Free Technology for Teachers - 3 new articles

One of the questions that I received this week for Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions was a rather broad question of, "do you have any favorite Google Slides add-ons for high school students?" That's kind of a hard question to answer without having more ...
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"Free Technology for Teachers" - 3 new articles

  1. How to Find and Manage Google Slides Add-ons
  2. Free Writing Prompts Ebooks
  3. How to Create Comics - A Four-Part MOMA Series
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How to Find and Manage Google Slides Add-ons

One of the questions that I received this week for Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions was a rather broad question of, "do you have any favorite Google Slides add-ons for high school students?" That's kind of a hard question to answer without having more context of what you want students to accomplish in Google Slides. None-the-less my go-to recommendation is the Unsplash Google Slides add-on. It allows students to quickly find high-quality images that are in the public domain and insert those images into their slides with just one click. 
Answering that question got me thinking that I should make an updated tutorial on how to find and install Google Slides add-ons. So that's what I did this morning. In this short video I demonstrate how to find Google Slides add-ons, how to install them, and how to remove them if you don't like them. 

 




 


 
   

Free Writing Prompts Ebooks

Disclosure: Make Beliefs Comix is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com

Developing an idea for what to write about is often a hard first step for student writers. Fortunately, there are resources like the Make Beliefs Comix journaling ebooks filled with ideas for students to write about. Many of those ebooks are excellent for social emotional learning activities as well as creative writing activities. All of the ebooks are available as fillable PDFs that your students can download and share with you when they're done writing. Watch this short video to learn how to use the free ebooks from Make Beliefs Comix

 


Make Beliefs Comix is known for its free comic creation tools. If you haven't tried those, here's a short overview of how it works.

 

   

How to Create Comics - A Four-Part MOMA Series

From telling personal stories to summarizing historical events to illustrating creating writing over the years I've shared a bunch of ideas for using comics in classrooms. And I've shared a bunch of tools for creating comics (resources linked at the bottom of this post). While I enjoy the process of creating comics, I am not an expert cartoonist. To learn for an expert cartoonist take a look the Museum of Modern Art's new four-part How to Make Comics series. 

MOMA's How to Make Comics series addresses four topics. Those topics are:

I found the section on elements of comics to be the most interesting of the four parts. In that section there is an excellent explanation and example of how the words and pictures in a comic should compliment each other. 

The last part of the series that features ideas, activites, and resources for making comics includes a new-to-me resource on the South Portland, Maine's school library website. That page is loaded with information for teachers interested in using comics in their classrooms. It was there that I found the Big Think video How Comic Books Can Make Kids Smarter.  

 


Tools for Making Comics in Your Classroom
   

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