
Tech Tip Tuesday
February 25, 2014
Using Google Slides to Organize Research & Take Notes
Do any of your students use note cards to organize research or notes for a presentation? I saw this cool tip here on Free Technology for Teachers this week. Why not take those notes and research from the computer and capture it on "note cards" in Google Drive? See the photo below. When you're in Google Drive, just choose "Create" and click "Presentation". (If you haven't used this yet, it's Google Drive version of PowerPoint. Bonus: It can be accessed practically anywhere.) Then, students can capture links, quotes, photos, and more from any database or website you want students to use. When they are ready to organize those notes, it's as easy as click and drag (just like shuffling note cards in order)!
If you want students searching Google for research, they can research and citations right from Google Drive! For a quick tip, see the photo below, or learn more here. Click on "Tools" in the Drive menu and choose "Research". You can then search everything Google (images, web, Google Scholar, quotes, dictionary...). And, as a teacher librarian, one of my favorite things is the ability to filter the images and see only those labeled for reuse! No more accidentally using a copyrighted photo. And, all of these results can be saved automatically into your note cards in drive to be accessed anywhere, anytime. Easy!
As always, let me know if you have questions! I'm more than happy to come to you or meet anytime I'm not with a class. Thanks!
Photo Credit: cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by Ryan Straube: http://flickr.com/photos/_ry4n/8566432202/