When you are presenting or teaching to a group with the help of Google Slides, it is always best to allow a time and place in your presentation for some interactivity. Most of the time, people leave the presentation and go to an external website (or even their phones) to start a countdown timer while this interactivity takes place. To make the presentation more seamless, it’s much easier to just embed a countdown timer directly into your slides by using Youtube. On the slide with the instructions for the group discussion or activity, just go to Insert >Video and search YouTube for “__ minute timer.” There are lots of timers on YouTube for just about every time interval that you might need. This would also be a great way to manage stations in your classroom, with instructions on the same slide as the timer. I hope this helps with engagement and classroom management!
Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing text interpretations.” Students use different colors of digital highlighters to annotate text that is added to Prism by the teacher. The colors of the highlighters correspond with different categories that the teacher has prescribed for the text analysis. As students are highlighting the text, a visual representation is created that demonstrates the combined interpretation of the text in different text colors and different font sizes. The idea of Prism is to reveal patterns that exist in the subjective reading of text. Although it sounds complicated, Prism could be used by all grade levels and various content areas. The categories that the teacher sets for highlighting could be as complicated as detecting the author’s tone, or as simple as distinguishing fact from opinion. Some other ideas for categories to highlight could be detecting different emotions, locating key words or vocabulary, establishing themes, locating parts of speech or other literary elements. Any text that can be copy and pasted can be added to Prism. Check out the demo video on their website for more information, http://prism.scholarslab.org/.
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