Today, KQED’s MindShift blog has a post by Google search educator Tasha Bergson-Michelson that tackles the issue of how to transition a search from being an entire question to just a few keywords. Here’s a preview:
Very easy, concrete steps that would work with kids of all ages. Thanks, Tasha!
We all want our students and colleagues (and ourselves!) to be more efficient and targeted in our open Web searching. This infographic might be just what your faculty has been looking for. Pair this with a discussion of Google’s new user policy!
Grab the embed code from HackCollege
The assessment heat has been turned up in schools, and many school librarians are being asked to assess students. Yet our time with students is limited. Many librarians are already using Google Forms (a feature of Google Docs) with the Flubaroo extension to quickly create and then have Flubaroo auto-grade the results.
How could this be used as an end-of-class formative assessment tool?
(And by the way, how are you using formative assessment? We’re dying to know!)
Here’s a three-minute demo:
via @rachelthereader who reminded me of this tool that @libraryraya pointed me to last year
