Google Teacher Podcast

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• Happy CSEdWeek! A look into one educator’s hour of code
• An art gallery in your pocket: See Vermeer’s paintings in augmented reality

'Tis the season for using Google and other tools in your classroom! Please leave a comment below with your own favorites!

• Santa Tracker / Live from the North Pole: what's new at Santa's Village
• Google Assistant - sing songs, stories, talk to Santa
• Window Wonderland
• Google Earth Quiz: Holiday Traditions
• The Grinch - Hour of Code
• DESIGN YOUR OWN EMOJI HOLIDAY (Made with Code)
• Winter Magnetic Poetry (with Google Slides)| Click here to make a copy of the Winter Magnetic Poetry template

@MikeSzczepanik on Twitter writes, "I was recently inspired by Matt's Sticky Notes post (mentioned in this podcast) and used it for another idea: Student card sorting. I have attached a little "Engage" activity I am doing with my Biology classes Cell Unit. The students sort some cards into two piles representing "Has cells" or "Does not have cells"

I have attached both the student assignment and the directions that go with it. Thanks for the inspiration!"

Sharon Taylor, New Zealand -- Google Slide decks a lot following our discussions. Two problems: FIRST, track who has done what (deleted each other’s work), Slides doesn’t seem to be color coded as well as Google Docs. Need something more accurate. SECOND, when everyone is on the slide deck, there are lots of glitches. Could be our wifi.

• Matt - 25 ways to Ditch That Homework
  • Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit, the FREE online conference for teachers, is open Dec. 14-31. Get your free ticket: DitchSummit.com
• Kasey - How to Create Powerful ePortfolios with Google Sites

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• Get quizzing with locked mode, and grade away with Classroom
  • A step-by-step guide to locked mode
• 10 things to know about Pixel Slate and Pixel Slate Keyboard
• Google Classroom for all G Suite customers
• Host Hangouts Meet meetings with up to 100 participants (50 for Education)

Mandi Tolen is a high school math teacher with experience teaching ELA and technology classes. She is a Google Certified Innovator and very active on Twitter. Mandi is passionate about helping other teachers be the best they can be.

Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Levels 1 and 2, Google Certified Innovator

How Google products have transformed Mandi's classroom...

• Started with drag and drop activities on iPads
• Choose Your Own Adventure in math!
• Custom Bitmoji feedback
• Google Innovator (Toronto)
• Memory Game with Google Slides
• Transformation comic strips
• #mathsnaps

CONNECT WITH MANDI TOLEN

• Twitter: @MandiTolenEDU
• Website: http://infinitelyteaching.wordpress.com

• Matt -  20 Google Slides activities to add awesome to classes
• Kasey - The Beginner’s Guide to the Hour of Code

Kasey's Google Certification courses close at midnight CST on Dec. 4th. Learn more: GetGoogleCertified.com

Matt's Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit, the FREE online conference for teachers, is open Dec. 14-31. Get your free ticket: DitchSummit.com

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This is a REPLAY of episode 36 from December 25, 2017.

Twenty-­three year educator Wanda Terral is the District Technology Coordinator for the Lakeland School System (outside of Memphis, TN). A former band director, Wanda’s constantly seeking information relating to techniques & practices related to the use of tech to empower students and educators.

Wanda Terral shares creative ideas for use with Google Drawings.

You access the show notes by visiting https://googleteachertribe.com/36

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• Don’t be a turkey: Use Google Maps to avoid traffic and crowds this Thanksgiving
• Create your smart home for the holidays with the Google Assistant

Pam Hubler is an Instructional Coach in Charleston, South Carolina with 22 years in education. Pam is passionate about professional development, technology integration, literacy, and building a strong culture in schools.

As a Google Certified Trainer, Pam supports teachers by providing frequent professional development on how to integrate GSuite tools into their daily routines no matter what they teach. She also guides discussions during PLC’s to help teachers find dynamic ways to provide instruction and develop engaging literacy activities.

Pam also loves to create resources to share with educators through her website, Twitter, as community manager of the Shake Up Learning Facebook Group and other social media platforms. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps.

Pam is a lifelong learner who loves to read professional development books, especially books from Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. and listens to Podcasts like the Google Teacher Tribe to keep up with educational technology and pedagogy. She strives to be PIRATE leader to support educators so we can keep great teachers in the profession.

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

Google “Spark”: I've always found technology integration interesting, especially when online creativity tools became possible. I don't even remember how or when I started using Google, but once I switched, that was it! I think being introduced Google Forms and realizing how Google Drive worked on all devices is when I realized just how productive Google tools can help educators become.  The longer I use it, the harder it is to use other tools, especially paid tools, for my day to day productivity and resource creation.

Connect with Pam:

• www.spedtechgeek.com
• @specialtechie

• Pam’s Tech Coach Resources
• [UPDATE 5/28/2020]:
  • Template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19fIRwF5JykQAlXh5EBvNpz_WVCcJSBlZmlJM_93YQLg/template/preview Notes from the show with the new tracker linked: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A2yIp6nP-1H3Mo4nJL33V-OFqBohWcghI4Mz-1dBh8s/edit

Linda Hummer (Ohio) - Thank you for all you do! I love listening to the podcast and trying out the ideas you share! I have an app smash- use the new cc feature in slides along with screencastify. Students that are shy or not comfortable talking in front of the class could record themselves ahead of time and then have it played during class or the teacher can view when they have time. This will also help the teacher when they are accessing the project. There are times when you are grading while students are presenting that you miss things. Having the video to replay showing what they said would be extremely helpful! Thanks!

Joel (via SpeakPipe) - G Suite admin for a small school, students using Google Classroom stream during class that was neither constructive nor appropriate, easy for students to navigate to other sites … way to monitor without micromanaging?

• Matt - Google Slides sticky note brainstorming: Powerful planning (+ FREE template!)
• Kasey - How to Create a Google Class Template in Google Classroom

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• Copy formatting to multiple objects in Google Slides
• Celebrating the next generation of game makers on the Google Play Store
• Blind veterans kayak the Grand Canyon, with Street View along for the ride
• Hour of Code - FREE webinar from Google and Tynker

Mike Mohammed has been teaching high school science for 17 years. He has been teaching at Brookfield High School for the last 14 of those. Mike attended UW Madison where he received his degree in Secondary Education in Broadfield Science and Biology with additional certifications in chemistry and physics. In his time at Brookfield Central, Mike has taught Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and General Science. He is currently teaching Physics and AP Physics. His interests in education focus on putting students at the center of their own learning experience. He lives in Brown Deer, WI with his wife.

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

Google “Spark”: When I first learned of Google Docs and Google Drive it was amazing that student documents could be accessed across multiple devices without the need for a floppy disk or thumb drive to bring to the computer lab. This was especially key when I got a class set of iPads. This may have been the gateway, but it was still just word processing.  The major sparks were realizing the options for varied expression, ability to use Doctopus to distribute templates to the learner and provide digital feedback via comments.

Connect with Mike:

• Twitter: @mo_physics
• Website: http://mophysicsmoproblems.blogspot.com/

Favorite Google Tips and Tricks:

• Using Speaker Notes in Google Slides to make quick comments http://mophysicsmoproblems.blogspot.com/2018/11/110-lab-reports-in-queue.html
• Pear Deck for Quizzes https://alicekeeler.com/2018/08/06/ditch-quiz-pear-deck-mo_physics/
• Mike's Google Infused Lesson Plan

• Dave Ghidiu - More Google Slides idea
• Agustin Vieyra (Long Beach Ca) - a way for my students to record and share their mathematical discourse
• Shannan Lewellen (Las Vegas, NV) -  I wanted to share how I recently used a google add-on in my Science classroom.

• Matt - 101 Google lesson ideas in a FREE ebook!
• Kasey - How to Become a Google Certified Trainer (FREE eBook Download)
  • Google Certification courses open on November 20th and close at midnight CST on Dec. 4th. Learn more: GetGoogleCertified.com

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• New interface for Activity dashboard in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
• AI for Social Good
• Green hair, don’t care: create emoji that look exactly like you on Gboard
• Creepy images on Maps—and why they’re actually not that creepy

G Suite Templates

• How to brainstorm template ideas
  • Focus on learning goals
  • Choosing the appropriate tool(s)
• How to Create Templates
  • Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings
  • Wishlist: Google Sites
• Matt’s four reasons he suggests Google Slides for templates:
  • You can set a fixed background
  • It’s great for class collaboration
  • You have TONS of design flexibility
  • You can create master slides for different activities
• Kasey’s Google Slides Master Class
• How to Share Templates
  • Create G Suite Templates with This Mind-Blowing Hack
  • Force a Copy
  • File > Make a Copy, Y’all!

• Hyperdocs Templates
• Episode 34: Rockin’ Google Slides Templates
• How to Create Your Own “Apps” with Google Slides (FREE Template)
• How to Plan a Dynamic Learning Experience (FREE TEMPLATE)
• Interactive Learning Menus (Choice Boards) with G Suite – FREE Templates
• Collaborative Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings (FREE Template)
• Empower Your Students with The 4 C’s Learning Menu
• 12 must have templates for teachers and students
• Google Slides templates for Snapchat games in class
• 20+ Hyperdocs tips, ideas and templates to use right away
• 15 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers — and how to make your own

Alan Appleby - I listened to episode 59 about google photos, and tried to put an animation into a slideshow. We'll have kids working on change concept soon, as well as building things. Both of these give us some scope for using the animations as you described.

But, while I can embed an animation into slides, it does not 'animate' in present mode or when published to the web. Can you tell me if I'm doing something wrong, or if we just have to leave the present mode to see animations like this?

Matt Dill & Stacy Larsen - How do I prevent students from searching on other tabs in their browser for their answers, while taking a quiz on a Google Form on another?

Neil Gibbs - Is there a way of having some pages set up to be portrait and some set up to be landscape? I have an E-Book that my students are working on through Google Classroom, the Google docs, I have set up, just seems to allow the document to be either portrait or landscape and not a combination. This is really frustrating as there are tables that work well in Landscape and questions and diagrams which are suited to portrait.

• Matt - Ditch that lesson planner with Google Slides (by Howie Hua)
• Kasey - 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom
  • Google Certification courses open on November 20th and close at midnight CST on Dec. 4th. Learn more: GetGoogleCertified.com

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• Vertical ruler improves table management in Google Docs
• Easily add images and charts from other files to Google Docs and Slides
• Engineers are girls: the Googler behind “Ara the Star Engineer”
• Docs.new

Introducing a ✨ .new ✨ time-saving trick for users. Type any of these .new domains to instantly create Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms ↓ pic.twitter.com/erMTHOsdyH

— Google Docs (@googledocs) October 25, 2018

1. Amber Harper (Indiana) -- excited we’re back for another season … edtech consultant and trainer -- teachers feel frustrated and left behind because of how fast Google changes … created a google site called G Suite 123, a curation of online resources like YouTube videos and blogs, etc that helps teachers to know not just how to begin to use tools but how to use in classroom … incorporated our podcast into the tools … hope this is useful to your listeners … burnedinteacher.com -- hover over BIT edtech and click on G Suite 123
2. Marsha Ratzel (Kansas) -- loves the podcast, follow intently! … used arts and culture link for space for sixth-grade science classes … her question: they use Chromebooks, love things like Expeditions but don’t have access to virtual reality goggles … anyways to do virtual reality trips in 360 view to learn about geography? Would be NGSS standards for middle school.

• Check out Karly Moura’s blog post:http://karlymoura.blogspot.com/2018/06/google-expeditions-where-will-they-take.html

1. Kimberly Bender (Pennsylvania) -- loves the show, listens when she walks her dog, Google Photos: started making albums, thought about how could put together something at end of the year
2. Linda Mackay -- I’m such a fan of your show! I have one quick question that maybe you can help with: my students are telling me that their Google Classroom reminders are coming to them after midnight. Is there somewhere I can adjust this?
3. Chris Powers, Madison Wisc. -- In slides, is there a way to animate an object to follow a lined pathway? I'm a music teacher and want to animate an object like a bird, butterfly, bee, or kite, etc to show a voice pathway. I'd like it to go up and down (diagonally to show time and pitch) and even a loop if possible but I am not sure how to make an object follow a path. I figured the GTT and the swiss army knife of Google should be able to do this, right? Thanks!
4. Elisabeth Schaap (The Netherlands) -- Just started using team-drive with my colleague who teaches in a parallel class. We share files that we want to give to our students using Classroom. But, we found out that we can not share files through Classroom straight from our team-drive. Firs,t we have to make a copy and place it in our own drive and from there we can share it using Classroom. Do you know why? Is there a logical reason? Any idea if Google will change this in the future? -- 
5. Abbey Thomas (Alabama) -- Google Slides, trying to embed a video that’s not a YT video … is there a way to do that? Add-on, extension?

• 4 Video Options in Google Slides That Will Make Your Day!

1. Bruce Reicher (New Jersey) - Matt and Kasey -- I have a unique way I use Google Slides. Our school does a live tv show every morning. I have one slide deck that is the script and another slide deck for graphics and videos we play on the show. It's awesome to be able to share the script with students so they can practice before they come on the show. It also make life easier for me because I can update the script every day. In the past, I created Powerpoint slides and printed them every morning. Over the past 10 years, my students have produced over 1,000 live shows. That was a lot of paper printed for the script in the past. We now have a 1:1 with Chromebooks and no more printing :)

Love the show and keep up the great work - Bruce Here's the script - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1es6y9EZjmHWPRwNd4muyMYpsvIY7YBvnwvJtfrfKlYU/edit?usp=sharing and Here is the graphic and video and credit run down -https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nYM9vRr1ryRYThYUPqeD6NWTGGZJ7S5ScTrAA6D4V3c/edit?usp=sharing

• Matt - The “secret menu” for Google Slides, Docs, Drawings and more
• Kasey - How to Get Google Certified! (FREE Webinar) Google Certification courses open on November 20th, and close at midnight CST on Dec. 4th. Learn more: GetGoogleCertified.com

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