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Brainstorm 2020

Brainstorm 2020: Remaining Aloft in the Twitterverse

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Presented by Darcie Priester, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher, Manassas Park City Schools

You’ve taken flight and your Professional Learning Network has grown with Twitter. Now you’re ready to take the next steps! In this session, we’ll look at how to become an advanced user by learning about Twitter's filters and analytics, scheduling tweets with third-party apps such as Buffer and TweetDeck, and get the 411 on Twitter Chats!

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Hi! Welcome to Remaining Aloft in the Twitterverse. You can find all of today's presentation materials at the link at the bottom bit.ly/twitteraloft. My name is Darcie Priester and I’m an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher at Manassas Park High School in Manassas Park Virginia. I am also a Google for Education Certified Educator and Certified Trainer and you can find my training tips and videos on social media at mspriester_itrt and also on my YouTube channel or my blog Teaching in a Beta State. In today’s session you’re going to understand advanced features and tips for using Twitter, how you can curate resources that you find on Twitter, and grow your PLN especially through Twitter chats. If you're participating in the scavenger hunt, my scavenger hunt word is validity. Alright let's go ahead and get started.

So, the first advanced feature that I want to show you is a poll. This is an example of one that I did when my MacBook Pro died and I was asking some of my followers, “what do you think I should go with, a Macbook pro or Chromebook?” So obviously you can see here a Chromebook won out and eventually I did get a Chromebook, but it took me a little bit of time. So I want to go into Twitter now and show you how you can create a poll. A poll is great for working with your students finding out did they like last night’s homework or was there something that they struggled to understand, you could also do this with a lesson or as a quick exit ticket with students. So right here you’ve got your icon, so this is where you would go in and create your tweet, so I'm going to click on my poll icon and up here is where I can ask a question. I can say “what is your favorite session so far?” and then I can add in my answer choices so I know Twitterverse one of those choices and then I can continue to add those choices. If I need more options, then I can click on the plus “+” sign over here and add those additional options. Then I need to decide a length for how long I want this poll to remain on Twitter. So I can do days, up to a week, hours or even for just a few minutes, so I’m just going to choose 5 minutes for right now. Oh, and you also don’t want to forget, if you’re doing this for something like today’s virtual session or virtual conference, you might want to add the hashtag in so that other people can see that poll and participate in it. Then when you're ready you can go ahead and click tweet and it will send out the poll. So, I’m going to get rid of that so we can move on.

So the next part I want to go to is over here on the right hand side, this Search Twitter bar, where I can go ahead and search for lesson ideas or search for people that I want to follow, maybe I've heard of someone and read an article and I want to go search for them. So right here, I go ahead and type in any of the keywords that I'm looking for or I can go back and look at a recent topic that I was looking for. So let’s just click on Google Hangouts, and then Google (Twitter) filters this for me, so right away it gives me the top results. So these are the ones that have the most, maybe, likes or retweets so I can go through and I can see that it's again kind of filtered down a little bit more by people or I can see the exact tweets and I can search through that. I can also look at the latest ones or the most recent tweets and this is usually where I go if I'm looking for something because I want to see some of the recent things that are out there. I could also look for people so here I can look at it, like Google, one of the different companies that would be out there or I can just look at other people like Scott Johnston and see what they’ve put out there about Google Hangouts, or I could also look for photos that include the keyword that I'm searching for, or videos. Now, I can also save this search which is great if you're using this over and over again and this is something that you want to go back to. So right here on these three dots, I can go down to save search and then when I go back the next time to search, I can go all the way down to the bottom and find my saved searches and then just click on it and it will take me back into that search. Now, if I’m done with that and I don't want to use it as a saved search anymore, I can just click the trash can to delete it. I want to go back to the search bar because there's another area that I want to show you when you're searching. So over here in the right hand side I could search by people. So I could search for anyone that's on Twitter or just people that I follow. So this is great that if I'm looking for something for work, maybe I want to find something from someone who's in my area, my location. So maybe I don't want to do a worldwide search, maybe I just want to keep it closer to home and see what other schools in my area are doing with a topic or I can do it with location, as well, I can just do near me or anywhere. Now, there's also an advanced search, so I can click on this and find even more options to help me narrow down my search on Twitter. So I have where I can use certain keywords, words that maybe include certain keywords, words that exclude or terms that exclude certain words. I could go down and look for certain accounts or I could filter ones that are just replies to tweets or have a certain engagement, so ones that I could say a minimum amount of replies, or I could even search from dates. You can also find that advanced search by clicking on those three dots and clicking on advanced search that way as well.

Once you found those resources, how do you save them? So I'm going to go back here and find a specific tweet. So on this tweet, I want to focus on these two icons right here, down at the bottom. I don't have an appropriate name for what this icon is, I just call it the up button. But on this button, it allows me to do several things. I could send a tweet via a direct message to another user on Twitter. So this would be just a private message between the two of us, no one else would see this. Or I could add tweets to a bookmark, which is awesome, I do this all the time. When I find something I click on it and save it to my bookmark area which is right over here and when I click on bookmarks, I can go back in and see all of the different tweets that I have saved that I may want to send to a colleague or go back to, to look at it for, maybe it has an article on that I want to go back and read later on, so there’s all kinds of different things I can do with that and then if I click back on this button again, I can also copy a link to a tweet. And this is really great, especially like at my school, about half my staff is on Twitter and half the staff isn't, so if there's something that I want someone to see on Twitter I can just copy that link and send it to them an email and they can click on that link and go in and see it on Twitter without having to have a Twitter account which I think is really an awesome feature.

Okay, so now I want to get into some of the third-party companies that you can use with Twitter. The first one that I want to talk about is Wakelet. If you haven't heard of Wakelet yet, this is such a great site and it’s great for curating all of those resources, I’ve seen teachers also design lessons using this and then sending out a collection to their students that give them all of the information that they need. So I’m just going to show you real quick, if you create a new collection, this is all of the different things that you can save on Wakelet. So you can add text to make captions or headers, you can add videos, bookmarks, images, PDF’s, files from Google Drive, and tweets. Which is really cool because this is a great way for me to curate things into a collection so, back when I was over here and I was looking at those bookmarks, these bookmarks unfortunately are not searchable so if I saved something a few weeks ago, I’m having to scroll through everything that I saved to find that tweet again. But with Wakelet, I could just put it into a collection and find it within that collection. I kind of feel like it's a little bit like Pinterest. So what's really cool about Wakelet too, is that if I add this as a Chrome extension into my Chrome browser, right here I could go in and if I'm on a different site or like this presentation, I can go into Wakelet and have it come up and then save it to a collection right here and then it also adds an icon into Twitter. So right here at the bottom, I've got a “W”, so if I wanted to save this tweet I can click on the “W” and then add it straight into one of my collections in Wakelet. So it's a really great resource.

The next one I want to talk about is Buffer and Buffer is a way that you can schedule tweets ahead of time. This is really great for coaches or administrators, band directors, anything where you have an event coming up, even reminders for tests for students or reminders for them to turn something in, you could do all of this ahead of time in Twitter and schedule it to go out at a specific time and not have to remember to go into Twitter, create a tweet and send it. This way you're doing it all ahead of time. You can also do other social media accounts, so I like Instagram is another option that you can do. So once I've created my Buffer account, I'm going to select my Twitter account, this is actually our school Twitter account and I can click on this and then go into “what do I want to share?” to this account. I can also click on Instagram if I wanted to share it to both places, but for right now I'm just going to focus on Twitter. So I’m going to put in the message of my tweet, that text. I can add in hashtags, I can add in videos or images that I have saved and then let me just put some text in here. So then when I’m ready to share it out or schedule it, I can go over here and I, typically don't do “share now” because if I was going to share it right then and there, I just go into Twitter and do that. I only really use this for scheduling posts ahead of time. So I can go in to “schedule a post”, pick the date and the time that I want it to go out and then hit schedule. So let's say I want it on April 16th and at 1:45 p.m., hit “schedule” and then when I scroll down to April 16th, I'm going to see that it's right here ready to go out. So I’m going to delete this so I don’t actually send that out.

And the final third party app that I want to show you is TweetDeck. This is probably unlike anything you may have seen before. It really breaks down your Twitter account into columns. So if I go back here to Twitter, I can see, here is my home button that shows me everything in my feed. I could look at my notifications, I could look at my bookmarks and all of that is broken down into these different columns. So here's my Twitter feed right here, here are my notifications, here’s also a search bar, so I can still go in and continue to search for different items, so this is actually set to look for my school district’s Twitter chat. Now, all of these can be customized so when you first go into TweetDeck, your TweetDeck is probably going to look a little different from mine because it's going to be set to the default. I've gone in and I’ve physically moved some of these around so if I wanted to have this one column moved over here I could do that or I can move it back again wherever I want it to go. I can also delete different columns, so if I didn't want to see that particular column and I wanted to put something else in there, I could just click on this little icon right here and then click on remove, to actually remove it. So to create these different columns, I can go over here to the plus “+” sign on the left side navigation and I'm going to say “add a column”. So some of these, could be collections so that is #ISTE19 that I was moving around was actually a collection. I had done a search for tweets from #ISTE19 and created a collection and then I could save tweets into that collection to be able to go back and look at it later. I could also do a search, so this is great that If I'm looking for a particular hashtag I can just search for it and keep everything in that column. TweetDeck allows me to do a lot of other things too just besides seeing things in different columns. I can go in and add a tweet right from here, I can also schedule tweets as well, so if I wanted to go in and again let me just put in some text and hit schedule, I can pick the date and the time, and then send it out right from here, which is another great feature. And then like I said, you can also search for different things for a hashtag so let's jump into talking about a Twitter chat a little bit.

So what exactly is a Twitter chat? So this is a chat that centers around a specific topic. Now a Twitter chat is done all through Twitter obviously; it could be half-an-hour, it could be an hour and everyone follows a specific hashtag. So let's take my school district’s for an example. We have the hashtag #mpcschat and if we have a school-wide Twitter chat every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and each week we talk about a different topic. So the facilitator will typically create different questions, about five questions, especially if you’re doing an hour long chat and at different time periods throughout that hour, they will send out a question. So for question number one anyone who's participating in that chat can respond to that question. So question one would go out and you're going to respond in a tweet with “A1” being answer one for question number one and add your response and then add in the hashtag. If you don't have that hashtag it’ss really hard to follow the conversation so you want to make sure that you have that hashtag added in so that you're able to search for everything going on in the conversation. So if i go back to TweetDeck, I created a column with that search and when I hit enter I can look for anything that comes up with that hashtag. So here I can say here's answer number four, so this was a response to question number four. I can also just look for “A1” and see responses to question number one or I could put in “Q1” to see what those different questions may have been and as you can see here's the hashtag right here. So I think Twitter chats are a fun way to talk about a topic, learn about different things around that topic and then grow your PLN, you get to meet a lot of different people through a Twitter chat and then you can follow each other. Oh and the other thing I need to mention is right here in the search, I could reply, I could retweet, I can like, I can embed this tweet, I can share, there’s all kinds of different things that I can do right in TweetDeck.

So I do want to show you some more things about some more resources that you can get on Twitter chats. So right here are some helpful tools if you're looking to jump into a Twitter chat, here’s TweetDeck, but here are some other options for you. And then, where are some Twitter chats? How do you get involved? How do you find one? So here are some popular hashtags: this one right here is in Northern Virginia, if you're in Virginia. This one is also another Virginia based Twitter chat as is the #vachat. That’s a Virginia chat as well. But there’s lots of different topics, there's one on PBL, Teach like a Pirate has one, Ditch That Textbook if you're a fan of Matt Miller. He has his own Twitter chats, but you can also find lots of other Twitter chats through these links. There’s a calendar of different educational chats that you can find.

So once again here is my information if you'd like to come back and be able to contact me if you have any questions about some of these advanced features of Twitter later on. This is how you can get in touch with me. So thank you so much for watching and have a great rest of the virtual conference!

Brainstorm 2020: Purposeful Planning for iPads

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Presented by Karen Griffin and Tiffany Cobbs, Instructional Technology Coaches, Newport News Public Schools

How are your PK-5 students using the iPads in your classroom? Are iPads a toy or a tool? Join us as we explore ways to plan for student iPad usage in the classroom. BONUS: Tips and tricks to keep students on task with the iPad.

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Karen Griffin 0:09
Welcome to Purposeful Planning for iPads in the Classroom.

My name is Karen Griffin and I have been in education for 10 years. I taught in the Pre K classroom as a teacher for eight years and I am currently an Instructional Technology Coach with Newport News Public Schools. You can also find me on Twitter @ECCITC.

Tiffany Cobbs 0:30
Hi, everyone, my name is Tiffany Cobbs. I've been in education for 10 years as well. I've experienced teaching grades pre K through eight. And I'm also an Instructional Technology Coach with Newport News Public Schools. And you can follow me on Twitter @ITCDSA

We're going to be focusing on three essential questions. The first question is what is the Triple E framework? The second question is how can I use it to plan for technology use in my classroom? And the third question is what are some grade level examples of learning goals that support the framework?

Karen Griffin 1:21
So the why behind this presentation kind of revolves around how we got to this point. This year, our Pre K classrooms in our district updated technology, from desktops, to iPads. And also almost all of our schools in the district now have access to iPads in the classroom or on a shared STEM cart. And so as Instructional Technology Coaches, we really wanted to find a way that teachers and students could utilize these new devices but still maintain the focus on the learning and not just the tool.

Tiffany Cobbs 1:58
So the book that kind of led us on this journey is Learning First Technology Second by Liz Kolb. And basically it introduces the framework the Triple E framework that helps teachers engage students in on-task learning and provides effective strategies for using technology. It summarizes case studies to guide appropriate tech integration and gives a lesson planning template to show teachers how to effectively frame technology choices and apply them in instruction.

Karen Griffin 2:36
So the first component of the Triple E framework is Engagement. And Liz Kolb in her book defines engagement as students becoming active, social, and focused learners of the content goals.

When we look at measuring what engagement looks like from that definition, there are three questions we want to consider. The first question is- "Does the technology allow students to focus on the assignment or activity with less distraction?". One example that I see a lot in the pre k world is students are using Starfall. And while Starfall is a wonderful resource for learning activities, it can be distracting for students. Teachers need to incorporate some instructional strategies while using this app to keep students on task. The second question asks, "Does the technology motivate students to start the learning process?". An example of this might be the Number Frames app by Math Learning Center. This helps keep students focused and it gives them choices for manipulatives and how they want them to look on the screen itself. And it's got that voice and choice giving them the ability to choose what they want it to look like.

it to look like.

And the last question is, "Does the technology cause a shift in the behavior of the students where they move from passive to active social learners"?. An example of this might be the ChatterPix Kids app, where students become active learners as they are the creators and the sharers of the content in the app.

Tiffany Cobbs 4:23
So our second component of the Triple E framework is Enhancement. Enhancement means using technology to add value to student learning.

So to measure enhancement, our first question is "Does the technology tool allow students to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the learning goals or content, those higher order thinking skills?". An example of this is the Nearpod app. And Nearpod offers those higher learning skills such as asking questions, organizing and communicating ideas, expressing opinions, reflecting, investigating collecting data, and creating shareable content. Our second question under enhancement is, "Does the technology create supports or scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts or ideas?". An example of this is the Flipgrid app. Now with flipgrid currently, our ESL teachers are using that app to help our ESL students speak correctly and learn the English language. So they may do a video of the students saying certain words and then playing that back so the students can see how their mouths are forming the words and how it looks to say those words. And then the third question under enhancement is "Does the technology create paths for students to demonstrate their understanding of the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional tools?". An example of that is Seesaw. The Seesaw app allows open-ended tasks and allow students to use tools to do those open ended tasks, such as voice, video and the drawing app. So they independently document and explain their learning as it's happening. And the teacher can provide that consistent feedback.

Karen Griffin 6:53
The third component of the framework is Extension and it's defined as something that needs to be authentic; involving real connections to everyday life. And essentially, the tool needs to be able to create a bridge between student learning and student lives, and also enhance those skills for everyday living.

Tiffany Cobbs 7:16
So how do we measure extension? The first question we look at is "Does the technology create opportunities for students to learn outside of their typical school day?". An example of this is Google Classroom. So with Google classroom, students can connect outside of the school learning day by accessing learning materials and assignments, so some learning materials could include anchor charts that a teacher has done in the classroom. The students then have access to the same anchor chart outside of the classroom. The second question under extension is "Does the technology create a bridge between students school learning and their everyday life experiences?". So we have two example apps for this question. The first one is the Google Hangouts app, which allows students to take tours of a facility that they may not have access to, such as a science lab, or a mechanic shop. The second app under this question is Zoom. And Zoom allows students to have the ability to connect to real life experts and experiences to build the connection between learning and real life.

The third question under extension is "Does the technology allow students to develop skills that they can use in their everyday lives?". An example app for this question is, Codespark. So Codespark provides project based learning that develops skills such as innovation, technology skills, life and career skills, collaboration, and problem solving. So an example of students using this app include students creating a game. Once they create that game, they share that game with other students, or other people that they would like for them to play those games. And it's shared on a secure platform.

Karen Griffin 9:40
So the Triple E measurement tool asks those questions for each of the components and offers the ability to score it so that you have a measurable way to evaluate the tool you're using and the learning goal that it applies to. So essentially those nine questions that we just went over, you're going to score each of those answers anywhere from zero to one or two. So if Yes, it does meet that component, or that question that's worth two points. If it's somewhat meets the criteria of that question, then that might be a score of one. And if it does not meet the criteria of that question, it would be a score of zero. So analyzing your results, if your score falls between 13 and 18 points, that's a green light, it meets all three components of the framework. If you score seven to 12 points, you're kind of in that yellow zone, where you meet at least two of the components, but teachers can also add instructional moves that better leverage the technology for student learning. And if you score six or below, that's like a red light, you generally only meet one component and usually that's the engagement piece. You might want to look at the connection between technology, the instructional moves and the learning goal, most likely, it's low. And you might want to reconsider if technology should be used for this lesson. We're going to pause for just a second here. And we're going to give you our scavenger hunt word. So the scavenger hunt word for this session is REFLECTION.

So we want to go over some grade level examples of what this could look like, applied to lessons or goals. And we're going to start with pre K. So in pre K, we looked at a learning goal of students will identify letters and produce letter sounds. The technology tool we're going to be using is ChatterPix Kids. And you can also supplement that with iMovie with teacher support. What the students were doing here is they were going on an alphabet scavenger hunt where they had to take a photo and Chatterpix use the recording feature to tell us what letter it is and what sound that it makes. We gave that a score of 11 as it meets two of the components of the framework, engagement and enhancement, and it also somewhat meets a few of the extension, but not all of them. In Kindergarten, students had a learning goal of classifying things as living or nonliving. And the technology tool they used was Seesaw. They went on a scavenger hunt around the school and they were looking for pictures of objects in the environment. And they wanted them to choose two pictures and identify them as living or nonliving. And they were going to be posting this to Seesaw. They were using the microphone to record their reasoning behind it, you know, is it living or nonliving? And how do you know? We gave it a score of 17 as it meets all three components in some way.

Tiffany Cobbs 13:07
Our first or second grade level example is our learning goal. Students will describe how characters and a story respond to key events using cause and effect relationships. Our technology tool for this lesson is Nearpod.

And the framework score is an 11. It scored an 11 because Nearpod was kind of in that yellow zone because it lacked extension of the learning goals. So for this lesson students listen to or they read a short story with a partner. Following the story, students will describe at least two cause and effect relationships from the story.

An example from grades three through five is students will create a PSA on the water crisis in Africa, and the importance of water conservation. So the technology tool we use for this lesson is the internet browser, Google Docs, and Flipgrid.

This lesson actually scored an 18 on the framework, because it met all three components of the framework. So in this lesson, students research a topic related to the water crisis in Africa. Next, they create a script using Google Docs and this is all done in groups of three or four. Then they will create a public service announcement using Flipgrid.

So we wanted to wrap things up with some closing thoughts. So our first closing thought is the learning goals. So the learning goal is more important than the technology. Our second closing thought is the Triple E framework. So this is what will guide you as you are planning a lesson. And then our last closing thought is on instructional strategies. Instructional strategies can better leverage technology tools that do not meet all criteria of the framework.

Karen Griffin 15:36
We'd like to give some credit to SlideMania for the presentation template you see today. All of the images of the app icons were found on the Apple App Store. And of course, we use the book Learning First Technology Second by Liz Kolb to demonstrate the Triple E framework and apply it to instructional planning.

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Brainstorm 2020: Google Expeditions: From Consumer to Creator

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Presented by Scott Lewis, Instructional Technology Coach, Frederick County Public Schools

This session will walk you through how to cost effectively use Google Expeditions in the classroom and then will show you how to create your own expedition using Google Tour Creator.

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0:00[Music]
0:05welcome to Google expeditions from
0:07consumer to creator
0:10I'm Scott Lewis and instructional
0:12technology coach for Frederick County
0:14Public Schools today you'll learn how to
0:21create and guide your own google
0:23expedition will define AR and vr look to
0:33see who can use google expeditions what
0:36you need how to create your own and
0:38answer the question of what if I don't
0:39have equipment augmented reality means
0:43to superimpose images into the real
0:45world around you and virtual reality is
0:47an immersive simulation of a 3d
0:49environment
0:54as you can see from this list Google
0:57expeditions is not just a history
0:59resource you can look at cell structures
1:02explore math concepts create technical
1:06writing look at careers attend concerts
1:11visit museums look at body systems visit
1:16language specific cities the only
1:20constraint is your imagination and what
1:23360 pictures you can find
1:31so your next step in creating a google
1:33expedition is to go to tour creator URL
1:37for that is right up here it's a our VR
1:40google.com back slash to our Creator
1:44once you get here you're gonna go down
1:47to this purple rectangle it's this get
1:49started and you're going to click there
1:50so that brings you to your main
1:53dashboard you can see all the tours that
1:56you've created up to this point I want
1:59you to go over and click the plus sign
2:01right here new tour and that will bring
2:06you to basically your cover page view
2:09the introduction of your tour creator so
2:14to have this tour go into google
2:17expeditions it has to have a couple
2:19things it has to have a title it has to
2:22have a picture and it has to be
2:24categorized so I'm going to title this
2:26and then I'm gonna go in and select an
2:29image I'm going to go into my drive
2:38you
2:41and one of the problems with uploading
2:44these pictures you have to be really
2:46careful with a size and the orientation
2:48of a notice at the top of the Sphinx has
2:50been cut off right here you can fix that
2:53by actually going in and cropping the
2:55photo but again for what we're doing
2:57right now that's really not too
2:59important so I said you need a title you
3:02need a picture and the last thing we're
3:04gonna look at is category so you have
3:06all of these different ones to look at
3:09I'm gonna go into history and then we're
3:13gonna click create though our first stop
3:15right here is the add scene so it's
3:18gonna bring us to the Google Maps
3:20integration and to a creator works with
3:24the 3d portion of Google Maps so it is
3:28going to filter 360 and 180 degree
3:32pictures they've been crowd-sourced into
3:36Google Maps so we're gonna search and
3:38I'm gonna put a sphinx in and you notice
3:42you have to really start being specific
3:44because it'll just take you to the first
3:46things that it sees that are close to
3:49its initial landing site which so we
3:51have the Sphinx at Giza desert so we're
3:53gonna pick that and it will bring us
3:56there and if we look over here I
3:59actually brought up a really good
4:00close-up picture of it sometimes it does
4:03and sometimes it doesn't so a couple
4:06things that you can look at you notice
4:07that peg man has brenton brought over
4:09could manipulate peg man around by left
4:13clicking and holding on it and once you
4:16do that that basically highlights all of
4:19these different pictures or different
4:23views that people have uploaded onto
4:27here so I'm going to choose that right
4:29there and the final thing I'm going to
4:32do is click on add scene okay so the
4:37first thing that I want to do in here is
4:39just double check and make sure that my
4:41starting view is okay so my object of
4:44this is the Sphinx and my starting view
4:47is right on where I want it so I don't
4:50actually want to change it but if I was
4:52going to change it I bring my curve
4:54down here and click on set starting view
4:57and what this allows me to do is to
5:00rotate this around so I can see the
5:06different angles and then you would
5:09click Save so the next thing is you want
5:12to title your scene ok a lot of times
5:16you'll also get the subheading right
5:18here usually that has to do with the
5:21object that you brought in and also it's
5:24always a good thing to have a
5:25description here oftentimes the credits
5:27here will give you no credits to whoever
5:30took that picture in this case it really
5:32didn't you can also add in scene
5:36narration so you can record into this
5:38and talk about it you can also bring in
5:41music and the final thing that you want
5:44to do into a scene is add multiple
5:48points of interest and if you're viewing
5:51the expedition through virtual reality
5:53these points of interest are what shifts
5:58that learners attention and really
6:00causes them to turn and focus on what
6:03you want them to be focusing on at that
6:06point so I'm going to click on here and
6:07I'm going to add one and it goes right
6:10here in the center of this and you can
6:13actually move them around so I want to
6:15bring this over to the Great Pyramid
6:20which is right there ok since out of the
6:25Great Pyramid and I have a little
6:26description here now also you can type
6:30in or not type in but you can add in
6:35audio and then you can also add in
6:39pictures to go along with this so I'm
6:42gonna add in a picture because when I
6:46click on this and bring them around to
6:49this it's going to show this picture and
6:52the cool thing about this is you can
6:56actually you manipulate this so you can
6:59make it bigger you can make it smaller
7:01or you can move it around to kind of fit
7:06what you want it
7:08fit and be able to see if you were going
7:11to have multiple scenes and I would
7:12always recommend having multiple scenes
7:14with this the next thing you would do
7:16would be to add scene okay and what this
7:21does is again it starts that process
7:23from the beginning so the next step in
7:28the process of creating your Google
7:30expedition is to publish your tour so to
7:33do that you're gonna bring your cursor
7:35up to this blue publish button and
7:37you're gonna click on it so this brings
7:40up this small little dialog box where
7:42you're going to see your title you're
7:44going to see it has one scene and then
7:47you either have the choice of making it
7:49unlisted or public and it all has to do
7:53with the visibility of this tour so if
7:55you're gonna guide this to or using the
7:58same Google address or Google Account
8:01that you created it in and you don't
8:04really want it published to you have the
8:07rest of the internet you can click
8:10unlisted however in my case the account
8:14that I use to guide Google expeditions
8:19in virtual reality with headsets is
8:22different than my Google address so I'm
8:26gonna click on public because I want to
8:27be able to search for this tour and the
8:31last portion of it is I'm gonna click
8:34publish so the really cool thing about
8:39this is that you can view your tour
8:42without using virtual reality headsets
8:46or even Google expeditions so for remote
8:53learning opportunities like where we are
8:55right now in teaching remotely this is a
8:59good opportunity when I introduced to a
9:03creator to third graders what we did is
9:06since I had a limited amount of headsets
9:08and devices we would show this the two
9:13were that the student was guiding up on
9:15the smart board so the rest of the class
9:17could follow along with the tour while
9:19that student was guiding it
9:21so that's always a good thing to do Plus
9:24this you know gives you an idea of what
9:28your tour actually looks like so the
9:32next step in creating your google
9:34expedition is you have to search for
9:36your published expedition within Polly
9:39to get to the site you have to go to
9:41Polly Gulf calm and this is an important
9:45step and it's that intermediate step
9:47that you have to do because if you don't
9:51go to this website and actually discover
9:55your tour and share it with gulick
10:00google expeditions you won't be able to
10:04guide it within virtual reality
10:07so I'm going to go up here and I am
10:11going to type in the title one thing to
10:14know is it can take some time for your
10:17tour to become discoverable within Polly
10:19so just be patient I'm gonna go here and
10:23we're gonna click on it and you have a
10:28couple options right here you can take a
10:31look and kind of preview what that tour
10:34is you can come down here and like it
10:37what liking it does is it sends it to
10:41your library and makes it searchable
10:43within your library in Google
10:45expeditions another key feature right
10:49here if you click on the share button
10:51you can share it directly to Google
10:54expeditions so the next step is to
11:01access Google expeditions app once you
11:05do that you're going to access my tours
11:10in your library you're gonna look for
11:13your tour and then you're going to click
11:14on that tour
11:21once you do that you're going to
11:23download your expedition after you
11:29download your expedition you are ready
11:30to guide good luck and have fun so to
11:35get started what exactly do you need
11:36well you need at least two devices one
11:38to guide and want to join the expedition
11:40good rule of thumb is to have at least
11:43one device per two to three students you
11:47need a Google cardboard viewer per
11:49device it's not essential but it does
11:52make the experience more immersive some
11:57things to consider you need to look at
11:58your Wi-Fi network you need to make sure
12:00that all of your devices can access the
12:03Wi-Fi and they have to be on the same
12:06Wi-Fi because this is a peer-to-peer app
12:11so your Guiding device needs the same
12:16needs to be on the same Wi-Fi as those
12:20devices joining the expedition cost you
12:25can have this be as cheap as you want or
12:30as expensive as you want cardboard
12:33viewers can run anywhere from six
12:36dollars to ten to fifteen dollars you
12:40can buy virtual reality device bundles
12:44from Best Buy bundle for 15 devices is
12:47ten thousand dollars so it really
12:50depends on the money that you have
12:52available and what you're willing to
12:53spend here are some ideas for
12:57integrating Google expeditions into your
13:00classroom
13:00[Music]
13:02all of these links can be found in the
13:04handouts that will be distributed and
13:07attached along with this video thank you
13:12for joining in today if you have any
13:13questions or need any assistance please
13:15reach out to me on twitter at scott
13:18lewis ITC or you can reach me by email
13:21Lewis s at FCPS k12
13:24[Music]

Brainstorm 2020: ABC’s and 123’s of Google Classroom

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Presented by Heather Lupton, Technology Integration Coach, Warren County

Transform your elementary classroom to a paperless oasis with the use of Google Classroom and G Suite functions. During this introduction, we will examine the basics of the operating the learning management system and how to personalize it for your use in the classroom. This class will allow hands-on experience to investigate and manage Google classroom, as a teacher and a student.

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Hello my tech friends! My name is Heather Lupton. I am an elementary technology integration coach for Warren County Public Schools and also a member of UnisonEDU. Today I will be hosting through the training ABC’s and 123’s of Google Classroom. During this training, we will review the basic steps for beginning your adventure. I will share images and videos from a teacher view and as a student. This learning management system is user friendly for teachers and students with Google Suite for Education and a great way to transition your classroom to blended learning. Hope this information assists you with beginning your Google Classroom adventure!

Creating a Google Classroom:
To create your class you can click on the plus sign and you will click on create class. You would do “join class” if you were in (is) going in as a student but since you are the teacher and you are creating it you're going to click on “create class” here. The only thing that is required is the class name. You may also add a section, subject, or room if you prefer to. So the only thing that's required, like I said, is the name so let's create it in Google classroom. Once you have the name in there, you may click on “create”. As you can see this will take a moment to create a new class. And then you will see it in your list of classes. And you can see now that it is automatically taking me to my class.

Classroom Settings:
Now we're going to focus on our settings inside of our classroom. Up here at the top you can see that this is a hyperlink that'll get me to all of my classrooms or the selected one that I'm in. Over here you are going to see your tabs that we will be reviewing shortly. These tabs are your stream, Classwork, People, and Grades. Over to the right you are going to see that you have a gear and that is going to be updating your settings. You also have access to your apps and you can see that you're in your Google account. If for some reason I want to get back to the home screen of where classroom.google.com is I can click on these three lines (three Pancakes or three hot dogs) whichever you prefer and click on classes and it will bring me back to my main screen. Back on my left I'm going to click back on the Google Classroom that I want to be in so that I can see it. Over here you will see the class code, the class code is a way for your students to enter in your classroom where you can just share the code and students are going to actually enroll in the class you have the ability to do this by clicking on the display and it will make it larger so if you're projecting it in the classroom or you can even make it full screen. You have the option of going to exit out of here or click on the top to get out of it and that will take it away. That code will be designated for this classroom, so if later on you have a new student come in (and) you want them to be enrolled in this classroom you can also give them this code. The next thing is that you have a theme behind it .I encourage you to update your theme based on your class so that your students can (help) to figure out which class they are looking at. So you have the ability to select your theme by clicking/selecting and then here at the top you will see some options for different types of backgrounds that you can use for your classroom. Like I said, I encourage you to use ones that go along with what you are working on all. All you have to do is click on the picture and then hit “select class theme” so that it will upload into the back. You can also upload your own photo in the background if you prefer for your kids, for easy access, so maybe if there's a class picture theme that you have behind it that you use all the time that might be a great background for the students to know which class they are going into. Up here on the right you will see the gear shift, the gear shift is where your settings are. So you click on the gear shift, this will take you to your class settings. At the top you can see your class details and that's where (your) name of your class is. This also gives you the ability to add any information that you forgot the first time if you want to, now that you've done it. You can see here again you can see the class code and if I clicked down here I have the ability to display it that the students are going to see (it.) I have the ability to copy it if I need to share it so inside of somewhere else maybe inside of a Class Dojo post maybe somewhere else that I want to join this class for students to join. I can reset it if I want to use it for something else or maybe make a new class so that the same students aren't in it. Here, I can disable it so no one can access it to actually, um, enter into the class. My Stream is where one of the tabs where all my information will be. This is a great learning tool for many of our students, especially with virtual learning since the students can post and can comment on here. You do have the ability as a teacher to change this, where students can comment or only teachers can post or comment. You may choose. This is a great digital citizenship lesson for students if you allow them to post and comment is that everyone in the class can see it. That it is there and cannot be removed for them but as a teacher you can remove it. But this is a great digital citizenship lesson to help them figure out about posting and commenting. Next, you'll have classwork on a stream. So it's designated to (have) “show condensed notifications”, this is smaller for the students and only has the titles in. I encourage you (to) change this to show attachments and details so that they have all the information there. You also have the ability to hide notifications ,maybe if you don't like to use the stream, you can actually turn them off but I encourage you if you're going to allow the stream on there (is) to show attachments and details which will give all the students everything they need one spot. Next, you have (to) show deleted items. Only teachers can view deleted items you have to do is turn this on or off. Next, we have Guardian summaries. This is a great place for parents to be involved with the classrooms. So you have the ability to invite your parents into your classroom, so by using this you can turn it on and it will allow them to access the classes you teach and then give them a summary for the parents. And here I'm going to click on “see example” and this will actually show you what a guardian summary will look like. Parents can choose whether they have it weekly or daily depending on their student but it just helps the parents monitor the student instead of having to login to their account it will automatically send them to email to let them know what they're missing, what they need to work, on what to do a head of time just to keep parents in the loop. So it's a great tool for using and Google has recently just added that. You have the ability to turn it on and then off. A brand new feature that we have is Google Meet is now (been) placed into Google Classroom, which allows many of our students to join us in the classroom where I can just designate a Meet that'll be visible to my students. All I have to do is click over here and generate the link meet and you can see once I've done that it's automatically visible to the students. This link I can copy it and send it out or reset it if I need to, if students continue to get in I can change this and that is not visible to the students or change that back. I want to show you where that's located inside of your Google Classroom so that you can see it so I'ma click out of this so that you can see where the link meet will be. Right now you can see that I did not save my information so I want to make sure that I save before I go. And now up the top you will see (the) meet link and it has the link for the students to join into a Google Meet right here inside of my Google Classroom. This is a great new tool that's just been implement(ed) to help teachers and students especially with our virtual and distance learning currently. I'm going to click back on my gear shift and get back into my settings and I'm going to continue to scroll down so that we can start talking about grading. Inside a Google Classroom you also have the ability to grade your students. So you can choose whether you want to use. Many teachers use their normal grade book on top of it so they don't like to do this but some teachers like for students to get a check or grades that they know what the student completed and what the student got, so this is a quick and easy way for them to access it. You can see that you can have overall grade calculations, so you choose the grading system and it has more detail. So currently the default is “no overall grade” you can do “total points” or you can do “weighted by category”. If you choose “weighted by category”, then you can show you actually create your own category so if I want to create a testing category it can be there for my students. This is completely up to you and your preference. If you prefer to have, that it is completely great. Many of our teachers use this system more as a way of monitoring what the students have done. So since our gradebook currently does that they don’t usually go to the “weight by graded” but they give no overall
grades and show their points to their students. It’s completely up to you and how you want to set it up. After you have finished this whole list, please make sure to hit save again and those save settings will be applied in to your Google classroom

Tips and Tricks for Google Classroom:
Next, we are going to look at email notifications. Depending on the number of classes you teach and students you have, you will soon learn the default email notifications can be overwhelming. To help reduce the stress of the notifications, I will show you have to select which notifications you want.
To do this, you will visit the three lines in the upper left hand corner. You will need to scroll to the bottom of the list where you see the gear shift and the word “settings”. Click on this link. Go to the “Notifications” section. Your first option here is to receive email notifications. The default setting is to “receive email notifications” for all items below. If you toggle to the left, you can turn off this feature and you will not receive email notifications for any google classroom.
If you leave the toggle to the right (it will be blue if turned on), then you will have more options for selecting which notifications appear as emails.
You can see there are options from comments, if you do not want any of these notifications on then move your toggle to the left until it is gray.
Next, there are notifications from “classes that you’re enrolled in” that will help you when you are a student and will need to join a class and turn in items.
The third section focuses on the “classes you teach”. If you are consistent at looking at the information directly in Google Classroom, then you may want to turn these notifications off to help keep clutter from your email.
In the next section, I have the “Class Notifications” email. Here I can just select the classes that I want to select to receive or not receive notifications from. As you can see from my list, I have many classes that I am a co-teacher but I do not wish to receive the emails from. These classes are gray to avoid receiving email notifications. The classes I am the main instructor, I leave on to help with keeping track of items since I do not log into google classroom daily.

Another great tip when you are on your home page (there is a picture of the house next to it), also known as your “classes” or your “classes” page you are able to organize your class cards by dragging them around in the order of your preference. So as you can see I moved mine around because the classes that I teach now are at the top and the other ones are down at the bottom. So it's just more organized but you can click and drag on them to move them around.

Another excellent organizational tip is on the classroom cards, you will see an icon of a folder. This folder will direct you straight to the google drive folder that will host all of the students’ works from this class. As you students turn in work, it will automatically be loaded to this folder inside of your Google Drive.

Next to the folder, you will see this wiggly arrow. This wiggle arrow will open up the Gradebook for that class so that you can see what assignments and materials there. So if you click it, it will take you straight to the Gradebook where information will be placed and where you can add grades in at one time.

Next we'll talk about the Google Calendar up at the top, where your three lines are. If you click you'll see where calendar is calendar here will have all of your events that are happening happening inside of Google Classroom if you click on calendar you will see all of the events that are taking place and for all the classes that you have up at the top you can select in between them or you can see him listed out depending on the amount of classes you might have you might have to scroll up and down to see the activities for that day you can click back and forth to go by weeks so that you can see what it is assigned for before or a fart after to go back to click into the assignment you can actually click straight in and then view the assignment here you can see in a teacher view I can see all the students that are in it and what they have assigned to them

ABC’s of Google Classroom
Now we will be focusing on the ABC’s of Google Classroom. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to go over the 26 letters of the alphabet, so we're going to focus on our Google Classroom tab letters. And that would be C for Classwork, G for Grades, P for people, and S for Stream.

Stream
First we'll start with the letter S and we will talk about the for Stream. Up at the top you can see the stream is the first tab on the top. Your stream is important because it helps you communicate with your class. You can create and schedule announcements and respond to students' posts. Remembering the settings, you need to make sure that you've turned your settings on for your students to communicate inside of here, the Stream. All activities will also be inside of it. As you can remember we also talked about the details that you will see in our settings portion. About what the students will see inside of the stream. Now we're going to talk about how to place an announcement as you can see right here at the top I have this bar. When I click here on the bar, it will let me proceed to make an announcement. You can see right here, the FOR-the first one, is the class that I'm choosing, you can also do that. I can choose multiple classes at a time, maybe there are certain classes that all need this announcement then I can check those boxes that go along with it. If I only want it for this class, then I can leave it there. Next, I can choose (whether) I want this to go to all of the students (are) enrolled in the class or only some of them. If you were planning on reusing this post, in other classes you will need to make sure that they are for all of your students. Here’s where you're going to type your message. So “please check out the Google Slides”. You can see here I put a link but also I have the option to add on to my post. Maybe there's some activity that I want them to go to or I want to direct them straight to the link when I click. I have options I can click and add a file from my Google Drive. I can add a link to a hyperlink to something on the web, I can also add a file that’s on my computer, or I can also insert a YouTube video for the students to watch. Since this is a link that is a hyperlink, it'll take you to actually the presentation that goes along with this training, I will add the link here. Directly in here- and it'll attach it to my announcement and you can see that the direct link. (It) is adding it straight here so that the students can see both of them. Next, I have the option to cancel it, if I mess(ed) something up or I decided that I didn't want to do it. Over to the right, I have “post “. You have three options inside of post. I can post it right now which will add it immediately to all of their screens. I do have the ability to go back to edit, but not the students. I will have to just edit the wording. In the next, I can schedule it for a certain time to show up. So if this is an announcement for another day, maybe I want this to be scheduled to show (up) first thing. (In the for that) or I want a reminder that evening I can schedule it here. So that I'll show up next, I can just save this out this is something that I wanted them to know I can save it. And, actually, you have those three options once you get it. It'll be there for your students and it'll show up in your stream. Now we will continue to look at the stream but as you can see we've added some announcements to it. Here you can see the first one I did was a link. The next one I did I added a YouTube video and then the last I added(was) actually a file from my Google Drive for the students to see. You can see down here, that the students have the ability to comment or I can comment back to them. Everybody in the class has the option to see it, to send it, all I have to do is click this arrow. My name and time are also post(ed) if a student response here. If you prefer not for your student to respond (and) remember you have that ability. Also you have the ability to condense the view. This is an expanded view for the students, but to condense the view remember to go to your settings, scroll down to General, where it says stream. Remember if you don't want your students to post this is where you can put it in. And then “class work on the stream”, “show attached details”. If you change that to show condensed notifications it will change how the student see it. So that they will see a smaller view of all the activities that are on it. Also, (too) the teacher has the ability to move items on to the top. So let's say that you've added these three items and I want this one to go back on the top. “Review”- And then I want this one to go back on the top so that everyone can see it. All I have to do is put the three (DOTS) arrows and click “move to the top” and then this post will now be located on the top of these other two. If you're going to cancel. Sequential order so that is the only way to get it back onto the top. Remember you have the ability to schedule those items if you choose.

Stream- Student View
Here you can see on the student view-that the student has received all the announcements on their stream. And you can see that I have opened it up so that the student can comment on all of the posts. They do that and click the arrow and it will show up. It also shows up with their name and the time they completed it. They can click on the link to access the information. They are staying inside of their Google Classroom. They can go back to where they were. Also they have the option of copying the link if they need to put it somewhere else. This also gives the ability of the students to chat amongst themselves inside of these posts if you have it set up. And ask questions about the announcements or activities. This is what the student stream view will look like.

Classwork
Now we are going to focus on C for Classwork. This is by far the most important tab for the students and organization for the teacher to know where all the activities are. Under the class work you can see that you have a create button. You also have your Meet link, Google Calendar, and a class drive that are all links that will be helpful to you. In this section of Google Classroom you can say that it's to assign work to your class you can create assignments and questions, use topics to organize class into modules or units (which is very important for organization and so the students can find what they need. And also in this one you have the option to order it so actually drag items up and down they way that you would want to add them. So what you are going to do is click “Create” here. You can see we have options-trying to figure out what is the best option for us. The first one is an assignment, which means the student will have to complete it and turn it in. Next, you have a quiz assignment, which will focus on a Google Form, um, also if you are using a chromebook i t will lock it down for the student so that they can’t go outside to get answers. Next, you have a question that you just post inside of Google Classroom that will show up students and they can answer it, interactive question. Next, is just material, maybe there is a certain resource that you want the students to read or uh lesson page that you want them to have. You can just give them materials that go along with yours. Next, we have “reuse” post. Next, if you use your class or co-teachers in different spots you can reuse a post. Last but not least, you have topic. Topic is the way you are going to sort activities, especially now with distance learning. It might be good us your topics by dates so the students know what activities and assignments are due on certain dates. So we are going to go to “Create an Assignment”. We will have to “title” my assignment. Now, you can see that they have added a rubric piece into the grading option so that you can also add that to your activity. Here I am going to title it. I am going to give instructions for the students. I can add a link here from my Google Drive, a hyperlink, file, or YouTube Video -just like you could on your announcements. Or I can actually create something that I want them to use inside of this. You can see you have all your Google (apps) Forms, Sheets, Drawings, Slides, and Docs. You can actually create to go inside of it. Here you have a link, If I was going to get the students a link and I wanted something from my drive- and I wanted them to have their own copy- there are three options for this. When I do this, I can hit “add” and here you can see when I add it (then) it says “students can view this file” that just means all the students have access to this file. And you can see what's on it but cannot write on it. If I want the students to collaborate and write on it I can give students the option to edit but that will give every student in the class the option to edit this file. Last but not least, I can make a copy for each student just like you would have worksheets. This would actually give them their own sheet for the students (where) they can interact and complete activities inside of it. Over to the right you'll see again the FOR where you can pick your classes. You can assign to multiple classes at a time.To the right you can make “FOR STUDENTS”. So maybe there are only certain students you want this activity to go for. You can choose it. You can see that the point value is there. Or I have the ability to check “UNGRADED”, where it will just give a checkmark if they have completed the activity. Down here I have a due date. I can pick any date on the calendar so that it will go through. I even have the ability to pick the time that I want it to go through. Next, I have a topic. This will become one of the most important things that you add. I suggest that you go to “create topic” and you give it a date. Where the topic or maybe an SOL that you want to use or any way that the students would know exactly what they are supposed to go to. Once again you have the ability to add a rubric if you choose one. You can create one, reuse one, or import one if you have it from sheets. The option here inside the Google Classroom. Now that you have all this information in now at the top you have the ability to assign. If I click this, it will immediately assign it to my students. If I click to the right I can “assign” it, I can “schedule” it, or I can “SAVE DRAFT”. Just like our options before. The last one you’ll see is “Discard draft”. If you get one in there and decide you didn’t want to do that activity you could go back and do it. So I am going to SCHEDULE this so it will go through. I pick the date and time for it to actually show up. This is great for test and assignments that the students are doing inside of the school. If I save the draft, I can find it in my list. You guys can see that it is here but it is gray. If it is gray then it hasn’t been assigned to the students yet. So that you know it is a draft, it says it over to the right. Then if you click the three dots, you have options to edit it or delete it because I haven’t given it to be available to the students. I hit edit and now I want to assign it to the students right now so I click assign. Then it will be available for the students. In the student view, it will show under their classwork and it will also post in the stream as an assignment. You can see this is an assignment, a condensed version of this. But if I was to click back up and go into my settings, I can click on “Show attachments and details”. And here is what the students will see which is great for me because I can also see who has turned it in and who hasn’t and who it is assigned to. If I go back to my classwork tab, I also have the ability to do “QUESTION”. This is a quick and easy way to ask a question. I type my question in here. I can get directions if I need to but you can see that this is an optional piece. Maybe there's an activity or a picture that I want them to use inside of this, I can add that right here or I can create something that goes along with it. Maybe a picture activity. Over to the right, you see my classes, next to it the students, if I'm going to grade- I’m not going to grade this- so I am going to check ungraded. Due date I want it by tomorrow and then also I’m not worried about time because that it optional. But I want to make sure that I have my date. Right here I have the option that “Students can reply to each other” and “Students can edit answers”. If I want them to be able to go back and edit there answer, maybe after they have watched a video, I can click here. But if I want them talk to each other or respond to each other then make sure this is checked. Here again you have options to “Ask” right now, “Schedule”, or “Save Draft” or “Discard” it. SO I want to make sure that it is in my post to ask now. Material and other items are also in there. If you wanted to reuse a post from another classroom, I can click “REUSE” post. I pick the class that I want to reuse the post from, I click on the link. And down here I can create new copies of all attachments if I have an attachments to it I can make new copies of it or I can assign exactly what it was and I hit reuse post. And now you can see it is in here. One thing that it doesn’t do is add a topic, because my topics might not be the same so I need to make sure that I “Create” topic that goes along with what we are working on. Then I want to assign it to my students. Here you can see the blue are the topics and below it are the assignments and activities that go along with it. If I change my mind and want to make sure that’s down with that activity that I can interact and change these back and forth so that they are adjusted. If I decide that I want that to go back upI click and drag up here. And any time that you want to edit, you click to the right.

Classwork- Student View
Here is the student view of the classwork tab. As you can see already in the classroom card, there are items and activities and when they are due there. They click into the classroom, click on classwork. You can see their topics are up at the top with all their activities below that go along with it. And all they have to do is click in. Up at the top, they also have a button that says “View my Work” so they can see it in that area. Plus, it will tell them what their grades and activities are over on the left hand side. To go back they click on the title and go back to the classwork tab.

People Tab
P is for People. Under the people tab, we can add teachers and students. There are several ways to do this, so let me show you how to do it. Once again, teachers are the most important. Having a collaborative teacher that you work with, also have access to your classroom, is a great resource. That brings me to my scavenger hunt word. My scavenger hunt word is TEAMWORK. When you have teamwork, you can do anything. So invite other teachers to participate with you in Google Classroom. Click on the little person and enter in the email address that you want to be attached and then you click down here where it says ”INVITE”. Remember that these teachers can do everything in the classroom. You can see it is grayed out right here but you can see they are invited. If I change my mind I can always click on the three dots, and I can email them to say “hey I have invited you to my class” or remove them fully from the class. Next, I have students. Remember you can also add kids by giving them your class code or you can click on the plus sign and find their email or type in their email as well. As you see I can invite him in my class but as you can see he is not able to join because he is already in my class. If I pick another student, and click on it and then I can invite them. You can see that when you invite them they will be grayed out, just like that. And then once they have accepted then they will be over here. If you give the students the class code then they will automatically be accepted into the class. Once a student is fully enrolled in the class, then you can invite the guardian of the student for the guardian summaries we have gone over earlier. And you can see that the email has been invited but it is still in acceptive mode from the parent, then the parent will have access to the information with out having to access the students’ Google Classroom. And that is our people tab!

People Tab- Student View
Here you can see the people tab in the student view. When the student clicks on people, It will have a list of the teachers, and the other students in the classroom for them.

Grades Tab
The last tab that we have is G is for Grades. As the teacher view, you have a gradebook page. This will list all your students out here and all the assignments and dates due. Plus allow you to enter in material. So I can see that I can enter in a grade for him here and it will calculate his grade here in it. Remember the grade setup by how you set up the settings in the beginning that we talked about on what will work for you. You also have the ability to grade inside of the activities once you click in. You can also grade in here where the activity is as well. Plus you can see any comments or notes that they have. Also, if any student has turned something in by accident, they not longer have access to it so you will need to return it to the student so that they can redo the activity. You can send them a private comment like “please look over the item” and return it back to them and now they have editing rights to that activity.

Thank You- The End
Thank you so much for attending the ABC’s and 123’s of Google Classroom training. I hope this training was helpful for you and you continue to take your adventure with Google Classroom to the next level. Thanks again!

Brainstorm 2020: The Magic Beneath the Surface of EdTech

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Presented by Patrick Hausammann, Supervisor of Instructional Technology, Clarke County/UnisonEDU/VSTE

Stop, collaborate, and listen! Do not move away from a technology just because there is a new one and/or without fully exploring the tool. Many times the magic of edtech tools lies beneath the surface and is only discovered after users have explored, failed, and grown. Digging deeper alongside concepts such as “app smashing” creates all new worlds of possibilities! Come learn all about some of the magic beneath the surface of many popular EdTech tools, especially in the land of G Suite!!

Note: We are aware of some sound quality issues with the video due to internet and microphone limitations for the presenter. Please contact him directly at phausedu@gmail.com with any questions.

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Hey everybody, super excited to be with
you for the Magic Beneath the Surface of Edtech

presentation. This one being a
special G Suite edition. Hope you enjoy,

hope you learn, something, and on the
flipside connect with me anytime for

more help and diving deeper into a range
of edtech goodness. Welcome to the Magic

Beneath the Surface of Ed Tech. You'll see
a bit.ly on your screen that will get you

directly to this side deck. So if you
want to go ahead and pause for a second to

type that bitly into your address bar.
You'll be able to follow along with

the slide deck and hopefully jump into
the tools as I do as well. I am Patrick

Hausammann. I can be found at phausedu.com. I
can also be found at unisonedu.org,

which is my nonprofit I started to help
all schools in need of great

professional learning opportunities
at rates or even a free cost to make

sure they're moving forward with all
schools. You can also find me at PHausEDU

on Twitter and phausedu@gmail.com. You'll see a range of

different badges on your screen, know
that those are not there in any way to

boast or brag. I put all the different
things I've earned up there so you know

that I'm coming from a knowledgeable
base when I share with you. But also so

that you can get a really good idea of
what I could help you get to if there's

different certifications and badges you
want to get to, such as Google innovator

or Google Certified Trainer, Common-Sense
Ambassador, WeVideo ambassador or any of

those things you see. I'd be more than
happy to walk you through the process

that I took... help review applications and
help you get to that point. So what do I

mean by this magic beneath the
surface of edtech? Where is this magic?

What is this sorcery? I believe that many
times a magic of edtech tools lies

beneath the surface and is only
discovered after users have had an

adequate amount of time to explore, fail
learn, grow, discover, make connections, and

collaborate. It's not a instant dive in
and you

know everything about that tool. You need time
really play with it, fail, and grow from that

failure. To connect with others, collaborate
with others to do great things with

edtech. Simply because an edtech tool
isn't the latest one released doesn't

mean it isn't the best or just as
capable as another. You don't want to

instantly jump on the bandwagon of new
tools just because they're new and shiny.

Look at those old tools... see if you can
think of an awesome new way to use that

and does just this great if not a
greater thing than the new tech cool.

That doesn't mean don't try new things
but make sure that tools you're

comfortable with and the tools that your
students are comfortable with need to be

changed in order to do something else is
great. If they already know it and have

mastered it use the one that you know
they know to do the amazing things with.

With all of that said G suite is the first
area that we're going to jump into and

the main area for this presentation. So
get ready and I hope you learn a lot

about G Suite. There is a ton of awesome
stuff within the land of G Suite. It truly

is quite "suite." You'll notice on this
slide you have a lot of different links

through a lot of the different areas of
G Suite but by no means is this

everything. We have other things like
Google Keep that have phenomenal

resources and awesome uses they're just
not in this presentation. You'll notice

that we have links down the left hand
side and we also have two presentations that

are linked on the right side with the
images. One for Tips and Tricks and Just

Plain Cool stuff in G Suite and one
for All the Things You Didn't Know Google

Slides Could Do. We'll touch on some of
the things in those & if you want to learn even more

about G Suite than what is linked on the
left,

check out those slides as well. I will go
ahead and jump out of the slide deck and

we'll bounce through some of the tools. I'll
walk you through some of the awesome

stuff and then we'll come back to this slide
deck and make sure you have that bit.ly

one more time because there's
another thirty some slides in this side

deck. They go well outside of the land of
G Suite into a ton of awesome and edtech

tools.
So the first thing that we're going to

explore is Google Chrome itself.
So you'll notice as I go down down through

some of the tabs I have open, one of the
big places start is a Chrome Web Store.

The Chrome Web Store is where you can get
different extensions and themes but the

powerful one of those two is the
extensions . They will let you do a

ton of different things that aren't
inherently built into Google Chrome. For

instance, if I scroll it down just
slightly you're gonna notice there is an

extension for Kami. Kami will let you open
PDFs that you have within Google Drive

and annotate them in a range of
different ways. My internet going a

little slow, we should have a preview on
the screen but you can see that's not

loading up for me. There we go,
so what it does is allow you to annotate

via highlighting via text boxes and a range of
other ways for free. There are a couple

freemium pieces. One of the things I
always recommend with this store is to check

the overview. Check the different things
that give you an idea of what it does

here as far as they'll be some images or
maybe some videos and also jump over to

the reviews see what the reviews are
saying. What I would recommend is

changing this helpful to recent so that
you see the most current reviews not

necessarily just the ones that are
skewed towards a good side. Check this

new one and see what people are saying
right now with a side note of making sure

you read through a decent number. Don't
just take the first full negative ones as the

truth because students are actually
getting smart enough, & in some cases adults as

well, they will go in & bash the comments with
tons of negatives to try and get it to not

be approved to use. So make sure you read a decent
amount just like you would if you're

online shopping. When you want it and are
ready to use it, just click on the add to

Chrome and it'll join some of the
extensions you may already have up

because at your district side your
school can actually push the extensions

so you may well have some things that
come out there that will that you

use them without you having to install
them. One of the biggest resources I'm

going to share here comes from one of
my friends and UnisonEDU team

member, Denise Henry Orndorff and she
has made this periodic table of Google

extensions and you'll see there are a
ton of different extensions. By no

means is this all of them but you'll see
different things like EasyBib that'll

help you cite resources or help your
students cite sources. Things like share to

classroom that will let you put just about
any resource, link it directly in the

classroom without opening classroom or
using something else. There's things like

Screencastify that you'll see down here
at the bottom that is actually a

screencasting tool that I'm using right now
to record this video. There are ton of

different other ones like Mercury Reader
that will help take all the distractions

away from an article so you can read it
clearly. Check out a ton of these

different extensions, check out the
Chrome Web Store, do some Google searches...

there's a ton of the things being
shared out there. Know that the way

Google Chrome operates on the surface is
very far shy of what it can actually do.

So make sure you dig a little deeper on
Chrome. Some of the other things we're

going to look at are different instant
searches that you can do. If you've not

been to ControlAltAcheive.org, I'm sorry, .com. It's Eric Curts'

website he puts tons of awesome
resources up. The one that I'm going to show

you right now briefly is 20 instant
searches your kids need to know or your

students should know. Instant searches are those
things they type in the address bar or

the URL bar and they will instantly do
things for you without you having to

click more things. One of those is as
simply as typing "flip a coin."

Google will automatically then put a coin on your screen so you can flip it.
Y ca do a quick heads or tails type activity.

Maybe you're looking at probability...
It'll come up saying preparing to

flip and when you click it it'll flip it
and of course you can click it multiple

times you continue to flip. Some of
the other things that

are within the blog post and there's
actually a second companion blog post to

this as well but you can do things like
roll a die, quickly get definitions,

check the time, particularly in different
countries by saying what time is it in

this place, one of the ones a lot of our
elementary teachers use and even

secondary is the timer function. They'll
type in something like 15-minute timer

for their stations. It'll automatically
load the page with the timer you see,

start it counting down, and you'll notice
there's a small volume option there

that'll let you control whether or not
that makes sound when that and runs down.

You have calculator options, things all
the way up through and including

calculating the area of shapes,
calculating the volume of shapes, even

going as far as graphing equations. So
just the search bar within Google Chrome

itself gives you a lot more than
literally just typing in a website or

doing a search for something that you
then have to dig deeper. There's a lot of

things you can instantly find out if you
dig a little bit deeper than that

surface level. So check out these, go to
ControlAltAchieve.com and check out

the companion posts. It's going to give you
a lot more things that you can search

for and instantly get the things you
need. You can see there's also some

keyboard shortcuts and using different
users in Google Chrome. Definitely things

if you use Chrome for a lot on the
personal side and work side I would

check those things out so that you get a
really good idea of all the different

things Chrome can do for you. As we come down,
the next thing we're going to look at is

Google Drive. We won't do a ton in Google
Drive but the first thing that I want to

look at is actually using emojis. There's
a couple different ways that you can use

emojis If we come into Google Drive
itself,

you'll notice as I scroll down I have
one emoji up next to the name of a

folder and that helps me really quickly
find it and be able to pick it out of

the list of all the other folders. I've
shared this with different students as

well and it really helps them find
things in the maze of all the other

things listed in their Drive. Adding
emojis into those things is

very easy to do.
if I right-click on the file or the

folder, I'm just going to go into rename and
you'll see I can type in this I can do

whatever. What I'm actually going to do is
hop over to a different website for

emoji pedia and we'll just do something
quick and easy. We'll search for smile

and you can choose which one that you
might want go ahead and click on it and

it will tell you, which is nice about
this website, what that [emoji] represents but it

also gives you this quick and easy copy
button. So I'm going to snag that, come back

to my tab, and then I can just paste it
in like I would anything else. The

important part here is that you paste
it after the title or after the name of

the document. If you put it beforehand
it's actually going to break up the

alphabetical order and put it up towards
the top like you added a number at the

beginning. So make sure you put it after
and then you just hit OK and it's going to

be right in there. You could do
the same thing if I was in an open Doc.

I could easily hit that copy and paste and go
ahead and paste it right into my

document. If I click on the title you notice that this
one already has a couple in it. Very cool

stuff, really helps students find those
things. What you want to make sure of on

your side and also likely on the
students side is that you've cautioned

them to not add too many. If every folder
in their Drive or every file in their Drive

has emojis, it's not going to help them
find anything. Another really cool thing

that you can do with emojis within
Google itself as far as in a Doc, if I

come into my document if I just want
an emoji anywhere I can come up to insert,

go special characters, and in the
drop-down (it's usually gonna be on

symbol) but you can choose a emoji and you
have an emoji library there you can

insert things directly into your
documents. You can even try your hand at

drawing the symbol for the emoji. You'll
be able to find it on the screen and

insert it directly into your Doc.
Another thing that you can do that's

cool is customize your bullet points. So
if I click on the bullet point twice [slowly] and

I'm going to right click on more
bullets and you'll see I'm right into

that insert special characters again. I
can choose and I can make any emoji that

bullet point and if I hit enter to add
another one it's gonna be that same

emoji. Cool stuff and stuff that really
captures students attention and makes it

a little bit more exciting than just
another bulleted list.

Side note of different projects you
might be able to do as well as far as

something one of our teachers does is
recreating the Bill of Rights

written completely in emojis. As we
come through and look at our document a

little more, popping back quickly to the
slide deck, you're going to see there's other

things here like shortcuts, work spaces,
and different apps that you can bring in.

Just like other things in the land of
Google if I go to new and more I'm going to

see all of those other things I do like Forms, Drawings, Sites, and

different apps I connected into my Drive
to other things, for instance like WeVideo

allows me to edit different videos,
Jamboard is a another piece that allows

me to do whiteboard type things in the
land of Google, with Beautiful Audio Editor I

can edit audio in Google Drive which is
not a capability it normally has. But if

I scroll to the very bottom of this list,
and again, I'm in "Create," then "More," then at

very bottom "connect more apps." I will
have an app library that I can search

down through and install things. A lot of
these including this apps for as well as

extensions need to be enabled by your G
Suite administrator to allow you to

install them. A lot of times this is disabled
for students and left on for teachers

but if you get to this and it doesn't
let you install anything, connect with

your administrator to get that turned on.
Those are some cool things that you can

do just in Drive a little bit within Docs.
If we come down through we're going to go

ahead and jump right into Docs and
keep rolling on quickly through our

different things. So in the land of Docs, you'll notice I closed a tab I needed. Quick tip,
control+shift+T will open the last tab

closed and, say it was five tabs ago, just
hit control+shift+t five times & it'll

instantly bring back those five tabs in
the order that I closed them. If I look at

this, I also have add-ons within Docs, which
are really cool. So if I come into

"add-ons" and then click on where it says
"get add-ons" that's going to let me

explore again on another store full of
different things that add increased

function and capability to Google Docs.
So it's going give you different options

that allow you to do things like
bibliography work with EasyBib. It's

going to give you maybe Math Type to let
you type different things within the

realm of equations... things like that.
There's also a great accessibility

add-on that you can use Called Grackle Docs
that will scan through your Doc & give

you suggestions on how you can approve
it for accessibility. Well, you'll notice

I have a fairly small scroll bar which
tells me I have a lot of

different things I can check out in
there. These will not slow down your

machine at all but something I should
have mentioned when I talked about

extensions is you want to make sure you
don't install too many as extensions can

slow down your machine. I would also
recommend... you'll see a small yin-yang

symbol at the top right in my screen.
That is Extensity. That's will let you

toggle on and off extensions that you
use or install. So if you need it right

now you can just click it turn it on, if
you don't need it it's okay to turn it

off so it's not using those system
resources. Another thing in Docs that I

want to show you is within the "Tools"
menu. If I click on that I can click on

preferences and these will allow you to
customize different things that Google

does for you. By clicking on the
substitutions tab I could type something

like Haus, like you'll see down here at
the bottom, and it will type my last name

instead. If you consistently spell a word
wrong you could type in the one that you

usually type it as and set it to auto
correct something else. You'll see this

is where the things like the fractions
that autocorrect themselves. Those are

pre-programmed things by Google. You'll
see the copyright symbol, the trademark

symbol, those are all things already
there but you can add your own just by

typing them in at the top, hitting the okay
button and it will automatically

substitute for you and make that a
preference that goes forward with you in

your Docs.
Another thing that I'll touch on here in

Docs and then we're going to jump out and
keep rolling through is for instance if

I highlight this it's going tell me that
that font is Arial. Maybe I want it to be a

different font instead and maybe I want that
to be my headings font for the end of

time in Doc's or at least in this
Doc. If I click on the drop down we'll

see Heading 3, I can click on update heading
3 to match so that is going to make it so

in this Doc alone that is going to be
any time I do heading 3 it's going to look

exactly like that. If I want to apply it
globally to Doc's I could come down to

options and save it as my default styles.
Which is going to mean anytime I use head

three any time in Docs from here into
the future it's gonna look exactly like

that. So, if you want a different normal
text so that when you open the Doc it's a

font other than Arial 11 you can program
that in the exact same way. We're going

to keep rolling down through our
different things and we're gonna skip a

couple of these but I'm going to hit on
Slides first and notice you have this

other slide deck "All The Things You
Didn't Know You Could Do With Slides," so

if I pop that open and I'm going to to do a
quick scroll through because we're

actually short on I'm already. But if you
check it out you're going have different

sections: "General Awesomeness" which tells
you how to do different things like

customize the slide side size, how do you
bring in images, auto type or speak to type your

speaker notes via your voice, different
transitions and things you can do,

format options, and as you come down
through... There's some simple things your students can do

like applying gradient backgrounds,
different things like the

re-emergence of "Word Art" within the land
of Google but as I come down through

there's a next section that is "Next
Level Awesomeness." That's going

to show you how to edit things like the
master slide, how to do things like word

sorts, different add-ons that you can use
in Google slides, and know that there's

add-ons in Forms and as well as Google
Sheets as well so check those out when

you're in those apps. But as we come down
through you'll see there's different

things that walk you through or give you
a template on how to do things like word

sorts, how do I add add-ons, what about
social media templates (things like

Instagram templates, things like Facebook
all of those different things... maybe even

some new tic toc ones that are coming
out), how can you use those in a safe way

without maybe jumping into the app
itself. Different infographics, how to do

stop motion animation, choose your own
adventures, magnetic poetry, even a thing

that comes from Micah Shippee on how you can
teach your students how to create an app

within Slides. So, please don't think that
Slides is just the presentation tool. I

can just do a PowerPoint but I'll do it
in Slides. Slides can do so much more...

It can be your newsletter with a custom
page size. You can design

full-size posters by making the slide
size 24 by 36, save it as a PDF, and send

it to the publisher to print out. Its a
ton of different things you can do so

don't discount it as just the
presentation tool. There's a ton of

different things in there including what
I didn't touch on is a sweet way that

you can do a magic reveal by playing
with the ordering of an levels of

pictures, images, & texts that are on your
slide. Really cool stuff that you can

check out. I'll touch on a couple of
these things briefly without necessarily

touching out of the slideshow much but
in Sheets think of things like pixel art...

and there's a ton of different resources
on Eric Curts' website including things

about pixel art. Things like doing "Battle
Sheets" and you'll see right here a

template for 20 color pixel art
template as well as pixel art activities

for any subject with any grade. But it
gives you a really great idea of ways

that you can use Slides [meant Sheets] that are
different or cheats that are different

than just typing in formulas and numbers.
Getting the students really comfortable

with something like Sheets that will
then allow you to work your way into

those numbers formulas and things. Give
them comfortable, fun things to do in

school before you jump into that a
little bit heavier things to do in

Sheets. Something else that's really cool
is that you can actually translate

things within Google Sheets. On Jake
Miller's, JakeMiller.net, his website, he

actually gives you an animated EduGif
here that shows you how to do this

within Google Sheets where you can have
it translate into different languages

just by typing in the right formula and
then filling downward. And it's going to

translate those things in different ways
for you. Really cool kind of trick or

hack that I didn't even know about but
is really simple to do and could be a

game changer in your classroom with your
kids.

One of the last things I'll touch on is
flippity.net. This does a ton of

different things with Sheets and they
give you Demos, instructions, and

templates for just about every one from
things like scavenger hunts, quiz games,

random name pickers... You can actually make tournament boards or brackets, badge makers,

also word puzzles, bingo, hangman,
certificates... tons of different things

that all use easy to follow instructions
and templates and utilize Google Sheets.

As we continue down our list and get
towards the bottom here there's a lot of

cool things you can check out with Forms.
One of the biggest things I like about

it is creating basically really easy to
create digital break outs that use

something like Google Forms with the
verification side turned on. There's

directions in a slide deck there for you
as well as playing with the confirmation

message by embedding some sort of
enrichment activity in there via a link so

that when students finish whatever quiz
or activity breakout they're doing

there's one more added wrinkle that they
can get to and add something fun on. I

also like a thing that Tom Mullaney
posted about an "impossible to fail quiz."

If students get it wrong that form will
then branch them to more help, & have them

answer the question again. So think of it
a way that they can do a quiz but review

at the same time. Really sweet stuff!
The last thing we'll touch on this slide

is Google Drawings and the only one I'm
going to touch on on this one is what

Eric Curts calls a "Googlink." Which makes
it very similar to if you've used Thinglink.

This is what it is but made in the realm
of Google. You can create a Google

Drawing and this will walk you through a
hundred percent of the steps of how to

do it. You can embed links& pictures. You
can even use a hack that is listed on

the slide to bring in an image or sorry
a video within Google Drawings, something

you typically can't do. But watch that
link and you'll know how to do it fairly

quickly. But what it [the Googlink"] allows you to do is
embed everything in one spot, use the

published URL, and then you basically
have a one-stop shop

for all your students that they could
link into different websites, their

different activities, they could watch a
video answer questions from the Google

Form... anything that you can link in you
can bring into the "Googlink" & have it

in one spot. This actually is a good
segue and a touch point to something I

didn't touch on up in the top part here
and that is Hyper Docs. It's a way to

package your lesson all in one spot that
is linked on the slide as well if you

look at HyperDocs.co you'll get
tons of information there. Think of it as

an amazing way to engage your students,
give them all kinds of activities and

awesome things to do, and also bring them
around to some sweet reflection at the end.

That's where we're going head right now.
At the end of the slide deck you're

actually going to see a slide that'll be
an evaluation link. Please do that. Give

me some feedback. Let me know how it went.
I know it went fast but remember too

this is a video so you can go back and
pause and re-watch anytime.

And also check out some of the many different sections like Flipgrid,

Adobe Spark, Wakelet... & tons of
others that are linked in. The bit.ly is

back on your screen for a moment here so
you can grab that if you missed it at

the beginning. And I'll also bring up my
contact information so you'd have that

one more time.
Please contact me anytime, it doesn't matter

if it's today when you watch this, a week
from now, or a year from now, send me

questions and act to collaborate any
time. We'll make great things happen with

our students and last thing that I would
ask you to do is towards the very bottom.

And I'll leave you with this to repeat...
please place your

hand on a keyboard when you do so. Give your permission self permission to dive deep

into edtech to check out the magic down below
by reciting the oath but remember the

last part of connecting with a loved one or
a friend that can bring you out of that

rabbit hole if you dive too deep or go
for just simply too long. Thank you guys!

Really enjoy being with here with
you, wish we're in person but love that

we could do it virtual, if nothing
else. Thanks!