Google Teacher Podcast

This is a REPLAY of episode 24 from October 2, 2017.

Joe Marquez is a passionate educator who loves nothing more than to discover new ways to motivate and engage his 8th-grade science students.

You access the show notes by visiting http://googleteachertribe.com/24

Google News and Updates

• Google Slides captioning (AMAZING!)
• Helping parents have the tech talk with their kids
• World Teachers Day Video
• World Teachers Day Playlist
• RIP Google+
• TED-Ed Educator Talks Channel
• See your world differently with Playground and Google Lens on Pixel 3

Featured Content

Google Slides for Snapchat games in class

• Students LOVE Snapchat games! You can tie them into your class WITHOUT needing the Snapchat app. Just use Google Slides!

Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings (or Slides!) activity

• Use an image that connects to your content and adds speech/thought bubbles to show what the people involved would say or think. It’s a quick way to boost the Depth of Knowledge of your activity -- and it’s low-prep!

Create a low-cost, printed yearbook with Google Slides (by Jennifer Scott)

• Jennifer’s school created a full-color yearbook and designed the whole thing on Google Slides. It’s SUPER inexpensive and pretty easy to do.

Student collaboration in shared Google Slides

• This classic Google Slides hack is still effective! Share a slide presentation with every student. Each student gets his/her own slide and does his/her work on it. Then, they can comment on each other’s work. Easy collaboration!

How to Create Your Own “Apps” with Google Slides (FREE Template)

Anchor Charts

Kasey’s Google Slides Resources

The Google Slides Master Class!

I frequently refer to Google Slides as the Swiss Army Knife of the G Suite tools because it is capable of being so much more than a presentation tool. In this course, you will learn how to use Slides in new and unexpected ways in your classroom that will engage your students and make learning more dynamic!

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Ashley Morrison (Cincinnati, OH) - Love using Google Sites, showing teachers how to use them, have students use them to share work … Any other tools besides Padlet that can be embedded and work really well within Google Sites?

Ryan Gutsch (Owen, WI) - What process or app … wants to have kids and parents (?) watch a video and not give them control of skipping ahead … answer questions based on a video clip. Can’t progress until answer questions right. Google Forms? Sites?

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Maps walking tours with Street View and Screencastify
• Kasey - FREE Ebook: The Complete Guide to Google Certifications

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Google News and Updates

• Tips from the people behind your favorite Google products
• Smart Compose in Gmail now available for G Suite
• Gridlines in Calendar
• New ways to create, edit, and share your jams on the web with the latest Jamboard release

Featured Content

With Google Slides you can:

• Create new presentations or edit any that were created on the web or on another device
• Share presentations and work together with others in the same presentation at the same time
• Get stuff done anytime -- even without an internet connection
• Add and rearrange slides, format text and shapes, and more
• Present right from your device
• Never worry about losing your work -- everything is automatically saved as you type
• Present slides to video calls - scheduled meetings will automatically appear
• Open, edit, and save PowerPoint files

The Google Slides Master Class!

I frequently refer to Google Slides as the Swiss Army Knife of the G Suite tools because it is capable of being so much more than a presentation tool. In this course, you will learn how to use Slides in new and unexpected ways in your classroom that will engage your students and make learning more dynamic!

K-12 teachers are going to LOVE THIS COURSE!

This class is perfect for beginner to intermediate users to take their skills to the next level and become a Google Slides Master!

Resources

Instagram Stories with Google Slides

• Have students create “Instagram Stories” with class content to demonstrate their learning. Think about, “What would this character’s / historical character’s Instagram story look like?” “How could you describe this using an Instagram Story?”

Google Slides icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking

• These are like “infographics LITE” or “infographics for the time-strapped.” Have students drag visuals onto the page and add text to quickly demonstrate understanding.

Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings (or Slides!) activity

• Use an image that connects to your content and add speech/thought bubbles to show what the people involved would say or think. It’s a quick way to boost the Depth of Knowledge of your activity -- and it’s low-prep!

Create a low-cost, printed yearbook with Google Slides (by Jennifer Scott)

• Jennifer’s school created a full-color yearbook and designed the whole thing on Google Slides. It’s SUPER inexpensive and pretty easy to do.

Student collaboration in shared Google Slides

• This classic Google Slides hack is still effective! Share a slide presentation with every student. Each student gets his/her own slide and does his/her work on it. Then, they can comment on each other’s work. Easy collaboration!

Create moveable digital activities with Google Drawings + Slides

• This is a fun, digital take on manipulatives. Add objects on a slide (or Google Drawing) that you want students to drag into place. Lock certain pieces into place by making them part of the background!

Kasey’s Google Slides Resources

• How to Create Your Own “Apps” with Google Slides (FREE Template)
• How to Create Magnetic Poetry (FREE Mini-Course)
• Halloween Magnetic Poetry
• 25 Things You Didn’t Know Google Slides Could Do
• Student-Created Vision Boards with Google Slides

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Mel Paradis (Wyoming) - Is there a workaround to use Screencastify on the iPad?
  • Educreations
  • ShowMe
  • Doceri
  • iOS 11 or higher has screen recording built-in

Recent Apple Podcasts Ratings and Reviews

• KieferSJ
• Jay Bizzari
• Starblazer5000

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Classroom: How to differentiate like a ninja (guest post by Jacqueline Pora)
• Kasey - 7 Ways to Rethink Digital Assignments

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Google News and Updates

• Snooze notifications in Hangouts Chat
• All talk, no type: 20 things you can do with your voice
• No need to dig, here are 20 treasures from Google Arts and Culture
• Cruising around a supervolcano lake in Street View

Featured Content

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun out from Google+, the company's social network. Google Photos gives users free, unlimited storage for photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p resolution. (Wikipedia)

• Google Photos Help
• Syncs across devices (get the mobile app for iOS or Android
• Search for photos
  • Search with a face (the more photos you take, the more you can pull for use in class … use student photos in class materials … “What does every student look for when they get a new yearbook?”)
• Scan photos with the app
• Create collages and animations
  • Show gradual change in seasons
  • Show growth of plants (animals, like a class pet)
  • Show rapid change (ice melting)
  • Assistant creates animations automatically or you can create them yourself
  • Tell a story (with one animation OR a combination of animations one per slide on a Slides presentation)
  • Up to 50 photos per animation
• Movies
  • Auto-created with Assistant or create manually
  • Add photos and videos, it
  • Let it create a video for you (children, cats, dogs, smiles, etc.)
  • Adjust length, change the music
• Albums
  • Embedding, sharing with parents, demonstrating experiments, hands-on creation, portfolios, artwork
• Sharing
  • Individual files
  • albums
  • Shared libraries
    • school/campus/grade level accounts
    • seniors!
• Photobooks
  • End of the year photobooks - not free, but could be an option for parents or possibly fundraiser
  • Especially great for artwork and creations

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• An alternative to using Google Forms for comments on a Google Site embed a Padlet wall. (Shared by several on Twitter!)

• Monday morning, getting ready for the week! @GTeacherTribe #gttribe #gladyouareback #routine pic.twitter.com/KXPVofm1UU

  — Becky Salls (@BecTec99) September 24, 2018

• Shawn Lane (comment on website) - I was so excited to hear that you can copy a classroom, but it seems to only be available in the new classrooms, and not ones you already have. I was hoping to copy my technology PD class to the new format, but that doesn't seem to be an option now.

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Forms + Student Self-Reflection for Coaching Students to Own Their Learning! (Post by Meredith Akers)
• Kasey:
  • 16 Fantastic Podcasts for Teachers
  • New Course Opening on 10/2/18: The Google Slides Master Class

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Google News and Updates

• Real-time presence in Microsoft Office to become available October 17th
• Inbox by Gmail shutting down at the end of March 2019
• Gmail Offline Chrome app to be removed later this year
• Building the map of Canada’s north

Featured Content ePortfolios with Google Sites Matt and Kasey discuss the value and implementation of ePortfolios and how easy it can be to use Google Sites as the platform for students to display and preserve their learning over the course of a school year or their time in a school from year to year. Discussion points:

• Showcase portfolio v. growth portfolio
• Other ePortfolio tools: Seesaw, Canvas
• No templates yet
• Reflection
• Advantages of G Suite for portfolios
  • Google Sites integrates with all of the other applications
  • G Suite users already have accounts
  • Easily embed everything from YouTube to Google Slides
  • Drag and drop interface that is easy to use and professional looking
  • New features make it even better with buttons and layouts
  • Workaround for comments

Send us your examples! Resources

• Dynamic learning in action
• Your chance to get students sharing their work with the world (Go Global)
• Great checklist from Eduphoria (even though it’s from 2013)
• Physics Portfolios (Thank you to Mike Mohammed)
  • Jillian Rosenbecker
  • Hannah Peksa

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Bettina Franz (comment from the website)
  • Google Forms being used to create comment boxes on Google sites.
• Libby Knaggs (via SpeakPipe)
  • Classwork in Google Classroom
• Dan Curtis (via SpeakPipe)
  • What do you do when students don't have permission to install Chrome extensions?
• Sarah Fromhold (email)
  • Is there a way to make Form responses go to the top of the response spreadsheet instead of the bottom?
  • Here’s a script to try

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Slides icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking
• Kasey - How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

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Google News and Updates

• Chrome's turning 10, here's what's new
  • Test out the beta version
• Making embedded Google Forms better
• Easily add buttons to improve links in new Google Sites
• Use the quick-access side panel to do more from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, and more
• Create better-looking sites more quickly with section layouts in new Google Sites

Featured Content

AUGUST 2018 UPDATES:

New Classwork page—Teachers and students have a new Classwork page. Teachers can post assignments and questions on the page, as well as group them into modules with topics.

New grading tool in Classroom—Teachers have a new grading tool where they can switch between grades, student submissions, and comments while grading and save common feedback in a comment bank to use later.

New People page—Teachers can view class member information on the People page. Teachers can also invite and remove students, co-teachers, and guardians on the page.

New Settings page—Teachers can edit the class description, change the class code, manage guardian summaries, and control Stream settings on a consolidated Settings page.

Copy a class—Teachers can copy classwork and topics from an existing class to new class.

Control notifications by class—Teachers and students can turn notifications off for any class.

Change grades—Teachers can change grade point values when creating or editing assignments or questions.

See updates—Teachers and students can see updated labels (Assigned, Turned In, and Graded) for the status of a student’s work.

SEPTEMBER 2018 UPDATES:

Materials on the Classwork page—Teachers can add materials to the Classwork page.

Classwork page for existing classes—Teachers can add the Classwork page to existing classes or classes they’ve previously removed the page from.

Easier posting on the Stream page—Teachers and students have an easier way to post in the Stream.

Edit the room, subject, and section during course creation and in Settings page—Teachers can edit the room, subject, and section when creating or editing a course or in the Settings page.

Teachers can edit the room and subject when creating or editing a course.

Bottom tab navigation—On iOS, users can navigate between the Stream, Classwork, and People pages with a bottom navigation bar.

Guardians—On iOS, verified teachers can view student guardians.

Resources

• What’s New With Google Classroom

Matt’s Google Classroom Google Classroom Blog Posts and Resources:

• How to make good Google Classroom assignments better
• The Google Classroom Quick-Start guide + tips and tricks (Updated August 2018)
• Google Classroom: Differentiate like a NINJA (Ditch That Textbook podcast episode 099)

Kasey’s Google Classroom Google Classroom Blog Posts and Resources:

• 5 Things to Know About the NEW Google Classroom
• 6 Tips for Getting Started with Google Classroom
• 35 Google Classroom Resources That Will Make Your Day
• The Google Classroom Master Class (Online Course)

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Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag Get your feedback in for upcoming episodes! Click here to submit feedback! On The Blogs

• Matt: 7 ninja Google Keep tricks for teachers and students
• Kasey: How to Create “Apps” With Google Slides (guest post by Micah Shippee)

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Google News and Updates

• Google Drive UI updates
• Export all your G Suite data in one step
• Convert Classic Google Site to New Google Sites
• Google Science Fair 2018: Resources for educators to get ideas flowing

Featured Content

To close out our second year of doing the podcast we've assembled some of the best submissions sent in by you!

Matt and Kasey have concluded their second season of the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast and while they look forward to all the different events they have planned for the summer they have also looked forward to this episode because you are sharing the tip and tricks.

Resources

• Wakelet for content curation MATT
• Janice Kato (Saginaw, Michigan) - Using Google Sites for digital portfolios, hack for getting more font options using Google Drawings
• Stella Pollard - Google Sites for interactive journal
• Chad Goldman - Gamification (EduRpg for badges/points)
• Caleb Pahl- 6th grade websites (https://sites.google.com/view/world-regions/home) KASEY
• Heather Esposito - Video feedback for writing using Loom MATT
• Robin Seneta - Wanted to share my daily agenda board.  Everyday my students can review this link to their daily work-with all the links they need. This is a mix of your "package your digital assignments: idea and your swiss army knife slide deck. #gttribehttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTc5Sg_dZsE88MYIfKLd3bWTJCMKOaN6xisVtYz_UL1heeSbrDE6UMsLujRprZcy_1C9tNIDGvSg6DK/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=10000&slide=id.g3adfba4e03_0_0
• Annette Hawkins (Goldsboro, NC)

On The Blogs

• Matt - GimKit: Like Kahoot with power-ups (via Ditch That Textbook podcast)
• Kasey - How to Plan an Awesome Book Study

Google Certification Courses Open May 28th! Online Google Boot Camps–BUT BETTER! All 3 Courses Will Open on May 28th!

Mark your calendars! These courses (Level 1, Level 2, and Trainer) will open for limited enrollment on May 28, 2018, and will close on June 10, 2018. (It will not open again until November!)

Just in time for some summer learning!!!

What’s Included in the Google Certification Courses? Google Certified Educator Level 1

Everything you need to know to pass the exam and become a Google Certified Educator Level 1!

• 40+ Video Lessons (hands-on learning with Kasey Bell)
• 20+ PDF Downloadable Study Material
• Lesson Checks
• Private Community & Study Group
• Testing Tips
• Level 1 Challenges (testing scenarios)
• and much more!
• Learn more and see the course curriculum

Google Certified Educator Level 2

Everything you need to know to pass the exam and become a Google Certified Educator Level 2!

• 40+ Video Lessons (hands-on learning with Kasey Bell)
• 20+ PDF Downloadable Study Material
• Lesson Checks
• Private Community & Study Group
• Testing Tips
• Level 2 Challenges (testing scenarios)
• and much more!
• Learn more and see the course curriculum

Google Certified Trainer

All You Need to Know to Prepare for the Trainer Skills Assessment and Application!

Becoming a Google Certified Trainer was one of the best decisions I ever made, and it transformed my learning and my career! This self-paced, e-course includes EVERYTHING you need to know to pass the Trainer Skills Assessment AND complete the application requirements, including:

• 30+ Video Lessons (including the archive)
• Private Google+ Community
• The Ultimate Google Certified Trainer Planner and Check List
• Pro Trainer Tips
• How to Market Yourself as a Trainer
• Application Tips
• and much more!
• Learn more and see the course curriculum

Pricing & Bundles

Below are the prices for individual licenses for each course.

• Google Certified Educator Academy Level 1: $299
• Google Certified Educator Academy Level 2: $299
• Google Certified Trainer Course: $299

But Wait…There’s More!

Opening all of these courses at once also gives you another advantage–bundling! If you want to purchase multiple courses at once, you can save BIG TIME!

I’m also introducing some new bulk licensing options, so you can find more affordable ways to meet the needs of your campus or district.

These details can be found on the home page for each course (Level 1, Level 2, and Trainer), just click on “Pricing Information.”

Here’s how it works:

• Level 1 & Level 2 Bundle: $449 (Save $149)
• Level 2 & Trainer Bundle: $449 (Save $149)
• Level 1, Level 2, and Trainer Bundle: $599 (Save $298)
• Payment plans available
• PO’s are accepted

 

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This bonus episode crosses over with, our producer, Chris Nesi's podcast, House of #EdTech.

If you're not subscribed to his podcast you should subscribe. Chris has been an integral part of the Tribe and you may not have even realized it!

Here are his abbreviated show notes...

We're crossing over with the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast!

Support for this episode comes from:

• My Awesome Supporters! Become a Patron today!
• Kasey Bell and ShakeUpLearning.com

Complete show notes http://chrisnesi.com/110

  ** SEGMENTS **

• (1:30) Intro - HOET and GTT Crossover!
• (6:21) Featured Content - Matt Miller and Kasey Bell from the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast join me for a very Google conversation!
• (40:52) House of #EdTech Thought - Making the Most of PD
• (45:23) House of #EdTech Recommendation - Getting Virtual with Google
• (47:07) House of #EdTech VIP - Mandi Bush

  ** SHARE FEEDBACK AND CONNECT **

• Call: (732) 903-4869
• Flipgrid: http://chrisnesi.com/flipgrid
• Voxer: mrnesi
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @mrnesi

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Google News and Updates

• Now students can create their own VR tours
• Google VR Tour Creator
• Google Lens: real-time answers to questions about the world around you
• 13 ways you’re using AI in your daily life
• Lessons from Teachers of the Year (a YT playlist)
• SUBJECT: Write emails faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

Featured Content

Summer vacation is used by so many teachers around the world as a time to unwind, relax, and recover from the grind that is education. There so many ways that teachers like you continue to devote time to learning and growing professionally.

Kasey's Courses

• The Dynamic Learning Workshop (companion course to the Shake Up Learning book)
• 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018
• The Google Certified Educator Academy Level 1
• The Google Certified Educator Academy Level 2
• Become a Google Certified Trainer
• All certification courses open May 28 and close on June 10!

Matt's Course

• Tech to Learn free 3-video series and video course

Resources

• TxGoo - The Texas Google Summit where WE are the keynote!
• 2018 Strobel Summit

• Join us at the 2018 CSTA Conference to learn about CS First and Machine Learning in the classroom

  Google is hosting several events at the 2018 Computer Science Teacher Association’s Conference on July 7-10 in Omaha, Nebraska. Join us for a hands-on session and workshops to introduce CS First and Machine Learning in the classroom. Register today for the opportunity to build skills at cstaconference.org #CSTA2018.
• Edcam PS across the globe
• #ISTE18 Twitter hashtag + other conferences + and presenting together

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Nanci Greene -- Your podcast is one of the few that I've listened to all of the episodes of. Thanks for all you do to help us educators grow in our craft. For the teacher who asked about creating animated GIFS, Tall Tweets (https://talltweets.com/) might be an option. It allows you to easily create animated GIFS from Google Slides.

How to Hide Text in Google Slides from Erin Flanagan https://www.erintegration.com/2018/03/25/hide-reveal-hidden-text-google-slides/ On The Blogs

• Matt - 30+ ways to Ditch That Textbook: Ideas for teachers by teachers
• Kasey - Google Certified Educator Level 2 Challenge Tasks!

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Google News and Updates

• Test your knowledge of natural wonders in Google Earth
• It’s story time, and the Google Assistant has a tale for you
• Coding for Conservation

Featured Content

The end of the school year is coming in many places in the United States and around the world. As you navigate these sometimes difficult waters perhaps you can use some of the Google solutions we are sharing!

Let us know in the comments.

Change the Game Design Challenge from Google (Carlos Garza)

Emoji Scavenger Hunt

Create a Tic-Tac-Toe Learning Menu on a fun topic (Stephani Ann)

Try the 4 C’s Learning Menu to take their c’s to the next level

Sites for students with free time on their hands: (From 10 ways Google tools can make the end of the year rock)

• Quick, Draw! — In this game, you’re given an object/idea to draw and Google’s artificial intelligence tries to guess what you’re drawing. It’s a fun introduction to AI for students.
• AI Duet — “A piano that responds to you.” Google’s artificial intelligence uses tons of data to guess what it should play in response to what you play.
• Google Trends — Learn what other people are searching for all over the world.
• Google Earth Time Lapse — This shows what the world looks like as it changes over 20+ years. Watch the time lapse in motion. See the whole earth at once or zoom into your hometown!
• GeoGuessr — Use context clues to guess where you’ve been dropped in Google Maps. The closer the guess, the more points you earn!
• Just a Line -- Make simple drawings in AR, then share your creation with a short video.

Student-created Google Forms quizzes: (From 10 ways Google tools can make the end of the year rock)

By using Google Forms (Google’s survey tool), students can create their own quizzes. By turning on the quiz features in the settings gear, students can add immediate feedback for anyone who takes the quiz. This immediate feedback can be WAY more effective than comments written on student papers and passed back to them later. Plus, when students create the quizzes, they’re experiencing the content from a different perspective.

6 end-of-the-year Google Classroom clean-up tips (via ControlAltAchieve.com) --

• Return all student work
• Un-enroll students from old classes
• Archive old classes
• Remove old class calendars
• Move old class folders in Drive
• Remove old class files from “Shared with me” in Drive

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Rasa Conklin (Federal Way, WA) -- I created a Google sites for my students to display/ publish their work. I was having each group add a page to the site I created. When YO and DB, who were working on their page all of a sudden were upset because all their work disappeared and DL and IO work appeared on their page and all the other pages. I have a funny feeling that this is due to something small that we did wrong, but I need help. Is there an easy tutorial, or website for step by step directions?  https://sites.google.com/p12fwps.org/build-a-generator/home

• Carly Black (Ohio) -- Hello, Thank you for the emoji extension tip. I was wondering if you knew a way to add GIFs just as easily? I've been thinking about letting students create literary analysis through a series of GIFs and emojis. The problem is finding the right tools to execute this well. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

• Matt Jacobson (Galesburg, IL) -- Hi Matt & Kasey! Just listened to E. 53 on the New Gmail. Kasey mentioned that her sidebar appeared quite cluttered with all of the labels and what-not that she uses. I use a lot of labels too, and still, have a lot of labels that used to be folders when our school switched over from Outlook to Gmail. An easy way to clean these up is to go to the Gear Icon, then click Settings, the click Show Only If Unread next to many of your folders. Then, they'll only appear on the left if there is a reply to something you have previously labeled. The trick is to label the message before you reply to it. This works really nifty with the new Snooze feature in the New Gmail. Messages you have Snoozed in the past show up as unread messages in your Inbox, so, if you label it and then Snooze it, that label should "light up" in the left sidebar with an unread message in it when you need to act upon it.

On The Blogs

• Matt - 10 low-prep, high-return activities for class TOMORROW
• Kasey - A Hyperdoc Unit That Will Blow Your Mind

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