Google Teacher Tips (Vol. 5) - GTP119

Google Teacher Podcast

Google News and Updates

• Use the new Google Chat app for fast and reliable communication
• New quick settings help you optimize your Gmail layout
• New Google Groups now generally available
• Learn and play together as a family with Chromebook

Featured Content

Susan Vincentz (Kentucky): Using screencastify to record and export audio only

Stephanie Howell (Ohio) -- Google Educator Group: people gathering together, talk about Google, build a community to expand your knowledge. Working as a group collaboratively. Supporting others. Amazing community. She leads the Ohio GEG with Eric Curts. Think globally … Global GEG supports local GEGs. Host events together. Groups can come together and communicate, grow, learn, build upon each other’s ideas. Built-up as an educator. Was so in her own world. Now, gets perspective from others.

• Google Educator Groups (GEG) resources

Katie Wardrobe (Australia): Use Chrome extension Transpose on YouTube and Vimeo to change the speed, key of music, or create a playback loop.

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/transpose-%E2%96%B2%E2%96%BC-pitch-%E2%96%B9-spee/ioimlbgefgadofblnajllknopjboejda

Daren White (England): Forms and Sheets responses to maintain interaction with students during streamed lessons. Form responses come back and shout out correct answers, birthdays, anything else they want to call out.

Tanner Oglesby (Arkansas): Use Google Forms to create a database in Sheets. He uses it to gather student contact information and was very useful during remote learning.

Dan Stitzel (Ohio) -- Keep for personal organizations, notes, checklists, copy/paste links. Excellent for sharing with other people as well. Share individual notes with co-teacher. Share a note that you start, both add to it. Create a checklist for a student and share with a student so only you two see it. Location reminder feature -- a set reminder for when you arrive at a place. Remember when you get to work: that reminder pops up. When go to a certain buildings, accomplish what you noted in Keep.

Anna Cartwright (New York): Highlighter strips in Google Slides by creating a semi-transparent colored rectangle that can be dragged over the text.

Mike Mohammad (Wisconsin): Loves the podcast. Favorite for distance learning: adding audio to Google Slides. Loves using Cloud Audio Recorder to record snips of audio to Drive, then students add into slideshows -- or he adds them. Made a YouTube video for it.

• bit.ly/addaudiotoslides

Ronaldo Palacios (California): Using Google Meet to view all students and share screens he opens a second window.

Pam Hubler (South Carolina): Google Sheets instead of the calendar to keep track of my daily activities as a coach. IT takes less time to update one Google sheet for a month than add individual events on a calendar. Easy to share with admin, teachers to see where she is. Updated tracker from show notes in episode 65.

• Template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19fIRwF5JykQAlXh5EBvNpz_WVCcJSBlZmlJM_93YQLg/template/preview
• Notes with a new tracker linked: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A2yIp6nP-1H3Mo4nJL33V-OFqBohWcghI4Mz-1dBh8s/edit

Laura Conway (Colorado): Military spouse headed overseas next year. Asking how to move files from the school account.

Kim McClintic (Texas): Hi Matt and Katie, I would like to know if you have any suggestions for how to keep track of assignments that are turned into Google classroom.I have a digital journal or notebook that I have had students doing for a novel study and every week I add new slides to their journals. However, if I’m still grading work that they turned in they cannot begin work for the new assignment until I return it to them. Do you have any suggestions for how I could assign work for them and allow them to continue working without me having to return the journal to them so that I can continue grading while they continue working?

Amber Houk (North Carolina): Using Google Voice to listen to her recording a song story. Students call in for a new song story each day.

On The Blogs

• Matt:
  • Tech Like a PIRATE is OUT! Get the paperback/Kindle here.
  • FREE Tech Like a PIRATE resources page
  • 20 Google Sites tips and tricks
• Kasey:
  • Google Classroom Cleanup Tips for the End of the Year
  • GetGoogleCertified.com
  • Get Your Virtual Lead On (virtual conference for leaders)