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Group Assignments in Google Classroom

If you use or are interested in using Google Classroom and are looking for help with Group assignments, check out Google Gooru's Create Group Assignments in Google Classroom post. It's super helpful!

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The Syrian Refugee Crisis explained

I recently ran across this video explaining the Syrian refugee crisis. The first half is helpful if you're looking for a way for your students to understand why the Syrian refugee crisis is such a big thing and where it started. The second half of the video gets a bit biased about why countries should accept refugees, just FYI.

https://youtu.be/RvOnXh3NN9w

g(Math) [add-in for Google Forms] now has standalone Handwriting entries

g(Math) [an add-in for Google Forms] now has standalone Handwriting entries!

Google Forms (with the g(Math) add-in and the Flubaroo add-in to grade multiple choice or short answer for you) can be used with BYOD to assess students.

Let Penney Matos (or your DLC) know if you want to investigate more!

Rubric Creators

FreeTech4Teachers put together this list of 3 Good Tools for Creating Rubrics. He mentions Rubistar, Quick Rubric, and Online Rubric. Read his article for more details on each.

You might also look into the Google Add-on Orange Slice: Teacher Rubric and accompanying Student Rubric (students can rate peer's work). 

Edutopia's Big List of Educational Grants and Resources

If you're looking for grants to enhance your classroom, check out Edutopia's Big List of Educational Grants and Resources!

Oodles of Google Search Tips

Check out this article entitled The advanced Google searches every student should know posted at eClassroom News. I particularly love the suggestions given to students on page 2 to get them results from other parts of the world with completely different viewpoints than what they're used to.

And to go along with that...

Check out these Google search tips from the Google Gooru...

12 Google Search Tricks You Probably Didn't Know

14 More Google Search Tricks You Didn't Know Existed

Histography - Timeline of History

This is one of the coolest websites I've run across.

histography.io

Every dot is a historic event from Wikipedia.

Resize the bottom bar to view any time period or era.

Use navigation on the left to narrow by topics including literature, music, wars, politics, construction, inventions, riots, women rights, disasters, art, nationality, discoveries, empires, assassinations, and religion.

170,000 Great Depression photographs released

170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) have been released to the public.

Here’s an article about the pictures: money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2015/10/19/great-depression-170000-photos-yale/index.html

You can look through the 170,000 photos from the Great Depression here: photogrammar.yale.edu

You can view by category or by map. It’s pretty cool!