Agosto, 2022

Use your favorite education tools in Classroom with add-ons
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Use your favorite education tools in Classroom with add-ons

We know that educators have go-to digital tools to make their lessons more engaging. But with that comes the challenges of managing multiple accounts and passwords, helping students navigate other websites, and handling grading on different platforms. Now, educators will be able to easily find, add, use and grade content from popular EdTech tools, right within Google Classroom. Add-ons provide a better end-to-end experience to not only save time for educators, but also simplify the digital classroom experience for students, too.

Use popular education tools, right within Classroom

To make EdTech tools work better together, we partnered with 18 partners to offer add-ons for Classroom. You can do things like assign a trivia game from Kahoot!, browse content from IXL’s repository by subject or grade level, and make it easy for students to access interactive Pear Deck presentations, all within Classroom. With the content and activities of these educational partners accessible within Classroom, we hope it’s even easier to diversify your lessons and help students learn in new ways.

  • Animation showing that students can find a Pear Deck presentation from within Classroom, interact with it, then turn it in.

    With just a few clicks, students can access, and turn in, interactive Pear Deck presentations from within Classroom.

  • Animation showing that an educator can use add-ons to create an assignment, browse skills in the IXL add-on by subject or grade level, then add it to an assignment within Classroom.)

    The IXL add-on allows you to browse IXL skills by subject or grade level before adding it to a Classroom Assignment or Stream, and even assign skills to a specific student.

  • Animation showing that teachers can search for kahoots that they have made or save, all within Classroom.

    With the Kahoot! add-on, teachers can access kahoots they made or saved, and make them easy for students to use, all without leaving Classroom.

To start, we’ll have add-ons from Adobe Express for Education, BookWidgets, CK-12, Edpuzzle, Formative, Genially, Google Arts & Culture, Google Play Books, IXL, Kahoot!, Nearpod, Newsela, PBS LearningMedia, Pear Deck, SAFARI Montage, Sora from OverDrive Education, WeVideo and Wordwall. If you don’t see a particular add-on within Classroom, email your admin to ask if your district can set up that add-on, or give feedback within Classroom to request new add-ons partners that aren’t on this list.

A grid of the logos of the new add-ons partners.

Simplify your grading workflows

To make grading easier for educators, many of the add-ons have integrated time-saving features like auto-grading, insights and grade syncing. Various add-ons also provide the opportunity to grade right within Classroom and include personalized feedback when sharing a grade back with students. All add-ons sync with the Classroom gradebook, too.

  • Animation showing the CK-12 add-on and how it enables teachers to view insights and actionable recommendations related to students).

    The CK-12 add-on lets you create interactive assignments, track class performance across assignments, see auto-graded results and view insights that show concept-level performance patterns and actionable recommendations for each student.

  • Animation depicting the Nearpod add-on and how educators can see how much students participated in a lesson and how well they scored on assignments.)

    With the Nearpod add-on, teachers can assign lessons to their class or individual students, review reports of student engagement and activity, and record grades directly within Google Classroom.

  • Animation of the Edpuzzle add-on and how a quiz can be auto-graded because it uses multiple choice questions.)

    Edpuzzle makes it easy to find or create video lessons, measure progress with real-time information on student engagement and comprehension and save time with auto-grading for certain question types.

1 Agosto 2022
“Forever Young”, l’autobiografia tradotta in italiano dell’astronauta Gemini, Apollo e Shuttle John Young, in sconto a €9,99. Ne traduciamo un’altra?
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“Forever Young”, l’autobiografia tradotta in italiano dell’astronauta Gemini, Apollo e Shuttle John Young, in sconto a €9,99. Ne traduciamo un’altra?

L’editore Cartabianca mi segnala che da oggi la traduzione italiana di Forever Young, autobiografia del leggendario astronauta John Young alla cui traduzione italiana ho avuto il piacere di collaborare, è disponibile in formato digitale a un prezzo ridotto: €9,99 anziché €11,99.

Se volete saperne di più, date un’occhiata alla mia presentazione del libro.

Intanto ho una proposta: tradurre un’altra biografia di un astronauta lunare. Intanto che le trattative estenuanti per quella di Michael Collins vanno avanti (è dura ma non molliamo), Cartabianca potrebbe tradurre quella di Fred Haise (Apollo 13), Never Panic Early, che è uscita di recente. E io sarei di nuovo disponibile a collaborare alla traduzione.

Le traduzioni astronautiche fatte fin qui con Cartabianca (oltre al libro di Young ricordo L’Ultimo uomo sulla Luna di Gene Cernan) non sono certo best-seller, ma sono andate abbastanza bene da incoraggiare l’editore a proseguire la serie: l’importante è che ci sia un numero di potenziali acquirenti sufficiente almeno a coprire le spese. 

Vi chiedo quindi di dirmi se sareste interessati a leggere una traduzione italiana dell’autobiografia di Haise, che ha avuto un curriculum di tutto rispetto: oltre ad aver ricoperto il ruolo di pilota del Modulo Lunare durante la sfortunata missione Apollo 13, è stato pilota collaudatore e membro dell’equipaggio di riserva delle missioni lunari Apollo 8, Apollo 11 e Apollo 16, e ha effettuato cinque voli planati con lo Shuttle Enterprise per collaudarne le caratteristiche di volo atmosferico al rientro, prima dell’inizio delle missioni orbitali. 

L’edizione italiana dell’autobiografia di Fred Haise Never Panic Early costerebbe €9,99 in ebook e €17,50 in versione cartacea.

A questi prezzi, l’acquistereste? Se sì, mandatemi una mail a paolo.attivissimo chiocciola gmail.com con l’oggetto FRED. È solo un sondaggio, non una promessa di acquisto: per ora si tratta solo di capire se i numeri sono sostenibili. Avete tempo fino a questo venerdì, poi pubblicherò i risultati.

 Grazie!

Scritto da Paolo Attivissimo per il blog Il Disinformatico. Ripubblicabile liberamente se viene inclusa questa dicitura (dettagli). Sono ben accette le donazioni Paypal.
1 Agosto 2022