Google Teacher Podcast

This is the final episode of the Google Teacher Podcast.

In this final episode, Matt and Kasey explain why this podcast is ending and reflect on their experiences creating it.

Some of their favorite moments and things they've enjoyed include:

• Tips from YOU are the best episode
• Speakpipes are informative and sometimes entertaining
• Jokes, memes, and silliness with our listeners
• Keynote speeches and conference meet-ups
• Learned more from our listeners than we will ever learn on our own
• Hearing listeners apply things they learned made our day
• Continued partnership and friendship
• Outtakes - Speaking of outtakes...make sure you listen to the very end!

You're invited to continue learning with Matt, Kasey, and Chris!

• Matt Miller's Ditch That Text Book
• Kasey Bell's Shake Up Learning
• Chris Nesi's House of #EdTechSocial Media

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Google News and Updates

• Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet
• Create and work with documents that contain multiple page orientations in Google Docs
• Open Office attachments from Gmail in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides with one click
• Some Google Meet settings now “sticky” for Education users
• Take a snowy stroll with Street View
• Create a festive song with Blob Opera
• 20 years of Year in Search

Featured Content

• Pam Hubler had a possible idea to answer a question in e124 using Wakelet to curate Google materials
• Another possible answer to the same question from Stephanie Litz
• Hello Matt and Kasey,
• So thankful for your podcast, keep up the good work because your listeners appreciate it. 
• Regarding the question from Marcel (below), I found this resource that might be a good fit: 
• Cube For Teachers Website - Cube For Teachers is a place where educators search, share, and store links to free open educational K-12 resources, including lessons, activities, interactive games, teaching strategies, tech tips, videos, special education, subject-specific resources, and more.
• Cube For Teachers - Chrome Web Store
• @cubeforteachers 

Dr. Rebecca Kreider from Mt. Olivetownship school district, verbal feedback is 3x as effective. She recommends Mote.

On The Blogs

• Matt
• New book, Do More with Google Classroom, is available!
• Kasey
• Blended Learning with Google (on Amazon)
• Google from A to Z (on Amazon)

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• Virtually raise your hand to ask a question in Google Meet
• Accept knocks in bulk in Google Meet
• Expanding Google Arts & Culture with Expeditions
• Expeditions app and Tour Creator going away

Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative. They work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. The Google Arts & Culture mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

• Museums
• Art
• Historical events and figures
• Virtual tours (Expeditions now part of A&C)
• 360
• Collections
• Time Explorer
• Color Explorer
• Experiments (games)
• Lesson from Applied Digital Skills
• Art selfie
• Nearby
• Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Marcel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- I have been a longtime listener and I am wondering if there is a site that you know of, that we can share G-Suite materials. I have put in a lot of time to make some good stuff, and I am sure other teachers have as well. You may have mentioned a site on one of your previous podcasts, but for the life of me, I can find it. (I have re-listened to so many podcasts...some are almost better the second time)

• Matt
  • New book, Do More with Google Classroom, coming in mid-December
  • • Check out the book companion website for resources
  • Ditch Summit: Free online conference for teachers, December 14 to January 8
• Kasey
  • Blended Learning with Google (Part 1: Do THIS, Not THAT)
  • Blended Learning with Google (Part 2: Storytelling in Any Classroom)

  New Books Coming Soon! BlendedLearningwithGoogle.com

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Google News and Updates

• Google for Education transformation reports window open, availability expanded worldwide (Seven key areas of transformation are here.)
• Replace your background in Google Meet
• Office editing mode is now the default editing mode for Office files in Drive on the web
• Try out these Google features on your new iPhone

Featured Content

From Patti Young: Hi Kasey and Matt, I love your podcast and look forward to every new episode. This year has been a struggle for teachers and their traditional ways of teaching. I am a 5th-grade teacher in middle school. My district is using a blended learning model. We have 2 cohorts Tuesdays and Thursdays and Wednesdays and Fridays. I see 2 groups of students per day. I really miss putting the kids into groups to share their learning. I love group work and I am really struggling with how to make it work this year. If you or your listeners have any ideas on how to do group work, I would love to try it. Can't wait to hear some new ideas!

Simple answer: collaborate on the assignment within a doc. 

Use voice comments with a tool like Mote (justmote.me) for comments for a personal touch of voice

Other tools that integrate nicely with Classroom that can foster discussion:

• Flipgrid: Video replies.
• Synth: Audio discussion tool. Audio replies.

What’s your purpose? Group work, collaboration, cooperative learning?

Group Doc Add-On (From Alice Keeler)

Collaborative Notes with Google Docs

Small-Group Instruction with Google Meet Breakout Rooms and Jamboard

• Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning (by Esther Park)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Jen Giffen (Ontario, Canada)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 virtual field trips for your classroom
• 40+ FREE digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own)
• Kasey:
• Google Classroom Comments - All You Need to Know
• FREE Google Lesson Plans for Teachers

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• 9 Chromebook and G Suite for Education features to make learning more accessible

Build classroom community with Google

Google Classroom headers

Get to know you activities

• Student interest surveys with Google Forms
• Fake Instagram

Google Forms check-in for student well being

Create more touchpoints with students:

• Make time for one-on-one feedback with students and small groups.
• Build student conferencing into your weekly schedule to make meaningful connections with students.
• Appointment slots in Google Calendar for one-on-one conferences with students
• Student Discussion in Google Classroom

Flipgrid for Good Morning videos

Remote Learning Tips from an Online Teacher (interview with Paulino Brener)

• Steve Scaysbrook (England) - Use OBS (Open Broadcast Software). Mix like a TV studio, bringing in a load of different feeds from the screen, external, feed it as one screen to a live broadcast. Feed to Google Meet, Zoom, whatever. He uses Microsoft Teams. Direct to that internal system. Easy to use. Mix and create screens like in a TV studio, flip between them very easily. Text. Slides. Anything else. Very easy to use.
• Ashley Brown (Mississippi) - Ep121, a private school teacher, being hybrid. Her public school is a hybrid. Did a fellowship with Learn Modern Classrooms. They teach you how to do blended learning with instructional videos, guided notes, tracker (so all students know where they are). Self-paced. Good for students who are in class, out of class, etc. Don’t miss anything. Can move simultaneously. Instructional videos for all students. All students can access it. Use a tracker or the to-do list so kids can see what to work on next. “Love you guys!”

• Matt
  • 30 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools
  • How to make an FAQ page for parents and students
• Kasey
  • Blended Learning Best Practices (with Catlin Tucker)
  • 13+ Google Classroom Quick Tip Videos

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Google News and Updates

• Introducing Google Workspace https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/10/introducing-google-workspace.html 
• This year, teachers have gone the distance
• Create and view tasks in the Google Calendar mobile apps
• Increase engagement with Q&A and polls in Google Meet

Featured Content

Google Form to serve as a contact form

FAQ document: If a student/parent asks a question, add it to the FAQ doc

Take pictures of a whiteboard and add to the student site

Include important documents (permission slips, syllabus, etc.)

Embed videos to support what you’re teaching in class

Use it as a “satellite location” for Google Classroom (for what it won’t do)

Host digital escape rooms

• 30+ free digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own)
• 20 Google Sites tips and tricks

Create a page for resources and tutorials for STUDENTS, and one for PARENTS

Google Classroom Cheat Sheets - a great resource for students and parents

Google’s Teach from Anywhere page has lots of great resources you may want to make available.

Google’s Guide for Guardians

Google’s Accessibility Guide for Guardians

Post your virtual office hours on the home page, or add the time to your image header

HYBRID? Create separate pages for these two groups

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

• Sheryl Brennan (California)
• Mary Lynn (Nevada)

On The Blogs

• Matt
• How to create Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning
• 12 social media-inspired Google Slides templates
• Kasey
• Synchronous v. Asynchronous Online Learning
• Collaborative Notes with Google Docs

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

• Matt
  • How to use Jamboard in the classroom: 20+ tips and tricks
  • The Unboxing Video: A fun classroom video activity
• Kasey
  • Read-Along Storybooks Using Audio in Google Slides (by Mike Mohammed)
  • Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool
  • Shake Up Learning Book Study (starts Oct. 1, 2020)

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Google News and Updates

• Use the new Google Chat app for fast and reliable communication
• New quick settings help you optimize your Gmail layout
• New Google Groups now generally available
• Learn and play together as a family with Chromebook

Featured Content

Susan Vincentz (Kentucky): Using screencastify to record and export audio only

Stephanie Howell (Ohio)

• Google Educator Groups (GEG) resources

Katie Wardrobe (Australia)

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/transpose-%E2%96%B2%E2%96%BC-pitch-%E2%96%B9-spee/ioimlbgefgadofblnajllknopjboejda 

Daren White (England)

Tanner Oglesby (Arkansas)

Dan Stitzel (Ohio)

Anna Cartwright (New York) 

Mike Mohammad (Wisconsin):

• bit.ly/addaudiotoslides

Ronaldo Palacios (California): Using Google Meet to view all students and share screens he opens a second window.

Pam Hubler (South Carolina): Google Sheets instead of the calendar to keep track of my daily activities as a coach. IT takes less time to update one Google sheet for a month than add individual events on a calendar. Easy to share with admin, teachers to see where she is. Updated tracker from show notes in episode 65. 

• Template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19fIRwF5JykQAlXh5EBvNpz_WVCcJSBlZmlJM_93YQLg/template/preview
• Notes with a new tracker linked: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A2yIp6nP-1H3Mo4nJL33V-OFqBohWcghI4Mz-1dBh8s/edit

Laura Conway (Colorado)

Kim McClintic (Texas)

Amber Houk (North Carolina)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Tech Like a PIRATE is OUT! Get the paperback/Kindle here.
• FREE Tech Like a PIRATE resources page
• 20 Google Sites tips and tricks
• Kasey:
• Google Classroom Cleanup Tips for the End of the Year
• GetGoogleCertified.com

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Google News and Updates

• Keep tabs on your tabs in Google Chrome
• Google Meet is here to host your video meetings, for free
• New ways Google Duo helps make time together more special

Featured Content

Google Classroom and Drive cleanup for the EOY

• https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/google-classroom-cleanup-tips-for-the-end-of-the-year/
• https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/13-tips-to-organize-your-google-drive/

From the previous episode 88:

• Return all work, grade it if you need to
• Archive Classes
• Clean-up Folders in Drive
• Create new folders for the things you want to keep and move things over
• Create a folder for exemplary work
• Do NOT Delete the Classroom Folder
• Do NOT Delete from Shared with Me
• Delete Old Class Calendars
• Reflect on your Google Classroom practices, collaborate with others for ideas

A check-out form that admins could sign digitally / students and parents / returning equipment

Doing last Google Meet calls with students

• Fun things to do during Google Meet calls (Kahoot/Gimkit, scavenger hunts, virtual field trips with Google Earth, etc.)

How to Create a Google Classroom Template (for next year)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Debbie Thymianos (Henderson, NV)

Philip Trott (Bermuda)

• Keyword Blog RSS feed
• Keyword Blog education RSS feed
• RSS reader: Feedly
• RSS feed to email via IFTTT
• Email subscription to G Suite Updates 
• Google Edu Newsletter

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Tech Like a PIRATE is OUT! Get the paperback/Kindle here.
• FREE Tech Like a PIRATE resources page
• Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources Page
• Kasey:
• Remote Learning Resources

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Google News and Updates

• To every teacher, thank you times infinity
• New Google Lens features to help you be more productive at home
• Kids can learn at home with Read Along by Google
• Make at-home learning more fun with 3D and AR in Search

Featured Content

Want to do Tech Like a Pirate stuff?

Website: TechLikeaPirate.com

What’s the focus of the book? (Using tech to create an experience, make learning memorable) “Don’t just teach a lesson. Create an experience!”

Is there research that supports doing activities that are fun? (Shawn Achor productivity, neuroscience study, National Institute for Play ongoing studies)

What are the ways to Tech Like a Pirate?

• Social media and apps
• Video
• Games
• Collaboration
• Images
• Exploration
• Global communication

Can these be used with Google tools? And remote learning?

• Social media and apps: Instagram/Snapchat/Twitter templates in Slides
• Video: In video calls/pre-recorded video: What’s the lens you see the video through? (news anchor, on the scenes TV reporter, reality game show, horror movie, etc.)
• Global communication: Inviting virtual guests, adding virtual field trips to video calls
• Exploration: giving students flexibility in what they research/find info (and where they find it)
• Collaboration: Shared Google Slides

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Renee Johnson (California)

• 8 YouTube-inspired classroom video ideas

Steve Scaysbrook (United Kingdom)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Tech Like a PIRATE: 10 things you’ll find in the book
• Tech Like a PIRATE resources page
• Kasey:
• FREE Access to Fluency Tutor
• Remote Learning Resources

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