TED Ed

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The TED-Ed project — TED’s education initiative — makes short video lessons worth sharing, aimed at educators and students. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which are collaborations between educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform.

Our very own Director of Humanities, Mark Robinson, has collaborated with TED-Ed to make range of videos:

Google Classroom

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Google Classroom is an online learning platform for schools and colleges that aims to simplify creating, distributing and marking assignments in a paperless way. Google Classroom is designed to help students and teachers communicate, collaborate, organise and manage assignments, go paperless, and much more! Classroom also seamlessly integrates with other Google tools like Google Docs and Drive.

Improved Communication – Teachers can create assignments, send announcements, and instantly start class discussions. Students can share resources with each other and interact in the class stream or by email. Teachers can also quickly see who has or hasn’t completed the work, and give direct, real-time feedback and grades.

Better Organisation – Students can see assignments on the To-do page, in the class stream, or on the class calendar. All class materials are automatically filed into Google Drive folders.

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The EdTech Podcast

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The EdTech Podcast mission is to improve the dialogue between ‘ed’ and ‘tech’ through storytelling, for better innovation and impact. This podcast covers a range of topics including AI, game-based learning, future tech and trends.

To listen to The EdTech Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, visit https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast/

The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast

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In the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast, Matt Miller (ditchthattextbook.com) and Kasey Bell (shakeuplearning.com) share the latest Google for Education news and updates, with tips and strategies for embeding Google’s tools in the classroom.

To listen to the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, visit https://googleteachertribe.com/

The Suite Talk Podcast

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The Suite Talk podcast mission is to give educators around the world best practices and guidance for implementing educational technology in the classroom. This podcast focuses on giving ideas of how to use the features of Google for Education to provide the best digital learning environment for students.

To listen to the The Suite Talk podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, visit https://sites.google.com/view/thesuitetalk/home

Originality Reports in Google Classroom Beta

We recently joined the Google Classroom originality reports beta. This is an opportunity for you to pilot a new unreleased feature in Classroom and help shape the development. For more information, see this blog post.

What is Originality Reports in Google Classroom?
Originality reports is a new feature that brings the capabilities of Google search right to your student assignments and marking interface through Google Classroom. The learning tool helps both teachers and students thoroughly review and analyse coursework to make sure it is properly cited and avoid unintentional plagiarism. This feature was designed to help students improve their writing and spot potential issues while saving you time while marking.
Can’t we already do this with the Urkund Plagiarism Checker?Urkund Plagiarism Checker is a Chrome extension that we have purchased and made available for all teachers. Google Classroom and Urkund are integrated, enabling teachers to easily check student work for plagiarism directly from the Classroom interface. If you’ve used Urkund before, please try the Google Classroom originality reports and let me know what you prefer. Neither is free, so your feedback will help us make an informed decision when we come to renew the Urkund license.

Getting Started and FAQs:

  • Share this post via Classroom announcements with your students to help them learn more about how to use the tool for their assignments
  • Check out instructions for Originality for instructors on the help center
  • For additional support reach out to the Classroom Community Forum

Submitting Feedback
Did you know you can send feedback directly to the Google for Education team via the “Send feedback” button within Classroom? Feedback on products in their early stages have big impact on product design. When submitting bugs, feature requests, or user confusions, be sure to start with “Originality Report.” Always include screenshots with feedback.

This feature was designed to help students improve their writing and spot potential issues while saving you time while marking. When a teacher enables originality reports for an assignment, all students will be able to create reports up to 3 times for Google Docs files before they turn them in to spot check and correct potential missed citations.

Once the feature is generally available, teachers will be able to access originality reports at no charge for up to 3 assignments in each course they teach. Colleges that would like unlimited access can upgrade their teachers to G Suite Enterprise for Education. During the beta, all users can use originality reports as much as they need.

I look forward to hearing how this beta works for you and your students.

Workbench

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Workbench hosts a huge range of features. Whether you’re looking for some pre-made lessons on a specific topic or want to find some basic tasks for your lesson, you might want to track your student progress visually or learn code yourself there is a wealth of content across the site. Plus, it’s free for education!

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Google Sites

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With Google Sites, you can quickly create a website to gather a variety of information in one place – including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text – and easily share it for viewing with your class, course or the entire college.

Creating a web page using Google Sites is as simple as writing a document, and you can easily embed Google Docs, Slides and YouTube videos to develop interactive websites.

You can access the new Google Sites by logging into Google Sites and then select “Create”.

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Getting Started with Google Sites

With Google Sites, you can quickly create a website to gather a variety of information in one place – including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text – and easily share it for viewing with your class, course or the entire college.

Creating a web page using Google Sites is as simple as writing a document, and you can easily embed Google Docs, Slides and YouTube videos to develop interactive websites.

You can access the new Google Sites by logging into Google Sites and then select “Create”.

If you’re interested in moving to Google Sites we have two resources to help you get started:

Getting Started With Google Sites [Slide Deck]

Google Sites Training Videos

We’ve created a series of short videos starting with creating a new site and finishing with how to publish your site and share it with everyone in college.

Google Sites Training Videos

Kahoot!

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Kahoot! is a game based classroom response system allowing a full class to play quizzes and take surveys in real time.