Tuesday Tech Tips 9 -23-14

Google Forms now will allow you to customize the heading, font styles, and background. Thanks Amy Mayer from Hunstville for a great how-to tutorial. Click here for the link. I can’t wait to try it out.

“We need to change the classroom habit of the bulleted list and the texty PowerPoint presentation because our brains don’t work that way. This idea called the picture superiority effect states that even your worst images, can have a much greater impact than your greatest text-based presentation slides.” Check out this link from “Ditch that Textbook” for information on finding great images.

In addition to pictures, students need videos. Check out Next Vista for Learning, it is a video sharing site created by teachers and students to share good news and good lessons. Additionally, they host challenges throughout the year that are designed to get students and teachers thinking about creative video projects. The latest contest is called Creative Fire!