Tech Tips Tuesday (Tech Ped)

1. Access & Inclusion: Icons
2. Templates for Teachers
   
3. Google Tip from GHS' Mr. Fedele

I'll admit that I would learn about the value of icons in creating an accessible and inclusive classroom and forget to add them when creating content for lessons.

But icons are important for all of our learners.

Icons can

• Reduce anxiety (whether it's social or academic)
• Quickly and compactly convey concepts
• Draw attention and emphasize important ideas
• Provide a visual memory trigger (e.g. Pear Deck Flashcard Factory)
• Improve student writing (Read more here )
• More about the pedagogical value/use of icons here

Now though, you can use "add-ons" to quickly search and insert icons into Google docs, slides, sheets and forms without leaving the file.

Check out the extension here.

Other Icon databases (offer free and paid accounts):

• Freeicons.io ((Requires free account to download)
• Noun Project (Requires free account to download)
• Icons8 (colorful icons and stickers in different styles)

There are so many different templates on this site that I am not sure how describe them succinctly. They do tend to be geared toward 9th grade and under.

Template types (to name a very few)

• Research process
• Magazine
• Map
• Curation
• Certificates/Awards
• Holiday Activities
• Graphic Organizers
• Pixel Art

Check out templatesforteachers.com

Did you know you can restrict responses in a google form?

Number

• Example: A whole number between 21 and 42.

• Example: Make sure that answers contain the word "candy," or are formatted as an email address or URL.

• Example: Limit answers to 500 characters or require at least 200 characters.

• Require text answers to match certain formulas that you choose. Examples

I am here to help. If I don't know, I will find out. Let me do that work. You have enough to handle in the classroom. Challenges arising in the classroom? Tech coaching sessions available.

Email: cwysocki@greenfield.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.greenfield.k12.wi.us/staff/instructional-technology.cfm
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Phone: (414) 855-2409
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