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Storyboard That started out as simple tool that anyone could use to create good-looking storyboards for a variety of purposes including explaining historical events, plot lines, and even business plans. Over the years Storyboard That has evolved to ...

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"Free Technology for Teachers" - 4 new articles

  1. Create Printable Story Cubes on Storyboard That
  2. Other Places to Follow My Work
  3. How to Add a Classwork Section to Older Google Classroom Classes
  4. How to Add a Materials Section to Google Classroom
  5. More Recent Articles

Create Printable Story Cubes on Storyboard That

Storyboard That started out as simple tool that anyone could use to create good-looking storyboards for a variety of purposes including explaining historical events, plot lines, and even business plans. Over the years Storyboard That has evolved to provide more than 40,000 pieces of artwork and dozens of templates for making everything from simple comics to timelines to complex flowcharts. The update to Storyboard That features a new templates and artwork for making worksheets and story cubes.

Storyboard That's new worksheet templates can be customized with any of the artwork that Storyboard That offers. To make your worksheet start by selecting one of the page layouts and then a template for the page. After making those selections you can customize the template by adding any of the shapes, text boxes, and artwork that Storyboard That provides to your worksheet. To add items to worksheet simply drag them from the artwork menu onto your worksheet page. You can then customize the color, size, orientation, and spacing of the elements that you added to your page.

Storyboard That's new story cube template lets you and your students design printable, foldable story cubes. The process of customizing a story cube is the same as that for customizing a worksheet. The only difference is that you have to select the story cube template instead of a worksheet template at the start of the process.

Applications for Education
You can use the template to make a story cube to make story starter dice that your students roll to generate a combination of words to use as the impetus for writing a fiction story. If you decide to try this method, make a cube that has verbs, a cube that has adjectives, and a cube that has nouns. Then have your students roll all three to come up with a combination to start their stories. You can drag and drop any of Storyboard That's free artwork into your story cube before printing it.

Storyboard That wants teachers to use the worksheet templates to make great-looking handouts for their students. And they encourage entrepreneurial teachers to use the templates to make materials that they can sell through services like Teachers Pay Teachers and Gumroad. In fact, that process will be explained in next week's free webinar Making Great Handouts With Storyboard That Templates.

Disclosure: Storyboard That is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com  

Other Places to Follow My Work

This week I received two emails that reminded me that it is probably time to let new readers know about some of the other places and other ways to follow my work. Here are all of the places where you can follow my work.

Practical Ed Tech Newsletter - I send this out on Sunday evenings. It includes my favorite tip of the week and a short list of the most popular posts of the week from FreeTech4Teachers.com. You can subscribe right here. You can also visit PracticalEdTech.com

Twitter - I post on Twitter about twelve times a day. And I do try to reply to all mentions. You can find me at twitter.com/rmbyrne

YouTube - Every week I post three to five new tutorial videos on my YouTube channel.

Pinterest - My blog posts are pinned to this page.

Facebook - The Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page has more than 445k followers.

Instagram - Follow this if you want to see pictures of my dogs, my outdoor activities, or my cute kids. Instagram.com/rmbyrne

Daily email - I do offer a daily email from FreeTech4Teachers.com. This is an automated email that delivers the day's blog posts to your inbox. You can sign-up for that here.

How to Add a Classwork Section to Older Google Classroom Classes

Last night Google released two new features for Google Classroom. The first was the option to add materials into the Classwork section of your Google Classroom classes without making assignments. The second was the option to update your older Google Classroom classes to include a Classwork section. If you have Google Classroom classes that you want to update to include the Classwork section found in new Google Classroom classes, watch my new video to learn how to do it.

 

How to Add a Materials Section to Google Classroom

Last night I shared the news that Google has added the option for teachers to add materials like digital handouts to the Classwork section in Google Classroom. Judging by the emails and Tweets I've already seen, this is going to be a popular feature. To help you get started adding materials to your Google Classroom Classwork section, I made the following tutorial video.

 

Applications for Education
The option to add materials to Google Classroom without having to post an assignment or question is a feature that teachers have been asking for since Google rolled-out the new version of Google Classroom. This update should make it easier for you to distribute materials like videos, documents, slides, and audio files as handouts under the topics in the Classwork section in your Google Classroom classes.

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