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• Inspiring girls and women to pursue their career ambitions
• A look at one woman’s job at Google: opening doors for other women
• Explore millennia of human inventions in one exhibition
• Using Data GIF Maker to compare data and tell stories

Lissa Brunan is the owner and Chief Engagement Officer (CEO) of Engaging TECHniques & Adjunct Professor for Grand Valley State University. She has worked in the field of education her entire career. Before focusing her passion and energy in the world of professional development, she had six years of experience teaching in a middle school classroom. Lissa's main objective is to design, develop, and facilitate professional development focused on understanding and applying educational technology into the classroom to increase student engagement and learning.

Lissa is a Google Certified Trainer, Flipgrid Ambassador, BreakoutEDU Certified Trainer, EdPuzzle Coach, Kahoot Gold Certified Educator, Screencastify Master Screencaster, and a Pear Deck Certified Coach.

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

Google “Spark”: I dabble and played for years, but I went all in about 3 years ago when I drove 2 hours to do a training/presentation for a school and my stomach dropped when I realized I saved my PowerPoint presentation on my work desktop computer, not on my laptop, and there was no way to access it. NEVER AGAIN! Started learning and didn't look back.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LissaBrunan

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/engagingtechniques

Jake Miller (Ohio) -- Replacing boring old bullet points with emoji.

Debbie -- When students are actively using pages that the teacher creates (like matching games, etc.), they are not in presentation mode, correct? So, in this case, what is the purpose of presentation mode? In other words, why did you choose Slides for the activity? Not trying to be rude. Just don't understand. Please explain.

• Matt - A beginner’s guide to Twitter for educators (free ebook!)
• Kasey - The Teacher’s Guide to Podcasts (guest post by Chris Nesi)

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• Changes to the Google Classroom Stream
• Helping developers create more choice for educators
• Find ideas and activities on the new Chromebook App Hub
• Living the "multidream" by blending coding with a rap career

MyMaps

Resources from Google

Through Google My Maps students can explore the basics of cartography, share information about local communities and far-flung destinations. The map is their canvas on which they can build with points, lines, and polygons, and they can go as far as their imagination leads them.

In your Google Drive, go to NEW>MORE and select MY MAPS.

• Dropping pins
  • Locations in a story
  • Personal student stories (My Happy Place Hyperdoc by Lisa Highfill)
  • Historical events
  • Summer vacation at back to school (where you’ve visited in your life, etc.)
• Measuring distances (distance = rate x time, etc.) … measure and take a screenshot?
• Layers (biomes, animals, etc.)
• Poly tool to determine area/perimeter
• Locations for sports / extracurriculars
• Plotting locations where you’ve done video calls
• Amazing Race with Forms and MyMaps
  • Clue #1
• Create a map of the journey of a character from a novel
• Tell a story, non-fiction, fiction, personal

20 ways Google MyMaps can enhance lessons in any class

Ginna Jones (Virginia) -- Shares how she teaches proportions with pancakes and Google Slides! Check out her slide deck by clicking here!

Camden (5th-Grader, South Carolina) -- Listen to and from school. Teachers should use Google Lit Trips. Feel like you’re the character. 360 pictures. Earth and Tour Builder. Number the Stars: takes to the street where sisters are stopped by Nazi soldiers. Pictures and video. Diary of Anne Frank takes you to the secret annex where she hid.

• Matt - Four ways to make math come alive with Google tools
• Kasey - Stranger Google: Crazy Tools from the Upside Down Part 1 & Part 2

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• Updated UI for Jamboard web home page
• Accessibility settings are now easier to access on Docs, Sheets, and Slides
• Insert a Table of Contents in Google Sites
• Spelling and grammar improvements in Docs for Enterprise

Favorite Chrome Features, Tips, Tricks, and Extensions

• Chrome Profiles
  • With profiles, you can keep all your Chrome info separate, like bookmarks, history, passwords, and other settings.
  • Profiles are ideal for:
    • Sharing a computer with multiple people.
    • Keeping your different accounts, like work and personal, separate.
  • How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts using Chrome Profiles
• Bookmarks bar with favicons
• Setting up tabs at start-up
• Ctrl + Shift + brackets to swap between tabs
• Pin tabs
• Incognito: Browse in private-- If you don’t want Google Chrome to remember your activity, you can browse the web privately in Incognito mode.
  • 8 Awesome Reasons to Go Incognito in Google Chrome
• 160+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students
• Back to School with Google Chrome: The Complete Guide!

Jenna (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Loves “swiss army knife”. Extra curricula -- wants to use iPads and Google tools (Slides). Used to create ebooks for kindergarten aged students to read. Number books, counting books. As part of art studies, students painted with watercolors, took pictures. Used the crop tool within Slides to crop the images to different shapes. Use the shapes to compile a new image (a robot). Group all shapes together. Different versions of the robot that can be counted. Collab: all can work on the project together.

Here’s a note from Jenna: “Unfortunately, my students are still busy with the ones where they have painted their own backgrounds so I don't have a finished product yet. I've attached the one that we used to practice the skill. We did it so that they'd know what to expect when they started painting. For this one, my students used images from Google and turned the slide deck into an eBook for some of the younger students in the school. Each student worked on a different slide so that each slide had a unique robot which we duplicated for the number on the page.”

Link to her example slide deck: click here!

Caroline Goodman (Memphis, Tennessee) -- 2 Gmail accounts: a .org for faculty and staff, .net domain for students. Teachers frequently create docs, sheets, slides, forms in either one or both accounts. Often, files get lost between the two. Sometimes teachers aren’t sure if the doc was created with .org or .net account. How can we search between both Google Drive accounts? Extension or app? Type in a search and it’ll search both of them?

• Matt - Google Slides interactive notebooks + 20 activities to fill them
• Kasey - Shake Up Learning Show Starts March 26th Join the Shake Up Learning Book Study (and book giveaway)

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• Lost in translation? Try interpreter mode with the Google Assistant (into 26 languages w/Google Home)
• Google Classroom: move any post to the top - Announcements ONLY
• Google Slides accessibility tab (h/t Alice Keeler blog)
• New Innovator Academy dates and locations released for 2019

The webcam feature in many Google products (Docs, Slides, Drawings, etc.) makes a lot of cool learning activities possible.

How to activate it: Insert > Image > Camera

• Make sure you’ve given access to your camera
• If another program is using the camera, it may not work
• You don’t need a special camera … if your Chromebook/laptop has a built-in webcam, use that!
• Mobile devices: use the device camera, then bring in the images to do the same thing

How to use it:

• Click the camera button below the live webcam image to take a picture
• Take as many pictures as you want
• Insert one at a time … remember to click the “insert” button

Ways it can be used in class:

• Student reflection: in a shared Slides presentation where each student has a slide, have each student snap a selfie and add it to his/her own slide. Add speech/thought bubbles with Insert > Shapes > Callouts to allow for reflection or retelling what they’ve learned
• Interview a character/historical figure: In Google Drawings, snap a selfie, but leave room to one side. Search the web for an image of a character or historical figure and insert it. Add speech/thought bubbles for the student and the character, making it as if they’re having a conversation.
• Caption This!: This is a fun activity Matt developed with Missouri educator Laura Steinbrink. Search for an image online or upload an image. Use speech/thought bubbles to speak/think for people in the image. Then, have students add a text box on the image explaining why that person would say that. (Justifying their response moves the critical thinking up a notch on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge!)
• Stop motion animation: Have students snap a picture of something (themselves, a drawing on a whiteboard, a clay representation of what you’re learning, etc.). Add it to a slide in Google Slides. Move it and snap another picture, adding it to the next slide. Keep adding images to new slides until your animation is complete!
• MATH! Math teachers can sometimes struggle with using technology and having students show their work on a problem. Still using pencil and paper, no problem! Students can hold up their paper to the webcam and take a quick picture to insert into the work or attach it to their Google Classroom assignment.

Google Drawings comic strips -- Have students take pictures of themselves -- posing as themselves or as a character -- and add speech bubbles and thought bubbles.

Audra Arman-Richardson (Nevada) -- With Google+ shortly leaving us, what do you recommend as a replacement? We have 20+ schools throughout our state that share and communicate using this platform. We are not sure what to migrate to.

Mike Brilla (Pennsylvania) -- Google Classroom. Uses Doctopus and Goobric. Self-proclaimed “organizational train wreck”. Had trouble keeping track of the Sheets. Used Google Keep keeping track. Use Keep extension on Chrome. Uses the label “Things to grade.” Now everything is in one place. Links are there. Delete note when he’s done.

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Danny Contopoulos (science teacher, New York) -- Bailee wants to know how to automatically send responses to different sheets.

In the google sheet that is accepting responses from the form, all Bailee would have to do is create two new tabs and on each tab use a filter formula

=filter('Sheet 1’!A1:F100,'Sheet 1'!B1:B100="Teacher 1") 'Sheet 1’!A1:F100 is the response range 'Sheet 1'!B1:B100 is the column with the teacher’s name "Teacher 1" is the teacher’s name (matched exactly)

Caroline Goodman (Tennessee)-- School developing new PE program where students/teachers attend classes at various times throughout the day. Google service flexible posting of class schedules so change daily, check in and out of classes, a record of who attended which classes.

Linda Hummer (Ohio) -- Personalized PD in their school district. 2 PD days -- 1 in fall with four different sessions running at the same time that staff could choose to go to, during sessions: 1 tool or several tools that do the same type of thing (formative assessment). Discuss and share what they’re doing, ask questions, work on creating things they’d like. 1 in spring -- changed to two sessions (they’re a K-12 building). Staff shared with one another, asked questions, enjoyed that type of PD, will continue using it.

Ryan Bradford -- I was listening to episode 74 last night and I think I have a solution for Bailee's question. The Query formula can be used to auto separate the data into different sheets based on certain criteria (e,g, school name, resource type, etc). If you create a Google Form with an identifying question like school name and send all of your responses to the default response sheet, you can then create two separate sheets that each use a query formula to pull on specific data based on the school name. I included some screenshots below of how I use this at my school to quickly separate supply requests by type.

• Matt - One story, many endings: A fun, creative Google Slides activity
• Kasey - Google Certified Educator Toolkits and New Resource pages!
  • Google Certified Educator Level 1 Toolkit (3-in-1) download!
  • Level 1 Resources to Help You Pass the Exam
  • Google Certified Educator Level 2 Toolkit (3-in-1) download!
  • Level 2 Resources to Help You Pass the Exam

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This is a REPLAY of episode 9 from March 20, 2017.

• Forms v. Quizzes feature
• Email notifications (late work form)
• Contact form
• File attachments (field trip permission slips)
• Student notes for documentation
• Confirmation page

You access the show notes by visiting https://googleteachertribe.com/9

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The Chrome Squad is an elite group of students at Royse City High School that provide tech support and learning opportunities for both students and teachers. In the four years the Chrome Squad has been in operation they have evolved--developing new teams and products to serve not only Royse City ISD, but others districts as well. The Chrome Squad has helped over 50 other districts across the US start student internships, spoken at conferences like TCEA, and have been able to spend time at the Googleplex and Google HQ2 in Austin, Tx. The Chrome Squad is made of twenty-one 10th-12th graders working across 8 teams.

• Tech TV
• Connect Store
• Tech Tips
• Connected for Learning: The Podcast
• Inventory
• Chromecierge
• C4L Ninjas
• Promotions

There have been a few changes since the Chrome Squad was last on the Google Teacher Tribe Episode 8.  They have started a podcast that focuses on the great things teachers are doing and the ways a teacher can better empower learners with technology.  You can find the teaser for the podcast on iTunes (Google Play will be coming soon).

The Chrome Squad also adopted a goal setting process used by companies like Google called OKRs, or Objectives-Key Results, as well as Design SPRINTS.  This has allowed the Chrome Squad to design and project plan an entire year’s worth of work in a few days during the summer.

• Connected for Learning: The Podcast
• ConnectedforLearning.org
• Re:Work with Google OKRs
• Design SPRINTS
• C4L BadgingTwitter: @Chrome_Squad

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• An updated roadmap for classic and new Google Sites
• Get your whole team jamming with Jamboard web improvements
• Adapting to the needs of learners, educators, and schools with Chromebooks
• Choose your own adventure with 13 Google for Education tools

We're live at FETC 2019 and we had the opportunity to sit with and speak to Holly Clark, author of The Google Infused Classroom.

• Why do we, as educators, attend live, face-to-face professional learning events?
  • Benefits
  • Drawbacks
  • Connections
  • Introvert problems
• What do you do when you go to a session you don’t like?
• Time for implementation

Holly Clark was also the guest on episode 41! Listen if you haven't!

• Eve Heaton - Eve shares a template for the Valentine’s Conversation Hearts in Google Drawings
• Bailee Sandsmark - Google Sheets question - Bailee wants to know how to automatically send responses to different sheets.

• Matt - 10 ways to use Wakelet’s new collaboration feature
• Kasey - A Perfectionist with Paralysis NO MORE!

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• New Gmail compose formatting and download options
• Allow Google Calendar users to book Microsoft Exchange resources
• Around the world and back with Google for Education
• What’s new in Scratch 3.0, a programming language designed for kids

Matt and Kasey share ideas, sites, and tools other than those made by Google that plays nicely with Google for an enhanced teaching and learning experience.

Padlet and Sites - gather feedback through an embedded Padlet wall, post, and share work, e-portfolios, add other media to Padlet wall to demonstrate learning without having to separately add pages, etc., Use as an embedded class blog, not perfect, but easier than using Sites alone.

Wakelet and Drawings -- Create images in Drawings, add to a Wakelet collection with links, text, videos, etc. to share and for collaboration.

Flipgrid and Slides/Sites/Docs - reflection, explain their answers, set goals and revisit, reflect on writing, book talk to go with their book report, reading responses explained.

Adobe Spark and Slides/Sites -- Create images (Post), single-page web pages (Pages) and videos (Video) and embed/insert into Slides or Sites.

Canva and Sites/Slides/Forms- (Just received a major update!) Create images for your projects and creations, restaurant menus into learning menus, blog post images, flyers, brochures, headers for your forms and sites, greeting cards.

Screencastify and Maps -- Find a place in Google Maps and use Street View to view it, then record it as a virtual walking tour in Screencastify

• 15 Collaborative Tools for Your Classroom That Are NOT Google
• 12 curation ideas for students and teachers with Wakelet
• Catch the Flipgrid fever! 15+ ways to use Flipgrid in your class
• 13 ways to create unforgettable multimedia with Adobe Spark
• 5 ways to use Adobe Spark Post with your classroom
• 5 ways to use Adobe Spark Video with your classroom
• Google Maps walking tours with Street View and Screencastify

Mike Mohammad (Wisconsin) -- Make a classroom calendar. On one side of Slide, what we’re doing that day, another side: that week. Daily part changes, weekly part stays the same. New week: new slide. Better than a paper handout bc can publish and embed in a Google Site or Canvas LMS. Can link anything on schedule directly (turn in assignment, instructions, comments). bit.ly/moschedule

Kyle Anderson (Nevada) -- Keep and Forms in IEP process. A student with upcoming IEP: things have to do in Google Keep (date, send notices for parents, steps in writing it). Can use reminder function to set up in Calendar to notify when he has to complete steps. Forms: gather info for the process, send out a form to parent for details, to teachers to gather info on student, accommodations, to the student on info that will help them out best.

• Matt - 25 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers (and how you can make your own)
• Kasey - 15 Google Classroom Tips for Teacher BY TEACHERS!

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• Material Design for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites on Web
• Helping teens root out misinformation and get media savvy

Lisa Highfill is an Instructional Technology Coach in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her masters in Educational Technology Leadership and has been a classroom teacher for over 20 years. As a Google Certified Innovator, and a YouTube Star Teacher, she travels the country presenting at edtech conferences and speaking about lesson design and learning theory. Lisa is the co-creator and co-author of The HyperDoc Handbook.

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

Google “Spark”: I was in the Merit Program, led by Rushton Hurley. The program completely changed me as a teacher, my knowledge of technology, and how to best combine the two.

Favorite Google Tips and Tricks: Google Slides make great portfolios for all of your graphic design work.

Connect with Lisa:

• Twitter: @lhighfill
• Website: about.me/lisahighfill

John Hartmann (St. Louis) -- Name a version in the revision history. Sets up a template (Sheets, slides) and names it master. When students complete the task, can revert back to the master and use it over and over. Doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Jake Miller (Ohio) -- Thanks for creating community. Google Translate in Google Sheets. Does more than math. Type =GoogleTranslate you’ll get a formula to take words in one language and translate to +100 language. Useful for ELLs. to the native language. Can use Flippity.net to turn into flashcards to practice. JakeMiller.net search for translate for GIF.

• Matt - 6 ways to make the most of closed captions in Google Slides
• Kasey - 5 Ways to Use the Google Docs Explore Tool

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