Making a Digital Reading Response Journal With Google

Not bad multiple Google tools together can create amazing classroom experiences. Check out these two "GAFE Smashes" for some new ideas. (Public domain epitome via Pixabay.com)

Using Google Apps like Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings and MyMaps give you admission to features that can accept your activities to the next level.

However, when y'all use them together — smash them — you can pull the best of several tools into one superb activeness.

In today's mail service, Karly Moura and Sean Fahey introduce you to maps with custom images and an interactive reading periodical. They apply multiple simple Google tools and show you exactly how to practice it yourself.

Drawings and MyMaps

Submitted by Karly Moura(Twitter: @KarlyMoura)

How to exercise it: Getting a Google Cartoon into a Google My Map is a little catchy since yous need to get the image URL but it is worth it for getting something student created into a map.

After creating their google drawing students will need to get a URL for their cartoon to insert it into a My Map.

Have students download their Google Cartoon image as a .png or .jpeg file to their Google Drive.

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Click on the epitome file then "Become Shareable Link" in the upper right corner of bulldoze and copy the URL from in that location.

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(Thank you Mandi Tolen and Justin Birckbichler for helping me see the easier mode on this one! )

Once you take your URL you are ready to insert your paradigm into your MyMap! In this sample MyMap a affiche, made in Google Drawings is inserted into the map to showcase a few key features of the city. The GIF beneath shows how to insert your drawing into your map. Yous can as well insert GIFs into MyMaps!

Click to view full-size prototype.

Applications for class:

Sensational State Reports

• A collaborative class map of the Usa is a fun style for students to showcase their state report! Accept students create posters, infographics, a word cloud, art and more to share all near their state. Students tin add multiple pictures to one pin in the map to create a slideshow of images.

Virtual (or Real) Field Trip Reflection

• Students can use My Maps to locate a place they have visited on a course field trip and share what they learned through a Google Drawing. Students can also "visit" Globe Wonders through the Google Cultural Plant . Afterward their visit have students create a gallery of images and text to create a travel brochure highlighting the key points of their visit.

Take a trip with your favorite character or author!

• Later reading a book students can locate the setting of the story or find where the author of the volume lives. They can make an infographic or poster in Google Drawings to create a unique volume report and share with the course in a collaborative Google My Map.

Templates/resources:

• In his postal service Google Drawings interactive posters (no mucilage sticks necessary!) Matt Miller shares some dandy tips for getting students creating some fantastic posters in Google Drawing!
• This Padlet  (also beneath) contains lots of useful resources, tips and ideas for getting started with Google My Maps in your classroom.

Docs and Slides

Submitted by Sean Fahey(Twitter: @SeanJFahey)

How to practice it:Use a Google Doc equally a "homepage" to provide the links to students' Google Slides document they are using as a digital journal. This allows other students to view and annotate on these journals to promote peer collaboration and reflection in the classroom.

The steps are simple, but how you decide to facilitate it is entirely up to you!

• Create a Google Doc with the names of your students. Here is a uncomplicated example.
• Create a Google Slides Template for students to use that will fit the task. Here is a Slides template I made for a reading response journal .
• Share the Slides Template with your students and have them make a re-create or distribute it using Google Classroom. That is what I did. (If a new blank Slides certificate  will practise, have students create one.)
• Now for each students' Google Slides document you need to go the shareable link to it with the permission " Anyone with the link tin comment ".
• Add this shareable link as a hyperlink to the student's name in the Google Doc (highlight name, Ctrl+k to add the link, Ctrl+Five to paste link, Apply).
• This will need to be washed for each individual student's' Google Slides document and name. What should happen is when you click on Student A'due south  name it will accept yous to Student A'southward Google Slides document. When y'all're finished yous'll have something like this .

Observe a home for your Google Document for easy admission for your class. For me, I would put it in the Nearly section of Google Classroom, only a class website could work too. Just brand sure the sharing setting of the Google Doc is " view only " or students may accidentally make edits y'all don't want.

Applications for course:

T his setup is not limited to a reading response journal. With a little tweaking this setup tin can piece of work in many ways some examples could include:

• Provides an alternative to a public blogging site or at the very least if you want to get your students into blogging publicly this would be a slap-up way to teach how to write and annotate on blogs.
• Document results of science experiments. Students tin can take pictures, add them to the slide, and write a quick reflection nigh the results. Classmates can and so comment almost their experience and ask questions. This could exist washed for a whole unit of measurement or the entire year.
• Journal Writing. I retrieve having a writing journal in 3rd grade. My teacher would requite an interesting prompt to write virtually and respond to. (Ane I've recollect all these years was, What would yous practice if you lot had a wallet that never ran run out of greenbacks?") Students could apply this ready also as their journal. When the yr is over, publish the journal as a PDF and share with family.
• Working on math? How about accept educatee keep track of the different types of issues they have learned to solve. They can have a picture of a trouble the solved correctly insert information technology into the slide and add a brusk explanation or reflection of it for future reference.

I am sure the possibilities are endless. What other means can you think of to use this smash?

Templates/resources:For me, Google Slides is the near versatile app among the GAFE products. Don't agree with me? Matt Miller has two EXCELLENT posts about it ( 10 Google Slides activities to add awesome to classes & 8 interactive Google Slides activities for classroom excitement ) yous should cheque out!

Also here is a great infographic by the edtechteam that explores other ways to use Google Slides.

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