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The webcam feature in many Google products (Docs, Slides, Drawings, etc.) makes a lot of cool learning activities possible.
How to activate it: Insert > Image > Camera
How to use it:
Ways it can be used in class:
Google Drawings comic strips -- Have students take pictures of themselves -- posing as themselves or as a character -- and add speech bubbles and thought bubbles.
Google Teacher Tribe MailbagAudra Arman-Richardson (Nevada) -- With Google+ shortly leaving us, what do you recommend as a replacement? We have 20+ schools throughout our state that share and communicate using this platform. We are not sure what to migrate to.
Mike Brilla (Pennsylvania) -- Google Classroom. Uses Doctopus and Goobric. Self-proclaimed “organizational train wreck”. Had trouble keeping track of the Sheets. Used Google Keep keeping track. Use Keep extension on Chrome. Uses the label “Things to grade.” Now everything is in one place. Links are there. Delete note when he’s done.
Danny Contopoulos (science teacher, New York) -- Bailee wants to know how to automatically send responses to different sheets.
In the google sheet that is accepting responses from the form, all Bailee would have to do is create two new tabs and on each tab use a filter formula
=filter('Sheet 1’!A1:F100,'Sheet 1'!B1:B100="Teacher 1") 'Sheet 1’!A1:F100 is the response range 'Sheet 1'!B1:B100 is the column with the teacher’s name "Teacher 1" is the teacher’s name (matched exactly)
Caroline Goodman (Tennessee)-- School developing new PE program where students/teachers attend classes at various times throughout the day. Google service flexible posting of class schedules so change daily, check in and out of classes, a record of who attended which classes.
Linda Hummer (Ohio) -- Personalized PD in their school district. 2 PD days -- 1 in fall with four different sessions running at the same time that staff could choose to go to, during sessions: 1 tool or several tools that do the same type of thing (formative assessment). Discuss and share what they’re doing, ask questions, work on creating things they’d like. 1 in spring -- changed to two sessions (they’re a K-12 building). Staff shared with one another, asked questions, enjoyed that type of PD, will continue using it.
Ryan Bradford -- I was listening to episode 74 last night and I think I have a solution for Bailee's question. The Query formula can be used to auto separate the data into different sheets based on certain criteria (e,g, school name, resource type, etc). If you create a Google Form with an identifying question like school name and send all of your responses to the default response sheet, you can then create two separate sheets that each use a query formula to pull on specific data based on the school name. I included some screenshots below of how I use this at my school to quickly separate supply requests by type.
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The Chrome Squad is an elite group of students at Royse City High School that provide tech support and learning opportunities for both students and teachers. In the four years the Chrome Squad has been in operation they have evolved--developing new teams and products to serve not only Royse City ISD, but others districts as well. The Chrome Squad has helped over 50 other districts across the US start student internships, spoken at conferences like TCEA, and have been able to spend time at the Googleplex and Google HQ2 in Austin, Tx. The Chrome Squad is made of twenty-one 10th-12th graders working across 8 teams.
There have been a few changes since the Chrome Squad was last on the Google Teacher Tribe Episode 8. They have started a podcast that focuses on the great things teachers are doing and the ways a teacher can better empower learners with technology. You can find the teaser for the podcast on iTunes (Google Play will be coming soon).
The Chrome Squad also adopted a goal setting process used by companies like Google called OKRs, or Objectives-Key Results, as well as Design SPRINTS. This has allowed the Chrome Squad to design and project plan an entire year’s worth of work in a few days during the summer.
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We're live at FETC 2019 and we had the opportunity to sit with and speak to Holly Clark, author of The Google Infused Classroom.
Holly Clark was also the guest on episode 41! Listen if you haven't!
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Matt and Kasey share ideas, sites, and tools other than those made by Google that plays nicely with Google for an enhanced teaching and learning experience.
Padlet and Sites - gather feedback through an embedded Padlet wall, post, and share work, e-portfolios, add other media to Padlet wall to demonstrate learning without having to separately add pages, etc., Use as an embedded class blog, not perfect, but easier than using Sites alone.
Wakelet and Drawings -- Create images in Drawings, add to a Wakelet collection with links, text, videos, etc. to share and for collaboration.
Flipgrid and Slides/Sites/Docs - reflection, explain their answers, set goals and revisit, reflect on writing, book talk to go with their book report, reading responses explained.
Adobe Spark and Slides/Sites -- Create images (Post), single-page web pages (Pages) and videos (Video) and embed/insert into Slides or Sites.
Canva and Sites/Slides/Forms- (Just received a major update!) Create images for your projects and creations, restaurant menus into learning menus, blog post images, flyers, brochures, headers for your forms and sites, greeting cards.
Screencastify and Maps -- Find a place in Google Maps and use Street View to view it, then record it as a virtual walking tour in Screencastify
ResourcesMike Mohammad (Wisconsin) -- Make a classroom calendar. On one side of Slide, what we’re doing that day, another side: that week. Daily part changes, weekly part stays the same. New week: new slide. Better than a paper handout bc can publish and embed in a Google Site or Canvas LMS. Can link anything on schedule directly (turn in assignment, instructions, comments). bit.ly/moschedule
Kyle Anderson (Nevada) -- Keep and Forms in IEP process. A student with upcoming IEP: things have to do in Google Keep (date, send notices for parents, steps in writing it). Can use reminder function to set up in Calendar to notify when he has to complete steps. Forms: gather info for the process, send out a form to parent for details, to teachers to gather info on student, accommodations, to the student on info that will help them out best.
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Lisa Highfill is an Instructional Technology Coach in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her masters in Educational Technology Leadership and has been a classroom teacher for over 20 years. As a Google Certified Innovator, and a YouTube Star Teacher, she travels the country presenting at edtech conferences and speaking about lesson design and learning theory. Lisa is the co-creator and co-author of The HyperDoc Handbook.
Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1, Google Certified Educator Level 2, Google Certified Innovator
Google “Spark”: I was in the Merit Program, led by Rushton Hurley. The program completely changed me as a teacher, my knowledge of technology, and how to best combine the two.
Favorite Google Tips and Tricks: Google Slides make great portfolios for all of your graphic design work.
Connect with Lisa:
John Hartmann (St. Louis) -- Name a version in the revision history. Sets up a template (Sheets, slides) and names it master. When students complete the task, can revert back to the master and use it over and over. Doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Jake Miller (Ohio) -- Thanks for creating community. Google Translate in Google Sheets. Does more than math. Type =GoogleTranslate you’ll get a formula to take words in one language and translate to +100 language. Useful for ELLs. to the native language. Can use Flippity.net to turn into flashcards to practice. JakeMiller.net search for translate for GIF.
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'Tis the season for using Google and other tools in your classroom! Please leave a comment below with your own favorites!
@MikeSzczepanik on Twitter writes, "I was recently inspired by Matt's Sticky Notes post (mentioned in this podcast) and used it for another idea: Student card sorting. I have attached a little "Engage" activity I am doing with my Biology classes Cell Unit. The students sort some cards into two piles representing "Has cells" or "Does not have cells"
I have attached both the student assignment and the directions that go with it. Thanks for the inspiration!"
Sharon Taylor, New Zealand -- Google Slide decks a lot following our discussions. Two problems: FIRST, track who has done what (deleted each other’s work), Slides doesn’t seem to be color coded as well as Google Docs. Need something more accurate. SECOND, when everyone is on the slide deck, there are lots of glitches. Could be our wifi.
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