Google Teacher Podcast

Google News and Updates

• New interface in Google Classroom (Post from Alice Keeler)
• 1,000 of the most stunning landscapes in Google Earth
• Helpful shortcuts for Google apps on iOS
• From pop quiz to final exam: Chromebooks pass the test

Featured Content

"Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process. Connect with other educators in the ISTE Standards Community and learn how to use the standards in the classroom with the ISTE Standards for Students ebook." (ISTE.org)

ISTE Student Standards:

• Empowered Learner
• Digital Citizen
• Knowledge Constructor
• Innovative Designer
• Computational Thinker
• Creative Communicator
• Global Collaborator

Resources

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• How to Cite Sources in Google Docs
• 8 Ways to Support Digital Citizenship Skills with Google
• Don Wettrick’s students doing genius hour all the time (Innovation and Open Source Learning) … creating apps, hosting events, creating businesses
• If/then conditional logic (Google Forms) - How to Differentiate Questions in Google Forms
• Choose your own adventure stories
• Made with Code
• CS First
• Teachable Machine
• ePortfolios with Google Sites
• Magnetic Poetry with Drawings or Slides

On The Blogs

• Matt - The Ditch That Textbook Video Library
• Kasey - Google Accessibility Tools to Reach ALL Learners

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Google News and Updates

• Google Maps is turning 15! Celebrate with a new look and features
• Charting the next 15 years of Google Maps
• Street View’s 15 favorite street views
• Supporting the 2020 U.S. election

Featured Content

In this conversation Kasey and Chrome Squad discuss the following:

• New additions to the Squad
• Impact of the Chrome Squad
• How being on the Squad has impacted the current and former students
• How to start a program like this at your school

Resources

The Chrome Squad

• Adviser Cody Holt (Twitter: @beard_speak, Website: ConnectedForLearning.org)
• About The Chrome Squad
• The Chrome Squad Story

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Chuck Day (Castleford Idaho)

• Bitmojis for your students: How to create and share them (tutorial video)

Mark Rupe (Dinuba, California)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Classroom tech: Should I use it? 10 considerations
• The ULTIMATE Google Slides Teacher Resource
• Kasey:
• Fake Instagram Template in Google Slides
• My Pencil Made Me Do It! (interview with Carrie Baughcum)
• Shake Up Learning Book Study starts Feb. 13th!

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Before we start today’s show, we wanted to make a quick announcement. The podcast is undergoing a name change. It’s a small one, but an important one. We’ve decided to shorten the show’s name to be called the Google Teacher Podcast. We’ve heard from several of you that there are problems with including the word “tribe” in the name of the show. The last thing we want to do is create a show that is disrespectful or offensive to anyone -- especially in its name.

Google News and Updates

• Made by Google's 20 tips for 2020
• Improving 40 million Chromebooks for education
• Data Privacy Day: seven ways we protect your privacy
• The Most Searched: A celebration of Black history makers

Featured Content

Digital citizenship refers to the responsible use of technology by anyone who uses computers, the Internet, and digital devices to engage with society on any level.

Be Internet Legends 

Be Internet Awesome 

Interland Game

ISTE Standards-Aligned Curriculum

• English
• Spanish

Pear Deck Curriculum

Google Classroom: Assign Interland to specific classes or sections, or simply make the resource available to all your students in the form of a class announcement.

Interland for School Chromebooks: G Suite administrators can seamlessly make Interland available to students directly from their school Chromebook taskbar.

Teacher Training Course

Educator Resources 

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Kate Whittaker (Pennsylvania)

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Classroom (still) to the rescue: Blogging, vlogging, and podcasting (guest post by Laura Steinbrink)
• Kasey:
• 4-Part Series on Dynamic Learning with Google (FREE Toolkit)
• Shake Up Learning Book Study starts Feb. 13th!

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Google News and Updates

• Originality reports and rubrics now generally available for Google Classroom users Improve student writing with originality reports and rubrics in Classroom
• G Suite Add-ons now generally available in Calendar, Gmail, and Google Drive

Featured Content

The Five Principles of Don’t Ditch That Tech

1. Technology should be used to enhance students’ learning and should rely on evidence-based practices. There is no substitute for great teaching or great student-to-teacher relationships.
2. Technology should help us work with content in interactive, meaningful ways.
3. Technology should help teachers and students cross varied developmental levels. 
4. Technology should eventually empower students to be designers of their own learning. The goal is for students to become critical thinkers and life-long learners.
5. Technology should promote reflection and metacognition.

Iorad - online tutorial builder 

A Dangerously Powerful EdTech App: iorad (from Teaching from the Ridge blog)

Dotstorming -- Dotstorming takes the process of dot voting online to allow groups of people to collaborate on a topic.

Penzu Journal -- A private, 100% customizable online journal.

Twitter: @TeachFromRidge

Website: http://www.teachingfromtheridge.com/

Resources

• Don’t Ditch That Tech (book)
• Free book preview and book study resources
• PDF notes from Nate and Angie’s presentation in the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit
• Nate and Angie’s Make It Til Friday podcast

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Melanie Samson-Cormie (Edmonton CA)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 10 social media-inspired learning activities: no account needed
• Kids blogging in math class: Why and how
• Kasey:
• It’s NOT About Google
• How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

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Google News and Updates

• More options for copying presentations in Google Slides
• New Chromebooks for 2020
• Doodle for Google 2020: How do you show kindness?Submissions close on March 13th, 2020
• New look for Google Forms on mobile

Featured Content

You can share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone.

When you share from Google Drive, you can control whether people can edit, comment on, or only view the file.

• Share button settings
• Kasey’s Guide to Google Drive Sharing
• Copy/template links, etc
• Create G Suite Templates with This Mind-Blowing Hack
• Sir Links a Lot extension
• Email collaborators
• Shared folders
• Shared drive
• Add to Drive button
• How to Make a Copy of Google FilesDoes not get updates from the original file
• Does not work in GC
• Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc!
• 10 ways for teachers, students to share links in class
• Attach in gmail
• Attach in Google Calendar

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jennifer Conti (Ohio)

Kathy Hilby (Wisconsin)

On The Blogs

• Matt - 4 classroom test/quiz strategies to avoid the gotcha game
• Kasey:
• The Top 10 Secrets of an Awesome Tech Coach (FREE eBook)
• It’s NOT About Google (Part 1) with FREE Dynamic Learning with Google Toolkit

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Google News and Updates

• 2019 in review: Stories from Google this year
• Teacher's coding lesson helps students show gratitude
• Google Translate improves offline translation
• How we highlight fact checks in Search and Google News

Featured Content

• YouTube Studio Beta vs. Classic Studio
• Playlists (collaborative playlists)
• ViewPure / Showing videos in Slides to avoid ads
• Use the editor (YouTube Studio) to blur, add audio, etc.
• YouTube Audio Library
• Go live with webcam
• YouTube Live
• 30+ YouTube Channels for Teachers
• Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube
• Easily Turn a YouTube Clip into an Animated GIF Image!
• Follow Matt and Kasey on YouTube
• Shake Up Learning
• Ditch That Textbook

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Stephanie Nasso (Gunnison CO)
• Stephanie Fitzpatrick (Chicago)(Expeditions page on Google for Education)
• Android Apps on Chromebooks
• 6 Android Apps to Try on a Chromebook
• Lisa Scumpieru (Hagerstown, MD) 

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 30+ education sketchnotes for inspiration, ideas
• Kasey:
• The Top 20 Posts of 2019
• #PottyPD: How to Make the Most of a Captive Audience (FREE TEMPLATE) – SULS043

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Google News and Updates

• We need a hero: 2019 in Search
• Interpreter mode brings the real-time translation to your phone
• Review the latest changes to a new Google Site before publishing
• Send emails as attachments in Gmail

Featured Content

E16: Tour the World with the New Google Earth

Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth

5 Tips to Start Creating with Google Earth (FREE PDF from Google) - CHEAT SHEET

Creating Stories About the World

• The Diary of a Young Girl
• Math on Maps
• Golden Eagle Migration

LitTrips

https://arvr.google.com/tourcreator/

Creating with Google Earth: 10 ideas to try (Ditch That Textbook blog)

Some features in Google Earth’s creation tools:

• Placemarks
• Lines and shapes
• Street View
• Slides
• Present

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Dianne Miller Duncan (Southern California)

Thanks to Brian Briggs for sharing this #createwithchrome Google advent activity: bit.ly/CreateAdvent

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 sites for students with free time on their hands
• FREE Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit (December 21-January 8): DitchSummit.com
• Kasey:
• 6 FREE Google Templates for Teachers and Students from TechChef4U
• Holiday Reading: 6 Books to Transform Your Classroom

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Check out the original show notes: https://googleteachertribe.com/72

• MATT - Use the Google Assistant with your G Suite account in beta
• KASEY - When fashion and choreography meet artificial intelligence
• CHRIS - Hey Google, play me the news

We are finally at episode 100 of the podcast! This episode features Matt, Kasey, and producer Chris Nesi! Chris leads Matt and Kasey in a conversation that reflects on the run of this podcast through 100 episodes and provides some Google-goodness as well!

Topics discussed:

• What have Matt and Kasey learned as hosts of this podcast?
• Favorite Episodes:
  • Kasey: Episode 72
  • Matt: Episode 83
  • Chris: Episode 8
• Favorite Memories from creating the podcast?
• Guest(s) you would like to have on in the future?
• Matt and Kasey shared their 'Because of this pocast..." stories.
• What Google topic would you like to cover but haven't?
• What Google tool(s) do Matt and Kasey struggle with?

The conversation also featured an Ask Me Anything (AMA) segment where Matt and Kasey answered questions from Mike Brilla, Mike Mohammad, and Erin Kiger.

• Mike Mohammad - Congrats on 100!
• Shelly Stanton (@StantonShelly) - Looking for fun ways to introduce Google Classroom to students.
• Janna Bonds - Curious to know how to restrict access to Google Forms.

• Matt - The new Ditch That Textbook “Google in the Classroom” page with LOTS of resources
• Kasey - Gearing Up for the Hour of Code
• Chris - Check out the House of #EdTech podcast!

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Google News and Updates

• Smart Compose for Google Docs launching in beta
• Allow site viewers to provide feedback on your new Google Sites
• Add different page numbers to different sections in Google Docs
• Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth

Featured Content Chrome

• Bookmarks bar
• Extensions
• Chrome database
• Text expanders
• You’re Doing it Wrong! How to Manage/Toggle Between Multiple Google Accounts

Docs

• 7 Reasons to Try Voice-Typing in Google Docs

Google Classroom

• Create a Class Template

Google Keep

• Using Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment
• Google Keep Cheat Sheet

Gmail

10 Time Saving Tips and Tools for Teachers

Time savers for teachers: A more efficient you!

Quick Google Forms time savers for teachers

10 Google Classroom time savers for teachers

10 tips to use Google Classroom effectively and efficiently

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Guy Winters (Ramsey, MN)

Beth Kostka (Georgia)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 Google Sites tips and tricks
• Free ebook: A beginner’s guide to Twitter for educators
• Kasey:
• The Shake Up Learning Story

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