Math, Rocks, and Overlooked Features - The Month in Review

Good evening from Maine where the sun is setting on the first month of the year. It seems like just yesterday we were ringing in the New Year. How are you doing on your New Year's resolution? I'm 50/50 on the follow-through for the two resolutions that I made.

As I do at the end of every month, I have compiled a list of the posts that were visited the most in previous 30 days. Take a look and see if you missed anything new and interesting in January.

Here are January's most popular posts on FreeTech4Teachers.com:
1. Ten Overlooked Google Docs Features
2. Gamifying Writing Instruction
3. Google Calendar is Changing Whether You Like It or Not
4. 10 Free Apps for Elementary School Math Lessons
5. 12 Free Lessons About Rocks, Minerals, and Landforms
6. Ten Overlooked Google Slides Features
7. 10 Good Resources for Math Teachers and Students
8. How to Create an Interactive Diagram in Google Slides
9. Automatically Issue Certificates When Students Pass a Quiz in Google Forms
10. Free Music to Use In Google Slides Presentations

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Add Live Polls and Q&A to Your PowerPoint Slides

Glisser is a live polling and online Q&A platform that offers a free PowerPoint add-in. Glisser's free PowerPoint add-in will sync your slides to Glisser's online service. With Glisser activated you can ask multiple choice poll questions or let your audience submit their own questions much like the Q&A feature for Google Slides.

To use Glisser's free PowerPoint add-in just create your slides as you normally would. Then with the add-in activated select "sync" followed by "go live" in your PowerPoint deck. While presenting live you can use a Glisser's keyboard shortcuts to toggle between your slides and your polls.

Applications for Education
If you're in the habit of using PowerPoint to deliver lessons to your students, Glisser's free PowerPoint add-in could provide you with a way for students to submit questions and then vote for the questions that they want you to answer first. You could also use Glisser's PowerPoint add-in to build questions to use as quick warm-up quizzes at the start of a lesson.