Eric Curts - Creative Projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets

Control Alt Achieve author Eric Curts joins me to talk about
creative projects with Docs, Slides, and Sheets including Stop
Motion Animation, Choose Your Own Adventure Activities, Emoji
Learning Activities, Rebus Stories, Blackout Poetry, and Pixel
Art! We also touch on Canva for Education, Adobe Spark for
Education, Google Forms headers, flashcard makers like Quizlet
and Flippity.net, and more!


Show notes are also available at
jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-56



Soapbox Moment: “Quack Quack”


Today’s Guest: Eric Curts



Eric has been in education for 29 years, and is currently
a tech coach in northeast Ohio and a Google for Education
Trainer and Innovator. He shares all his edtech resources
through his blog at  ControlAltAchieve.com and is the
author of the book "Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting Your
Classroom with Creative Google Projects".

controlaltachieve.com

Twitter - @ericcurts

YouTube - EricCurts

Facebook - EricCurts




2 Truths & 1 Lie


#EduDuctTape Question:  How can I
have my students show comprehension (or thinking) with
visuals?



Screwdriver Analogy - A screwdriver can be used for other
things!



Same mindsets with edtech tools - What familiar tools
are already available that can solve your problems?



Google Slides

From Eric’s Blog



Creative Google Slides Uses for Students

Stop Motion Animation w/ Slides

Choose Your Own Adventure in Google Docs

Choose Your Own Adventure in Google Slides



Choose Your Own Adventure:



Branching can be done elsewhere Docs, Forms, etc.

In Slides, link to other slides.

In Docs, use headings

IDEA for Educators - Use Choose Your Own Adventure as
differentiation or self-grading activity



From Eric’s blog - How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes in
Google Classroom

Google Docs



Insert Emojis - Tools > Special Characters

From Eric’s blog - 5 Emoji Learning Activities with
Google Docs

Rebus Stories

From Eric’s Blog - Blackout Poetry



Google Sheets



Not just for data, create Pixel Art!

From Eric’s blog - Pixel Art Activities for any
Subject with Google Sheets



Other Creation Tools for Educators



Canva for Education



Canva for Education Eligibility Guidelines



Adobe Spark for Education



From Eric’s blog - Play the "Royal Game of Ur" with
Google Slides and Drawings

In summary - If your goal is... enriching learning
experiences and peaking into students’ heads with visuals;
finding new ways to tap into understanding- Google Slides and
Drawings are very capable and a fantastic option!

Check out Eric’s book - Control Alt Achieve: Rebooting
Your Classroom with Creative Google Projects

GEGOhio - https://sites.google.com/view/geg-ohio/home



Celebration of the Adjacent Possible



Carmen Tatum, Speakpipe - creating a “genius hour” Google
Classroom with enrichment activities. Her students’ favorite
was creating Google Forms header images!

Cory Colby - @EffectualEdu - flashcards question



Quizlet - images are in the paid version

Google Slides flashcards



Slides Randomizer Add-On



Pear Deck flashcard factory

Amy Storer - Adobe Spark flashcard maker

@MrsWambold - Google Sheets Add-On, Desmos card sort

Darcie Priester, @mspriester_ITRT and @edtechsara67
and @wvnomads - flippity.net



Free, build in Google Sheets, use flippitynet to
publish

can add images if they’re online, can embed
videos, audio, and equatio



@wilmotjason - Canva flashcards

@PNWBOCES_EdTech - wordwall.net





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