Google Teacher Podcast

• Dark mode available for Calendar and Keep on Android
• A new look for Google Search
• Glass Enterprise Edition 2: faster and more helpful
• Collaborating to protect nearly anonymous animals

In this episode, we celebrate all of you who listen by sharing tips and tricks submitted by listeners like you!

• Sarah Kiefer (OH)
• Blake Bray (TX)
• Stephanie Skrocki (NJ)
• Susan Vincentz (KY/IN)
• Pam Hubler (SC)
• Stephanie Howell (OH)
• Rayna Freedman (MA)
• Lee Tucker (GA)

• Matt - Four-part video series, “Awesome Lesson Planning Made Easy”
  • Video 1: One quick protocol to get your lesson plans structured
  • Video 2: Four frameworks to level up your lesson planning
  • Video 3: Three powerful templates (and how to make your own)
  • Video 4: Introducing the Ditch That Textbook Lesson Plan Book

  Get your copy of the Ditch That Textbook Lesson Plan Book, featuring …

  • Flexible planning template
  • LOTS of Ditch That Textbook ideas and digital tools
  • Lesson planning resources
  • … and more!
• Kasey -  How to Get Google Certified (podcast edition)GetGoogleCertified.com (enrollment open from May 21 - June 4)

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• Three new machine learning courses
• What’s so interesting about spreadsheets?
• Affirming the identities of teachers and students in the classroom
• Carmen Sandiego is back on Google Earth, gumshoe

It's the end of another school year or you're approaching the end of the year and either way you should consider cleaning up Google Classroom and Drive.

• 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

Google Classroom Cleanup Tips for the End of the Year

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

https://alicekeeler.com/2016/05/31/google-classroom-clean-folders/

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/05/25/google-classroom-archive-class/

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/07/17/school-is-out-7-tips-to-clean-up-your-g-suite/

• KD Meucci (on the blog) -- I'm trying to access Jamboard, but it says my access is denied and to contact my systems admin. I'm getting some pushback, is there any reason not to give access? Also, my admin doesn't understand the platform and thinks I'm asking to purchase an actual Jamboard. From the podcast, it sounds like Jamboard is just like Padlet, but within G Suites. Help?!!
• Dana Klement (Texas) -- long time listener, google trainer certification, excited to help teachers see power of Google tools, wants students to be set up for success, eighth grade in small school district, will have had the same drive since kindergarten, wants to train students to use g suite going into high school, last two weeks, streamline … set eighth graders up for success in high school, key features, extensions, organizational tips and tricks to help them to be set up for success?

• Matt - Creating Mosaic Art with Google Drawings (guest post by Sarah Jacobs)
• Matt’s Tech to Learn Online Course is discounted 50 percent through May!
• Kasey - How to Get Credit for Listening to Podcasts – SULS012
• GetGoogleCertified.com (enrollment open from May 21 - June 4)

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• Three new features to format and work with data in Sheets
• Create and insert image carousels in new Sites
• Helpful new visual features in Search and Lens
• Bringing you the next-generation Google Assistant

Get Google Certified This Summer!

The Google Certification Academies open for limited enrollment on May 21, 2019!

There are three courses designed to fit your needs:

• The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy
• The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy
• The Google Certified Trainer Academy

These courses are designed to walk you through the process and give you everything you need to know to pass the exam.

But don’t miss this opportunity! These courses only open twice a year.

Enrollment opens on May 21, 2019, and will close at 11:59 PM CST on June 4, 2019.

If you miss this window, you have to wait until November!

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• The Google Classroom Master Class
• The Google Slides Master Class
• All Shake Up Learning Courses

The Tech to Learn Online Course

Tech to Learn is an online course dedicated to helping YOU identify ways to use technology to move the needle for learning ... to amplify and boost what's happening in your classroom.

In this course, we will cover ...

• SIX areas where technology can truly boost learning in the classroom
• How technology can be paired with sound, solid teaching practices
• Practical examples you can implement in your class immediately

Plus, in this course, you'll also get ...

• More than seven hours of video instruction with Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook
• Downloadable checklists and guides to help you succeed
• Four BONUS mini-modules on key topics like productivity and cheating

Until the end of May, Google Teacher Tribe listeners can get 50 percent off the price of the course! Click here to enroll, and find the “MAY SALE” discount option to check out.

Check out the FREE video series on teaching meaningfully with technology!

Get even more information about this course by clicking here.

Other online courses to check out:

• The Chromebook Infused Classroom
• Side Hustle Teachers Summer Camp

Free online digital summits and conferences

• Hive Summit (Aug. 1-14)
• CUE Ditch Summit (July 29-Aug. 4)
• Strobel Summit
• Teach with Tech Conference (July 22-24)

The best of ISTE without going to ISTE

• #notatISTE

Laura Steinbrink (Missouri)

Nanci Greene

• Matt - The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers (updated post!)
• Kasey - How to Create a Class Brand (and much more) with Tony Vincent

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• Team Drives is being renamed to shared drives
• Get lost in the new Earth Timelapse, now on mobile
• After school, this teen tracks climate change with NASA
  • https://earthengine.google.com/
• This National Tell a Story Day, take a page from your Assistant

Collaborative Notes with Docs or Slides

• Buddy up with your team or friends and take collaborative notes.
• When everyone attends different sessions, you all walk away with collective knowledge and resources.
• Docs suggestion - Create a table of contents or divide the pages in a way that makes sense. Tables are also handy. (Kasey’s Alan November story.)
  • Collaborative Notes with Google Docs
• Slides suggestion - New slide for each session gives natural division to your notes.

Google Keep

• Take notes in Keep, share with your team or teacher friends
• Use the Keep extension to add bookmarks of resources and presentations
• Add audio, photos, or even annotate or draw
• Use the mobile app and add notes with dictation on the fly
• Grab text from a photo of a presenter slide or (gasp!) paper handout
• Google Keep Cheat Sheet
• Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students

Chrome

• Use Chrome bookmarks and bookmark manager to save all your links and organize into a folder for the conference.

Google Photos

• Lots of people take pictures of links and presenter slides (as well as selfies)
• Sync new photos to your Google Photos collection
• Create an album and share with others

Jamboard

• Can use the web app without an interactive panel
• There’s a mobile app, too
• Swap between devices
• Take photos with your phone, draw with your finger
• Draw with a stylus and add sticky notes on the app with a tablet
• Use dictation tools (voice typing) to add text quickly
• Integrates with Google Photos AND Google image search
• Collaborate with others
• View notes across platforms

Hangouts Chat

• Backchannel to stay connected with your peeps.
• Discuss and share ideas and questions.

Edcamp.org

How to Maximize the Edcamp Experience

15 building blocks to a meaningful conference experience

Wakelet

• Grab social media posts (tweets, etc.) and add to a Wakelet collection
• Take your notes in Wakelet, adding text with titles above each session you go to
• Adding links creates a website card instead of just a link, giving you a preview
• Embed videos
• Upload a PDF (session materials)
• Also, add previous posts (bookmarks) to your collection
• Collaborative Wakelet collections: create shared notes with buddies or colleagues

Evernote

• Create a notebook for the conference
• Take notes and use the web clipper to save all the links and notes in one space.
• Add images and audio
• Searchable (even text in images)

• Sarah Kiefer (Speakpipe)

• Cam Ross (Melbourne, Australia) -- Just re-listened to Episode 18 to learn some more about what Google Slides can do, and came across the DriveSlides Chrome extension. What an amazing tool, and one that I have been able to use with the family pics at home but also with school-based projects. Keep up the amazing work, as I am learning so much each and every episode.

• Matt - 30 activities for any Depth of Knowledge level (Slides vocab cards Stella, applied digital skills Amy DeFriese, Google Slide sticky notes/infographics)
• Kasey -  The Google Certified Trainer Ultimate Planner & Checklist
  • Google Certification Courses open on May 21st!
    • (1) The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy
    • (2) The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy
    • (3) The Google Certified Trainer Academy

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A G Suite user guide to accessibility!

Google News and Updates:

• Work anywhere with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in new offline mode
• Work with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in Dropbox with a new beta
• Duplicate larger sites in new Google Sites
• Visit US National Parks in Google Earth

Google Accessibility Features:

https://www.google.com/accessibility/ - FULL LIST!

G Suite user guide to accessibility

Adapting to the needs of learners, educators and schools with Chromebooks

Accessibility is a key part of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines

• “to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn”

Chrome Browser

• Use TalkBack to browse the web with Chrome
• Chrome low-vision features help
• Chrome assistive technology help
• Chrome keyboard shortcuts
• Change text, image, and video sizes (zoom)
• • Running things in the browser enables webpage zoom
• Chrome keyboard access
• High-contrast Chrome extension
• Chrome accessibility extensions
• Videos: Chrome & Chrome OS Accessibility

Chromebooks

• Chromevox
• MATT -- Magnify your screen on a Chromebook

Docs

• Accessibility help for Docs editors
• Google Docs screen reader help
• Google Docs keyboard shortcuts
• Voice typing in Google Docs
• • 7 Reasons You Need to Try Voice Typing in Google Docs
• Braille support in Google Docs
• Make documents more accessible
• Video: Get started with Google Docs using a screen reader (19 minutes)
• Google Docs VPAT

Slides

• Accessibility help for Docs editors
• Google Slides screen reader help
• Present slides with captions
• Braille support in Google Slides
• Google Slides keyboard shortcuts
• Video: Get started with Google Slides using a screen reader (16 minutes)
• Google Slides VPAT

Hangouts

• Accessibility for Hangouts Meet
• Keyboard shortcuts for Hangouts Meet

Slides

• 6 ways to make the most of closed captions in Google Slides

Mailbag:

Alex Tougas (Annapolis, MD) -- Google Forms: can’t break quiz up in sections or save as you go. Workaround? Google form for summative assessment -- like 50 questions.

Kamilee Jorgenson (Rangely, Colorado) -- Is it possible to go into Calendar, search for, and extract particular events? I am using my calendar to record my times driving a route for the school. Is it possible to go into Calendar, find all of that particular event, and then export them to a different document?

Export from Calendar (ICS)

Export to Sheets

On the Blogs:

Matt:60 tips to spark creative lesson ideas

Kasey: 60 Tools to Inspire Students with Chromebooks

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• At Tech Day, hundreds of kids dive deep into STEM
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  On World Heritage Day, explore historic sites in 3D

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  Want to Change the Game? Design your own with Google Play

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  Avoid double-booking rooms in Calendar

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  RSVP to Calendar events from forwarded invitations

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  Save time with new scheduling features in Calendar

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  Master your email with these essential Gmail tips

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  Improvements to organizing and finding Team Drives

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  Easily customize theme colors in Slides

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  Get more done in less time with G Suite Add-ons beta

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  Google Voice for G Suite: Cloud telephony with the intelligence and security of Google Cloud

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  Introducing Currents, the newest G Suite app

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  Work smarter in Sheets with several new features for objects

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  Apply to be a part of the Hangouts Chat Accelerated Transition Program

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  Summary: Next 2019 announcements

• Rebecca (@tccsapd) on Twitter -- Save a webpage to your @googledrive instead of printing! I just found this by accident. 😳 Simply change your print destination to Google Drive and the web page you are looking at becomes a PDF. Or follow these steps:https://support.google.com/cloudprint/answer/2541913?hl=en
• Joe Marquez (@JoeMarquez70) on Twitter -- Are you an @PearDeck fan and have been dying to use the closed captioning feature during a PearDeck lesson? Here is the way to do it :) https://youtu.be/5kcCITjhkRY
• Bailee Sandsmark -- Update fitness scores through Google Form to Sheet and Autocrat runs them a report. Would like to use the same form to the same sheet, but when it goes to Autocrat, wants most recent data and all data graphed.

• Matt - 35 creative Google Drawings activities for classes
• Kasey - The Teacher’s Guide to Digital Choice Boards (Free eBook with Templates)

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• Live captions in Hangouts Meet
• Exploring new possibilities in cloud-based education technology
• Gmail Smart Compose subject suggestions
• Office editing makes it easier to work with Office files in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Joe Marquez is a passionate educator who loves nothing more than to discover new ways to motivate and engage students.

Technology has been the spark which has ignited his exploration into next-generation educational technology and pushed him into becoming a leader and technology coach for the Clovis Unified School District.

Joe is now a K-12 Education Strategist for CDW-G helping educators across the US reach their full potential with devices in the classroom. His innovating spirit, outgoing attitude and outrageous personality has earned him the coveted titles of Certified Google Innovator, Certified Google Trainer, Prezi Educational Society member, PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator, Nearpod PioNEAR, Remind Connected Educator and Advisory Board Member, Quiver Ambassador, Common Sense Ambassador, Flipgrid Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator, CUE Rockstar Teacher Faculty and CUE Lead Learner. Recently Joe was the recipient of the CVCUE 2014 Educator of the Year Award, the prestigious Clovis Unified Crystal Award and featured speaker at the California Teachers Summit in 2015, 2106 and 2017. 

• Also a guest on episode 24 (Engaging Science Students)
• Twitter: @JoeMarquez70
• Website: sonsoftechnology.com

• Blake Bray (Texas) -- YES!!!! Duplicate copies! That's why y'all have a podcast... genius! Thanks!
• Allison Fluet (Maine) -- I was very impressed with myself when I heard Matt recommend a Google Slides workaround that I’ve been using. It was in response to Blake from Texas and how to get his slides to auto advance (duplicate slides and publish to the web). So, I have that system in place to run my classroom schedule but when I’m gone I have my laptop with me. I have an iPad that I leave behind for my sub but I cannot get Slides to autoplay an inserted video that I’m using as a transition song for my students to know it’s time to rotate in their math stations. Do you have any workarounds to get a video to autoplay When presented on Slides on an iPad?
• Wendy Cohen (New York) -- When using multiple Google accounts in Chrome, right-click a link and choose “Open as …” to choose which account you’d like to use when opening the link. Can save you time from seeing the “You need access” error messages. How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts

• Matt - 35 creative Google Drawings activities for classes
• The #DitchBook Twitter chat -- It’s 30 minutes every Thursday at 10pm Eastern / 9pm Central / 8pm Mountain / 7pm Pacific. We chat about a specific topic every week. Don’t know how a Twitter chat works? Check out this ebook on using Twitter for educators.
• Kasey - How to Become a Google Certified Trainer (6 Steps)

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• Write now, send later with Schedule send in Gmail
• Enhance presentations in Slides with audio
• https://snake.googlemaps.com/
• Quickly find support resources in Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar and more

Google Classroom is one of the nicest kids on the playground of education technology. There are many apps and websites that want to play with Google and Google is happy to play with so many of the other apps and sites that are enjoying the nice days and time to play.

Matt and Kasey share and discuss some great tools that are fine on their own but when they play Google we never want edtech recess to end!

• Duolingo -- Many teachers and even entire governments around the world already view Duolingo as the perfect blended learning companion for their language classrooms. Duolingo lessons give each student personalized feedback and practice, preparing them to get the most out of classroom instruction.
• Quizlet -- Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free. (See also 6 new ways to play a Quizlet Live game)
• Quizizz -- This integration makes it seamless for teachers to assign Quizizz games to their class. Students can join a Quizizz game with one click and all their performance data is sent back to Classroom. (See also Gameshow Classroom: Comparing Kahoot!, Quizizz, Quizlet Live and Gimkit)
• Edpuzzle: Make any video your lesson. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students’ understanding. With the EDpuzzle integration, teachers can automatically import all Classroom courses and students at sign up.
• Flipgrid: Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create “grids” of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled “grid” display. Easily share links to Flipgrids and add them to assignments in Google Classroom. (See also Catch the Flipgrid Fever! 15+ ways to use Flipgrid in your class)
• Insert Learning: InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn websites into interactive lessons. You can add sticky notes, links, videos, discussion questions, multiple choice questions and more! Then easily share your lesson with students in Google Classroom. InsertLearning is featured in my FREE ebook: 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018 (See also 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning.)

See Kasey’s Full Blog post: 60+ Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom

Jennifer (New York) -- Mark from Wisconsin asked on episode 80 about turning off spell check to proofread a poorly written letter.

I have an assignment in Literature that requires the students to proofread a poorly written letter (roughly 50 mistakes) and make corrections. Is there a way to turn off Spell Check in the shared document? I have it turned off on the master copy, but when I send it out through Classroom, each of their Chromebooks turns Spell Check back on. Thanks!

Blake (Texas) -- Hey y'all, I'm a 1st-grade teacher in Texas and I listen to GTT on my way to work all the time. Then, I run in my classroom and write down the ideas you have sparked so that I can try them.

One of the ideas is to use slides as kind of an "auto-pilot" for a day when I may need a sub. I have 2 large screens in my room and the idea was to make a slide deck that would walk them through the day. (I've even considered uploading videos of myself teaching the lesson and explaining. Phonics, for example, is a difficult lesson to teach as a sub.) So, the sub walks in and opens the slide deck at 8am. and the slides have instructions/video/example ... the students do the work... and then the slide changes to a yellow background when there are 5 minutes left, then to the next thing on the agenda.

Yea, sounds like a neat thing to try to me too. But I can't use a slide deck because I can't set different times for the auto advance.

That was a long way to ask if you know of a way to set different times for each slide. I know I could use another presentation app but we live on the G suite at my school so sharing would be easier if I could find a work around on slides.

Thanks guys. Y'all are awesome! I'm off to drink my sweet tea before the fun times get back from P.E.

• Make it into a video with Screencastify and advance as you’d like? Then play the video?
• Duplicate slides and set auto-advance times for 1 min each

• Matt - 10 ideas for digital end-of-semester final projects
• Kasey - 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects

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• Set start times and import reminders in Tasks
• Dynamic email in Gmail (beta)
• Threading changes in Gmail conversation view
• Take action faster with customizable swipe actions in Gmail on iOS

20 sites for students with free time on their hands

• GeoGuessr — GeoGuessr uses Google Maps Street View to place you on the ground somewhere in the world in full panorama. The problem? You have NO idea where you are! You must use context clues to guess your location and pin it on a map. Choose to be dropped in certain continents, countries, cities, etc. … or make your own GeoGuessr game with GeoSettr!
• Smarty Pins — Smarty Pins is kind of like GeoGuessr’s cousin. It asks questions from categories like arts and culture, science and geography, and history and current events. The answers are locations, and you must pin them on a map to answer. It makes geography a game, and the closer you guess, the better your score is.
• A Google a Day — Most of us search the internet daily, if not multiple times per day. But effectively searching for something is a skill. A Google a Day challenges users to put their searching skills to the test by asking them to answer a question using Google search. With Google’s search education lesson plans you can take this game even further and begin teaching search literacy in your classroom.
• Street View Treks — Google Maps Street View lets its users see what life is like from the road, in full panorama. Street View Treks take that same technology to some of the most spectacular locations in the world, from Mount Fuji to the Grand Canyon to the Taj Mahal in India. Swim underwater at the Great Barrier Reef or climb the El Capitan rock face at Yosemite National Park.
• Google Arts and Culture — Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces. See super high-resolution images of some of the best works of art in the world. Walk world-famous museums. Examine historical happenings in detail.
• Google Quick Draw! — Quick, Draw! tells you what to draw. Then, Google’s artificial intelligence tries to guess what you’re drawing. It’s a neat way to introduce students to artificial intelligence OR to look at how we convert words/ideas into images.
• Emoji Scavenger Hunt - Emoji Scavenger Hunt is a super fun game from Google Experiments. Using the camera on your device, students identify emojis in the real world. The application uses artificial intelligence to try and determine what’s in the picture and see if it matches the emoji.
• Autodraw - AI experiment that allows you to draw and tries to predict what you are drawing so you can then select a more professional image to add to your project.
• Story Speaker - Combine the power of Google Docs with AI! Make interactive, talking stories without coding and play your story instantly on Google Home. What I love about this tool is that it will give you a “Choose Your Own Adventure,” story template in Google Docs, so that alone is worth exploring! Help students improve writing and get creative. Even if you don’t have a Google Home or cannot use it in your classroom, the Story Speaker tool and template are worth exploring!
• Talk to Books - When you type in a question or a statement, the model looks at every sentence in over 100,000 books to find the responses that would most likely come next in a conversation. This is a really interesting way to help kids connect and learn with literature, discover new authors and books, and strike up some interesting conversations!
• Made with Code - Made with Code is a program designed to help close the gender gap in the programming industry, and give girls and young women fun ways to learn how to code the things they love.
• More tools and resources from Kasey: Stranger Google: Crazy Tools from the Upside Down

• Matthew Reischer (NJ) - Google Forms/Quizzes question
• Nancy Richards (North Hollywood, CA) - Thank-you for your great ideas, suggestions and tips, Matt and Kasey!

• Matt - 60 ideas for using Google MyMaps in any content area
• Kasey - Meaningful Technology Integration and Dynamic Learning (5-Part Podcast Series)

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• It’s now easier to insert images in cells in Google Sheets
• Work smarter with the new Priority page in Drive
• Driving change with Rolling Study Halls
• Your mission, gumshoe: Catch Carmen Sandiego in Google Earth

Spring has finally sprung! Matt and Kasey share some great Google related things you can do on Spring Break or related to Spring Break!

Courses to Try Over Spring Break:

• FREE Course: How to Create Magnetic Poetry with Google Slides and Drawings
• The Google Classroom Master Class
• The Google Slides Master Class
• HyperDocs on Air: 12 free videos
• Master the Screencast: FREE online course by Screencastify

Books to Read Over Spring Break

• Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches by Gerry Brooks
• You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education by Sir Ken Robinson
• The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor
• Shake Up Learning Book Study (starts March 28th)

• How I started traveling the world on my own, thanks to Google
• Local Guides Connect
• A safer way to share your ETA, now on iOS
• Virtual spring break trip with Google Maps Treks (staycation!)
• 20 sites for students with free time on their hands

• Craig Klement (Garland, TX) -- Choice board on Google MyMaps: pins on different locations, students choose their own adventure, detail the activities in the pin, layers to highlight the route that they took on their adventure.
• Mark (Wisconsin) -- I have an assignment in Literature that requires the students to proofread a poorly written letter (roughly 50 mistakes) and make corrections. Is there a way to turn off Spell Check in the shared document? I have it turned off on the master copy, but when I send it out through Classroom, each of their Chromebooks turns Spell Check back on. Thanks

• Matt - The Hyperdocs Toolbox: 14 engaging example activities
• Kasey - 60+ Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom
  • The Shake Up Learning Show starts March 26th with a 5-episode series!

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