Tired of losing books from your classroom library? Have a checkout system for students that's just not working? Wish you had a quick and easy way to figure out who checked out which book and when?
GOOGLE TO THE RESCUE!
Here's a great way to think about your classroom library check-out system for the upcoming school year!
Recently I've met with teachers to discuss the easiest way to organize groups. HA! I know that's a totally loaded topic, and there are about a million ways to organize groups in your classroom.... But here's one way to use Google Forms and Google Sheets to organize students quickly and not waste any extra unnecessary time! This is especially useful when you're working with other teachers, and students are moving in and out of your classroom! Check it out!
Part of my job is to do professional development with teachers this year! I always learn so much on these days from the amazing teachers I work with. And this idea came from a Google PD we did a few weeks ago!
It's the Tattle Form!
For all of the little tattles, that students just love have to share with you, because to a seven year old, when Billy accidentally sneezes on you, it's pretty much the end of the world....
Students can scan a Tattle Form QR Code which will take them to a Google Form that looks like this:
Which they can then fill out.... And you can assure them that you will handle it immediately. ;-)
It gives the students a chance to feel heard and validated, and it also gives you a pretty spiffy record. A record of who's doing all or most or lots of tattling, AND who is being tattled on. This can be helpful when meeting with parents, or deciding what steps to take next, as you have a written record of the tattling! #winwin The new Forms gives you some pretty neat data too! You can see who's doing all the tattling:
You can see who the tattlees are:
You can see what happened:
And what your class needs to work on:
Here's a quick video tutorial on how we created this form!
Hopefully this will help eliminate *some* of the tattling as we head towards Spring Break! Have a great week!
Watch this short 3 minute video to see how to transfer the info from a Google Spreadsheet to a Google Doc! This can come in handy when you'd like to see all of the info from one responder without having to scroll over or wrap text!
I don't know about you, but I LOVE my clipart!!! Problem is, I haven't always been the *best* at organizing it. (If you're reading between the lines here- I really have no idea what I have! And I have a lot!)
In an attempt to organize myself here, from now on, before I click "Purchase" on any more clipart, I quickly fill out my Google Spreadsheet!
I have a column for the artist's name, their logo (for when I need to create a credits page), a preview of the clipart pack, any tags to help me easily find it again!!!, and the store link (again- for credits page.)
To get the picture of the logo and the preview, I just take a screen shot! That's Command, Shift, 4 on a Mac!
Here's an awesome tip from Blair Turner about screen shooting! #gamechanger!
To get the picture into the field, there are a few quick steps.
I'll walk you through all of the steps in the video below!
You can also follow the steps here! (And download them HERE if you'd like!)
Your image will appear in the box, will stay where it's supposed to if other columns are rearranged, and will format to fit the size of the box!
Then you go quickly go through and fill out the rest of the boxes.
And don't forget to watch the video above! There are some great tips on how to quickly find something that you're looking for using Google Spreadsheets!
Now, tell me! How do you organize your clipart!?!?!?
