Google Teacher Podcast

Google News and Updates

• Update to Audio in Google Slides
• Google Classroom accessibility empowers inclusive learning
• Map out Thanksgiving with these tips from Google Maps
• Insert collapsible text boxes into new Google Sites

Featured Content

Certifications for Educators

• Certified Educator Level 1
• Certified Educator Level 2
• Certified Trainer
• Certified Innovator

Google Teacher Center

FREE eBook: The Complete Guide to Google Certifications

FREE Webinar: How to Get Google Certified

FREE Certified Educator Toolkits

• Level 1
• Level 2

FREE eBook: How to Become a Google Certified Trainer

6 Steps to Google Certified Trainer

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Google Certified Trainer Application

Google Certified Trainer FAQ

Google Certification Tips and FAQ (YouTube playlist)

Kasey’s Courses - Only open twice a year! (May and November)

• All courses and bundles

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Steve Dutcher (Okinawa, Japan)

Jen Giffen (Toronto, Canada)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• How to use Chromebooks offline for elearning day activities, homework
• Kasey:
• How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach
• GetGoogleCertified.com

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Google News and Updates

• What’s new in Chrome OS: Virtual Desks, simpler printing and more
• Want to make a podcast? 5 tips to get you started
• Instantly create new docs, events, spreadsheets and more from your browser https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/entrepreneurs/shortcuts-made-possible-new/
• Vint Cerf’s top moments from 50 years of the Internet

Featured Content

To use Google Classroom or Not?

• Chromebooks
• iPads/Tablets

Yes, Kinder+ can use Google Sheets! http://christinepinto.com/2017/01/28/models-and-equations-in-google-sheets/

Collaborate with older grades

Google Apps for Littles by Alice Keeler and Christine Pinto

Drag and Drop activities in Slides

• How to Create Drag and Drop Activities with Google Slides

20 G Suite templates for K-2 from Kris Szajner

Susan Stewart: K2 Can Chromebook Too (Taking screenshots can open a world of possiblilities!)

Video calls with authors, experts, other classes

• Classroom video calls. You can do this. Here’s how

#k2cando

#GAFE4littles

Episode 6 with Christine Pinto

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jenn Conti (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Create a TikTok-style experience with Google Slides (free template!)
• Kasey:
• 10+ Ways to Use Technology in the Math Classroom
• GetGoogleCertified.com

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Google News and Updates

• What’s the meaning of life? (And five other Google searches.)
• Using personal experience to make Chromebooks accessible
• Annie Leibovitz unveils photo series with Google Pixel
• Host Hangouts Meet with up to 100 (G Suite for Edu)

Featured Content

Google Jamboard - Unleash your team’s creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere.

Matt and Kasey discuss...

Jamboard hardware v. software

Jamboard Features

Jamboard Lesson Ideas:

• Jamboard Sample Activities

Jamboard Resources:

• Jamboard training from the Google Teacher Center Jamboard Quickstart Guide
• Jamboard Sample Activities
• Jamboard Study Guide

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jennifer Gream (Kentucky) -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-folder/kfbicpdhiofpicipfggljdhjokjblnhl?hl=en

Craig Klement (Texas)

On The Blogs

• Matt - DITCH: A framework for creating wildly engaging lessons (90+ ideas for implementation!)
• Kasey:
• What is G Suite for Education? What You Need to Know!
• FREE ebook: The Complete Guide to Google Certifications

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• Customize text size and position for captions in Google Slides
• 13 ways to conjure up a spooky smart home this Halloween
• 15 years of Google Books
• NGram Viewer
• If it has audio, now it can have captions

• Custom Drive Templates 
• Drive Template Gallery
• Templates from the Apps Homepage
• Template Links
• Stop Asking How to Put a Worksheet in Google Classroom

• Blog post: How to create classroom templates in Google Docs and Slides
• What tool should you use? (Matt suggests Google Slides.)
• Locking items down using background images
  • How to Create Drag and Drop with Google Slides
• Assigning templates to students with Google Classroom
• Making a copy (or a force copy link)
• Re-using templates to save time next time

• Hyperdocs website: HyperDocs.co
• HyperDocs templates: https://HyperDocs.co/templates
• Teachers Give Teachers (database of pre-created HyperDocs): https://hyperdocs.co/teachers_give_teachers
• Episode 072: The Power of Hyperdocs and Lesson Design with Lisa Highfill
• Episode 071: Hyperdocs with Sean Fahey
• 9 reasons why HyperDocs can transform your class (post by Sean Fahey)

Chelsey Greer (Connecticut) - Students need assessments read aloud. Easier way to add to Google Form quizzes? Record self, upload to YouTube, insert video. Easier way? FYI: Add-ons are blocked in her district. 

• Read&Write for Google Chrome
• Screencastify 
• YouTube: Link to specific time in video
• Talk to your special education staff about what you may have available

Kelsey Jones (California) - I've been listening to your podcast during my commute and love all the ideas you've been sharing! My goal is to incorporate Google into my classroom and reduce as much paper as possible. I've been using Google Forms for assessments, I love how it can auto-grade. My question is, do you guys know if there is a way for students to save their work while using Forms? For example, if they have a 30 question assignment and they are only able to get to 10 of the problems. Is there a way for them to save what they've done and resume where they left off later?

https://alicekeeler.com/2019/07/17/google-forms-finish-filling-out-later/

• Matt - How to create a digital escape room for your class or PD (guest post by Mandi Tolen)
• Kasey
  • Halloween Magnetic Poetry Template
  • 15 Ways to Use Google Classroom in Professional Learning

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This is a REPLAY of episode 8 from March 13, 2017.

Matt and Kasey speak with Royse City High School’s Student Chrome Squad! Students Tyler Crumrine, Britni Sanchez, Bryan Barnes, Caleb Fay and their teacher advisor and Innovative Learning Specialist, Cody Holt discuss what the Chrome Squad is, how it began and the challenges they face.

Cody Holt spent 11 years as a high school Language Arts before transitioning to the world of instructional technology. As an Innovative Learning Specialist for Royse City ISD Cody gets to help teachers navigate instruction in a digital age; specifically how to incorporate digital tools to positively impact learning.

You access the show notes by visiting https://googleteachertribe.com/8

• A new look for the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Android apps
• How I use Google in my classroom—and other advice for teachers
• A progress report with Google Classroom's first school
• How classroom tech brings accessibility with dignity

Applied Digital Skills Curriculum and Resources from Google (late elementary and up)

• Resource Kit

Tips for working with students with G Suite:

• Create low-stakes practice opportunities before using for a grade
• Praise students when they discover something others can use
• Don’t be afraid to try something new even if you don’t perfectly understand it
• Know what the student side of things looks like

#GAfE4Littles

• Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can
• Basics on Christine Pinto’s website
• Christine Pinto Google Teacher Tribe Episode

• Google Search Education
• Google Students
• Edu in 90
• A Google a Day

Stephanie DeMichele (Ohio)

Ryan Lindsay (Australia) -- Put all of his Google Chrome ideas into school Dungeons and Dragons club. Integrate rich use of Google Classroom to manage. Chat and share links. First steps of Docs and Sheets, homework, put together stories. Sheets as an XP tracker (hand in homework), shows kids how formulas work. Lucid Press, Canva, visual design. Google Summit: Flipgrid. Student voice as a retelling of what the characters have done, drama. Previous adventures and retelling it.

Matt

• 6 things that make autograded Google Forms quizzes better
• Should we use autograded multiple-choice quizzes?

Kasey

• 100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom
• FREE Webinar: How to Get Google Certified

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• Follow the journey of 13 Latino Trailblazers
• Make the Palace of Versailles yours on Google Arts & Culture
• Keeping privacy and security simple, for you
  • https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/8-awesome-reasons-go-incognito-google-chrome/
• To stay secure online, Password Checkup has your back
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-checkup-extensio/pncabnpcffmalkkjpajodfhijclecjno?hl=en

• Google Sites for workshops
  • Links to EVERYTHING -- presentations, notes, activities, additional resources
  • For multiple days, organize pages by day
  • Embed slides, docs, etc. to make it easier to access and view
  • Link to outside resources in the menu
  • Links to all activities
  • One-stop shop
• Give them ONE LINK that includes everything!
• Published Google Slides
• Collaborative notes with Google Docs (or Slides)
• Using Google Classroom tips
  • Not recommended for anything less than a day with a mixed group from different schools--unless it’s your main topic.
  • Coaches/Trainers: keep a class going all year with your teachers
  • Blended book studies
  • Blended PD with Google Classroom episode coming next week on The Shake Up Learning Show
• FREE Google Certified Trainer resources

• Shared Google Slides to share ideas. (Change the slide master for different types) (Here’s a post on how to do this with students that you can adjust for PD)
  • https://alicekeeler.com/2015/08/04/google-slides-your-first-week-activity/
• Invite people with Google Hangouts
• Google Slides live closed captions

• Melissa Burns, 4th grade, Clinton SC -- Wants to do a digital interactive notebook with Google Slides. How to add additional slides after assigning the initial notebook?
  • Google Slides interactive notebooks + 20 activities to fill them
• Michele Koper (Wisconsin) -- I love listening to your podcast every week. I've gotten so many ideas that I've been able to share with staff. After listening to your PD tips (which I completely agree with- especially the problem-solution topic), I just couldn't resist emailing about the meatloaf comparison. Instead of meatloaf, I like to think of it as a smoothie that I'm able to throw some greens into. Thought I'd just pass along a more appetizing visual :)

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• Dark theme is coming to Gmail for Android and iOS
• Better line spacing support for branding in Google Docs and Slides
• What's new in Chrome OS: Google Assistant comes to more Chromebooks
• 6 Chromebook keyboard shortcuts that save time

Matt’s recent post: 27 tips to deliver powerful professional development

• Share all sides of a tech tool: If you’re doing technology professional development, it’s always helpful for teachers to see the student side of a tool as well as the teacher side. If they can see how the initial setup works, that’s even better.
• Go deep rather than wide: “60 apps in 60 minutes.” I’ve attended these sessions at conferences. I’ve delivered them! Many times, I think they’re “edu-tainment” more than actual professional development. It just creates a passing familiarity with lots of apps rather than actual implementation and change. I love to go deep — learn a new strategy or tool, practice it, discuss implementation — rather than wide. Sticking on one or two impactful ideas is powerful. It can empower teachers to be ready to start using a new idea when they leave rather than just knowing about it.
• Use the meatloaf approach to PD: When we have meatloaf for dinner, my kids know what they are getting. They like the way meatloaf tastes. However, if my wife and I want to make the meatloaf a little more nutritious, we may grind up broccoli or cauliflower and sneak it into the mix. That way, they are getting the taste they want but also a little extra nutrition. Professional development should be the same way. If I’m talking about a teaching strategy or digital tool, I love to model it in a fun way. When I demonstrate Flipgrid, I ask teachers to record me videos of where I should eat dinner that evening. They learn the tool without even realizing they’ve learned it. The task can be fun and also teach them something. It’s kind of like mixing cauliflower into meatloaf.
• Use the problem/solution framework: Ask yourself, “What are the problems these educators face? What’s the problem that this solves?” Then, use that as a guide. Show them how your ideas solve that problem for them.
• They might forget what you said, but they won’t forget how you made them feel.” For many teachers, professional development is a drag. It makes them feel adequate. They might feel like the person leading PD doesn’t understand them and their situation. I take every opportunity to make them feel welcome. Appreciated. Capable. I smile a LOT. If someone struggles, I help them feel like the struggle is easily fixed. If they make a mistake, I help them to feel that it’s no big deal. If something goes wrong and it’s not their fault, I make sure they know it’s not their fault and they did everything as they were supposed to. Anxiety negatively affects our neurologically-based skills. Anything we can do to reduce anxiety — in adults and in children! — helps.

Kasey: How to Design Google PD That Works - a framework for trainers

• Matt - 75+ Google Classroom tips and tricks (with a FREE ebook!)
• Kasey:
  • How to Create Drag and Drop Activities with Google Slides
  • BecomeaGoogleTrainer.com

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• Live captions in Hangouts Meet, now available on Android
• New improvements for Jamboard mobile and tablet apps
• Get more done with a little help from Google Chrome
• Form Notifications add-on now available in the G Suite Marketplace

Add-ons are customized extensions of G Suite productivity applications such as Gmail, Google Sheets, and Google Docs. Add-ons are built using Apps Script—a rapid application development platform based on JavaScript that lets you create business and productivity applications quickly and easily.

With Add-ons you can do the following:

• Add customized functionality to G Suite applications such as Gmail.
• Boost your workflow efficiency when working with G Suite.
• Use Apps Script services to easily control and move data between Google applications.
• Connect to non-Google services within G Suite applications, allowing you to retrieve or upload data from those services into and from G Suite.
• Create custom interfaces (sidebars, menus, and dialogs) that are displayed within the G Suite application the add-on extends, potentially removing the need for a user to switch browser tabs when working with multiple applications.

You can create add-ons for your personal use, for use within your organization, or publish them to the G Suite Marketplace where millions of users and domain administrators can find and install them (source: https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/overview).

• Slides Randomizer
• Slido
• Extensis Fonts
• Mail Merge for Avery Labels
• Form Approvals
• Wolfram Alpha

Lindsay Shields (California) -- I had to comment on the new Classroom updates after listening to [episode 90]. My district beta tests the new updates to Google, so I have been using the grades feature since last spring. I love it. The grades page allows me to easily see who has turned in assignments, which assignments need grading and who has turned work in late. I no longer have to click on each assignment in Classroom for this. I also import grades from Classroom to our SIS system (Aeries). It is truly a timesaver. To effectively do this, you need to first create the assignment in both Classroom and Aeries. It helps to have the same number of points in both Classroom and Aeries. Once you have graded the assignment, you need to return it in Classroom. This makes the grades "official." Once you have done that, then you go to your grade book in your SIS system. It is truly magic! It saves me so much time. I use Forms for bell work and I can import the scores from Forms to Classroom, return the grades to students and then import the scores to Aeries. I can grade several classes of warm-ups in minutes. I also just started using the rubric feature. So far it is easy to create a rubric and score the assignment.

Beth Evans (via SpeakPipe) -- How to fill out forms in everyday life. Name, age, birthday, gender, etc. When filling out a form once, an option of using autofill. How do you shut off autofill?

• Matt - 25 practical ways to use Google Forms in class, school
• Kasey:
  • Fall book study starts Sept. 26
  • 9 Ways to Improve Student Writing with Google Docs

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Summer 2019 was a busy time for Google and Google for Education. The links below are related to what was discussed in episode 90 of the podcast.

Classroom

• Gradebook in Classroom now generally available
• Create rubrics in Classroom with a new beta
• All classes moving to Google Classroom with the Classwork Page in September
• Google Assignments, your new grading companion
• Originality reports for Google Classroom and Google Assignments launching to beta

Docs

• See changes in Google Docs over time with Compare Documents

Sheets

• View the edit history of a cell in Sheets
• Additional tools for enhanced reporting in Google Sheets

Slides

• New features for Slides Present mode
• Switch to a blank screen and set advanced time options for presentations in Google Slides
• Audio rollout on Slides has been “paused” by Google

Forms

• Import questions from previously existing forms into a new Google form

Drive, etc.

• Check out the new G Suite Learning Center
• Coming Soon: Transformation reports from Google for Education
• Priority page in Drive now available for all G Suite editions
• New fonts intended to help improve reading speed now available in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Keyword

• Making learning to read accessible and fun with Bolo
• Bringing CS education to everyone through six new grants
• If you give a student a Chromebook
• What’s new in Chrome OS: better audio, camera and notifications
• A new way to help students turn in their best work

We invite you to contribute to the podcast with your Google tips, tricks, and questions. Visit our Feedback page for a number of ways of reaching out to the show!

• Matt - 3 easy strategies to organize your Google Classroom
• Kasey
  • Fall book study starts Sept. 26
  • 10 Google Classroom Tips You Didn’t Know

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