I recently had the pleasure to present sessions at the High Impact Conference for Educators, which is an event we put on through the Educational Service Center where I work. All of my sessions were recorded, and over time I hope to share several of the videos.
Please note that the recordings are a lot more casual than some of my other videos, as this is from an in-person conference with a room full of attendees, so there is some chatting and questions and such. Hopefully though you will still find the content helpful.
For this recording, this is the session:
Once Upon a Google: Innovative Storytelling with Google ToolsGoogle tools provide many ways for students and educators to create and share stories. Slides can be used to create storybooks, e-books, comic strips, stop-motion animation, and story soundboards; Docs can be used for "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories, emoji rebus stories, and black-out poetry; Sheets can be used to create random writing prompts for inspiration, and more!
▶️ Recorded Training (48 minutes)
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🧰 Session Resources
- Session Resource Document - https://bit.ly/curts-story
- Session Slideshow - View slides - Copy slides
🐉 Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
This is an activity where students use Google Docs to create an interactive "Choose Your Own Adventure" story.
- Blog post - "Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Google Docs" - Website link
- Sample - "Dragon Quest" Interactive Story - Google Document link
😀 Emoji Rebus Stories
This is an activity where students use Google Docs to write rebus stories that use both words and pictures, in this case emojis.
- Blog post - "5 Emoji Learning Activities with Google Docs" - Website link
- Wintertime example - Blog post link - Template link
- Valentine example - Blog post link - Template link
- Halloween example - Blog post link - Template link
⬛ Black Out Poetry
This is an activity where students use Google Docs to write "Black Out Poetry" by choosing which words to keep and which words to black out.
- Blog post - "Black Out Poetry with Google Docs" - Website link
- Example poem - Google Docs link
🎞️ Stop Motion Animation
This is an activity where students use Google Slides to create stop-motion animations to tell stories and explain concepts.
- Recorded Webinar (1 hour) - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Blog post - Webinar video
- Session Agenda - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Google Doc link
- Slideshow - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Google Slides link
- Blog post - Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Blog post
🔊 Story Soundboards
This is an activity where Google Slides is used to create an interactive sound board for sound effects when reading a story.
- "Creating a Google Slides Soundboard" - Resource Doc, Google Slides link, Blog Post
- Recorded tutorial video (30 minutes) - "MoteCon 2022: Building a Soundboard using Mote and Google Slides" - YouTube link
- Example Soundboard - "Red the Raccoon Weathers the Storm" - Google Slides link
🎲 Random Writing Prompts
This is an activity where Google Sheets is used to generate random writing prompts to inspire student writing.
- Random Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets - Blog post - Google Sheets template
- Emoji Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets - Blog post - Google Sheets template

🤖 AI Writing Activities
Resources
- The ABC's of AI: What Educators Need to Know - bit.ly/curts-ai - Video (42 min)
- Google AI in Education - bit.ly/curts-googleai - Video (1 hour)
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