Supersize your literacy with Google - Toni Westcott

All in one place - Accountability - Shareability - No more 'I dont know" - Engagement - Run with the magic.

1: Pick a path stories
- Engaging writing task
- Collaborative
- Problem solving

'Gizmo the penguin' - interactive story using google slides - choose your way (pick your own story) - something for their peers t enjoy and interact with - give feedback etc - using computational thinking. Hitting literacy and digital technology. Planned on paper first using a tree format - start with a slide and where you go from there.

Quiz - Have a question and choose an answer which takes you to right or wrong. If you get the question right it may take you to the yes correct answer and additional information about the topic to advance learning - and if you answer incorrectly you maybe taken to a new question that could encourage further thinking or give you clues about what the answer is, from here you are taken to the 'more information' slide.


2: Collaborative writing with slides
Picture with white box and a grey box. They get given a slide and asked to write down as many words describing the picture - kids without a wide vocabulary are able to share their ideas and hear other ideas and still be engaged as it is quick. Bus stop activity with 30 seconds on each slide and then move onto the next slide with a new picture and begin brainstorming the new picture. Once all done they can choose a slide with a buddy and write a sentence or paragraph depending on level, using the words they have all brainstormed.
From here (as a teacher) - Use the grid view and you can monitor their writing on their given slide - checking they are on task, whether they maybe struggling, what is the thinking, and easy editing. Do this in peers or in threes (collaborative task). They can then choose a slide (reflection) that they are going to give constructive feedback on.