#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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- Soapbox Moment: “Is EdTech Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader?”
- 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.
- 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!
- Learn from Stephanie’s Experience:
- Celebration of the Adjacent Possible
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