Friday Matinee: How to Create Interactive Google Slides and Lessons

Did you know that you can link not only to outside websites in Google Slides, but also to other slides within your file?  This opens up a number of new ways to use Slides as an activity in your classroom.  Here's how:

How to Create Interactive Google Slides and Lessons

If you remember, we shared a Jeopardy Game that was created in Slides recently and this is how they created it!  Dr. Clemson's EDU 455 classes have been creating High Leverage Practice interactive posters that link to resources on other slides in their file.  It's also how you create eBooks in Slides.

In this activity from Catlin Tucker, she uses this to link from her table of contents to each section in her digital notebook.  

Friday Matinee: 8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students in Active Learning Online

Are you teaching either online or hybrid and looking for ideas to engage your students?  Well we found this great list by Dr. Catlin Tucker that is sure to have at least one idea that will work for your classes - and probably more!  She includes digital concept mapping, an online fishbowl, and 6 other strategies that will have your students working collaboratively in active learning online.

8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students In Active Learning Online

Friday Matinee: Online Learning With Powerful Thinking Routines

Dr. Catlin Tucker teaches high school, but the thinking routines she shares in this blog post can easily be used in higher education.  Created by Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, these templates and routines encourage students to be intentional thinkers and to share what they know, their perspective, what they wonder, how their thinking has changed, and more.  Each thinking routine can be modified and adjusted to meet your needs, your student's needs, and your subject area and are great for engaging students both online and in the classroom.  Go to the Project Zero website to learn more about the routine's purpose, application, and find tips for starting and using the routine in your classroom.  There are other routines on the Project Zero site that you can check out.

Support Online Learning with Powerful Thinking Routines by Catlin Tucker

The templates that Catlin created are shared in Google Slides, but can easily be downloaded as PowerPoint files.  Just go to FILE >Download > and choose Microsoft PowerPoint.