I love when a teacher is using Digital Breakouts to make their class come alive but I like it, even more, when they create the "game" to be directly correlated to their curriculum. Today a great teacher asked me how she could do it and my answer was this link with directions, from Google Support, and the below short video. So excited for her students.

Quizlet Week 1 Challenge

This week your challenge is:

• Review this set BPS Quick Links to see what you really know
• Fill out this fast Google Form (http://bit.ly/msconnected17)

Forms + Sheets= Awesomeness

I love that Google Forms data can go into one Sheets Workbook! So many options, here are a couple of ways that work for me

Classroom Banner

Change Slides or Google Drawing to 800x200 pixels to customize a Google Classroom header. Traci and I had fun making the video to explain.

Love the Forms!

I have always loved Google Forms but it seems it keeps getting more robust!

• Upload files (images, docs, & more) outside of your domain. I think this is going to change the baby pictures in yearbooks forever! Do kids still buy yearbooks?
• Use the Checkbox Grid to get more in depth information 
• Use preferences to save time

Learn more by clicking here. 

Add a border to Docs

I love that we can now add borders and colors to paragraphs in Google Docs! Just select the text you want to jazz up, click on Format, and then choose paragraph styles! From there you can add borders, border style/color and fill color! This would be great to have kiddos choose one paragraph they want to be assessed before a final paper is turned in, to create a newsletter or visually appealing lessons, and to highlight big ideas.

Connected in the Middle September!

September Toilet Talk www.bit.ly/Ttalkseptember