Google Teacher Podcast

Google News and Updates (4:25)

• Gmail will create links to contact info
  • How it works: Clicking an address link will take the user to Google Maps. Clicking an email address will compose a new email, using the user’s default email client. Finally, when using a mobile device, clicking a phone number will start a call request using the default phone app.
• View the world through someone else's lens in Google Earth

Featured Content (7:34)

Google Drawings allows you to add some color to your documents, presentations, and websites with easy to create charts and diagrams. However, Matt and Kasey provide you with some additional applications for you and your students.

• Visual Thinking with Google Drawings
  • Power of images and text on the brain (dual coding)
  • Google Drawings: like a digital poster board (or paper)
  • Only tools: lines, shapes, text and images
  • Annotate on images
    • Example: Tres de Mayo painting annotation
    • Take a snapshot and add speech bubbles
  • Photo comic strips
    • Mike Petty’s site on photo comic strips
  • Create infographics
    • Icons: The Noun Project (thenounproject.com)
    • An example infographic: DitchThatTextbook.com/hunter
    • Create eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings
  • Graphic organizers
    • 15 free graphic organizer templates

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• FREE Google Drawings Cheat Sheet
• 10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes
• The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers
• Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking
• Google Drawings interactive posters (no glue sticks necessary!)
• 10 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag (25:18)

• Meghan Eberhart (MN) asks about web-based video editors with the recent Google killing of the Youtube video editor/creator.
  • Matt and Kasey recommend WeVideo.
  • Producer Chris Nesi featured Bruce Reicher, a WeVideo ambassador, on episode 87 of House of #EdTech.
• Becca Glassberg (NY) had a quick question regarding Google Classroom differentiation and how assignments appear on Google Calendar.
• Tim Baker (KY) runs a Student Tech Leadership Program (STLP) and is looking for an app, tool, or extension for managing checklists for repetitive tasks.
  • Matt and Kasey recommend Google Keep.
  • Episode 11 was all about Google Keep

On The Blogs (33:04)

• Matt - From Topic to Thesis, Teaching Students to Write Argument (Shaelynn Farnsworth)
• Kasey - How to Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube

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Google News and Updates (4:00)

• What’s Really Going on With Google Drive
  • Original announcement: Drive File Stream Coming to G Suite
  • Blog post from Michael Fricano explaining it all!
• Applied Digital Skills: New Lessons and RubricsThe Applied Digital Skills program recently added new lessons plans and assessment rubrics. Additionally, Applied Digital Skills is now aligned to the state standards for ten states, with more coming soon. Explore the curriculum now.
• Earlier this summer, Google Arts & Culture launched 'We Wear Culture’, looking at the history of fashion and the stories behind what we wear. From the story of the Sari in India and lace making in Switzerland; this project covers a wide range of designers, fashion icons and subjects. There are 6 Google Expedition tours to accompany the project.
• Create a Culture of Innovation at Your School The beginning of the school year is a great opportunity to proactively shape the culture of your school, and a culture of innovation can amplify the impact of technology. Take advantage of this time to nurture an environment where teachers are encouraged to take risks and try new things in order to better serve students. Use this guide to access guiding principles and actionable tips for creating a culture of innovation among teachers and staff.
• Embed on Google Sites

Featured Content (16:40)

• What's New In YouTube?
  • Got a new look and features on Aug. 29 - highlights
    • Lots of updates to mobile - Watch this video
    • Google for Education on YouTube
    • EDU in 90 on YouTubeWant to keep tabs on the latest updates from Google for Education, but don’t have much time? Check out EDU in 90, a new video series from Google for Education. Each episode, we focus on an important topic for educators, administrators, and school leaders - things like product updates, new programs, and helpful resources for the classroom. Subscribe to the Google for Education YouTube channel to make sure you don’t miss an episode.
    • Episode 2: What’s New in Classroom
    • New embed options
    • New look and feel
    • Open transcript
    • Dark theme great for whole class watching in the dark
    • GTT on YT

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag (27:01)

• Google Doc Tips Sketchnotes from Wanda Terral
• Great hyperdoc from Karly, Sean, Heather, and Michelle

On The Blogs (32:04)

• Matt - 22 Killer Keyboard Shortcuts (and a Challenge!) for Busy Educators
• Kasey - 8 Ways to Support Digital Citizenship Skills with Google

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Texas Needs Your Help, Y'all! Google News and Updates (8:05)

• First Day of Classroom
• Version Control in Docs
• Be Internet Awesome
• DigCit Training for Teachers

Featured Content (15:05)

The 2017-18 school year is here and Google did not disappoint as many improvements, enhancements, and new features were added to the popular Google Classroom.

Highlights include:

• View all student work on one page
• Move tiles in your classes
• Display class code in full screen
• Teacher/student can specify which email notifications they receive

• Updates to Classroom & Forms

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag (20:47)

• Miriam Bart wants to turn off Classroom notifications.
• Amy Diamond has teachers who want to make more attractive slides
  • Make Your Google Presentations Shine
• Lisa Byrd: DocSecrets add-on to blank out words and reveal them as you go

On The Blogs (27:37)

• Matt - The Hyperdoc Effect: 7 Ways Using Hyperdocs Has Changed My Classroom
• Kasey - 6 Android Apps to Try on a Chromebook

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Google News and Updates (2:42)

• Updates to Google Sheets
• Google for Education PD Week
• New Publish Settings in Google Sites

Featured Content (9:44)

• Using music in Docs Story Builder to set the tone for writing from @koolteecha
• Chromebooks bookmark tip from @swkreed
• Create an infographic syllabus using Google Drawings from @MissThurmes
• 6 Year End Google Classroom Clean Up Tips from Eric Curts
• Use slide linking to create a menu for station rotations from @specialtechie
• From Robin Limpert (3rd-grade teacher, Ohio):

I have a 3rd student that took what I taught her about using G Suite, specifically from your episode #9 about Google forms and applied it to an "Entrepreneurial" venture! She created a Google form titled- "Eliana's Summer Pet Sitting and Mail Collection Service" then she had her mother post it to her friends to collect potential customers' information in a Google Sheet. As you can imagine, I was beaming with pride and thought you would like to hear about this real-life application being made at such a young age. This is proof that if we spend the time to train our kids to use these creative digital tools, they will do remarkable things!

I spent this school year teaching and developing a curriculum for an elementary version of a "Chrome Squad" for our building. My goal was to develop a resource to train kids to use G Suite using basic language that kids can understand. I have a "Kids Teaching Kids" type of program which has now evolved into my kids actually teaching our busy teachers to use Google tools as well.

I started with 10 kids and now have over 30 kids in our Chrome Squad. If you are interested, I can get you more information on my ebook coming out over the summer- "Chromebooks for kids- Training your Elementary Chrome Squad."

On The Blogs (20:59)

• Matt - Catch the Flipgrid fever! 15+ ways to use Flipgrid in your class
• Kasey - 10 Reasons to Go Google
• Coming in the next few weeks: The Google Certified Educator Academy

UPCOMING CONFERENCES (28:30)

• Don’t Mess with Google Classroom Conference with Alice Keeler and Kasey Bell
• Ditch That Conference (Sept. 8, 2017 in Marshall, IN, OR attend virtually!)

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Google News and Updates (3:34)

From Google I/O: https://blog.google/topics/developers/all-io17-announcements/

• Make calls with Google Assistant, type to talk to it, proactive notifications (will Google Home have a place in schools? Google Assistant?) -
• Smart Reply to Gmail … previously in Inbox and Allo (do you use it?)
• Expeditions AR: More virtual/augmented reality experiences for the classroom (Statue of David, strand of DNA, whirling Category 5 hurricane)
  • Augmented Reality with Google Expeditions is Coming!

Featured Content (10:27)

• • Choose Your Own Adventure Stories with Forms (quick)
  • Storyboarding new ideas with Drawings/Slides
  • Photo comic strips with Google Drawings
  • Screencastify
  • Toontastic
  • Docs Story Builder
    • Story of the Atom
  • Google Earth Tour Builder

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag (24:40)

"I'm enjoying the podcast. In episode 5, a listener had a question about how to remove students from accessing certain files he shared with them. Y'all both offered great tips. I just wanted to offer a free solution at whohasaccess.com that scans your Drive, shows who has access to what files, and with one button push, you can revoke access to all files you've shared with that person. I use this for removing access to Google Drive files from departing employees." --Aaron Kinney

JP Prezzavento (MO) -- via SpeakPipe. Add short link in automatic substitution.

https://kaizena.com/ On The Blogs (31:28)

• Matt - 5 Ways to Get Back to Solid Teaching and Learning
• Kasey - The Guide to Google Drive Sharing

Upcoming Conferences (35:06)

• Don’t Mess with Google Classroom Conference with Alice Keeler and Kasey Bell
• Ditch That Conference (Sept. 8, 2017 in Marshall, IN, OR attend virtually!)

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Google News and Updates (4:29)

• Inspiring the creative problem-solvers of the future
• Updates to Chat in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Featured Content (8:05)

Google Slides is a core Google tool that is SO much more than just giving users the ability to create slideshows for presentations.

• How to Create an eBook in Google Slides
• 8 interactive Google Slides activities for classroom excitement
• Animation of the sodium-potassium pump (courtesy of Chris Baker)
• Magnetic Poetry
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Session resources for Matt’s Google Genius presentation

Resources

• DriveSlides: Add photos to a folder in Google Drive and DriveSlides will automatically put them onto individual slides in a new Slides presentation
• Self-grading quizzes: Example self-grading quiz
• Infographics: Creating eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings
• Create a Google Classroom Custom Header in Google Drawings

If you have tried any of these we want to hear from you! Leave a comment down below or send us a message! Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag (24:48)

• Kerrie Johnson (Ohio) asks:
  1. do you have a hack for getting around not being able to put a Google Sheet in landscape?
  2. I know it's possible to make a poster in the G Suite but I'm not exactly sure how. Do I use Drawing? Slides? Any tips?
  • Google Drawings interactive posters (no glue sticks necessary!)
• Lisa Blevins-Salyer, Technology Integration Specialist (Johnson County Schools) shared this thought:

I was intrigued by the recent segment on Auto Draw. Thank you both for the podcast and the wealth of information packed into your show notes.  May the Googles continue to be with you. On The Blogs (30:08)

• Matt - The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers
• Kasey - Teach Like the Tonight Show: Internet Pop Quiz with Google Slides

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Google News and Updates (6:07)  

• Create your own Street View imagery with new 360 cameras
• G+ - Invite people to community with a link
• Subscribe to Google for Education Newsletter (<-very bottom of this page)

Featured Content (13:08) Matt's favorite Docs tips and tricks:  

• Automatic substitution
• Three finger drag with Chromebooks
• Clear formatting
• Insert > Image > Search (labeled for commercial reuse with modification)
• Email collaborators

  Kasey's favorite Docs tips and tricks:

• • Insert GIF
  • Force a Copy
  • Voice Typing
  • Tagging in Comments
  • Paste & Match Style

        Resources

• 10 Google Apps tips EVERY teacher should know
• How to Insert Super Cool GIFs in Docs and Slides
• Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc
• 5 Google Drive Tips Everyone Should Know
• Google Drive Resources from Shake Up Learning
• 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools
• Image Search Tricks that Every Teacher Must Know

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag (29:20)

• Paula Frank
• Arlee Hall

On The Blogs (34:00)

• Matt - Flashback to 2000: Classroom Tech That Doesn’t Exist Anymore (Edudemic)
• Kasey - The Educational Hashtag and Twitter Chat Database

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Google News and Updates

• Mysterious pattern in Egypt
• Massive herd of water buffalo in Tanzania
• New Google Sites: group items vertically
• Bringing Within to WebVR

Featured Content

Google Maps is Google's map program. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (in beta), or public transportation.

• Easy access to Google Maps Street View
• 3D lets you see cities, other landscape stuff in 3D
• Look at places in history, in literature, in news, in popular culture
• Cards give you information at your fingertips you might not know otherwise (like integrating a Google search)
• Voyager: collections of images, street views, “interactive stories”
• Hold in shift for “helicopter view”
• I’m feeling lucky: find places you might not otherwise
• Can still
• When you switch locations, it zooms out and back in so you know where you were and where you’re going (orientation on the globe)
• Google Earth educator resources: https://www.google.com/earth/education/
• Reading ABC’s from space
• Trek Across the Galapagos
• Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World
• Follow the Google Earth Community
  • Google+
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google Earth blog

Resources

• Google Earth Lit Trips on Chromebooks by Eric Curts
• Ben Friesen’s New Google Earth resource page
• Create your own Google Earth tours with geteach.com/tour (blog post)
• EdTech Team’s blog and infographic: 10 Google Earth Updates That Will Change Your GEO Life

Assign a Google Voyage as an assignment in Classroom (YouTube)

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Holly Messner (Grade 5 teacher from Kansas City, MO)
  • Alice Keeler’s Anyone Can View Chrome extension
• Craig Klement - Insert a video into Google slides using the iPad

On The Blogs

• Matt - Writing papers and research reports the Google way
• Kasey - 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom

Countdown to Closing VIP Become a Google Certified Trainer Course (closes Midnight on May 21)

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Google News and Updates

• Google Classroom Outside the Classroom
• New Topics Feature in Google+
  • Google Educator Groups
• Bringing Alexander Hamilton’s history to life

Featured Content

John McGowan is a certified Google Education Trainer and the creator for the g(Math) Add-on for Docs, Sheets, and Forms with over 11.5 million worldwide users. He has been teaching secondary math for over 15 years and loved to adapt the fail-forward mentality and push the bounds of technology integration in the math classroom. John's passion is to ignite student interest in math by creating dynamic visualizations and using coding to give personalized instruction and feedback to students instantly. His Moonshot is to make Coding the new Calculus.

John has presented worldwide on using g(Math) and other digital tools in the classroom and incorporating coding into the math curriculum. He recently embarked on a new career to leave the classroom to join up with Texthelp to develop g(Math) full-time and make a greater impact on teaching and learning by making digital math easy and accessible to all. EquatIO (https://goo.gl/G0yCQH) was just released and is the first step in that journey!

Connect with John:

• Website: mathtechtips.blogspot.com
• Twitter: @jmacattak
• Feedback in Equatio (John is the one who receives it)

Resources

• EquatIO
• (g)math Add-On
• Texthelp
• Desmos
• #mtbos -- Math Twitter Blog-o-sphere hashtag on Twitter
• Reinventing Math Class with EquatIO by John McGowan

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Stephanie Pullen’s Balloon Pop
• Shaun Else - "Student thank you" (via SpeakPipe)
• Adam Geisen (via Speakpipe)
• Inbox by Gmail

On The Blogs

• Matt - I’m going back to paper AND staying digital
• Kasey:
  • 8 Tips for a Google Expeditions Pilot by Heather Kilgore
  • Countdown to Closing VIP Become a Google Certified Trainer Course (closes at midnight on May 21)

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GOOGLE NEWS AND UPDATES

• New Google Earth
  • https://earth.google.com/web/
• Google Search Fact Check
• Customize Google Sites Colors and Logos

FEATURED CONTENT

Kasey’s tools:

• Google Cultural Institute
  • Zoom view
• Google Trends
  • Hot Trends
• Google Takeout
• LMGTFY

Matt’s tools:

• nGram Viewer
• Reverse image search
• YouTube Editor
• Time Lapse in Google Earth Engine

Additional Resources

• Kasey’s Golden Treasures of Google Blog Series
  • Part 1: Tools for Google Maps, Street View, and Google Earth
  • Part 2: Data Tools
  • Part 3: Google Search Tools and Tricks
  • Part 4: Student Initiatives
• Kasey’s Golden Treasures of Google Presentation from KySTE
• Google’s Buried Treasure: 18 hidden tricks and tools

GOOGLE TEACHER TRIBE MAILBAG

Here's a question from a #GTTribe listener about discouraging cheating in Google Slides.

Any advice? #gsuiteedu #googleedu #edtech pic.twitter.com/0g2Hg307XU

— Google Teacher Tribe (@GTeacherTribe) April 13, 2017

ON THE BLOGS

• Matt - Teach with Kahoot!: Go beyond review with the Blind Kahoot
• Kasey - Reinventing Math Class with EquatIO (Chrome extension)

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