Turn Quotes into Art

Recite

Looking for a creative way to display one of your thoughts? Looking to peruse some random quotes and get a good laugh? Check out http://www.recitethis.com/# it allows you to take your thoughts and poster-ize them, fast. You can also view a library of quotes that were already created on recite this. You can upload your masterpiece to a social media platform when completed. You can only purchase it as a poster, but you can right-click and also save it as a picture, keeping the recite copyright logo on it.

Here are a few samples I created:

So much that students can do with this to allow their creative juices to flair. Some ideas I thought of:

-Creative pullout quotes in a research paper or informative paper.

-To advertise a product, slogans and these types of quotes are all the rage right now.

-To enforce classroom rules/PBIS, have students design to kick off a course, hang up around the room

-As a poetry piece

If you are looking for a super quick way to make a quote into a poster, use Recite! 🙂

Organizing Your Shared Documents with GClass

GClass folders is an organization system script that you can use for the classes that you are having go “paperless” or utilizing google docs often for collaboration and your class work.

I wish I would have learned about this script sooner, because it would have been the perfect Inservice training, before school started, but I didn’t, so if you are starting to get on the Google train with collaboration and sharing and utilizing Google Docs often, I encourage you to take a little time to re-organize your drive in order to use this powerful script.

What does GClass do?

It takes a spreadsheet that you made of your class roster, and creates a folder for your students work, and basically passes out that folder to their drive. Beyond that, it will also create a folder for you to put assignments in that students can “edit” and another folder for assignments that they can only “view”. This will allow you to become much more organized when your students “share” their assignments with you. They will be filtered directly into the folder that GClass creates. It also does the organizing for you. Here is a snapshot of a class that is using the GClass Script:

 

Here is the link to the site for the script for GClass folders:  http://www.gclassfolders.com/home

A blog post about GClass:  http://hartfordk8technology.blogspot.com/2012/12/g-class-folders-this-will-change-your.html

Here is a video tutorial of installing GClass folders:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A6dr9lcfKUU

If you would like to sit down with me and learn more about setting up GClass folders for your classes, feel free to contact me!

GClass is an awesome organizer that WILL be worth the time in setting up! 🙂