Building an Online Textbook using Google Sheets!

Sorry I haven't posted lately but with the new position, it has been so so crazy! Things are finally starting to slow down & I just couldn't hold back from sharing this with you!

This year, I really wanted to have a digital textbook, can't stand having students  lug those giant books around when they can instead use their school device for it! The problem? Well, our curriculum for Lit & LA is 10 years outdated, therefore, the subscription is expired & I can't get access to it. My solution? I sliced up that book & scanned it in to my email!

After this I still had to wonder about how to get said PDF's to my students. I could email, but that would be redundant! So what I did was create a Google Sheet & link to any stories or resources that we would be working on. I then published this Google Sheet & shared the published link with my students on our Google Classroom & Class Symbaloo (email me about either of these if you are interested in learning more!). They then bookmarked this link! My online textbook has anything they need to access while we are working on a concept: diagrams, notes, interactive games, the stories we are reading together, etc.

Why Google Sheets?

What I love about Google Sheets over a class website is that I can put various links on my Online Textbook as soon as I have created & "hide" certain ones from the student view until I am ready for them to access said files.

UPDATE:

Check out my step-by-step video tutorial on how to set one up! As always, email me your comments, tips, or requests for future topics! Subscribe to this blog, like me on Facebook, & follow me on YouTube. Stay tuned; I'll try to start posting weekly again here soon!