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Tony Vincent Jun 17, 2024

For some reason, there's no Share setting so that anyone with a link to a Google Form can only view. If you want others to be able to make a copy of your form, but you don't want to give them edit access, try this little workaround.

Tony Vincent May 31, 2024

Google's "Prompting Guide 101" suggests four main areas to consider when writing an effective prompt for an AI chatbot:

👤 persona
🎯 task
🧩 context
📄 format

Download the 44 page PDF:
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/gemini-for-google-workspace-prompting-guide-101.pdf

Tony Vincent Feb 13, 2024

Tip Tuesday! Customize the look of a Finder window on your Mac. With a window open, click View → as Icons. Then go to View → Show View Options. Under Background, choose Color or Picture. #EdTech

Tony Vincent Jan 30, 2024

Tip Tuesday! Create a link that takes viewers directly to a specific spot in a Google Drive video. Do this by pausing the video at the desired time, clicking the arrow next to the Share button , and selecting “Copy link to this time.”

Tony Vincent Jan 29, 2024

Aftel.net is an online timer made for teachers.

📺 Full screen
💬 Show description
⏯️ Pause/start with spacebar
🔗 Share a link to a specific timer duration
🚫 Prevent screen sleep
🚦 Show progression with colors
🎁 Free, no login, no ads

Tony Vincent Jan 21, 2024

Stir up curiosity and conversation with a "Baffling Blur."

Blur parts of an image and invite students to make educated guesses about what has been blurred. 🧐

Keep the original image handy so you can reveal it.

You can use Canva to blur areas of an image. #EdTech #FETC

Tony Vincent Jan 15, 2024

Ditch That Textbook offer templates you can use as starting points for making your own surveys, evaluations, assessment, games, and reflections. #Google #EdTech

https://ditchthattextbook.com/google-forms-templates

15 Google Forms templates you can use in class tomorrow

If you have been reading the Ditch That Textbook blog for awhile now you know that we love to use familiar tools in new and exciting ways. Google Forms is

Ditch That Textbook

Tony Vincent Jan 14, 2024

🧐 Build curiosity and suspense by progressively revealing an image that’s hidden behind 220 tiles.

🖼️ The image could be a photo, diagram, slide, words—something connected to your lesson.

➡️ Make a copy of the Google Slides template at http://learninginhand.com/tilereveal

Tony Vincent Dec 8, 2023

Fun Friday! Semantris has two word association games where you type what comes to mind given a set of words.

https://research.google.com/semantris/

Semantris

Semantris is a word association game powered by machine learning.

Tony Vincent Dec 7, 2023

MagicSchool has a Social Emotional Lesson Generator. Choose a grade level, enter a topic/standard/objective, and select an SEL competency:

🤔 Self-awareness
👍 Self-management
🤝 Relationship skills
😇 Responsible decision-making

https://app.magicschool.ai/tools/sel-lesson

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