My Google Teach Academy #GTASYD Application Video- Nick Cusumano presents Hamlet's Advice to the Teachers

My Google Teacher Academy Application Video for the Google Teacher Academy- Sydney, Australia #GTASYD.

Nick Cusumano presents Hamlet's Advice to the Teachers

A "Googlfied" version of Hamlet's Advice to the Players. Enjoy.  
Fingers crossed to be chosen to go to the "Land of Down Under" 

Checkout TheatreCast Podcast on the Edreach.us Network

I have begun an exciting adventure with Google Certified Teacher Danielle Filas.  We are the hosts of a new podcast on the Edreach Network called TheatreCast. This is the show where show where Theatre teachers and professionals share a passion for Theatre trends, share practical advice and tips, and ask questions of some of Theatre's most innovative collaborators. Please share the news of this podcast with all your Theatre Teacher friends.

A big thanks to EdReach.us co-founder Dan Rezac for asking me to start exciting project.

Be sure check out the other shows including my favorite The Google Educast

The Edreach.us network

http://edreach.us/channel/theatrecast/

Google Certified Trainer Introduction Video for Nick Cusumano

Google Forms for Grading Tutorial

Let the ease of use Google Forms for Grading taking all your grading worries away.  Please enjoy this tutorial which is part of my Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer Application. 

Using Google Forms and the Autocrat Google Apps Scripts to Provide Automated Individualized Feedback to Students

[Old Sheets]Using the combination of Google Forms and the Autocrat Google Apps Script, teachers can save hours of time and still provide quality feedback to your students.

Update March 2014
Google has just created Add ons  in Google Docs & Sheets which make installing and managing Autocrate easier. Here is the link to Jay Atwood's Autocrat add-on tutorial video.
 http://cloudlab.newvisions.org/add-ons/autocrat

My YouTube tutorial on how use Google Forms and 

the Autocrat Google Apps Script to

 create individualized feedback for students 

Create a Grading Scoring Guide using Google Forms.  You can set this up in variety of ways:  you can use standards based grading or use a numerical scale deciding how many points are assigned to each area you are evaluating.  

Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services.

Using the Autocrat Google Apps Script created by +Andrew Stillman allows you to use the responses you placed in your Google Form to provide individualized feedback to your students on their assignments.

You must have the  e-mails/usernames of your students Google Apps for Education accounts.

In this instance, you will use the Autocrat Google Apps Script very much like an mail merge.  

Documents to create to before you begin

• Your Scoring Guide/Rubric
• Google Form version of your Scoring Guide/Rubric
• The Google Document Feedback template that will be used to create the individualized Google Documents with the information populated from your Google form when you graded their assignment. 

My Autocrat Example Documents

Tips:

• Provide your feedback in a different color than the rest of your document.  This is done by changing the text color in your Google Document Feedback template information fields.
• Follow the formatting rules in the Autocrat process. Be sure to include the $ and  matching case exactly for the information fields.

Other resources about Google Apps Scripts:

Google Scripts for Edu Chat led by +Jennifer Magiera and +Jay Atwood  

http://youtu.be/XptgVFz2mpU 

Doctopus Demo and Questions led by +JR Ginex-Orinion 

http://youtu.be/kGknwXNZcuo

+Andrew Stillman's Google Plus Page with his multiple posts about his many Google Apps Scripts

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114670488345865665282/posts

Downstage Center Podcast- From The American Theatre Wing (The Tonys)

Go in-depth with the leading artists and professionals working on stage today when you go Downstage Center. Downstage Center is the American Theatre Wing's acclaimed weekly theatrical interview program that spotlights the creative talents on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world, with in-depth conversations that simply can't be found anywhere else. 

I am enthralled by these fascinating conversations. 

http://americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/

2012 Survey of Theatre Education in US High Schools- Teaching Theatre Magazine

The Educational Theatre Association and Utah State University partnered to conduct a survey assessing the state of theatre arts education in United States high schools.   This month's Teaching Theatre Magazine is devoted to the results of the the survey. 
Please click the link below to view the digital copy of Teaching Theatre.
http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=134642