We are talking all about how to leverage tech tools to build community in your (hopefully) face-to-face classroom. We'll link different tools to our four whys of community building: collaboration, communication, social-emotional learning, and safe & inclusive environments.

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Reasons for Building Community:

• Communication
  • Screencastify - overviews, instructional videos, presentations, email responses, feedback
  • Mote - use in slides, docs, gmail etc. for audio only
  • Google Chat - individual or group chats, informal, easier for students than email (low risk)
  • Google Meet - extra help sessions outside of class, drop in
  • LMS - announcement tools, discussion boards
• Collaboration
  • Google Jamboard (digital whiteboards) - small groups, breakout rooms, brainstorming, getting to know you activities, word walls, research, games
  • Flipgrid - screen share behind your picture now!
  • Google Slides, Docs, and Sheets - graphic organizer to get them started, collecting data as a class, crowdsourcing problem solving with Screencastify
• Social-Emotional Learning and Safe & Inclusive Environments
  • Use a variety of tools, modes of communication
  • Google Forms - gather info about your students, check ins, class song playlist, languages
  • Involve your students in your classroom layout, whether it is physical or virtual (LMS) - custom banners, layout, unit vs week
  • Check Ins - Google Form, Google Slides, etc. to see how students are doing
  • Headspace
  • Online games - Jamboard, Kahoot, Quizizz, Google Arts & Culture Puzzle Party - you can have students create these to save time!

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