This is the final episode of the Google Teacher Podcast. In this final episode, Matt and Kasey explain why this podcast is ending and reflect on their experiences creating it. Some of their favorite moments and things they've enjoyed include:  Tips from YOU are the best episode Speakpipes are informative and sometimes entertaining Jokes, memes, and silliness with our listeners Keynote speeches and conference meet-ups Learned more from our listeners than we will ever learn on our own Hearing listeners apply things they learned made our day Continued partnership and friendship Outtakes - Speaking of outtakes...make sure you listen to the very end!  You're invited to continue learning with Matt, Kasey and Chris!  Matt Miller's Ditch That Text Book     Listen to archived episodes of the Ditch That Textbook podcast Social media  Matt on Twitter Ditch That Textbook on Twitter Matt on Facebook Matt on YouTube Matt on Pinterest     Matt’s books       New book, Do More with Google Classroom, is available!         Check out the book companion website for resources Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit (free online conference every December)   Keynote speeches, workshops and other professional development Online courses (free and paid) by Ditch That Textbook     Kasey Bell's Shake Up Learning      The Shake Up Learning Show Podcast (every Tuesday) Google Resources on SUL  Google Quick Tip Playlist Online Courses Books Speaking (in-person and virtual)  Webinars Book Studies Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook Subscribe to Kasey’s weekly newsletter Social  Twitter Facebook YouTube Pinterest TikTok Instagram       Chris Nesi's House of #EdTech  Social Media  Twitter YouTube TikTok Instagram

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Google News and Updates   Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet  Create and work with documents that contain multiple page orientations in Google Docs  Open Office attachments from Gmail in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides with one click  Some Google Meet settings now “sticky” for Education users  Take a snowy stroll with Street View  Create a festive song with Blob Opera  20 years of Year in Search  Featured Content   Pam Hubler had a possible idea to answer a question in e124 using Wakelet to curate Google materials Another possible answer to the same question from Stephanie Litz  Hello Matt and Kasey, So thankful for your podcast, keep up the good work because your listeners appreciate it.  Regarding the question from Marcel (below), I found this resource that might be a good fit:  Cube For Teachers Website - Cube For Teachers is a place where educators search, share, and store links to free open educational K-12 resources, including lessons, activities, interactive games, teaching strategies, tech tips, videos, special education, subject-specific resources, and more. Cube For Teachers - Chrome Web Store @cubeforteachers      Dr. Rebecca Kreider from Mt. Olivetownship school district, verbal feedback is 3x as effective. She recommends Mote. Ditch Summit tips:  Matt Miller: Mote Chrome extension for voice feedback. Use your dictation/voice typing command on a mobile device. Esther Park: use unscreen.com to create a GIF from a short video clip Paula Martinez from Slides Mania: The master is for teachers. Duplicate layouts in the master for different versions of pages. Click on the “Colors” button in the master for master colors. Desiree Alexander: Make files available offline or downloadable so students won’t need internet access to complete at home.   How to Access Google Files Offline   Kasey: Google certifications, magnetic poetry, Google Drawings, making ebooks with Google Slides,  the resources she shared in her session   How to Create Drag and Drop activities   Register for Ditch Summit, a FREE online conference for teachers available until January 8: DitchSummit.com  On The Blogs  Matt  New book, Do More with Google Classroom, is available! Check out the book companion website for resources Ditch Summit: Free online conference for teachers, December 14 to January 8   Kasey   8 Reasons to Love Blended Learning with Google  EARLY BIRD Special! Buy Blended Learning with Google, get FREE Google Tips Training Blended Learning with Google (on Amazon) Google from A to Z (on Amazon)

Tips from Teachers - GTP125

Episode 113 was originally released on April 6, 2020. On this episode: Matt and Kasey share and discuss some great ways to use Google Classroom for remote learning! Click Here To View Full Shownotes

REPLAY: Google Classroom Tips for Remote Learning - GTP113

Google News and Updates   Virtually raise your hand to ask a question in Google Meet  Accept knocks in bulk in Google Meet  Expanding Google Arts & Culture with Expeditions  Expeditions app and Tour Creator going away  Featured Content Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative. They work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. The Google Arts & Culture mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.  Museums Art Historical events and figures Virtual tours (Expeditions now part of A&C) 360 Collections Time Explorer Color Explorer Experiments (games) Lesson from  Applied Digital Skills Art selfie Nearby Harry Potter: A History of Magic  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Marcel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- I have been a longtime listener and I am wondering if there is a site that you know of, that we can share G-Suite materials. I have put in a lot of time to make some good stuff, and I am sure other teachers have as well. You may have mentioned a site on one of your previous podcasts, but for the life of me, I can find it. (I have re-listened to so many podcasts...some are almost better the second time) On The Blogs  Matt  New book, Do More with Google Classroom, coming in mid-December     Check out the book companion website for resources     Ditch Summit: Free online conference for teachers, December 14 to January 8   Kasey   Blended Learning with Google (Part 1: Do THIS, Not THAT)  Blended Learning with Google (Part 2: Storytelling in Any Classroom)  New Books Coming Soon! BlendedLearningwithGoogle.com

Google Arts and Culture - GTP124

Google News and Updates   Google for Education transformation reports window open, availability expanded worldwide (Seven key areas of transformation are  here.)  Replace your background in Google Meet  Office editing mode is now the default editing mode for Office files in Drive on the web  Try out these Google features on your new iPhone  Featured Content From Patti Young from Cornwall, NY: Hi Kasey and Matt, I love your podcast and look forward to every new episode. This year has been a struggle for teachers and their traditional ways of teaching. I am a 5th-grade teacher in middle school. My district is using a blended learning model. We have 2 cohorts Tuesdays and Thursdays and Wednesdays and Fridays. I see 2 groups of students per day. I really miss putting the kids into groups to share their learning. I love group work and I am really struggling with how to make it work this year. If you or your listeners have any ideas on how to do group work, I would love to try it. Can't wait to hear some new ideas! Simple answer: collaborate on the assignment within a doc.   Set up sections with steps that you want students to progress through. (Kind of like Hyperdocs) Discuss in the comments.  They can work on an assignment in a different app (Slides, Drawings, even outside G Suite)  Use voice comments with a tool like Mote (justmote.me) for comments for a personal touch of voice Other tools that integrate nicely with Classroom that can foster discussion:  Flipgrid (flipgrid.com): Video replies. Synth (gosynth.com): Audio discussion tool. Audio replies.  What’s your purpose? Group work, collaboration, cooperative learning?  Group Doc Add-On (From Alice Keeler)  Collaborative Notes with Google Docs Small-Group Instruction with Google Meet Breakout Rooms and Jamboard   Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning (by Esther Park) Prioritize facilitation and 1-on-1 conferencing touchpoints   Station Rotations in a Hybrid Model (Catlin Tucker)   More details in e85 of Shake Up Learning Show  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Jen Giffen (Ontario, Canada) -- On the show: about integrating a Zoom link into Google Classroom. (Like Kasey said, no integration.) Workaround: Go to gear (class settings), if you put under “subject” Zoom link and the link, it’ll show up in the header. Not a live hyperlink, but could be copied into another tab. Students have quick easy access. Not perfect but a workaround! On The Blogs  Matt:   20 virtual field trips for your classroom  40+ FREE digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own) NEW mini online course: Getting Started with Digital Escape Rooms   Kasey:   Google Classroom Comments - All You Need to Know  FREE Google Lesson Plans for Teachers New Books Coming Soon! BlendedLearningwithGoogle.com

Meaningful Group Work with Google Tools - GTP123

Google News and Updates   9 Chromebook and G Suite for Education features to make learning more accessible  Featured Content Build classroom community with Google Google Classroom headers Get to know you activities  Student interest surveys with Google Forms Fake Instagram  Google Forms check-in for student well being Create more touchpoints with students:  Make time for one-on-one feedback with students and small groups. Build student conferencing into your weekly schedule to make meaningful connections with students. Appointment slots in Google Calendar for one-on-one conferences with students  Student Discussion in Google Classroom  Flipgrid for Good Morning videos Remote Learning Tips from an Online Teacher (interview with Paulino Brener) Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag  Steve Scaysbrook (England) - Use OBS (Open Broadcast Software). Mix like a TV studio, bringing in a load of different feeds from the screen, external, feed it as one screen to a live broadcast. Feed to Google Meet, Zoom, whatever. He uses Microsoft Teams. Direct to that internal system. Easy to use. Mix and create screens like in a TV studio, flip between them very easily. Text. Slides. Anything else. Very easy to use. Ashley Brown (Mississippi) - Ep121, a private school teacher, being hybrid. Her public school is a hybrid. Did a fellowship with Learn Modern Classrooms. They teach you how to do blended learning with instructional videos, guided notes, tracker (so all students know where they are). Self-paced. Good for students who are in class, out of class, etc. Don’t miss anything. Can move simultaneously. Instructional videos for all students. All students can access it. Use a tracker or the to-do list so kids can see what to work on next. “Love you guys!”  On The Blogs  Matt   30 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools How to make an FAQ page for parents and students   Kasey   Blended Learning Best Practices (with Catlin Tucker)  13+ Google Classroom Quick Tip Videos

Build Classroom Community with Google Tools - GTP122

Google News and Updates   Introducing Google Workspace   https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/10/introducing-google-workspace.html     This year, teachers have gone the distance  Create and view tasks in the Google Calendar mobile apps  Increase engagement with Q&A and polls in Google Meet  Featured Content Google Form to serve as a contact form FAQ document: If a student/parent asks a question, add it to the FAQ doc Take pictures of a whiteboard and add to the student site Include important documents (permission slips, syllabus, etc.) Embed videos to support what you’re teaching in class Use it as a “satellite location” for Google Classroom (for what it won’t do) Host digital escape rooms   30+ free digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own)  20 Google Sites tips and tricks  Create a page for resources and tutorials for STUDENTS, and one for PARENTS  Google Classroom Cheat Sheets - a great resource for students and parents Google’s  Teach from Anywhere page has lots of great resources you may want to make available.  Google’s Guide for Guardians  Google’s Accessibility Guide for Guardians Post your virtual office hours on the home page, or add the time to your image header HYBRID? Create separate pages for these two groups Daily checklists - Use one Google Slide deck and add a new checklist to a new slide at the beginning each day. Then embed this on the homepage of your google site for parents, guardians, and students Remote Learning Resources from Shake Up Learning Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag  Sheryl Brennan (California) -- Back in the classroom. Exciting to implement tools she’s been teaching for seven years. Ep120: To-do widget in Google Classroom. Uses with her students to redirect if they ask what they’re supposed to be doing if they’re finished. If empty: “may do” list. Today: different views from inside the Classwork tab “view your work” widget. Mary Lynn (Nevada) -- Back in a classroom. One student remotely. With Google Meet. Two cameras in the room. Other students in the room. One student in Google Meet all day with her. Feedback?  On The Blogs  Matt   How to create Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning  12 social media-inspired Google Slides templates   Kasey   Synchronous v. Asynchronous Online Learning  Collaborative Notes with Google Docs  New Books Coming Soon!

Support Students with Google Sites - GTP121

Google News and Updates   The Anywhere School: 50+ Google for Education updates MEET  In September, we’ll kick off with a larger tiled view of up to 49 people and an integrated Jamboard whiteboard for collaboration. We’ll also release new controls so moderators can choose to always join first, end meetings for all participants, disable in-meeting chat, and much more. In October, we’ll launch custom and blurred backgrounds to provide some extra privacy. Breakout rooms and attendance tracking will also be launching for all Google Enterprise for Education customers, allowing for more engaged classes and insights on participation. Later this year, we’re rolling out hand-raising for all customers and Q&A and polling for G Suite Enterprise for Education customers. Plus, we’ll launch a new temporary recordings feature that will be available to all Education customers for free (premium recordings will still be part of G Suite Enterprise for Education).    CLASSROOM  A new to-do widget on the Classes page will help students see what’s coming up, what’s missing, and what’s been graded.  Teachers can now share a link to invite students to their class, which makes joining a class much easier.  Classroom will soon be available in 10 additional languages, for 54 languages total. educators can soon run originality reports five times per course (up from three previously). And with G Suite Enterprise for Education, educators will be able to see matches for potential plagiarism not only against webpages but between student submissions at their school. school leaders with Enterprise licenses will have greater visibility into Classroom usage via new Data Studio dashboards, which allow admins to see active classes, measure feature adoption, and monitor teacher and student engagement.  To support teachers and admins, we’re making it easier to sync Classroom grades with a push to your Student Information System (SIS), starting with Infinite Campus customers (and more SIS to come). Keep reading for more details on what’s new in Classroom.    On The Blogs  Matt  How to use Jamboard in the classroom: 20+ tips and tricks The Unboxing Video: A fun classroom video activity   Kasey   Read-Along Storybooks Using Audio in Google Slides (by Mike Mohammed)  Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool  Shake Up Learning Book Study (starts Oct. 1, 2020)

Fall 2020 Google Update Roundup - GTP120

Google News and Updates   Use the new Google Chat app for fast and reliable communication  New quick settings help you optimize your Gmail layout  New Google Groups now generally available  Learn and play together as a family with Chromebook  Featured Content Susan Vincentz (Kentucky): Using screencastify to record and export audio only Stephanie Howell (Ohio) -- Google Educator Group: people gathering together, talk about Google, build a community to expand your knowledge. Working as a group collaboratively. Supporting others. Amazing community. She leads the Ohio GEG with Eric Curts. Think globally … Global GEG supports local GEGs. Host events together. Groups can come together and communicate, grow, learn, build upon each other’s ideas. Built-up as an educator. Was so in her own world. Now, gets perspective from others.   Google Educator Groups (GEG) resources  Katie Wardrobe (Australia): Use Chrome extension Transpose on YouTube and Vimeo to change the speed, key of music, or create a playback loop.   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/transpose-%E2%96%B2%E2%96%BC-pitch-%E2%96%B9-spee/ioimlbgefgadofblnajllknopjboejda   Daren White (England): Forms and Sheets responses to maintain interaction with students during streamed lessons. Form responses come back and shout out correct answers, birthdays, anything else they want to call out. Tanner Oglesby (Arkansas): Use Google Forms to create a database in Sheets. He uses it to gather student contact information and was very useful during remote learning. Dan Stitzel (Ohio) -- Keep for personal organizations, notes, checklists, copy/paste links. Excellent for sharing with other people as well. Share individual notes with co-teacher. Share a note that you start, both add to it. Create a checklist for a student and share with a student so only you two see it. Location reminder feature -- a set reminder for when you arrive at a place. Remember when you get to work: that reminder pops up. When go to a certain buildings, accomplish what you noted in Keep. Anna Cartwright (New York): Highlighter strips in Google Slides by creating a semi-transparent colored rectangle that can be dragged over the text.  Mike Mohammad (Wisconsin): Loves the podcast. Favorite for distance learning: adding audio to Google Slides. Loves using Cloud Audio Recorder to record snips of audio to Drive, then students add into slideshows -- or he adds them. Made a YouTube video for it.  bit.ly/addaudiotoslides  Ronaldo Palacios (California): Using Google Meet to view all students and share screens he opens a second window. Pam Hubler (South Carolina): Google Sheets instead of the calendar to keep track of my daily activities as a coach. IT takes less time to update one Google sheet for a month than add individual events on a calendar. Easy to share with admin, teachers to see where she is. Updated tracker from show notes in episode 65.   Template:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19fIRwF5JykQAlXh5EBvNpz_WVCcJSBl

Google Teacher Tips (Vol. 5) - GTP119

Google News and Updates   Keep tabs on your tabs in Google Chrome  Google Meet is here to host your video meetings, for free New ways Google Duo helps make time together more special  We need your tips! Episode 119 will be the finale of our fourth season of the podcast. This episode is all about YOU and your Google tips, tricks, strategies, and resources! Go to our feedback page and leave us a voice message to include in the episode! Featured Content Google Classroom and Drive cleanup for the EOY   https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/google-classroom-cleanup-tips-for-the-end-of-the-year/    https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/13-tips-to-organize-your-google-drive/  From the previous  episode 88:  Return all work, grade it if you need to Archive Classes Clean-up Folders in Drive Create new folders for the things you want to keep and move things over Create a folder for exemplary work Do NOT Delete the Classroom Folder Do NOT Delete from Shared with Me Delete Old Class Calendars Reflect on your Google Classroom practices, collaborate with others for ideas  A check-out form that admins could sign digitally / students and parents / returning equipment Doing last Google Meet calls with students  Fun things to do during Google Meet calls (Kahoot/Gimkit, scavenger hunts, virtual field trips with Google Earth, etc.)   How to Create a Google Classroom Template (for next year)  https://alicekeeler.com/2016/05/31/google-classroom-clean-folders/  https://alicekeeler.com/2018/05/25/google-classroom-archive-class/  https://alicekeeler.com/2018/07/17/school-is-out-7-tips-to-clean-up-your-g-suite/  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Debbie Thymianos (Henderson, NV) -- Is there a way to disable the chat in Google Meets? It's very distracting when they are messaging each other or writing nonsense. Philip Trott (Bermuda) -- I swear I have been listening to your podcast for YEARS. I must have a hundred subscriptions, and yours is the ONLY one I listen to weekly. I really appreciate all the hard work you put in. Is there a way to subscribe to the Keyword blog? I didn't see anything on there and I would prefer to receive a weekly email or something to remind me to go in there and check. If you have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.  Keyword Blog RSS feed   Keyword Blog education RSS feed   RSS reader: Feedly   RSS feed to email via IFTTT   Email subscription to G Suite Updates    Google Edu Newsletter  On The Blogs  Matt:  Tech Like a PIRATE is OUT! Get the paperback/Kindle here. FREE Tech Like a PIRATE resources page  20 ways Google tools can make the end of the year ROCK  8 YouTube-inspired classroom video ideas Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources Page   Kasey:   Lessons Learned From Remote Learning (interview with Evan Robb) Remote Learning Resources

Ending the Year Remotely with Google - GTP118

Google News and Updates   To every teacher, thank you times infinity  New Google Lens features to help you be more productive at home  Kids can learn at home with Read Along by Google  Make at-home learning more fun with 3D and AR in Search  Featured Content Want to do Tech Like a Pirate stuff? Website: TechLikeaPirate.com What’s the focus of the book? (Using tech to create an experience, make learning memorable) “Don’t just teach a lesson. Create an experience!” Is there research that supports doing activities that are fun? (Shawn Achor productivity, neuroscience study, National Institute for Play ongoing studies) What are the ways to Tech Like a Pirate?  Social media and apps Video Games Collaboration Images Exploration Global communication   Can these be used with Google tools? And remote learning?  Social media and apps: Instagram/Snapchat/Twitter templates in Slides Video: In video calls/pre-recorded video: What’s the lens you see the video through? (news anchor, on the scenes TV reporter, reality game show, horror movie, etc.) Global communication: Inviting virtual guests, adding virtual field trips to video calls Exploration: giving students flexibility in what they research/find info (and where they find it) Collaboration: Shared Google Slides   Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Renee Johnson (California) -- Task: create an unboxing video of your past self. Before created: put items in it, like survival kit to send to past self to prepare for the situation now. Write a note to explain why each item was in it. Close box. Put tape. In the video, past self opens up the box, reads the note, and pulls out one by one to see what’s inside. Posted these on a Wakelet so everyone can watch everyone’s videos. Hopefully, someone else can use this.   8 YouTube-inspired classroom video ideas  Steve Scaysbrook (United Kingdom) -- Use of Google school within the university. Examples of this? Mostly, setting up an online school for professionals who need to do continued professional development (CPD). Do that study. Give them tasks, curriculum, info … then mark work and give them CPD time for doing it. On The Blogs  Matt:   Tech Like a PIRATE: 10 things you’ll find in the book Tech Like a PIRATE resources page The LOST CHAPTER of Tech Like a PIRATE: Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching and  Learning math through story: Examples from one teacher’s classroom Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources Page   Kasey:   FREE Access to Fluency Tutor  What Students Have to Say About Remote Learning [interviews with a 3rd and 12th grader] – SULS061 Remote Learning Resources

Using Google To Tech Like A Pirate - GTP117

Google News and Updates   New features for Google Sites: Templates, announcement banners, and access for children with Google Accounts  New sharing dialog for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms  Maps that bring us closer, even when we're apart  The science of why remote meetings don't feel the same  Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone  Featured Content  “Family” gatherings of older student mentors and students Family Game night with classes/teachers Padlet/Flipgrid where people could put affirmations and celebrations Facebook group for teachers Informal coffee talks Birthday party for a teacher/student in a parking lot with social distancing Scavenger hunt - collect items, spell out mascot name with items and post pictures Would you rather? - discussion on Google Classroom, in person, or asynchronous Learn a TikTok dance What are you learning at home? Interview a family member Virtual guests and virtual field trips   Pixel art Virtual greeting cards on Google Drawings Make a creative  stop-motion animation  Virtual Learning Ideas      Resources Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag  Tracey Dranttel (North Carolina) -- Email Pat Goolsby (Georgia) -- Voicemail Clay Smith (Twitter)  On The Blogs  Matt:  Remote Learning 101: FREE online course  20 ways to use Pear Deck to engage students Webinar: Use student-paced mode in Pear Deck Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources Page   Kasey:   FREE Interactive Tic-Tac-Toe Choice Board for Google Slides  Leading Through Crisis and Beyond for Teachers and Educational Leaders  FREE Webinar: G Suite for School Leaders: Leading the New Normal with a Framework for Meaningful Digital Learning Remote Learning Resources

Engaging Students and Families During Remote Learning - GTP116

Google News and Updates   Present high-quality video and audio in Google Meet  See up to 16 Google Meet participants at once with a tiled layout  Start or join a Google Meet video meeting directly from Gmail  Explore new sites, relive old hikes for National Park Week (Arts & Culture)  Featured Content Using Google Tools to Connect with Students  Encourage connectedness Good morning videos Office Hours/Check-ins: Keep interactions light-hearted when possible. Try having a joke of the day, funny video of the day, or playing a game.  Trackers -  from Lisa Johnson Google Forms Attendance and Check-in: How are you doing? How do you feel? Online safety/Digital Citizenship -  Applied Digital Skills Using Google Classroom posts and comments to support conversations and connection  Google Slides: give students a prompt and have them respond with webcam pics Have them teach something non-school curriculum through pictures Google Form (or a non-graded Google Classroom assignment): Asking “how are you doing” and following up with them via email or Google Classroom private comments Connect outside tools to Google Classroom:  Flipgrid for student check-ins, for fun prompts, to share their pets, etc. Pear Deck has SEL slides … put them in student-paced mode to be accessed any time  Fun Google Meet video call ideas (13-20 in graphic below has some fun stuff) Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Melissa Burns (South Carolina)  -- I don't know about anybody else, but my Google Classroom Stream was about to drive me CrAzY. I was always getting messages from parents and students that they could not find certain things like links or instructions. My saving grace was discovering the Materials option in the Classwork section. Here I can organize important instructions, links, and even "How-To," videos. Did not know if this could help anyone else. I love listening to ya'll every week.   Google Classroom Cheat Sheets, Google Classroom FAQ, Bookmark the Classwork Page  Anonymous Voicemail -- Enabled Google Meet on Classroom. Access from top banner. Is there a way to go into Google Calendar and set up a scheduled time? It assigns a different Google Meet location. They aren’t going to the same spot. Her workaround: Go to down to description: enters link there. Doesn’t allow her to enter Google Classroom meet link. On The Blogs  Matt:  Use Explore Explain Apply to plan remote learning lessons 10 online whiteboard options for remote learning Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials   Kasey:  FREE Google Templates  Work From Home and Get Things Done!  Google Classroom FAQ  FREE Webinar: G Suite for School Leaders: Leading the New Normal with a Framework for Meaningful Digital Learning Remote Learning Resources

Using Google Tools to Connect with Students - GTP115

Google News and Updates   Extending the availability of Google Meet advanced features to all customers through September 30, 2020  New Meet features to improve distance learning (Start a Meet video chat in Google Classroom)  5 tips for effective distance learning during school closures  Accessibility ideas for distance learning during COVID-19 If you are not subscribed to the G Suite Updates blog, now is a good time! Click the “subscribe by email” button.  Featured Content  Make a copy - How to use all the free templates out there  File&gt;Make a copy Force a Copy links Template links  How to Create and Assign Templates (GTP095)  How to use Google Templates and Assign in Google Classroom   Sharing -  Guide to Sharing  What is G Suite (core, additional, terms) Where to find answers  Support.google.com Help forums Google it! G Suite Updates Blog   Communicating with students (private comments, class comments, in-file comments) LMGTFY  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Jennifer Isaacs (Illinois) -- All the videos show for me to click on the 3 dots and I can move my assignments up or down. Mine are like that. I only have 3 options and they are edit, delete, or copy link. Help! Kat Benne -- I am looking for a way for me to share my screen which would have a lesson with my students (8th grade) when we are having a virtual meeting. My laptop is older and does not have a webcam so I am using my iPad. Is there a virtual meeting platform where I can share my screen with them while we talk about the content? And is there a tutorial for that procedure. Thanks for your time. Nicole Blake (Indiana) -- How to make a document camera with your smartphone (Google Drive video). Start with Google Meet. Join on a smartphone. Set on a stack of books so hang over the edge. Under phone is now on the screen. Record with screencast extension. David Rogers (South Africa) -- In the podcast this morning, I was sure I heard you say that ScreenCastify was making their premium product available to all school users during the shutdown. I have been wanting to recommend ScreenCastify to my teachers, but the cost has always been prohibitive for us. I was very pleased when I heard of this offer, but disappointed when I saw there was still a five-minute limit. Is this offer only available in the USA? I teach in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Screencastify post about free access  On The Blogs  Matt:  10 live video streams for students  How to use Chromebooks offline for elearning OnlineLearningIdeas.com -- New ideas for educators every day Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials   Kasey:   The Guide to Google Drive Sharing (FREE eBook)  Home Learning Strategies for Primary Students That All Teachers Can Use  How to use Google Templates and Assign in Google Classroom  What is G Suite for Education (FREE download)  10 Google Classroom Tips for Remote Learning  12 Practical Tips for Remote Learning During School Closures Remote Learning Res

G Suite Basics for Remote Learning - GTP114

Episode 82 was originally released on April 8, 2019. On this episode: Google Classroom is one of the nicest kids on the playground of education technology. There are many apps and websites that want to play with Google and Google is happy to play with so many of the other apps and sites that are enjoying the nice days and time to play. Matt and Kasey share and discuss some great tools that are fine on their own but when they play Google we never want edtech recess to end! Click Here To View Full Shownotes

REPLAY - Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom - GTT082

Google News and Updates   Create pointers to any file or folder in Google Drive with shortcuts  Discover podcasts you’ll love with Google Podcasts, now on iOS Teach from Home  Featured Content  What is G Suite for Education  Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teacher and Students (FREE) Melanie’s Tips:  Share a quick daily video with your students (Melanie uses the “Shorts” camera in Flipgrid) Move items to the top of the stream (three dots menu button: click “move to top”) Use topics to keep things organized (In classwork: New &gt; Topic … and they’re draggable!) Use “email guardians” under People tab to keep parents in the loop   6 Tips for Getting Started with Google Classroom  4 Must-Have to Google Classroom Skills  How to Package Your Digital Assignments How to manage Google Classroom assignments during remote learning How to use Google Meet with Google Classroom How to provide feedback   Meaningful Feedback in Google Classroom  How to record videos to share with students through Google Classroom  Screencastify (screencastify.com)  10 video tips for students with slow internet Infographic (below): How to optimize videos on Screencastify for students with slow internet   Flipgrid (flipgrid.com … use the Shorts camera to record videos for students)   How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom  A topic for “Due this Week,” or “Due Today!”  If your students are tech savvy enough, you can have them collect all of their links in one document and submit all at once.   How to Differentiate Assignments in Google Classroom  10 Google Classroom Tips You Didn’t Know Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Vicki Heupel (Montana) -- With remote learning: more need for forms for formative assessment. Tips and tricks for assigning thru GC: When do you assign for one class vs. for all classes? To be effective. Autograded within Google Classroom. MrWiseley in a blog comment: “Oh my goodness! I have an answer for the need!!! Select the column with the student IDs (better than names that might have varied spellings by the teachers). Select "Format --&gt; Conditional Formatting". Then do a "custom formula" of =countif(D:D,D1)&gt;2 where D represents column D (replace with the column letter for YOUR sheet). Choose to format with a cell color, and BOOM! Any kid listed more than twice will be highlighted in that color!” On The Blogs  Matt:  10 video tips for students with slow internet  10 no-internet remote learning activities OnlineLearningIdeas.com -- New ideas for educators every day Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials   Kasey:   Home Learning with Choice Boards During School Closure [interview with Laura Steinbrink]  Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students Remote Learning Resources

Google Classroom Tips for Remote Learning - GTP113

Google News and Updates   Helping educators and students stay connected Learn@Home on YouTube  Connecting people with COVID-19 information and resources  Now you can transcribe speech with Google Translate  Join a GEG - Google Educator Group  Featured Content Hangouts? Meet? Compare Meet with classic chat video calls  FREE Hangouts Meet Tutorials Manage Meet Video meeting 13+ over questions - Communicating with Parents and Guardians about G Suite for Education G Suite Enterprise features available:  Recording videos Live streaming (through Calendar)  Google updates:   Mute/block only by event creators Can’t rejoin in nicknamed meetings when event creator is last to leave  Infographics below:  Tips for teacher users Tips for student users Teaching ideas for using Hangouts Meet   20 virtual field trip ideas and activities  30+ digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide to creating your own) Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Yudelka Alvarado (NYC) -- I want to give my students my notes on Google slides to help them with remote learning. It isn't an assignment- so I don't get to choose permissions. I post it as Class Material and it defaults to giving them editing AND viewing permissions. I then have to go back to every material on my google drive and remove their editing permissions each time I post the material. How do I change this so that it defaults to ONLY giving viewing permissions? HELP!!  Put the view-only link in the instructions.  Bailey Sandsmark (San Diego) -- Sheets: entire sixth-grade team holds their own lunch detentions. Creating a form to keep track of those students. Into sheet. To better track “frequent flyers”. Automatically populate student names that appear +3 times. Conditional formatting. Wants it to find instances where something shows up multiple times. On The Blogs  Matt:  How to use Google Meet for online learning, elearning OnlineLearningIdeas.com -- New ideas for educators every day Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials   Kasey:   Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students  10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know Remote Learning Resources

Google Meet for Remote Teaching - GTP112

Google News and Updates   Hangouts Meet improvements for remote learning Google’s Home Learning Page  Google’s COVID-19 Support Resources Page for Educators  Chromebook App Hub distance learning  Share your distance learning tips with Google  Featured Content Carly Black spends her days encouraging tenth graders in West Salem, Ohio to believe reading and writing is totally cool. At night she chases toddlers with her teacher husband and in the morning repeats the process all over again. Find the lessons and ideas she uses to encourage her students and tame her toddlers on the blog.  Carly’s student newsletter about home learning  Carly’s weekly student checklist template  Podcast and  Webinar that Carly refers to in this episode with Jenn Pearson.  Resources  Twitter: @teachmomrepeat Class Blog: http://colorfulclassroom.edublogs.org/ Website: www.TeachMomRepeat.com  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Alexis Snider (Hanoi, Vietnam) -- 7th week of home learning. Tips. 1. Use tech that students already know. 2. Planning a lesson: learning goal, student w/minimal adult support complete successfully, which tool meets those needs. Leanne -- Can you please tell me how to disable "Chat" in Google Slides. I use GSuite for my morning work and my kids are chatting. We have looked everywhere we know to look and haven't been successful at disabling this feature. Answer: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7391715?hl=en On The Blogs  Matt  70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials Ditch That Textbook elearning resources page   Kasey   FREE Tech Coach Collaborative to Support Schools  FREE PD for Teachers Stuck at Home

Teaching Remotely with Carly Black - GTP111

Google News and Updates   With school closures, teachers can keep their lessons going remotely  Extending Hangouts Meet premium features to all G Suite customers through July 1, 2020  Math gave Lilian Rincon a voice, and led to her passion  Hey Google, tell me about an inspiring woman  Featured Content  Tips for Enabling Distance Learning through G Suite & Chrome (From Google)  How to use Chromebooks offline for e-learning days, homework  Coronavirus Closures? Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China]  FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for School Closures Nadine Gilkison’s  e-learning Slides template and website resources  How to Access Files Offline in Google Drive FREE Online Learning Tools and Resources for Schools Affected Premium tools being offered for free from many companies:  Google Hangouts Meet Screencastify Nearpod Kahoot! Pear Deck Edpuzzle EPforlearning WeVideo Kami BrainPop Tyker And more open every day!  Lesson ideas:   Create a template students can access later Take images with the webcam and annotate Create  a PDF ebook with Google Slides Create  a multimedia science lab report  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Lisa Munley (Scranton, PA) -- Met Matt after PETE&C in Pittsburgh. Tip for new listeners. Listen to most recent episodes. Went back to single digits: ideas to listen to now. Go back to the first season. I drive a lot. Teachers in 20 schools, five counties. Share how you make notes while drive and listen? Adrienne Farrow (Oregon) -- Google Forms. Possible to do text to speech on a Chromebook. Possible for Google Forms to read questions out loud for the student rather than text to speech? Easier for taking quizzes and surveys. Instead of highlighting and using text to speech.  texthelp: Making Google Forms Accessible to Struggling Readers Use screencastify  On The Blogs  Matt:   8 YouTube-inspired classroom video ideas Tech Like a Pirate resource page (scheduled release: April)   Kasey:   The Power of Student Entrepreneurship – SULS052  FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for School Closures

Using Google to Teach Remotely - GTP110

Google News and Updates   Google Translate adds five languages  Addressing equity in CS curriculum with Kapor Center  Use these 6 tips for better video calls  Meet the Doodle for Google guest judges  Featured Content Spring Break is here you might be in the market for some on great reading recommendations as well as some awesome podcast recommendations. Reading Recommendations:  Girl Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis (and Girl Stop Apologizing) Daily Rituals by Mason Currey My Pencil Made Me Do It: A Guide to Sketchnoting by Carrie Baughcum (Hear Carrie on e4 of GTP and e48 of SULS.) Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond  Podcast Recommendations:  Y’all Need This Podcast Steal the Show Podcast with Michael Port  10 Minute Teacher Podcast Vrain Waves with Ben Kalb and Becky Peters House of #EdTech Shake Up Learning Show Ditch That Textbook Podcast Education Podcast Network  Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag Anita Gledhill (Brampton, Canada) -- After handing out a slide deck, if we need to add a slide, delete and re-send. Instead, use add-on:  Slip and Slide from John Sowash’s Chromebook Podcast. Solves this problem. Shout out to Kayla, Matt's former swimmer, and first-year teacher, who listens to the show! On The Blogs  Matt:  12 social media-inspired hooks for class Tech Like a Pirate resource page (scheduled release: April)   Kasey   13 Tools to Record Audio on Chromebooks and Other Devices  Digital Equity and Why It Matters (interview with Ken Shelton)