Student Created News Stories / Social Media Profiles

Would you like to better engage students in an assessment or class activity? Using the following few links will help these are links that allow students to create news headlines, or Facebook profiles and download a printable or shareable image.

May be useful for social studies, science, or language arts classes.

Follow these steps to have student's in the headline:

1. Students can use Chromebooks to take a picture in Google Drawing
2. Edit out the background (https://www.remove.bg/)
3. Go to file "download as"
4. Download the image as a JPEG
5. Then upload to the linked sites below. 

Follow these steps to use online images:

1. Find an image via a Google image search
2. Add to Google Drawing
3. Use other PNG images (images without backgrounds) 
4. Go to file "download as"
5. Download the image as a JPEG
6. Then upload to the linked sites below.

https://www.classtools.net/headline_generator/

https://www.classtools.net/breakingnews/

https://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page

Please share what your students have created!

Update to Classroom

As many of you may have noticed there have been some updates to Google Classroom. Classroom has a new look with lots of white space which, research has shown, is is a positive for web design, readability, and accessibility.

If you go to the header space and click theme there are now over 75 different headers to choose from separated into different categories. You can still create and load your own, but there are many premade ones, enough to fit most any class.

NEW CLASSROOM HEADERS

Another change is that you can display your class join code directly from the STREAM page. You can click on the box next to your code and it will open a display window for better viewing.

The biggest and best change is that you can now move topics, assignments, materials, and questions up and down in the Classwork section just by dragging and dropping. (See Video Below)