Embed a Drawing IN a Doc

WEBSITE ↬ LINK to blog post

AUDIENCE ↬ teachers

CONTENT ↬ any/all

GRADE LEVELS ↬ all grades

I can see some of you scratching your head on this post ... but if you are using a Google doc for your students and want an "interactive" portion, you can! It just takes a little bit of thinking to ensure you keep the interactive part available.

You probably already know you can create a Drawing for students to sort items or a t-chart they can separate on or embed a graphic organizer for digital work or any number of other reasons to provide a non-traditional space for students ... but did you know you can do all of this AND put it in your Google Doc??? Yep!

Google Drawings are the perfect space for many of the above mentioned activities. And for many teachers, Google Docs are used regularly. So let's combine the two!

Want to see it in action? I create a quick <5 min video to share the step-by-step.

And to level it up, why not teach your students how to do this, too? 

If you like this resource, be sure to check out the other resources like it tagged below.

DocStickers

WEBSITE ↬ DocStickers

AUDIENCE ↬ teachers

CONTENT ↬ all content

GRADE LEVELS ↬ all grades

This resource is for all of us who have students turning in digital work. (Isn't that pretty much everyone at this point?) The creator is Stephanie Filardo (@i3algebra). Her brilliant idea provides "stickers" that you can put on your student's digital work! How awesome is that?!?!

Stephanie shares an entire Google folder with pre-made stickers; a video to get you started; and a video to help you make your own!

This is a perfect time to further your tech skills AND surprise your students with some awesome stickers!

Pairing fonts

WEBSITE ↬ Fontjoy
AUDIENCE ↬ teachers & students

CONTENT ↬ all/any

GRADE LEVELS ↬ grades 3-ish & up

I very much enjoy creating Slides, Docs, and other material for both students and teachers. I do my best to make it pleasing to the eye while still sharing the message. I stumbled across this website and it finding what I didn't even know I was really looking for!

Fontjoy has a very simple premise ... it's a website that helps you pair fonts that work well together. If you read the "How it works" page, you find there is machine learning at work. I don't truly understand how it exactly works, but I do know that it has helped me on multiple occasions make very pleasing font combos!

Now - I don't think the youngest of students really need to worry too much about font pairings, but I do believe students in late elementary (especially ones who show solid computer skills) might benefit from understanding of how to best put fonts together. By middle school and high school, students can really benefit from this website.

And if nothing else ... help yourself out! It's fun to check out!