Technology and Resources we will use throughout the year!
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Our Classroom Adventure
Turn Your Phone into a Slideshow Remote
Welcome to my blog! Recently, I have a few presentations on Breakout EDU and Creating your own blog. The resources have been posted here.
One of the most frequent questions however was how I changed the slides while moving around the room. I used my cell phone! If anyone figures out how to do this on Smart Notebook – let me know because that would be awesome!
Here is how to turn your cell phone into a remote control for Google Slides:
- Add the Chrome Extension from the Chrome Web Store: Google Slides Remote
- Open Google Slideshow you want to control
- In the upper right corner, you should see a “Present with remote” button. Click on that.
- Once your slideshow is running, the bottom bar will be different. It will have SHOW ID at the bottom. That is your 6 digit code!
- Open s.limhenry.xyz on another device and enter the code on the page. Voila – you now have a cell phone or Ipad or tablet or any device that can be used as a remote for your slideshow. It is a few steps, but after I did this a few times it really only took less than 30 seconds.
I have the limhenry website saved as a shortcut on my phone. I believe I found that in the Play Store a few weeks ago. But, it is no longer there. That’s okay! As long as you have that link you are good to go!
Happy Remoting!
Creativity
I was assigned to create a lesson using the four foundations of creativity. They are: Fluency, Flexibility, Originality and Elaboration. Since my unit plan for my final will utilize heavily with electric circuits, I decided to create a Creativity Lesson on Electric Circuits.
In previous lessons, I have had students take ordinary objects and imagine that they are 2500 years into the future. How would an archaeologist see this object? This train of thought leads into our scientific methods and certainty regarding real archaeological digs such as Egyptian.
Another idea I have seen using creativity is animals. List all the animals you can think of. Think of their characteristics that you like. Try combining 2 or 3 animals into one super fun ultimate animal! These are so fun to see drawn and colored on paper around the classroom or hallways.