Edmonds Digital Learning

Google Sheets, which is Google's spreadsheet tool (think Excel), is a great tool for many purposes including creating graphs, calculating averages, tracking student progress, and many others! But, it can also be used for students--even very young students--to create pictographs of data they are collecting. The teacher will create a template and use a formula, but once that's created, kids can create pictographs to their heart's content! Here's how... 1. Open a new Google Sheets spreadsheet by going to sheets.google.com  or typing sheets.new  in the address bar. 2. Name the spreadsheet something that makes sense to you such as 'Sheets Pictograph'. 3. Label cell A1 with the word 'Item' or something else that makes sense to you. 4. Label cell B1 with 'Count' or something else that makes sense to you. 5. Hover over the 'magic cell' to the left of 'A' and above '1' and move your cursor to the bottom of the '...

Picture this! You just taught a brilliant lesson and you have tons of notes handwritten on the whiteboard or a piece of paper you were projecting. You snap a quick picture to save the notes, but you want to get them to your students in an easy-to-read document. Luckily, you can let Google Drive type the notes and convert them into a Doc for you! Here are the steps to take to do it. 1. Upload the photo to your Google Drive. 2. Open Google Chrome and navigate to drive.google.com . 3. Right-click the thumbnail of the photo. Please note, the photo I'm showcasing in this post is of my handwritten  notes I took in pencil during a meeting. 4. When the menu opens, hover over 'Open with...' and select 'Google Docs'. 5. Processing can take a bit of time.  6. When processing finishes, you will see a new Google Doc in your Drive that has the original image and editable text below. By default, the file will be named the same as your original photo.  7. ...

Are you ready to meet the Chrome extension that everyone's talking about? Well, let me be the first to introduce you to Read&Write for Google Chrome! Before we get started, you'll want to add Read&Write to your Chrome browser. Click this link  and then click 'Add to Chrome'. If you are a teacher in the Edmonds School District, your students will already have the extension, so they will not need to take this step. After you have added the extension, click the small puzzle-piece shaped icon at the top of your browser. It will look just like the image above. If a menu doesn't open, you may need to refresh or relaunch Chrome. After that, you'll be in business! The following videos demonstrate how to do many of the features Read&Write offers, but there are more. Explore the tool to find your favorite features! Dictionary and Picture Dictionary Screen Mask Make a Vocabulary List Simplify Page Highlight and Collect Highl...