Darroch's Dose
Tech Tip Tuesday for October 6, 2015
Google Classroom
Alice Keeler, author of 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom, offers a short list of twenty on her blog, Teacher Tech. At the bottom of her blog, Alice includes two links to an additional 25 ways to use Google Classroom.
Contact me if you would like for me to help you in any way with Google Classroom.
Speaking of Google Classroom...
Google Classroom Extension
By: Jeff Richardson, Technology Integration Coach
Here's a quick video explanation of the Share to Classroom extension. It's been pushed to all of your chrome browsers* as well as your students' chromebooks. It allows you to quickly PUSH websites to your kids (open tabs for them like Hapara does) & create announcements/assignments related to a specific website without ever opening classroom. Check it out for yourself and please turn this around to your peers in the next day or 2 because it's really useful and may just be the selling point for someone who hasn't tried Google Classroom.
*If you don't see the extension, it's most likely that you are signed into Chrome with your hcs-students account. Look up at the top right corner of your browser where you should see your name or something showing you are signed in as you see here. If there is a small yellow triangle in the box with an !, then you are not correctly signed into chrome. Click that box with the yellow triangle, choose "Switch Person" and in the next box, you will see a box with that user info in it. Mouse over it, click the triangle that will show up in the top right corner of the little user card and select "Remove this person" and then sign back into Chrome with your @hoover.k12 credentials. You should then see the Share to Classroom Extension.
Tech Tip
Templates
There are many amazing Google templates available online for just about anything you are looking for. The template gallery may even be narrowed by category to help you search for the perfect template. Once you find the template you are looking for, Google allows you to either "Preview," or "Use this Template."
Here is an amazing template I discovered at a tech conference. Tammy Tang presented on several activities you may use in the classroom using Google Drive. For one of the templates, she created a Classroom Notebook template using Google Sheets. Students are able to keep a virtual notebook for any subject. This resource is incredible.
Need Help?
Check out the latest schedule of PD opportunities in October featuring Google Sites and Interactive Whiteboard.
Tuesday - Deer Valley Elementary
Wednesday - Bluff Park Elementary
Thursday - Greystone Elementary
Link to Help Form: http://goo.gl/forms/FSrkrKVktU
Link to Frequently Asked Questions: http://bit.ly/1Lit5k3 (Content added daily!)
Sara Carpenter's Blog: http://www.techcoachtimes.blogspot.com/
Time to Share!
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Contact Me!
I would love to come to your room and teach a lesson. Here are just a few of the lessons I am teaching in the classrooms.
- Create Student Portfolios using Google Sites
- Pick a from a number of Google Projects
- Graph data using Google Sheets
- Research lessons
- Technology Playground Centers
- Code Lessons
- Google Drive lessons with the Do's and Don'ts of creating a Google Slide Presentation
- Read a Digital Book with a writing extension activity using Google Docs
- Reading Center with iPad
- Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Research Lessons
Please email me or fill out the help form to schedule a day and time.
I would love to learn from you! Please invite me into your classroom to see all the engaging ways you are using technology in your classroom.