Eric Curts - Creative Projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets

Control Alt Achieve author Eric Curts joins me to talk about creative projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets including Stop Motion Animation, Choose Your Own Adventure Activities, Emoji Learning Activities, Rebus Stories, Blackout Poetry, and Pixel Art! We also touch on Canva for Education, Adobe Spark for Education, Google Forms headers, flashcard makers like Quizlet and Flippity.net, and more!

Show notes are also available at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-56

• Soapbox Moment: “Quack Quack”
• Today’s Guest: Eric Curts
• • Eric has been in education for 29 years, and is currently a tech coach in northeast Ohio and a Google for Education Trainer and Innovator. He shares all his edtech resources through his blog at  ControlAltAchieve.com and is the author of the book "Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects".
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  • Twitter - @ericcurts
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  • Facebook - EricCurts
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• #EduDuctTape Question:  How can I have my students show comprehension (or thinking) with visuals?
• • Screwdriver Analogy - A screwdriver can be used for other things!
  • • Same mindsets with edtech tools - What familiar tools are already available that can solve your problems?
  • Google Slides
  • From Eric’s Blog
  • • Creative Google Slides Uses for Students
    • Stop Motion Animation w/ Slides
    • Choose Your Own Adventure in Google Docs
    • Choose Your Own Adventure in Google Slides
  • Choose Your Own Adventure:
  • • Branching can be done elsewhere Docs, Forms, etc.
    • In Slides, link to other slides.
    • In Docs, use headings
    • IDEA for Educators - Use Choose Your Own Adventure as differentiation or self-grading activity
  • From Eric’s blog - How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes in Google Classroom
  • Google Docs
  • • Insert Emojis - Tools > Special Characters
    • From Eric’s blog - 5 Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs
    • Rebus Stories
    • From Eric’s Blog - Blackout Poetry
  • Google Sheets
  • • Not just for data, create Pixel Art!
    • From Eric’s blog - Pixel Art Activities for any Subject with Google Sheets
  • Other Creation Tools for Educators
  • • Canva for Education
    • • Canva for Education Eligibility Guidelines
    • Adobe Spark for Education
  • From Eric’s blog - Play the "Royal Game of Ur" with Google Slides and Drawings
  • In summary - If your goal is... enriching learning experiences and peaking into students’ heads with visuals; finding new ways to tap into understanding- Google Slides and Drawings are very capable and a fantastic option!
  • Check out Eric’s book - Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects
  • GEGOhio - https://sites.google.com/view/geg-ohio/home
• Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
• • Carmen Tatum, Speakpipe - creating a “genius hour” Google Classroom with enrichment activities. Her students’ favorite was creating Google Forms header images!
  • Cory Colby - @EffectualEdu - flashcards question
  • • Quizlet - images are in the paid version
    • Google Slides flashcards
    • • Slides Randomizer Add-On
    • Pear Deck flashcard factory
    • Amy Storer - Adobe Spark flashcard maker
    • @MrsWambold - Google Sheets Add-On, Desmos card sort
    • Darcie Priester, @mspriester_ITRT and @edtechsara67 and @wvnomads - flippity.net
    • • Free, build in Google Sheets, use flippitynet to publish
      • can add images if they’re online, can embed videos, audio, and equatio
    • @wilmotjason - Canva flashcards
    • @PNWBOCES_EdTech - wordwall.net
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