#EduDuctTape: Stephanie Howell – Student Choice Activities in Google Slides + Design Tips

#EduDuctTape S04-E70

Stephanie Howell joins me to share what she’s learned in her experience designing student choice activities. She also shares some great Google Slides design tips.

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• Today’s Guest: Stephanie Howell
  • Bio: Stephanie is the CEO of Gold EDU, a Google for Education Partner, a founder of Global GEG, and the EdTech Lead for Pickerington Local Schools. She is key to the embedding and implementation of EdTech tools across her schools and organizations. She has a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction.
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• 2 Truths & 1 Lie
• Educational Duct Tape Question: How can I design student choice activities?
  • Learn from Stephanie’s Experience:
    • 9 tasks in a 3×3 grid can be overwhelming at first
    • Teach choices explicitly either in whole group or individually
    • Set up learning procedures before to help eliminate misbehaviors
    • This or That choice board
  • Designing in Google Slides
    • Pull in backgrounds from Canva, Adobe, Unsplash
    • Find colors and designs you like around you. Take a pic and pull in colors.
    • Consider the topics the lesson is about to help with inspiration.
    • Eye dropper Extenstion
    • Use the Lexend Fonts
    • Google Fonts
    • coolors.co
  • A great activity to help students learn about designing – Worst Presentation Ever!
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