Google Teacher Podcast

Google News and Updates

• Doodle for Google submissions close on March 2
• Applied Digital Skills Pilot Applications Open (due by March 15)
• New ways to comment on Microsoft files (and more) in Google Drive
• Email members of a Team Drive
• Improving the menus in Google Docs editors

Featured Content

• 10 digital bell-ringer activities to kickstart class (Part 1)
• 10 MORE digital bell-ringer activities to kickstart class (Part 2)
• Student-created Booksnaps by Amanda Funk
• Reuse Google Slide Deck in the About Tab for Bell Ringers
• Collaborative Meme Template from Alice Keeler
• Reuse Google Form for Bell Ringer from Alice Keeler
• 3-2-1
  • 3 Things You Learned Yesterday
  • 2 Things You Can Teach
  • 1 Question that is Still Lingering

• Using Pear Deck for Warm-ups with Google Slides Add-On (see episode 40)

Resources Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Editing topics after posting an assignment in Google Classroom:

  alright here’s one for the #GTTribe...if I have a past assignment/announcement posted on my #GoogleClassroom stream...I can’t figure out how to move it to a topic to organize it unless I indicated that when I created it..am I out of luck here @jmattmiller ?

  — Miss Goetz (@miss_goetz) February 14, 2018 Click the three dots menu button and “Edit”, then change the topic here …
• Possible Answers to Google Classroom Extra Credit Question:

• @jmattmiller @ShakeUpLearning Could the question of extra credit be solved by having an announcement laying out the EC and then students can request access. Then she can use the individual assign to add the grade only to the relevant students? #GTtribe

  — Arcadia (@TechWithParson) February 12, 2018
• Lyndi Valicek recommends Black Menu extension (SpeakPipe)
• SpeakPipe answer to login question: Clever QR Code login

On The Blogs

• Matt - Learning in motion: EASY stop-motion animation with Google Slides
• Kasey - 50 Awesome Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom

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Google News and Updates

• All types of Chromebooks for all types of learners
• Tools for every school: G Suite for Education updates
• “Ok Google, read my book”... Introducing audiobooks on Google Play

Featured Content Google Classroom Time-Savers

• 3 Chrome Extensions that Make Google Classroom Even More Awesome
• Google Classroom time savers (blog post)
  • Adjust email notifications
  • Keyboard commands
  • Open lots of student work at once (Alice Keeler Drive 20)
  • Sort posts with topics
• Package digital assignments

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Lissa Brunan (Grand Valley State University): Gives extra credit for students, but in Google Classroom, can’t set points possible to zero … ungraded or at 1. Needs to offer extra credit thru GClass.
• Renee Johnson (Oakhurst California): Idea for collaborative project, get students voices out to promote change, brainstorm how to improve school, create a survey, anyone around school gives feedback, students analyze data and use charts, slide presentation for specific person to help make their ideas a reality, later take it to larger community.

On The Blogs

• Matt - The Voice Typing Challenge: Save time, get things done
• Kasey - 5 Tips to Become a Google Certified Innovator by @edtechmason

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Google News and Updates

• Publish sites to a specific audience in the new Google Sites - Matthew Dill DM
• Go-to Google Photos tips for 2018
• Tailoring education for the 21st century: perspectives from educators
• Pioneer new lessons in your classroom with Google Expeditions

Featured Content

Holly Clark is an award-winning educator and speaker based in San Diego. She is both a National Board Certified Teacher and Google Certified Innovator. A longtime teacher and administrator, Holly consults globally with schools to help them successfully and purposefully innovate instruction through the use of learning theory, technology integration, and design thinking strategies. Holly holds an MA in Education from Teachers College - Columbia University, New York.

She is an internationally recognized keynote speaker - passionately spreading the idea that we need to disrupt education and innovate our classroom curriculum.

She is the Educational Strategist for EdTechTeam and head of their new publishing division - EdTechTeam Press. She authors a successful blog and her first book, The Google Infused Classroom, was released in June of 2017.

Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1, Google Certified Trainer, Google Certified Innovator

Google “Spark”: The student's faces

Twitter: @HollyClarkEdu Website: http://hollyclark.org Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Just finished putting together my first Choice Board for the intro unit in my Retailing class. Ss will be required to complete one line of their choosing, but will earn incremental bonuses for completing an "X" or a "blackout". #XPLAP #games4ed pic.twitter.com/rb6DMWmwOI

— Mr Blight (@mrblight_srss) January 29, 2018

Jenny O’Sullivan (Boca Raton, Florida) -- My name is Jenny and I am the K-5 STEAM teacher at A.D. Henderson University School in Boca Raton, FL. As an elementary specialist, I have 18 classes. To avoid having my younger students type out their very long email addresses each time to log into Google Classroom on the STEAM Lab computers, I have assigned each student to a computer. My problem is that Google only saves 10 email addresses for quick login. Is there an extension, hack, or work around to allow us to save all 18 addresses for quick login?

PD in the Loo by Alex Adams

Aimee from Nebraska: Loves AndThenIWasLike.co and has added some to her LMS. Happy we motivate her to pursue new ideas … had more teachers than students in the classroom to see what she’s doing and that’s partly due to us.

On The Blogs

• Matt - How to add a Family Feud-style game to your next class/PD
• Kasey - 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning

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Google News and Updates

• • Is your portrait in a museum?
  • More menu improvements in Docs and Slides
  • Improved accessibility for Google Sheets, Slides, and Drawings
  • Doodle for Google submissions are open
  • Start a Chromebook pilot and get free PD

Featured Content InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn websites into interactive lessons. This extension is AWESOME!

• Assign: Assign this to your InsertLearning class or share to Google Classroom
• Highlight: Highlight text on the page.
• Sticky Notes: Insert sticky notes right on the page.
• Questions: Insert free response or multiple choice questions on the page.
• Discussion: Insert a discussion topic on the page.
• If that’s not enough, InsertLearning has a ton of features that make it the perfect companion for G Suite users.
  • Chromebook compatible
  • Sign-in with Google account
  • Share directly with Google Classroom
  • Enhance published Google Docs with videos and more
  • Insert a YouTube video at the right moment in the text
• Get a coupon one full month of premium in Kasey’s 18 Challenges ebook and online course.

Pear Deck is a formative assessment tool that allows you to add interactive questions, warmups, exit tickets, and even drawings to your Google Slides. Get the Pear Deck Add-On.

• Get a three months of premium in Kasey’s 18 Challenges ebook and online course.
• The New PearDeck Slide Library

The sidebar now gives you access to a library of templates created by educators to support learning objectives typically found at the beginning, middle and end of a class. Here you will find bell ringers, checks for understanding, exit tickets, and more. Simply drop one of these templates into your slide for instant engagement.

Beginning: Bell Ringer Example

Middle: Labeling Diagrams Example

End: Explain the Lesson Example

5 Interactive Question Types in Pear Deck

You have 5 options for how students can respond to your question.  They can respond with:

• A Draggable(TM)
• A drawing
• Text
• A number
• Multiple Choice

StackUp (stackup.net) -- Gather data on what you read. Stackup categorizes it and displays it, letting students see their reading stats. It adds some competition with challenges, where classes can see who can rack up the most hours of reading in a specific category. “The Fitbit of the Internet.”

Screencastify (screencastify.com) -- Record your screen, webcam or both in the Google Chrome browser. Save directly to Google Drive or YouTube. When you save to Drive, students can turn work in easily through Google Classroom.

Use the code TRIBE at checkout when purchasing a premium account to receive 25% off. (Neither Matt nor Kasey receives any compensation if you use this code.)

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Heather Sanders shared a great idea to use Exploring By the Seat

Hey @jmattmiller & @ShakeUpLearning - LOVED the podcast on Google Hangouts! Have y'all heard of @EBTSOYP ? Free Google Hangouts for classrooms that connect Ss with explorers and scientists ALL OVER THE WORLD. Worth checking out!!! #gttribe #educ8bisd

— Heather D. Sanders (@koolteecha) January 18, 2018

Lisa Guardino (CA), shared Tribe-inspired weather lesson (Extreme Weather Choose Your Own Adventure) via SpeakPipe.

On The Blogs

• Matt - Finding a class to partner with virtually and activities to do together
• Kasey - 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018 © (FREE eBook!) AND The Shake Up Learning Book is Coming

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Google News and Updates Happy Anniversary to us! Featured Content

We've been at this crazy podcast for one year! To celebrate this we turned the microphones over to you, our loyal listeners and members of the Google Teacher Tribe!

• Jen Giffen - Google Drive keyboard shortcuts
• Laura Wheeler - Learning in the loo!
• Karen McKenna - Using a Google Slide deck to post absent work
• Lisa Scumpieru - Numbering assignments in Google Classroom
• Tyler Osborne - Using Google Keep for Tutorials and Feedback
• Joli Boucher - Embedding video in Google Drawings
• Emily Kress - Google App Smashing in a Digital Breakout
• Lance McClard - Stop motion with Google Slides
• Meredith Akers - How to insert GIFs, and create your own with camera using https://andtheniwaslike.co/

• Heidi Adams - Comic strips with Google Drawings
• Pam Hubler - Using speech to text feature, Keep, and Calendar to support Special Education
• Chris Young - Use Google Slides to replicate home screen and apps on an iPad

Thank you to everyone who submitted and we're sorry we couldn't include everything but please keep your feedback and questions coming!

Thank you to our producer, Chris Nesi, for pushing us out of our comfort zones as podcasters and all his hard work putting together each episode and maintaining this site! Be sure to subscribe to his podcast, House of #EdTech!

On The Blogs

• Matt - Finding a class to partner with virtually and activities to do together
• Kasey - 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018 © (FREE eBook!)

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Google News and Updates

• Emoji Reaction Project: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emoji-reaction-project/nbjapmadmiipljnnpmejpdldjlfcmbpo?hl=en-US
• Camera (Take a snapshot) is back!
• Search within a Google Drive Folder
• New devices and more: what's in store for the Google Assistant this year
• https://blog.google/topics/education/our-17-favorite-education-moments-2017/

Featured Content

Google Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.

In schools, users must be 13+ or a Teacher can lead. What can you do with Google Hangouts?

• Connect with another class to share ideas and work collaboratively
• Find a guest speaker to talk to your students
• Go on virtual field trips
• Attend events
• Do the announcements
• Virtual book club
• Student presentations
• Guest speakers

Google Plus communities to find people/places to call:

• Google Plus community: Mystery Location Calls
• Google Plus community: Google Hangouts in Education
• Google Plus community: Mystery Hangout
• Google Plus community: Educators on Google Plus
• Google Plus community: Google Connected Classrooms
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwEjqkgwyI
• Mystery Location Call roles (doc by Jo-Ann Fox)

Things to consider:

• Whole group call? Break into smaller groups? Pairs? Individuals?
• Time zone … go north/south to avoid large time zone shifts.
• Do a practice call ahead of time to check audio/video.
• Let student passion/curiosity rule whenever possible!
• Student-led video calls are often the best experience for everyone (even if it feels like chaos or like you don’t have control).
• Do a debrief afterward.

• Classroom video calls. You can do this. Here’s how.
• About Mystery Skypes/Hangouts and why we need more

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

In honor of our 1-year anniversary, we'd like to turn the podcast (episode 39) over to you! Leave us a message with your best Google tips, tricks, and ideas! (2-minute max.) Don't forget your name and location, too.

• Libby Knaggs (Ingram, TX) - Used Page Marker extension and loved it!
• Jennifer Portilla (Longwood, FL) - How can I not show new students to Google Classroom all the previously posted content?

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Chrome extensions galore! 50+ for the classroom
• Kasey - Student-Created Vision Boards with Google Slides AND a BIG announcement coming!

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Google News and Updates

• The #MyFutureMe winner is often the only girl—but she’s going to change that
• Google and Gallup’s computer science education research: six things to know
• News Lab in 2017: the year in review

Featured Content 12 Things You May Have Missed from Google in 2017 

• Machine learning and the Google Assistant (#1 and #8)
• A Google Assistant in the Classroom (Episode 31)
• Google Arts and Culture (#4)
• The Nat and Friends YT channel (#6)
• What’s New with YouTube? (Episode 22)
• Google Maps Street View (#7)
• A change in emojis (including cheese now ABOVE the burger) (#9)
• Google Doodles (#11)

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Steven Dutcher asked, "How do I allow users to first preview a doc before forcing them to make a copy? I'm sure someone mentioned it, but I didn't get to try it out before it slipped my mind. And I can't find it! I'm guessing we're changing the "edit" in the URL to "something/something"? I tried "preview/copy" with no joy. I hope I'm not just confused with the creating templates episode. Help!"
  • How to Create G Suite Template Links
• Clarissa Bezzera, via SpeakPipe
• Steve Dudeck, via SpeakPipe
• Melissa Rivera (Long Island, NY) asked, "Is there a way to annotate Slides when in presentation mode? In PowerPoint, you can hover at the bottom right of the screen and select the pen tool. Slides only has a pointer tool. When my students create presentations they often have missing information that they want their classmates to supply during the lesson. I’ve been converting their Slides into PowerPoint to do this, which offsets the formatting of some slides. Do you have any other suggestions?"
  • Page Marker extension

On The Blogs

• Matt - Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings activity
• Kasey - The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! (FREE Downloads)

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Google News and Updates

• Changing how you view Photos from Google Drive
• Improvements to Menu and Toolbars in Docs and Slides
• YouTube Studio (beta)
• The Year in Search: the questions we asked in 2017
• A look at one billion drawings from around the world

Featured Content

Twenty-­three year educator Wanda Terral is the District Technology Coordinator for the Lakeland School System (outside of Memphis, TN). A former band director, Wanda’s constantly seeking information relating to techniques & practices related to the use of tech to empower students and educators. A Google Certified Innovator (#GTAATX14) & Trainer, she shares resources on Google+, Twitter, & her blog. She was the 2016 Lead PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator for the state of Tennessee and was selected to attend the 2016 Google Geo Teachers Institute. She’s currently completing her dissertation (EdD in IDT) at the The University of Memphis focusing on self-directed professional learning. When not spending time with her four cats, she is exploring sketchnoting, coding, and following leads of goodness shared by her PLN.

Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1, Google Certified Educator Level 2, Google Certified Trainer, Google Certified Innovator

• Twitter: @wterral
• Website: http://ignitionedu.com

Resources Wanda’s Lesson: Hands on Activities with Google Drawings  

• Meme yourself
• Timeline
• Graphic organizers
• Digital book jacket
• Doodle yourself
• Googlink (Drawings like Thinglink)
• Interactives w/GDraw
• Visual notetaking (DTT post)
• Self-directed professional learning

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Thank you to Apple Podcast user Southern Eagle Girl for your recent podcast rating and review!
• Google Drive question from Nikki in Winnipeg (via Speakpipe)
• Sara Campbell from Woodbury Schools asks about using a Google Home in the classroom and COPPA, recording, etc. (via Speakpipe)

On The Blogs

• Matt - The Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit: Open until Dec 31!
• Kasey - Google Certified Educator Online Bootcamp!

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Google News and Updates

• A crabtivating journey: Street View joins a crab migration of millions on Christmas Island
• Stranger Docs (Kasey)
• Visit polar bears, live from your classroom using Google Earth
• New categories and languages for Templates
• Embed HTML and Java Script in New Google Sites (Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming on January 2nd)

Featured Content

Way back in episode 3 (Episode 3 of GTT: The New Google Sites) Matt and Kasey explored the fascinating integration of Google Sites into the classroom. Now, Sites has finally received some much-needed love from the Google engineers.

• Using Google Sites to Support Learning
  • E-portfolios
    • Lewisville ISD
    • Examples from Clemson University
  • Teacher Websites
  • Student Projects
    • Genius Hour
    • PBL
    • Science Fair
    • Senior Projects
    • Units of Study
    • Student resume
  • PD Site
    • Example from Te Aka Toitū (New Zealand)
    • Technology 4 a Cause (by Sheeba Ajmal in Pakistan)
    • Fennovation by Christy Fennewald
• What if they don’t have G Suite for Edu? - Question from Twitter from Caleb Pahl

How do YOU use Google Sites? Leave us a voicemail! Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Nicole Ross (Indiana) - Reindeer cam
• 12 Days of Twitter Shoutout
• Andy Boatman - Speakpipe about Google Classroom
• Zohar Kaplan (Jerusalem, Israel) - Thanks for the email!
• Linda Biederman Hink - Speakpipe about Google Translate idea.

On The Blogs

• Matt - Using Kahoot! and others the way your brain craves
• Kasey - Create G Suite Templates with this Mind-Blowing Hack!

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Google News and Updates

• The British Museum and Google Arts & Culture: Decoding the secrets of the ancient Maya
• More real-time data on Google Trends (adds news, shopping, images, and YouTube)

Featured Content

Ryan O'Donnell is a Technology Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) and former high school social studies teacher in Rocklin, California. Ryan's passions are EdTech, Innovation, Social Studies, Podcasting and Teacher Professional Development.

O'Donnell has been teaching since 1997 and has always been an advocate for all things "tech." In addition to teaching, he has been presenting at technology and social studies strategies workshops both in his district and throughout the country as a trainer for Teacher Created Materials.

Ryan is also the co-host of the Talking Social Studies and Check This Out podcasts.

Along with presenting, Ryan is on the board of CapCUE; the Sacramento affiliate of CUE.org.

Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1, Google Certified Educator Level 2 Resources

• Ryan O'Donnell's Google Slides Templates

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

LOOPING SLIDE PRESENTATIONS Holly Elgin (Aledo, TX) -- I make changes to a Google Slideshow daily and play our announcements in the cafeteria for our students. Every day, I have to publish it to the web to be able to have it play continuously. Is there a way to present it so that it plays continuously? TAKE A SNAPSHOT LIVES ON! Marjorie Rispin (Carson, NV) -- I too was disappointed that GSuite removed Insert Image Snapshot. I found that you can still take a snapshot through Insert Drawing. When in the Drawing you can click the image icon and snapshot is still an option. Then save and close the drawing into your doc. A couple extra steps but it works.

On The Blogs

• Matt - A Small Strategy with a Big Impact: Brain Science, Retrieval Practice and the “Brain Dump”
• Kasey - The Ultimate Teacher Gift Guide 2017

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