Comet Tech

This week, I was working on a Google Classroom tutorial for teachers that are new to Google Classroom. In the process, I was adding Google Drawings into my Google Doc, something that needs one additional trick. In this week's 90 Second Chromebook Tip and Trick, I show how you can annotate a photo in Google Drawings and easily insert into Google Docs. Check it out below!

Sometimes, coming up with things that we can do in classes can be tough, but one thing that is always easy if finding math in real life! Courtney invited me in to come up with a project to help with parallel lines and transversals. As I thought more about it, I thought about how often these pop up in our daily lives. Courtney then challenged the students to take some pictures of these natural occurrences so that we could mark them up. I used the above picture that I took. As you can see, there are multiple parallel lines and multiple transversals. Having students prove their knowledge through labeling them is a real-world application of the math that they are learning. While they are not measuring specific angles, they are viewing the relationships between the angles and developing an understanding. We used ThingLink, a photo annotation tool, to mark the pictures. Here is my example below. As you hover over the embedded image, you will see the labels that have been created and

Just when you start to get used to something, Google does an update! Most of the time, it is beneficial and helps improve the workflow. With the update to the way that you insert images, the process has gotten much easier. You can read about it here . Or you can watch this week's 90 Second Chromebook Tips & Tricks video to see it in action.