GOOGLE CLASSROOM
G-SUITE,
APPS, EXTENSIONS AND ADD-ONS
STAFF DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
SYLVIA DUCKWORTH
This inspirational slide show highlights Sylvia Duckworth's brilliant "sketchnoting", talents. Her website provides a wealth of resources, an example of one of the many tech leaders who offer presentations on Google Apps, Extension and Add-Ons. https://sylviaduckworth.com/presentations/
ABOVE ARE JUST TEN OF OVER 40 OF MS. DUCKWORTH'S FREE SKETCHNOTES.
This is a link to her 25 Favorite Googly things. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KBQ-WKLFnLWo8JH-jmy1IQxsOxG_qxOIRouGdOwD-5w/edit?usp=sharing
ABOVE ARE JUST TEN OF OVER 40 OF MS. DUCKWORTH'S FREE SKETCHNOTES.
This is a link to her 25 Favorite Googly things. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KBQ-WKLFnLWo8JH-jmy1IQxsOxG_qxOIRouGdOwD-5w/edit?usp=sharing
APPS/EXTENSIONS/ADD-ONS
NOTE: Though all of these resources are recommended by
ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education - Homehttps://www.iste.org/
and by esteemed G-Suite Professionals, schools districts need to refer to their acceptable usage policies for all-school implementation.
SEE VIDEO THAT EXPLAINS APPS, EXTENSIONS AND ADD-ONS
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GOOGLE G-SUITE and
CLASSROOM TRAINING
FREE TEMPLATES TO SAVE TEACHER TIME
TEMPLATES: See a GIANT list of G-Suite templates ready for immediate use in the classroom at: http://bit.ly/2xwKd3G
MORE TEMPLATES: "TEMPLATE PALOOZA": STAR WARS, TIME MAGAZINE, A HOST OF OTHER TEMPLATES http://creativeedtech.weebly.com/trainings.html |
MORE TEMPLATES!!! DO MORE WITH GOOGLE DRAWINGS: THIS WEBSITE INCLUDE DRAWING TUTORIALS, TEMPLATES, TIPS AND TRICKS, AND INTERACTIVE MULTI-MEDIA.
https://sites.google.com/isd423.org/draw/templates MORE TEMPLATES: ERIC CURTS:
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GOOGLE CLASSROOM TRAINING:
This is Google's commitment toward enhancing teacher effectiveness. Click on the image for their: "Welcome to your first day of Classroom". This website is Google's newest training center on Google Classroom and G-Suite.
This is Google's commitment toward enhancing teacher effectiveness. Click on the image for their: "Welcome to your first day of Classroom". This website is Google's newest training center on Google Classroom and G-Suite.
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FEATURED APPLICATION: ANNOUNCED AT ISTE-2019: WAKELET FOR EDUCATORS: Though there are a multitude of applications listed below, this curation application promises to transform classrooms.
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TEACHER ENTREPRENEUR
"TEXT BOOK": The Google Infused Classroom
For Lincoln Elementary:
The CITE Foundation will support Teacher Entrepreneur teachers on mastering and implementing 19 new updates in Google Classroom, in addition to doing a deep dive into G-suite: (docs, forms, sites, draw, sheets, etc). Using the Google Infused Classroom, they will learn application and skills to enhance the Google experience. The end result will be to inspire a "The Google Infused Classroom" "based on the premise of fusing great pedagogy with powerful technology tools to create meaningful learning experiences for Generation Z students."
The CITE Foundation will support Teacher Entrepreneur teachers on mastering and implementing 19 new updates in Google Classroom, in addition to doing a deep dive into G-suite: (docs, forms, sites, draw, sheets, etc). Using the Google Infused Classroom, they will learn application and skills to enhance the Google experience. The end result will be to inspire a "The Google Infused Classroom" "based on the premise of fusing great pedagogy with powerful technology tools to create meaningful learning experiences for Generation Z students."
The Google Infused Classroom: STUDY GUIDE
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Master Resource 1
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Master Resource 2
60+ CHROME EXTENSIONS
Stacey Behmer
Power Point
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STACY BEHMER:
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TEACHER ENTREPRENEUR
EXTENSION STARTER KIT
WEB 2.0, FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT, CREATIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY APPS
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOLS
Quizlet: Formative Assessment Vocabulary: Flash cards and games. (Free) Paid teacher subscription allows you to track student participation, student results. Also, an added feature, Quizlet Live, where students are placed in competitive teams. Students love it. https://quizlet.com/
Quiziz: Formative Assessment Vocabulary: Game Based Avatars, leaderboards, themes, music and memes! Kids love this too. https://quizizz.com
Kahoots: Formative Assessment all content: Game Based Fremium is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages! https://kahoot.com/ (Monica Burns
Socrative: Formative Assessment: Socrative (https://socrative.com/)is an online quiz tool that works like a student response system. It is very easy to use and works on any device that can connect to the internet (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya) (Burns, Monica) Web App and Extension
GoFormative: Formative Assessment: https://goformative.com/ ( Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya) (Monical Burns) Another outstanding student response system.
See Saw: (Formative Assessment): Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication. https://web.seesaw.me/Seesaw is a digital portfolio app and website that can be a powerful tool for making student thinking visible. Seesaw also has a blog option that students can use to publish their creations to an authentic audience. It provides students with multiple ways to document their learning. Students can easily create videos, photos, and voice recordings. They may even add a QR code to their creation, print it, and post it in your class so their peers can scan the code and listen to their recording and provide comments — something like a gallery walk. Once shared on the blog option, their creation can be made public to a larger audience. (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya) (Monical Burns)
Explain Everything: (Formative Assessment) Explain Everything: https://explaineverything.com/ Chosen by Bill Gates as top five educational apps. This is a collaborative interactive whiteboard “which helps students capture, explain, and reflect on their learning, using a more powerful platform that allows for animation, compare and contrast, movie making, and sketchnoting. Basically anything your students need to do can be done in a collaborative shared whiteboard, the best one being Explain Everything (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
Edupuzzle: (Formative) Edupuzzle https://edpuzzle.com/ “The easiest way to engage your students with videos. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track student understanding”. You can upload a you tube video and create an interactive responses. Students have to answer your questions before they can continue with the video. I’ve seen this at several conferences, but could not use in our district. So check your acceptable use policy in your district.
Kami: (Formative) Kami is an online PDF viewer. Outstanding! Teachers can share Pdf worksheets for student interactive response. “Kami is your digital pen and paper where you and your students can learn, create, and collaborate.” Lots of tools: highlighting, etc. https://www.kamihq.com/
Nearpod: (Formative) Thousands of visually engaging free interactive lessons with formative feedback. Teachers can upload their own powerpoints and create an assessment on the content. Now include Virtual Reality lessons. https://nearpod.com/ (Monica Burns)
Padlet: (Formative) A “sticky” note type interface, allowing students to brainstorm or comment on a central question. A perfect KWL tools, Free Padlet is both a website and a Chrome extension that allows you to create a blank digital wall. When you don’t have time for your students to make in-depth reflections, they can still use Padlet to create short text- or image-based ones. (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya) https://padlet.com/ (Monica Burns)
Lino-it: (Formative) Similar to Padlet but responses can color coded and thus more visually appealing. The downside: it has advertisements. http://www.linoit.com
Thing-link: https://www.thinglink.com/edu This video explains the value of the free version of thing link. This is a remarkable tool that allows students to create hyper linked images onto of images. Perfect for authentic assessment of understanding across all content areas. Students an link docs, images, videos, etc. It creates engaging learning environments by integrating popular digital tools and resources.
CREATIVITY AND GENERAL RESOURCE TOOLS
Class Tools: Incredible resource for the teacher. Allows the teacher to create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds. Host them on your blog, website, or intranet. No signup, no passwords, no charge. http://www.classtools.net/
Symbaloo: https://www.symbaloo.com/home/mix/13eP29aBMO Symbaloo is a personal hypwelinked page that allows you to easily navigate the web and compile your favorite sites all into one visual interface. Do a “Symbaloo” search (ie. Symbaloo Fractions) and your will discover many free hyperlinked page created by another teacher.
Weebly: www.weebly.com Teacher/Student Website creation. For a small fee, the education version is robust. It allows teachers to create password-protected classes which allows students their own url and many professional features: drag and drop, video insertion, etc. Google Sites now has some of the same features, however, some districts don’t allow students to publish their Google sites. Students can create a professional webpage in a short period of time
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Canva: (Creativity)Free Graphic Design: https://www.canva.com (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya) Incredibly free sophisticated graphic design web app. Thousands of templates Fremium, but “free” offers more than students would need) I created many of the graphics on this website in Canva. Canva is a free online graphic design platform that allows you and your students to quickly create professional, customized graphics. In the company’s own words, it’s “an amazingly simple graphic design tool. Perfect for Generation Z students, who will figure this out faster than you. Most of the graphics on this website were created in Canva.(Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
Easel.ly: (Creativity) https://www.easel.ly/Graphic Design (Freemium): Create Infographics and visual presentation. Whether you need to visualize a complex process, create an engaging presentation, or showcase data, this website offers free templates that have already done 90% of the work for you.
Photo Mania: (Creativity)Photo enhancer. Free “Make your photos beautiful and expressive with a single click”. https://photomania.net/
Androidify: (Creativity) https://androidify.com/en/#/ Create your own cartoon Android using this Google-powered website. Your options are limited to cartoon robots.
DoppelMe: (Creativity) Students can design a human cartoon image, complete with accessories. Although they have fewer choices here than other sites, everything is appropriate for all ages. “With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web” http://www.doppelme.com/
Pixlr Express: (Creativity) https://pixlr.com/express/ This is an web app and a Chrome extension. You will have to turn off AdBlocker to run this site. A graphic editor for your more advanced students who will enjoy using this web app to customize their headshot.
Sketchup: (Creativity) Sketchup (sketchup.com) offers free, powerful 3D modeling tools that are easy to use.
Storyboard: (Creativity) Storyboard That (http://www.storyboardthat.com/) will help with writing screen-plays, skits, or movies (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
UtellStory: (Creativity) UtellStory (www.utellstory.com) is similar to VoiceThread but has a simpler interface.
Voice Thread
VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com/)facilitates the creation of presentations and also functions as a multimedia collaboration and discussion tool (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
Wordle: Wordle (www.wordle.net) will generate a word cloud from any text a user provides.
Book Creator: (Creativity) Book Creator (Freemium) is a website (https://bookcreator.com/ and iOS app that allows students to create books, comics, journals, and authentic learning artifacts, which they can then publish online for others to view and read. (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
Story Jumper: (Creativity) https://www.storyjumper.com/ Story Jumper (Freemium) is another website that also allows students to create books, comics, journals, and authentic learning artifacts, which they can then publish online for others to view and read.
We Video : (Creativity) WeVideo (Freemium) is a web-based video creation platform. (https://www.wevideo.com/) it allows students to share their video creations with a group and edit them collaboratively. Works with Canva, Screencastify, and Soundtrap. (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
Adobe Spark: spark.adobe.com/home/ . Adobe Spark empowers everyone to be creative on web and mobile, for free. Users can create professional looking graphics, web pages and videos in minutes.
Animoto: (Creativity) Animoto (www.animoto.com): This website allows you to turn your photos and music into a dramatic professional looking presentation. Teachers have limited educational use, but worth exploring.
Soundtrap: (Creativity) Soundtrap is a collaborative digital audio workstation that allows you and your students to create sound recordings. (https://www.soundtrap.com/edu/ Students can create music, and podcasts on any device (Chromebooks, laptops, iPads and smartphones, anywhere with access to the Internet. Soundtrap provides them with a bank of pre-created loops so they can develop high-quality music recordings. Students also have the ability to record their voices only. Works wi “We Video: and “Explain Everything”. (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
Flipgrid: Flipgrid is a video-response platform featuring grids and topics. https://info.flipgrid.com/ Think of it as a grid that helps you flip your instructions, hence, the name Flipgrid! On the grind, you can have topics. Topics are unlimited and allow you to ask discussion questions or prompts based on the overarching subject of the grid. (Clark, Holly; Avrith, Tanya)
ReCap: Recap is an app that encourages students to verbalize their thoughts and more deeply reflect on their learning by regularly creating video reflections using teacher-provided questions as prompts. https://letsrecap.com/
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Quadrigram: Quadrigram (www.quadrigram.com) is a visual drag-and-drop data editor that allows users to combine text, images, and interactive visualizations to life. Fremium
Rubistar: RubiStar (rubistar.4teachers.org) allows for creating and saving rubrics online.
Slide Carnival: (http://www.slidescarnival.com/) (Creativity) Free slide templates for Google Slides.
READING /CRITICAL THINKING
Pro-Con.org: Pro-Con.org is a remarkable website particularly designed for the argumentative essay. It curates credible resources from two opposing points of view on various topics, such as climate change. Students can review both sides and draft and argument and counter-argument. Be advised that some topics may be for older students (abortion), however teachers can copy their topics and share with students.
Project Guttenberg: www.guttenberg.org/ A vast collection of classic books, (Shakespeare, etc) with no copywriter restrictions. Free reading resource.
Newsela: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students.
Newsela - https://newsela.com
Tween Tribune: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. TweenTribune - http://tweentribune.com
Wonderopolis: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. Wonderopolis - http://wonderopolis.org
DOGO News: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. DOGOnews - https://www.dogonews.com
Here There Everywhere: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. Here There Everywhere - http://htekidsnews.com
Youngzine: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students.
Youngzine - http://youngzine.org
Scholastic News: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. Scholastic News Online - http://magazines.scholastic.com
National Geographic: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. National Geographic Kids - http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore
Science News: Non-fiction resources to support the Common Core: Free current event and high interest articles for students. Science News for Students - https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org
Read Write Think: (general resource language arts) www.readwritethink.org Free lessons created by and for teachers. Outstanding step by step lesson plans and slide shares, K-12. http://www.readwritethink.org/
NOTE TAKING
Evernote: evernote.com is the Swiss army knife of note taking and website curation. Students can create bibliography and digital note cards in folders, then search “topics” and organize all their notes for long essays.Students can import entire webpages, documents or pictures and use interactive tools to highlight. They can share folders and use voice activation. The free version only allows usage on one computer. The paid version allow students to access documents and research on multiple computers.
Google Keep: Google Keep is part of Google’s G-Suite for Education, a little know but powerful tool. This is Google’s version of Evernote, which is constantly being upgraded, now allowing many Evernote features. It color codes folders for easy organization. Now in Google Docs there is a feature under Tools called “sync to Keep” where notes can be quickly dumped into a research report.
Diigo: (www.diigo.com) Which ever browser you use, Diigo will create an add-on to your browser. Students can save and bookmark their resources, also annotate, highlight etc. Very powerful web tool.
Notability: powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and PDF annotation. Available on Ipad, Iphone, and Mac.
Kami: Kami is a powerful document markup tool available in Google Chrome and Google Classroom. This enriches student learning with online learning, ebooks, publisher PDFS, worksheets and more. They boost creation and creativity and collaboration in real time. Syncs with Google Classroom. Go to Google Extensions in the Webstore.
BEST ADD-ONS FOR DOCS AND SHEETS
RECOMMENDED BY ERIC CURTS:
POWER MY LEARNING: Over 7000 Resources for Teachers, Students and Families, designed to enhance mastery for all students, especially for non-English and students with learning differences. This abundantly curated website includes more than the resources listed here. This website allows both teachers and families to create playlists. As reported in The New York Times, "Family Playlists™ transform the learning relationships between students, families, and teachers and provide a groundbreaking new way to drive student mastery and social-emotional learning." https://powermylearning.org/ |
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Morrison Community High School
Morrison Community High School in Northern Illinois is one of hundreds of school districts that offer a professional development website for its teachers. This particular one provides explanatory videos on the difference between Apps, Extensions and Add-Ons. It also includes hyper links to the most popular productivity applications they recommend for both teachers and students. goo.gl/3OVkSP