Shakespeare Monologue.Org

Shakespeare Monologues.Org

This is an awesome and easy to use resource.  All of Shakespeare's Monologues organized for you. They also have a Chrome App. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shakespeares-monologues/ejfdmafokffchogjkmfjdhalghlfemno?utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher

Enjoy!

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon- "The Bacon Number" Google Search

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon- The Bacon Number Google Search 

Here is a fun game to play with your students.  John Guare's play "Six Degrees of Separation" spurred the creation of a fun game that actors and other play.   Kevin Bacon has a prolific career and  has worked with many actors of the years.  How many actors between one actor and another til you get to Kevin Bacon?

Well, Google has joined the fun, to find out degrees of separation between on actor and Kevin Bacon

just type in the actors name and after that type Bacon Number

Here are two examples of some of my actor friends of mine from college and the degree of separation between them and Kevin Bacon

Deidre Goodwin

Kendra Kassebaum

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