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This is the final episode of the Google Teacher Podcast.

In this final episode, Matt and Kasey explain why this podcast is ending and reflect on their experiences creating it.

Some of their favorite moments and things they've enjoyed include:

• Tips from YOU are the best episode
• Speakpipes are informative and sometimes entertaining
• Jokes, memes, and silliness with our listeners
• Keynote speeches and conference meet-ups
• Learned more from our listeners than we will ever learn on our own
• Hearing listeners apply things they learned made our day
• Continued partnership and friendship
• Outtakes - Speaking of outtakes...make sure you listen to the very end!

You're invited to continue learning with Matt, Kasey, and Chris!

• Matt Miller's Ditch That Text Book
• Kasey Bell's Shake Up Learning
• Chris Nesi's House of #EdTechSocial Media

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Google News and Updates

• Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet
• Create and work with documents that contain multiple page orientations in Google Docs
• Open Office attachments from Gmail in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides with one click
• Some Google Meet settings now “sticky” for Education users
• Take a snowy stroll with Street View
• Create a festive song with Blob Opera
• 20 years of Year in Search

Featured Content

• Pam Hubler had a possible idea to answer a question in e124 using Wakelet to curate Google materials
• Another possible answer to the same question from Stephanie Litz
• Hello Matt and Kasey,
• So thankful for your podcast, keep up the good work because your listeners appreciate it. 
• Regarding the question from Marcel (below), I found this resource that might be a good fit: 
• Cube For Teachers Website - Cube For Teachers is a place where educators search, share, and store links to free open educational K-12 resources, including lessons, activities, interactive games, teaching strategies, tech tips, videos, special education, subject-specific resources, and more.
• Cube For Teachers - Chrome Web Store
• @cubeforteachers 

Dr. Rebecca Kreider from Mt. Olivetownship school district, verbal feedback is 3x as effective. She recommends Mote.

On The Blogs

• Matt
• New book, Do More with Google Classroom, is available!
• Kasey
• Blended Learning with Google (on Amazon)
• Google from A to Z (on Amazon)

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• Virtually raise your hand to ask a question in Google Meet
• Accept knocks in bulk in Google Meet
• Expanding Google Arts & Culture with Expeditions
• Expeditions app and Tour Creator going away

Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative. They work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. The Google Arts & Culture mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

• Museums
• Art
• Historical events and figures
• Virtual tours (Expeditions now part of A&C)
• 360
• Collections
• Time Explorer
• Color Explorer
• Experiments (games)
• Lesson from Applied Digital Skills
• Art selfie
• Nearby
• Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Marcel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada -- I have been a longtime listener and I am wondering if there is a site that you know of, that we can share G-Suite materials. I have put in a lot of time to make some good stuff, and I am sure other teachers have as well. You may have mentioned a site on one of your previous podcasts, but for the life of me, I can find it. (I have re-listened to so many podcasts...some are almost better the second time)

• Matt
  • New book, Do More with Google Classroom, coming in mid-December
  • • Check out the book companion website for resources
  • Ditch Summit: Free online conference for teachers, December 14 to January 8
• Kasey
  • Blended Learning with Google (Part 1: Do THIS, Not THAT)
  • Blended Learning with Google (Part 2: Storytelling in Any Classroom)

  New Books Coming Soon! BlendedLearningwithGoogle.com

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Google News and Updates

• Google for Education transformation reports window open, availability expanded worldwide (Seven key areas of transformation are here.)
• Replace your background in Google Meet
• Office editing mode is now the default editing mode for Office files in Drive on the web
• Try out these Google features on your new iPhone

Featured Content

From Patti Young: Hi Kasey and Matt, I love your podcast and look forward to every new episode. This year has been a struggle for teachers and their traditional ways of teaching. I am a 5th-grade teacher in middle school. My district is using a blended learning model. We have 2 cohorts Tuesdays and Thursdays and Wednesdays and Fridays. I see 2 groups of students per day. I really miss putting the kids into groups to share their learning. I love group work and I am really struggling with how to make it work this year. If you or your listeners have any ideas on how to do group work, I would love to try it. Can't wait to hear some new ideas!

Simple answer: collaborate on the assignment within a doc. 

Use voice comments with a tool like Mote (justmote.me) for comments for a personal touch of voice

Other tools that integrate nicely with Classroom that can foster discussion:

• Flipgrid: Video replies.
• Synth: Audio discussion tool. Audio replies.

What’s your purpose? Group work, collaboration, cooperative learning?

Group Doc Add-On (From Alice Keeler)

Collaborative Notes with Google Docs

Small-Group Instruction with Google Meet Breakout Rooms and Jamboard

• Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning (by Esther Park)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Jen Giffen (Ontario, Canada)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 virtual field trips for your classroom
• 40+ FREE digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own)
• Kasey:
• Google Classroom Comments - All You Need to Know
• FREE Google Lesson Plans for Teachers

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• 9 Chromebook and G Suite for Education features to make learning more accessible

Build classroom community with Google

Google Classroom headers

Get to know you activities

• Student interest surveys with Google Forms
• Fake Instagram

Google Forms check-in for student well being

Create more touchpoints with students:

• Make time for one-on-one feedback with students and small groups.
• Build student conferencing into your weekly schedule to make meaningful connections with students.
• Appointment slots in Google Calendar for one-on-one conferences with students
• Student Discussion in Google Classroom

Flipgrid for Good Morning videos

Remote Learning Tips from an Online Teacher (interview with Paulino Brener)

• Steve Scaysbrook (England) - Use OBS (Open Broadcast Software). Mix like a TV studio, bringing in a load of different feeds from the screen, external, feed it as one screen to a live broadcast. Feed to Google Meet, Zoom, whatever. He uses Microsoft Teams. Direct to that internal system. Easy to use. Mix and create screens like in a TV studio, flip between them very easily. Text. Slides. Anything else. Very easy to use.
• Ashley Brown (Mississippi) - Ep121, a private school teacher, being hybrid. Her public school is a hybrid. Did a fellowship with Learn Modern Classrooms. They teach you how to do blended learning with instructional videos, guided notes, tracker (so all students know where they are). Self-paced. Good for students who are in class, out of class, etc. Don’t miss anything. Can move simultaneously. Instructional videos for all students. All students can access it. Use a tracker or the to-do list so kids can see what to work on next. “Love you guys!”

• Matt
  • 30 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools
  • How to make an FAQ page for parents and students
• Kasey
  • Blended Learning Best Practices (with Catlin Tucker)
  • 13+ Google Classroom Quick Tip Videos

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Google News and Updates

• Introducing Google Workspace https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/10/introducing-google-workspace.html 
• This year, teachers have gone the distance
• Create and view tasks in the Google Calendar mobile apps
• Increase engagement with Q&A and polls in Google Meet

Featured Content

Google Form to serve as a contact form

FAQ document: If a student/parent asks a question, add it to the FAQ doc

Take pictures of a whiteboard and add to the student site

Include important documents (permission slips, syllabus, etc.)

Embed videos to support what you’re teaching in class

Use it as a “satellite location” for Google Classroom (for what it won’t do)

Host digital escape rooms

• 30+ free digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide for creating your own)
• 20 Google Sites tips and tricks

Create a page for resources and tutorials for STUDENTS, and one for PARENTS

Google Classroom Cheat Sheets - a great resource for students and parents

Google’s Teach from Anywhere page has lots of great resources you may want to make available.

Google’s Guide for Guardians

Google’s Accessibility Guide for Guardians

Post your virtual office hours on the home page, or add the time to your image header

HYBRID? Create separate pages for these two groups

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

• Sheryl Brennan (California)
• Mary Lynn (Nevada)

On The Blogs

• Matt
• How to create Google Meet breakout rooms for differentiated learning
• 12 social media-inspired Google Slides templates
• Kasey
• Synchronous v. Asynchronous Online Learning
• Collaborative Notes with Google Docs

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• The Anywhere School: 50+ Google for Education updates
• MEET
  • In September, we’ll kick off with a larger tiled view of up to 49 people and an integrated Jamboard whiteboard for collaboration. We’ll also release new controls so moderators can choose to always join first, end meetings for all participants, disable in-meeting chat, and much more.
  • In October, we’ll launch custom and blurred backgrounds to provide some extra privacy. Breakout rooms and attendance tracking will also be launching for all Google Enterprise for Education customers, allowing for more engaged classes and insights on participation.
  • Later this year, we’re rolling out hand-raising for all customers and Q&A and polling for G Suite Enterprise for Education customers. Plus, we’ll launch a new temporary recordings feature that will be available to all Education customers for free (premium recordings will still be part of G Suite Enterprise for Education). 
• CLASSROOM
  • A new to-do widget on the Classes page will help students see what’s coming up, what’s missing, and what’s been graded. 
  • Teachers can now share a link to invite students to their class, which makes joining a class much easier. 
  • Classroom will soon be available in 10 additional languages, for 54 languages total.
  • educators can soon run originality reports five times per course (up from three previously). And with G Suite Enterprise for Education, educators will be able to see matches for potential plagiarism not only against webpages but between student submissions at their school.
  • school leaders with Enterprise licenses will have greater visibility into Classroom usage via new Data Studio dashboards, which allow admins to see active classes, measure feature adoption, and monitor teacher and student engagement. 
  • To support teachers and admins, we’re making it easier to sync Classroom grades with a push to your Student Information System (SIS), starting with Infinite Campus customers (and more SIS to come). Keep reading for more details on what’s new in Classroom.

• Matt
  • How to use Jamboard in the classroom: 20+ tips and tricks
  • The Unboxing Video: A fun classroom video activity
• Kasey
  • Read-Along Storybooks Using Audio in Google Slides (by Mike Mohammed)
  • Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool
  • Shake Up Learning Book Study (starts Oct. 1, 2020)

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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 Groups (GEG) resources

Katie Wardrobe (Australia)

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

Daren White (England)

Tanner Oglesby (Arkansas)

Dan Stitzel (Ohio)

Anna Cartwright (New York) 

Mike Mohammad (Wisconsin):

• 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)

Kim McClintic (Texas)

Amber Houk (North Carolina)

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

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Google News and Updates

• Keep tabs on your tabs in Google Chrome
• Google Meet is here to host your video meetings, for free
• New ways Google Duo helps make time together more special

Featured Content

Google Classroom and Drive cleanup for the EOY

• https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/google-classroom-cleanup-tips-for-the-end-of-the-year/
• https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/13-tips-to-organize-your-google-drive/

From the previous episode 88:

• Return all work, grade it if you need to
• Archive Classes
• Clean-up Folders in Drive
• Create new folders for the things you want to keep and move things over
• Create a folder for exemplary work
• Do NOT Delete the Classroom Folder
• Do NOT Delete from Shared with Me
• Delete Old Class Calendars
• Reflect on your Google Classroom practices, collaborate with others for ideas

A check-out form that admins could sign digitally / students and parents / returning equipment

Doing last Google Meet calls with students

• Fun things to do during Google Meet calls (Kahoot/Gimkit, scavenger hunts, virtual field trips with Google Earth, etc.)

How to Create a Google Classroom Template (for next year)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Debbie Thymianos (Henderson, NV)

Philip Trott (Bermuda)

• Keyword Blog RSS feed
• Keyword Blog education RSS feed
• RSS reader: Feedly
• RSS feed to email via IFTTT
• Email subscription to G Suite Updates 
• Google Edu Newsletter

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Tech Like a PIRATE is OUT! Get the paperback/Kindle here.
• FREE Tech Like a PIRATE resources page
• Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources Page
• Kasey:
• Remote Learning Resources

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Google News and Updates

• To every teacher, thank you times infinity
• New Google Lens features to help you be more productive at home
• Kids can learn at home with Read Along by Google
• Make at-home learning more fun with 3D and AR in Search

Featured Content

Want to do Tech Like a Pirate stuff?

Website: TechLikeaPirate.com

What’s the focus of the book? (Using tech to create an experience, make learning memorable) “Don’t just teach a lesson. Create an experience!”

Is there research that supports doing activities that are fun? (Shawn Achor productivity, neuroscience study, National Institute for Play ongoing studies)

What are the ways to Tech Like a Pirate?

• Social media and apps
• Video
• Games
• Collaboration
• Images
• Exploration
• Global communication

Can these be used with Google tools? And remote learning?

• Social media and apps: Instagram/Snapchat/Twitter templates in Slides
• Video: In video calls/pre-recorded video: What’s the lens you see the video through? (news anchor, on the scenes TV reporter, reality game show, horror movie, etc.)
• Global communication: Inviting virtual guests, adding virtual field trips to video calls
• Exploration: giving students flexibility in what they research/find info (and where they find it)
• Collaboration: Shared Google Slides

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Renee Johnson (California)

• 8 YouTube-inspired classroom video ideas

Steve Scaysbrook (United Kingdom)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Tech Like a PIRATE: 10 things you’ll find in the book
• Tech Like a PIRATE resources page
• Kasey:
• FREE Access to Fluency Tutor
• Remote Learning Resources

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Google News and Updates

• New features for Google Sites: Templates, announcement banners, and access for children with Google Accounts
• New sharing dialog for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms
• Maps that bring us closer, even when we're apart
• The science of why remote meetings don't feel the same
• Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone

Featured Content

• “Family” gatherings of older student mentors and students
• Family Game night with classes/teachers
• Padlet/Flipgrid where people could put affirmations and celebrations
• Facebook group for teachers
• Informal coffee talks
• Birthday party for a teacher/student in a parking lot with social distancing
• Scavenger hunt - collect items, spell out mascot name with items and post pictures
• Would you rather? - discussion on Google Classroom, in person, or asynchronous
• Learn a TikTok dance
• What are you learning at home?
• Interview a family member
• Virtual guests and virtual field trips 
• Pixel art
• Virtual greeting cards on Google Drawings
• Make a creative stop-motion animation 
• Virtual Learning Ideas

Resources Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

• Tracey Dranttel (North Carolina) -- Email
• Pat Goolsby (Georgia) -- Voicemail
• Clay Smith (Twitter)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Remote Learning 101: FREE online course
• 20 ways to use Pear Deck to engage students
• Webinar: Use student-paced mode in Pear Deck
• Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources Page
• Kasey:
• FREE Interactive Tic-Tac-Toe Choice Board for Google Slides
• Leading Through Crisis and Beyond for Teachers and Educational Leaders

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Google News and Updates

• Present high-quality video and audio in Google Meet
• See up to 16 Google Meet participants at once with a tiled layout
• Start or join a Google Meet video meeting directly from Gmail
• Explore new sites, relive old hikes for National Park Week (Arts & Culture)

Featured Content

Using Google Tools to Connect with Students

• Encourage connectedness
• Good morning videos
• Office Hours/Check-ins: Keep interactions light-hearted when possible. Try having a joke of the day, funny video of the day, or playing a game.
• Trackers - from Lisa Johnson
• Google Forms Attendance and Check-in: How are you doing? How do you feel?
• Online safety/Digital Citizenship - Applied Digital Skills
• Using Google Classroom posts and comments to support conversations and connection

Google Slides: give students a prompt and have them respond with webcam pics

Have them teach something non-school curriculum through pictures

Google Form (or a non-graded Google Classroom assignment): Asking “how are you doing” and following up with them via email or Google Classroom private comments

Connect outside tools to Google Classroom:

• Flipgrid for student check-ins, for fun prompts, to share their pets, etc.
• Pear Deck has SEL slides … put them in student-paced mode to be accessed any time

Fun Google Meet video call ideas (13-20 in graphic below has some fun stuff)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Melissa Burns (South Carolina)

• Google Classroom Cheat Sheets, Google Classroom FAQ, Bookmark the Classwork Page

Anonymous Voicemail

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Use Explore Explain Apply to plan remote learning lessons
• 10 online whiteboard options for remote learning
• Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources
• 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials
• Kasey:
• FREE Google Templates
• Google Classroom FAQ

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Google News and Updates

• Extending the availability of Google Meet advanced features to all customers through September 30, 2020
• New Meet features to improve distance learning (Start a Meet video chat in Google Classroom)
• 5 tips for effective distance learning during school closures
• Accessibility ideas for distance learning during COVID-19
• If you are not subscribed to the G Suite Updates blog, now is a good time! Click the “subscribe by email” button.

Featured Content

• Make a copy - How to use all the free templates out there
• File>Make a copy
• Force a Copy links
• Template links
• How to Create and Assign Templates (GTP095)
• How to use Google Templates and Assign in Google Classroom
• Sharing - Guide to Sharing
• What is G Suite
• Where to find answers
• Help forums
• Google it!
• G Suite Updates Blog
• LMGTFY

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Jennifer Isaacs (Illinois)

Kat Benne

Nicole Blake (Indiana)

David Rogers (South Africa)

• Screencastify post about free access

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 10 live video streams for students
• How to use Chromebooks offline for elearning
• OnlineLearningIdeas.com
• Kasey:
• The Guide to Google Drive Sharing (FREE eBook)
• Home Learning Strategies for Primary Students That All Teachers Can Use
• How to use Google Templates and Assign in Google Classroom
• What is G Suite for Education (FREE download)

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Google News and Updates

• Create pointers to any file or folder in Google Drive with shortcuts
• Discover podcasts you’ll love with Google Podcasts, now on iOS
• Teach from Home

Featured Content

What is G Suite for Education

Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teacher and Students (FREE)

Melanie’s Tips:

• Share a quick daily video with your students (Melanie uses the “Shorts” camera in Flipgrid)
• Move items to the top of the stream (three dots menu button: click “move to top”)
• Use topics to keep things organized (In classwork: New > Topic … and they’re draggable!)
• Use “email guardians” under People tab to keep parents in the loop

6 Tips for Getting Started with Google Classroom

4 Must-Have to Google Classroom Skills

How to Package Your Digital Assignments

How to manage Google Classroom assignments during remote learning

How to use Google Meet with Google Classroom

How to provide feedback

• Meaningful Feedback in Google Classroom

How to record videos to share with students through Google Classroom

• Screencastify (screencastify.com)
• 10 video tips for students with slow internet

How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

How to Differentiate Assignments in Google Classroom

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Vicki Heupel (Montana)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 10 video tips for students with slow internet
• 10 no-internet remote learning activities
• Kasey:
• Home Learning with Choice Boards During School Closure [interview with Laura Steinbrink]
• Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students

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Google News and Updates

• Helping educators and students stay connected
• Learn@Home on YouTube
• Connecting people with COVID-19 information and resources
• Now you can transcribe speech with Google Translate
• Join a GEG - Google Educator Group

Featured Content

Hangouts? Meet? Compare Meet with classic chat video calls

FREE Hangouts Meet Tutorials

Manage Meet Video meeting

13+ over questions - Communicating with Parents and Guardians about G Suite for Education

G Suite Enterprise features available:

• Recording videos
• Live streaming (through Calendar)

Google updates: 

• Mute/block only by event creators
• Can’t rejoin in nicknamed meetings when event creator is last to leave

Infographics below:

• Tips for teacher users
• Tips for student users
• Teaching ideas for using Hangouts Meet

20 virtual field trip ideas and activities

30+ digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide to creating your own)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

• Yudelka Alvarado (NYC)

Bailey Sandsmark (San Diego)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• How to use Google Meet for online learning, elearning
• Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources
• 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials
• Kasey:
• Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students
• 10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know

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• Hangouts Meet improvements for remote learning
• Google’s Home Learning Page
• Google’s COVID-19 Support Resources Page for Educators
• Chromebook App Hub distance learning
• Share your distance learning tips with Google

Carly Black spends her days encouraging tenth graders in West Salem, Ohio to believe reading and writing is totally cool. At night she chases toddlers with her teacher husband and in the morning repeats the process all over again. Find the lessons and ideas she uses to encourage her students and tame her toddlers on the blog.

Carly’s student newsletter about home learning

Carly’s weekly student checklist template

Podcast and Webinar that Carly refers to in this episode with Jenn Pearson.

• Twitter: @teachmomrepeat
• Class Blog: http://colorfulclassroom.edublogs.org/
• Website: www.TeachMomRepeat.com

Alexis Snider (Hanoi, Vietnam) -- 7th week of home learning. Tips. 1. Use tech that students already know. 2. Planning a lesson: learning goal, student w/minimal adult support complete successfully, which tool meets those needs.

Leanne -- Can you please tell me how to disable "Chat" in Google Slides. I use GSuite for my morning work and my kids are chatting. We have looked everywhere we know to look and haven't been successful at disabling this feature. Answer: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7391715?hl=en

• Matt
  • 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials
  • Ditch That Textbook elearning resources page
• Kasey
  • FREE Tech Coach Collaborative to Support Schools
  • FREE PD for Teachers Stuck at Home

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Google News and Updates

• With school closures, teachers can keep their lessons going remotely
• Extending Hangouts Meet premium features to all G Suite customers through July 1, 2020
• Math gave Lilian Rincon a voice, and led to her passion
• Hey Google, tell me about an inspiring woman

Featured Content

Tips for Enabling Distance Learning through G Suite & Chrome (From Google)

How to use Chromebooks offline for e-learning days, homework

Coronavirus Closures? Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China]

FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for School Closures

Nadine Gilkison’s e-learning Slides template and website resources

Lesson ideas:

• Create a template students can access later
• Take images with the webcam and annotate
• Create a PDF ebook with Google Slides
• Create a multimedia science lab report

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

• Lisa Munley (Scranton, PA)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 8 YouTube-inspired classroom video ideas
• Tech Like a Pirate resource page (scheduled release: April)
• Kasey:
• The Power of Student Entrepreneurship – SULS052
• FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for School Closures

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• Google Translate adds five languages
• Addressing equity in CS curriculum with Kapor Center
• Use these 6 tips for better video calls
• Meet the Doodle for Google guest judges

Spring Break is here you might be in the market for some on great reading recommendations as well as some awesome podcast recommendations.

Reading Recommendations:

• Girl Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis (and Girl Stop Apologizing)
• Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
• My Pencil Made Me Do It: A Guide to Sketchnoting by Carrie Baughcum (Hear Carrie on e4 of GTP and e48 of SULS.)
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond

Podcast Recommendations:

• Y’all Need This Podcast
• Steal the Show Podcast with Michael Port
• 10 Minute Teacher Podcast
• Vrain Waves with Ben Kalb and Becky Peters
• House of #EdTech
• Shake Up Learning Show
• Ditch That Textbook Podcast
• Education Podcast Network

Anita Gledhill (Brampton, Canada) -- After handing out a slide deck, if we need to add a slide, delete and re-send. Instead, use add-on: Slip and Slide from John Sowash’s Chromebook Podcast. Solves this problem.

Shout out to Kayla, Matt's former swimmer, and first-year teacher, who listens to the show!

• Matt:
  • 12 social media-inspired hooks for class
  • Tech Like a Pirate resource page (scheduled release: April)
• Kasey
  • 13 Tools to Record Audio on Chromebooks and Other Devices
  • Digital Equity and Why It Matters (interview with Ken Shelton)

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Google News and Updates

• Autocorrect now available for Google Docs on web
• Smart Compose in Google Docs now generally available
• Edit your new Google Sites faster with a revamped Settings menu
• Google Maps 101: how contributed content makes a more helpful map
• The Suite Life: 4 tips for a more manageable Gmail inbox

Featured Content

Jessica Brogley currently teaches courses in educational technology in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin Platteville. Prior to this, she served in the Platteville School District as the Instructional Technology Support Specialist and the Digital Communication Specialist for three years. Jessica cut her teeth as an 8-12th grade English Language Arts and College Credit Public Speaking for Seymour Community Schools in Seymour, Wisconsin for 11 years.Jessica is one of the few educators in Southwest Wisconsin who is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, Innovator, and Google Streetview Certified. She's also a Level 8 Google Local guide with over 1700 photos, over 500 are photospheres. This past fall, Jessica was also one of 200 people selected world-wide by Google to attend the 2019 Connect Live event, completely sponsored by Google in San Jose, CA in the Fall of 2019. That conference not only celebrated the top Google Maps contributors, but it also gave her a chance to ask questions and provide feedback to actual Google employees. She also founded the Southwest Wisconsin Google Educator Group.

Resources

Insta360 cameras (two fisheye lenses on each side). Connect the phone to the device via wifi. The phone is like the shutter. Stitches image together as one spherical image. Transfer back from the camera to phone: what to do. Retouch ($2 app) erases yourself out of the photo. Use Google Street View app: upload to google maps. Tiny Planet photography.

Kids write about aspects of the community. (Early standard in elementary.) Use camera: photograph police station, firehouse, city hall, school, etc. Publish to account. Use tour creator to write about the significance. They can’t write collaboratively but can take turns. (Fire department: didn’t know what certain things are. Study: what that is what does it do?) Tourist opportunity: where to enjoy an afternoon, historical locations, etc.

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Laura Cahill (Massachusetts)

On The Blogs

• Matt - 20 free Google Slides and PowerPoint themes for teachers (plus lesson ideas)
• Kasey - The Instructional Playbook (interview with Jim Knight)

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Google News and Updates

• New interface in Google Classroom (Post from Alice Keeler)
• 1,000 of the most stunning landscapes in Google Earth
• Helpful shortcuts for Google apps on iOS
• From pop quiz to final exam: Chromebooks pass the test

Featured Content

"Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process. Connect with other educators in the ISTE Standards Community and learn how to use the standards in the classroom with the ISTE Standards for Students ebook." (ISTE.org)

ISTE Student Standards:

• Empowered Learner
• Digital Citizen
• Knowledge Constructor
• Innovative Designer
• Computational Thinker
• Creative Communicator
• Global Collaborator

Resources

• 
  
• How to Cite Sources in Google Docs
• 8 Ways to Support Digital Citizenship Skills with Google
• Don Wettrick’s students doing genius hour all the time (Innovation and Open Source Learning) … creating apps, hosting events, creating businesses
• If/then conditional logic (Google Forms) - How to Differentiate Questions in Google Forms
• Choose your own adventure stories
• Made with Code
• CS First
• Teachable Machine
• ePortfolios with Google Sites
• Magnetic Poetry with Drawings or Slides

On The Blogs

• Matt - The Ditch That Textbook Video Library
• Kasey - Google Accessibility Tools to Reach ALL Learners

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Google News and Updates

• Google Maps is turning 15! Celebrate with a new look and features
• Charting the next 15 years of Google Maps
• Street View’s 15 favorite street views
• Supporting the 2020 U.S. election

Featured Content

In this conversation Kasey and Chrome Squad discuss the following:

• New additions to the Squad
• Impact of the Chrome Squad
• How being on the Squad has impacted the current and former students
• How to start a program like this at your school

Resources

The Chrome Squad

• Adviser Cody Holt (Twitter: @beard_speak, Website: ConnectedForLearning.org)
• About The Chrome Squad
• The Chrome Squad Story

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Chuck Day (Castleford Idaho)

• Bitmojis for your students: How to create and share them (tutorial video)

Mark Rupe (Dinuba, California)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Classroom tech: Should I use it? 10 considerations
• The ULTIMATE Google Slides Teacher Resource
• Kasey:
• Fake Instagram Template in Google Slides
• My Pencil Made Me Do It! (interview with Carrie Baughcum)
• Shake Up Learning Book Study starts Feb. 13th!

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Before we start today’s show, we wanted to make a quick announcement. The podcast is undergoing a name change. It’s a small one, but an important one. We’ve decided to shorten the show’s name to be called the Google Teacher Podcast. We’ve heard from several of you that there are problems with including the word “tribe” in the name of the show. The last thing we want to do is create a show that is disrespectful or offensive to anyone -- especially in its name.

Google News and Updates

• Made by Google's 20 tips for 2020
• Improving 40 million Chromebooks for education
• Data Privacy Day: seven ways we protect your privacy
• The Most Searched: A celebration of Black history makers

Featured Content

Digital citizenship refers to the responsible use of technology by anyone who uses computers, the Internet, and digital devices to engage with society on any level.

Be Internet Legends 

Be Internet Awesome 

Interland Game

ISTE Standards-Aligned Curriculum

• English
• Spanish

Pear Deck Curriculum

Google Classroom: Assign Interland to specific classes or sections, or simply make the resource available to all your students in the form of a class announcement.

Interland for School Chromebooks: G Suite administrators can seamlessly make Interland available to students directly from their school Chromebook taskbar.

Teacher Training Course

Educator Resources 

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Kate Whittaker (Pennsylvania)

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Classroom (still) to the rescue: Blogging, vlogging, and podcasting (guest post by Laura Steinbrink)
• Kasey:
• 4-Part Series on Dynamic Learning with Google (FREE Toolkit)
• Shake Up Learning Book Study starts Feb. 13th!

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Google News and Updates

• Originality reports and rubrics now generally available for Google Classroom users Improve student writing with originality reports and rubrics in Classroom
• G Suite Add-ons now generally available in Calendar, Gmail, and Google Drive

Featured Content

The Five Principles of Don’t Ditch That Tech

1. Technology should be used to enhance students’ learning and should rely on evidence-based practices. There is no substitute for great teaching or great student-to-teacher relationships.
2. Technology should help us work with content in interactive, meaningful ways.
3. Technology should help teachers and students cross varied developmental levels. 
4. Technology should eventually empower students to be designers of their own learning. The goal is for students to become critical thinkers and life-long learners.
5. Technology should promote reflection and metacognition.

Iorad - online tutorial builder 

A Dangerously Powerful EdTech App: iorad (from Teaching from the Ridge blog)

Dotstorming -- Dotstorming takes the process of dot voting online to allow groups of people to collaborate on a topic.

Penzu Journal -- A private, 100% customizable online journal.

Twitter: @TeachFromRidge

Website: http://www.teachingfromtheridge.com/

Resources

• Don’t Ditch That Tech (book)
• Free book preview and book study resources
• PDF notes from Nate and Angie’s presentation in the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit
• Nate and Angie’s Make It Til Friday podcast

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Melanie Samson-Cormie (Edmonton CA)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 10 social media-inspired learning activities: no account needed
• Kids blogging in math class: Why and how
• Kasey:
• It’s NOT About Google
• How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

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Google News and Updates

• More options for copying presentations in Google Slides
• New Chromebooks for 2020
• Doodle for Google 2020: How do you show kindness?Submissions close on March 13th, 2020
• New look for Google Forms on mobile

Featured Content

You can share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone.

When you share from Google Drive, you can control whether people can edit, comment on, or only view the file.

• Share button settings
• Kasey’s Guide to Google Drive Sharing
• Copy/template links, etc
• Create G Suite Templates with This Mind-Blowing Hack
• Sir Links a Lot extension
• Email collaborators
• Shared folders
• Shared drive
• Add to Drive button
• How to Make a Copy of Google FilesDoes not get updates from the original file
• Does not work in GC
• Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc!
• 10 ways for teachers, students to share links in class
• Attach in gmail
• Attach in Google Calendar

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jennifer Conti (Ohio)

Kathy Hilby (Wisconsin)

On The Blogs

• Matt - 4 classroom test/quiz strategies to avoid the gotcha game
• Kasey:
• The Top 10 Secrets of an Awesome Tech Coach (FREE eBook)
• It’s NOT About Google (Part 1) with FREE Dynamic Learning with Google Toolkit

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Google News and Updates

• 2019 in review: Stories from Google this year
• Teacher's coding lesson helps students show gratitude
• Google Translate improves offline translation
• How we highlight fact checks in Search and Google News

Featured Content

• YouTube Studio Beta vs. Classic Studio
• Playlists (collaborative playlists)
• ViewPure / Showing videos in Slides to avoid ads
• Use the editor (YouTube Studio) to blur, add audio, etc.
• YouTube Audio Library
• Go live with webcam
• YouTube Live
• 30+ YouTube Channels for Teachers
• Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube
• Easily Turn a YouTube Clip into an Animated GIF Image!
• Follow Matt and Kasey on YouTube
• Shake Up Learning
• Ditch That Textbook

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Stephanie Nasso (Gunnison CO)
• Stephanie Fitzpatrick (Chicago)(Expeditions page on Google for Education)
• Android Apps on Chromebooks
• 6 Android Apps to Try on a Chromebook
• Lisa Scumpieru (Hagerstown, MD) 

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 30+ education sketchnotes for inspiration, ideas
• Kasey:
• The Top 20 Posts of 2019
• #PottyPD: How to Make the Most of a Captive Audience (FREE TEMPLATE) – SULS043

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Google News and Updates

• We need a hero: 2019 in Search
• Interpreter mode brings the real-time translation to your phone
• Review the latest changes to a new Google Site before publishing
• Send emails as attachments in Gmail

Featured Content

E16: Tour the World with the New Google Earth

Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth

5 Tips to Start Creating with Google Earth (FREE PDF from Google) - CHEAT SHEET

Creating Stories About the World

• The Diary of a Young Girl
• Math on Maps
• Golden Eagle Migration

LitTrips

https://arvr.google.com/tourcreator/

Creating with Google Earth: 10 ideas to try (Ditch That Textbook blog)

Some features in Google Earth’s creation tools:

• Placemarks
• Lines and shapes
• Street View
• Slides
• Present

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Dianne Miller Duncan (Southern California)

Thanks to Brian Briggs for sharing this #createwithchrome Google advent activity: bit.ly/CreateAdvent

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 sites for students with free time on their hands
• FREE Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit (December 21-January 8): DitchSummit.com
• Kasey:
• 6 FREE Google Templates for Teachers and Students from TechChef4U
• Holiday Reading: 6 Books to Transform Your Classroom

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• MATT - Use the Google Assistant with your G Suite account in beta
• KASEY - When fashion and choreography meet artificial intelligence
• CHRIS - Hey Google, play me the news

We are finally at episode 100 of the podcast! This episode features Matt, Kasey, and producer Chris Nesi! Chris leads Matt and Kasey in a conversation that reflects on the run of this podcast through 100 episodes and provides some Google-goodness as well!

Topics discussed:

• What have Matt and Kasey learned as hosts of this podcast?
• Favorite Episodes:
  • Kasey: Episode 72
  • Matt: Episode 83
  • Chris: Episode 8
• Favorite Memories from creating the podcast?
• Guest(s) you would like to have on in the future?
• Matt and Kasey shared their 'Because of this pocast..." stories.
• What Google topic would you like to cover but haven't?
• What Google tool(s) do Matt and Kasey struggle with?

The conversation also featured an Ask Me Anything (AMA) segment where Matt and Kasey answered questions from Mike Brilla, Mike Mohammad, and Erin Kiger.

• Mike Mohammad - Congrats on 100!
• Shelly Stanton (@StantonShelly) - Looking for fun ways to introduce Google Classroom to students.
• Janna Bonds - Curious to know how to restrict access to Google Forms.

• Matt - The new Ditch That Textbook “Google in the Classroom” page with LOTS of resources
• Kasey - Gearing Up for the Hour of Code
• Chris - Check out the House of #EdTech podcast!

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Google News and Updates

• Smart Compose for Google Docs launching in beta
• Allow site viewers to provide feedback on your new Google Sites
• Add different page numbers to different sections in Google Docs
• Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth

Featured Content Chrome

• Bookmarks bar
• Extensions
• Chrome database
• Text expanders
• You’re Doing it Wrong! How to Manage/Toggle Between Multiple Google Accounts

Docs

• 7 Reasons to Try Voice-Typing in Google Docs

Google Classroom

• Create a Class Template

Google Keep

• Using Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment
• Google Keep Cheat Sheet

Gmail

10 Time Saving Tips and Tools for Teachers

Time savers for teachers: A more efficient you!

Quick Google Forms time savers for teachers

10 Google Classroom time savers for teachers

10 tips to use Google Classroom effectively and efficiently

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Guy Winters (Ramsey, MN)

Beth Kostka (Georgia)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 Google Sites tips and tricks
• Free ebook: A beginner’s guide to Twitter for educators
• Kasey:
• The Shake Up Learning Story

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Google News and Updates

• Update to Audio in Google Slides
• Google Classroom accessibility empowers inclusive learning
• Map out Thanksgiving with these tips from Google Maps
• Insert collapsible text boxes into new Google Sites

Featured Content

Certifications for Educators

• Certified Educator Level 1
• Certified Educator Level 2
• Certified Trainer
• Certified Innovator

Google Teacher Center

FREE eBook: The Complete Guide to Google Certifications

FREE Webinar: How to Get Google Certified

FREE Certified Educator Toolkits

• Level 1
• Level 2

FREE eBook: How to Become a Google Certified Trainer

6 Steps to Google Certified Trainer

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Google Certified Trainer Application

Google Certified Trainer FAQ

Google Certification Tips and FAQ (YouTube playlist)

Kasey’s Courses - Only open twice a year! (May and November)

• All courses and bundles

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Steve Dutcher (Okinawa, Japan)

Jen Giffen (Toronto, Canada)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• How to use Chromebooks offline for elearning day activities, homework
• Kasey:
• How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach
• GetGoogleCertified.com

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Google News and Updates

• What’s new in Chrome OS: Virtual Desks, simpler printing and more
• Want to make a podcast? 5 tips to get you started
• Instantly create new docs, events, spreadsheets and more from your browser https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/entrepreneurs/shortcuts-made-possible-new/
• Vint Cerf’s top moments from 50 years of the Internet

Featured Content

To use Google Classroom or Not?

• Chromebooks
• iPads/Tablets

Yes, Kinder+ can use Google Sheets! http://christinepinto.com/2017/01/28/models-and-equations-in-google-sheets/

Collaborate with older grades

Google Apps for Littles by Alice Keeler and Christine Pinto

Drag and Drop activities in Slides

• How to Create Drag and Drop Activities with Google Slides

20 G Suite templates for K-2 from Kris Szajner

Susan Stewart: K2 Can Chromebook Too (Taking screenshots can open a world of possiblilities!)

Video calls with authors, experts, other classes

• Classroom video calls. You can do this. Here’s how

#k2cando

#GAFE4littles

Episode 6 with Christine Pinto

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jenn Conti (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• Create a TikTok-style experience with Google Slides (free template!)
• Kasey:
• 10+ Ways to Use Technology in the Math Classroom
• GetGoogleCertified.com

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Google News and Updates

• What’s the meaning of life? (And five other Google searches.)
• Using personal experience to make Chromebooks accessible
• Annie Leibovitz unveils photo series with Google Pixel
• Host Hangouts Meet with up to 100 (G Suite for Edu)

Featured Content

Google Jamboard - Unleash your team’s creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas whiteboard-style while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere.

Matt and Kasey discuss...

Jamboard hardware v. software

Jamboard Features

Jamboard Lesson Ideas:

• Jamboard Sample Activities

Jamboard Resources:

• Jamboard training from the Google Teacher Center Jamboard Quickstart Guide
• Jamboard Sample Activities
• Jamboard Study Guide

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jennifer Gream (Kentucky) -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-folder/kfbicpdhiofpicipfggljdhjokjblnhl?hl=en

Craig Klement (Texas)

On The Blogs

• Matt - DITCH: A framework for creating wildly engaging lessons (90+ ideas for implementation!)
• Kasey:
• What is G Suite for Education? What You Need to Know!
• FREE ebook: The Complete Guide to Google Certifications

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• Customize text size and position for captions in Google Slides
• 13 ways to conjure up a spooky smart home this Halloween
• 15 years of Google Books
• NGram Viewer
• If it has audio, now it can have captions

• Custom Drive Templates 
• Drive Template Gallery
• Templates from the Apps Homepage
• Template Links
• Stop Asking How to Put a Worksheet in Google Classroom

• Blog post: How to create classroom templates in Google Docs and Slides
• What tool should you use? (Matt suggests Google Slides.)
• Locking items down using background images
  • How to Create Drag and Drop with Google Slides
• Assigning templates to students with Google Classroom
• Making a copy (or a force copy link)
• Re-using templates to save time next time

• Hyperdocs website: HyperDocs.co
• HyperDocs templates: https://HyperDocs.co/templates
• Teachers Give Teachers (database of pre-created HyperDocs): https://hyperdocs.co/teachers_give_teachers
• Episode 072: The Power of Hyperdocs and Lesson Design with Lisa Highfill
• Episode 071: Hyperdocs with Sean Fahey
• 9 reasons why HyperDocs can transform your class (post by Sean Fahey)

Chelsey Greer (Connecticut) - Students need assessments read aloud. Easier way to add to Google Form quizzes? Record self, upload to YouTube, insert video. Easier way? FYI: Add-ons are blocked in her district. 

• Read&Write for Google Chrome
• Screencastify 
• YouTube: Link to specific time in video
• Talk to your special education staff about what you may have available

Kelsey Jones (California) - I've been listening to your podcast during my commute and love all the ideas you've been sharing! My goal is to incorporate Google into my classroom and reduce as much paper as possible. I've been using Google Forms for assessments, I love how it can auto-grade. My question is, do you guys know if there is a way for students to save their work while using Forms? For example, if they have a 30 question assignment and they are only able to get to 10 of the problems. Is there a way for them to save what they've done and resume where they left off later?

https://alicekeeler.com/2019/07/17/google-forms-finish-filling-out-later/

• Matt - How to create a digital escape room for your class or PD (guest post by Mandi Tolen)
• Kasey
  • Halloween Magnetic Poetry Template
  • 15 Ways to Use Google Classroom in Professional Learning

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• A new look for the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Android apps
• How I use Google in my classroom—and other advice for teachers
• A progress report with Google Classroom's first school
• How classroom tech brings accessibility with dignity

Applied Digital Skills Curriculum and Resources from Google (late elementary and up)

• Resource Kit

Tips for working with students with G Suite:

• Create low-stakes practice opportunities before using for a grade
• Praise students when they discover something others can use
• Don’t be afraid to try something new even if you don’t perfectly understand it
• Know what the student side of things looks like

#GAfE4Littles

• Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can
• Basics on Christine Pinto’s website
• Christine Pinto Google Teacher Tribe Episode

• Google Search Education
• Google Students
• Edu in 90
• A Google a Day

Stephanie DeMichele (Ohio)

Ryan Lindsay (Australia) -- Put all of his Google Chrome ideas into school Dungeons and Dragons club. Integrate rich use of Google Classroom to manage. Chat and share links. First steps of Docs and Sheets, homework, put together stories. Sheets as an XP tracker (hand in homework), shows kids how formulas work. Lucid Press, Canva, visual design. Google Summit: Flipgrid. Student voice as a retelling of what the characters have done, drama. Previous adventures and retelling it.

Matt

• 6 things that make autograded Google Forms quizzes better
• Should we use autograded multiple-choice quizzes?

Kasey

• 100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom
• FREE Webinar: How to Get Google Certified

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• Follow the journey of 13 Latino Trailblazers
• Make the Palace of Versailles yours on Google Arts & Culture
• Keeping privacy and security simple, for you
  • https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/8-awesome-reasons-go-incognito-google-chrome/
• To stay secure online, Password Checkup has your back
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-checkup-extensio/pncabnpcffmalkkjpajodfhijclecjno?hl=en

• Google Sites for workshops
  • Links to EVERYTHING -- presentations, notes, activities, additional resources
  • For multiple days, organize pages by day
  • Embed slides, docs, etc. to make it easier to access and view
  • Link to outside resources in the menu
  • Links to all activities
  • One-stop shop
• Give them ONE LINK that includes everything!
• Published Google Slides
• Collaborative notes with Google Docs (or Slides)
• Using Google Classroom tips
  • Not recommended for anything less than a day with a mixed group from different schools--unless it’s your main topic.
  • Coaches/Trainers: keep a class going all year with your teachers
  • Blended book studies
  • Blended PD with Google Classroom episode coming next week on The Shake Up Learning Show
• FREE Google Certified Trainer resources

• Shared Google Slides to share ideas. (Change the slide master for different types) (Here’s a post on how to do this with students that you can adjust for PD)
  • https://alicekeeler.com/2015/08/04/google-slides-your-first-week-activity/
• Invite people with Google Hangouts
• Google Slides live closed captions

• Melissa Burns, 4th grade, Clinton SC -- Wants to do a digital interactive notebook with Google Slides. How to add additional slides after assigning the initial notebook?
  • Google Slides interactive notebooks + 20 activities to fill them
• Michele Koper (Wisconsin) -- I love listening to your podcast every week. I've gotten so many ideas that I've been able to share with staff. After listening to your PD tips (which I completely agree with- especially the problem-solution topic), I just couldn't resist emailing about the meatloaf comparison. Instead of meatloaf, I like to think of it as a smoothie that I'm able to throw some greens into. Thought I'd just pass along a more appetizing visual :)

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• Dark theme is coming to Gmail for Android and iOS
• Better line spacing support for branding in Google Docs and Slides
• What's new in Chrome OS: Google Assistant comes to more Chromebooks
• 6 Chromebook keyboard shortcuts that save time

Matt’s recent post: 27 tips to deliver powerful professional development

• Share all sides of a tech tool: If you’re doing technology professional development, it’s always helpful for teachers to see the student side of a tool as well as the teacher side. If they can see how the initial setup works, that’s even better.
• Go deep rather than wide: “60 apps in 60 minutes.” I’ve attended these sessions at conferences. I’ve delivered them! Many times, I think they’re “edu-tainment” more than actual professional development. It just creates a passing familiarity with lots of apps rather than actual implementation and change. I love to go deep — learn a new strategy or tool, practice it, discuss implementation — rather than wide. Sticking on one or two impactful ideas is powerful. It can empower teachers to be ready to start using a new idea when they leave rather than just knowing about it.
• Use the meatloaf approach to PD: When we have meatloaf for dinner, my kids know what they are getting. They like the way meatloaf tastes. However, if my wife and I want to make the meatloaf a little more nutritious, we may grind up broccoli or cauliflower and sneak it into the mix. That way, they are getting the taste they want but also a little extra nutrition. Professional development should be the same way. If I’m talking about a teaching strategy or digital tool, I love to model it in a fun way. When I demonstrate Flipgrid, I ask teachers to record me videos of where I should eat dinner that evening. They learn the tool without even realizing they’ve learned it. The task can be fun and also teach them something. It’s kind of like mixing cauliflower into meatloaf.
• Use the problem/solution framework: Ask yourself, “What are the problems these educators face? What’s the problem that this solves?” Then, use that as a guide. Show them how your ideas solve that problem for them.
• They might forget what you said, but they won’t forget how you made them feel.” For many teachers, professional development is a drag. It makes them feel adequate. They might feel like the person leading PD doesn’t understand them and their situation. I take every opportunity to make them feel welcome. Appreciated. Capable. I smile a LOT. If someone struggles, I help them feel like the struggle is easily fixed. If they make a mistake, I help them to feel that it’s no big deal. If something goes wrong and it’s not their fault, I make sure they know it’s not their fault and they did everything as they were supposed to. Anxiety negatively affects our neurologically-based skills. Anything we can do to reduce anxiety — in adults and in children! — helps.

Kasey: How to Design Google PD That Works - a framework for trainers

• Matt - 75+ Google Classroom tips and tricks (with a FREE ebook!)
• Kasey:
  • How to Create Drag and Drop Activities with Google Slides
  • BecomeaGoogleTrainer.com

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• Live captions in Hangouts Meet, now available on Android
• New improvements for Jamboard mobile and tablet apps
• Get more done with a little help from Google Chrome
• Form Notifications add-on now available in the G Suite Marketplace

Add-ons are customized extensions of G Suite productivity applications such as Gmail, Google Sheets, and Google Docs. Add-ons are built using Apps Script—a rapid application development platform based on JavaScript that lets you create business and productivity applications quickly and easily.

With Add-ons you can do the following:

• Add customized functionality to G Suite applications such as Gmail.
• Boost your workflow efficiency when working with G Suite.
• Use Apps Script services to easily control and move data between Google applications.
• Connect to non-Google services within G Suite applications, allowing you to retrieve or upload data from those services into and from G Suite.
• Create custom interfaces (sidebars, menus, and dialogs) that are displayed within the G Suite application the add-on extends, potentially removing the need for a user to switch browser tabs when working with multiple applications.

You can create add-ons for your personal use, for use within your organization, or publish them to the G Suite Marketplace where millions of users and domain administrators can find and install them (source: https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/overview).

• Slides Randomizer
• Slido
• Extensis Fonts
• Mail Merge for Avery Labels
• Form Approvals
• Wolfram Alpha

Lindsay Shields (California) -- I had to comment on the new Classroom updates after listening to [episode 90]. My district beta tests the new updates to Google, so I have been using the grades feature since last spring. I love it. The grades page allows me to easily see who has turned in assignments, which assignments need grading and who has turned work in late. I no longer have to click on each assignment in Classroom for this. I also import grades from Classroom to our SIS system (Aeries). It is truly a timesaver. To effectively do this, you need to first create the assignment in both Classroom and Aeries. It helps to have the same number of points in both Classroom and Aeries. Once you have graded the assignment, you need to return it in Classroom. This makes the grades "official." Once you have done that, then you go to your grade book in your SIS system. It is truly magic! It saves me so much time. I use Forms for bell work and I can import the scores from Forms to Classroom, return the grades to students and then import the scores to Aeries. I can grade several classes of warm-ups in minutes. I also just started using the rubric feature. So far it is easy to create a rubric and score the assignment.

Beth Evans (via SpeakPipe) -- How to fill out forms in everyday life. Name, age, birthday, gender, etc. When filling out a form once, an option of using autofill. How do you shut off autofill?

• Matt - 25 practical ways to use Google Forms in class, school
• Kasey:
  • Fall book study starts Sept. 26
  • 9 Ways to Improve Student Writing with Google Docs

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Summer 2019 was a busy time for Google and Google for Education. The links below are related to what was discussed in episode 90 of the podcast.

Classroom

• Gradebook in Classroom now generally available
• Create rubrics in Classroom with a new beta
• All classes moving to Google Classroom with the Classwork Page in September
• Google Assignments, your new grading companion
• Originality reports for Google Classroom and Google Assignments launching to beta

Docs

• See changes in Google Docs over time with Compare Documents

Sheets

• View the edit history of a cell in Sheets
• Additional tools for enhanced reporting in Google Sheets

Slides

• New features for Slides Present mode
• Switch to a blank screen and set advanced time options for presentations in Google Slides
• Audio rollout on Slides has been “paused” by Google

Forms

• Import questions from previously existing forms into a new Google form

Drive, etc.

• Check out the new G Suite Learning Center
• Coming Soon: Transformation reports from Google for Education
• Priority page in Drive now available for all G Suite editions
• New fonts intended to help improve reading speed now available in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Keyword

• Making learning to read accessible and fun with Bolo
• Bringing CS education to everyone through six new grants
• If you give a student a Chromebook
• What’s new in Chrome OS: better audio, camera and notifications
• A new way to help students turn in their best work

We invite you to contribute to the podcast with your Google tips, tricks, and questions. Visit our Feedback page for a number of ways of reaching out to the show!

• Matt - 3 easy strategies to organize your Google Classroom
• Kasey
  • Fall book study starts Sept. 26
  • 10 Google Classroom Tips You Didn’t Know

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• Dark mode available for Calendar and Keep on Android
• A new look for Google Search
• Glass Enterprise Edition 2: faster and more helpful
• Collaborating to protect nearly anonymous animals

In this episode, we celebrate all of you who listen by sharing tips and tricks submitted by listeners like you!

• Sarah Kiefer (OH)
• Blake Bray (TX)
• Stephanie Skrocki (NJ)
• Susan Vincentz (KY/IN)
• Pam Hubler (SC)
• Stephanie Howell (OH)
• Rayna Freedman (MA)
• Lee Tucker (GA)

• Matt - Four-part video series, “Awesome Lesson Planning Made Easy”
  • Video 1: One quick protocol to get your lesson plans structured
  • Video 2: Four frameworks to level up your lesson planning
  • Video 3: Three powerful templates (and how to make your own)
  • Video 4: Introducing the Ditch That Textbook Lesson Plan Book

  Get your copy of the Ditch That Textbook Lesson Plan Book, featuring …

  • Flexible planning template
  • LOTS of Ditch That Textbook ideas and digital tools
  • Lesson planning resources
  • … and more!
• Kasey -  How to Get Google Certified (podcast edition)GetGoogleCertified.com (enrollment open from May 21 - June 4)

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• Three new machine learning courses
• What’s so interesting about spreadsheets?
• Affirming the identities of teachers and students in the classroom
• Carmen Sandiego is back on Google Earth, gumshoe

It's the end of another school year or you're approaching the end of the year and either way you should consider cleaning up Google Classroom and Drive.

• Return all work, grade it if you need to
• Archive Classes
• Clean-up Folders in Drive
• Create new folders for the things you want to keep and move things over
• Create a folder for exemplary work
• Do NOT Delete the Classroom Folder
• Do NOT Delete from Shared with Me
• Delete Old Class Calendars
• Reflect on your Google Classroom practices, collaborate with others for ideas

Google Classroom Cleanup Tips for the End of the Year

How to Create a Google Classroom Template (for next year)

https://alicekeeler.com/2016/05/31/google-classroom-clean-folders/

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/05/25/google-classroom-archive-class/

https://alicekeeler.com/2018/07/17/school-is-out-7-tips-to-clean-up-your-g-suite/

• KD Meucci (on the blog) -- I'm trying to access Jamboard, but it says my access is denied and to contact my systems admin. I'm getting some pushback, is there any reason not to give access? Also, my admin doesn't understand the platform and thinks I'm asking to purchase an actual Jamboard. From the podcast, it sounds like Jamboard is just like Padlet, but within G Suites. Help?!!
• Dana Klement (Texas) -- long time listener, google trainer certification, excited to help teachers see power of Google tools, wants students to be set up for success, eighth grade in small school district, will have had the same drive since kindergarten, wants to train students to use g suite going into high school, last two weeks, streamline … set eighth graders up for success in high school, key features, extensions, organizational tips and tricks to help them to be set up for success?

• Matt - Creating Mosaic Art with Google Drawings (guest post by Sarah Jacobs)
• Matt’s Tech to Learn Online Course is discounted 50 percent through May!
• Kasey - How to Get Credit for Listening to Podcasts – SULS012
• GetGoogleCertified.com (enrollment open from May 21 - June 4)

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• Three new features to format and work with data in Sheets
• Create and insert image carousels in new Sites
• Helpful new visual features in Search and Lens
• Bringing you the next-generation Google Assistant

Get Google Certified This Summer!

The Google Certification Academies open for limited enrollment on May 21, 2019!

There are three courses designed to fit your needs:

• The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy
• The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy
• The Google Certified Trainer Academy

These courses are designed to walk you through the process and give you everything you need to know to pass the exam.

But don’t miss this opportunity! These courses only open twice a year.

Enrollment opens on May 21, 2019, and will close at 11:59 PM CST on June 4, 2019.

If you miss this window, you have to wait until November!

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• The Google Classroom Master Class
• The Google Slides Master Class
• All Shake Up Learning Courses

The Tech to Learn Online Course

Tech to Learn is an online course dedicated to helping YOU identify ways to use technology to move the needle for learning ... to amplify and boost what's happening in your classroom.

In this course, we will cover ...

• SIX areas where technology can truly boost learning in the classroom
• How technology can be paired with sound, solid teaching practices
• Practical examples you can implement in your class immediately

Plus, in this course, you'll also get ...

• More than seven hours of video instruction with Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook
• Downloadable checklists and guides to help you succeed
• Four BONUS mini-modules on key topics like productivity and cheating

Until the end of May, Google Teacher Tribe listeners can get 50 percent off the price of the course! Click here to enroll, and find the “MAY SALE” discount option to check out.

Check out the FREE video series on teaching meaningfully with technology!

Get even more information about this course by clicking here.

Other online courses to check out:

• The Chromebook Infused Classroom
• Side Hustle Teachers Summer Camp

Free online digital summits and conferences

• Hive Summit (Aug. 1-14)
• CUE Ditch Summit (July 29-Aug. 4)
• Strobel Summit
• Teach with Tech Conference (July 22-24)

The best of ISTE without going to ISTE

• #notatISTE

Laura Steinbrink (Missouri)

Nanci Greene

• Matt - The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers (updated post!)
• Kasey - How to Create a Class Brand (and much more) with Tony Vincent

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• Team Drives is being renamed to shared drives
• Get lost in the new Earth Timelapse, now on mobile
• After school, this teen tracks climate change with NASA
  • https://earthengine.google.com/
• This National Tell a Story Day, take a page from your Assistant

Collaborative Notes with Docs or Slides

• Buddy up with your team or friends and take collaborative notes.
• When everyone attends different sessions, you all walk away with collective knowledge and resources.
• Docs suggestion - Create a table of contents or divide the pages in a way that makes sense. Tables are also handy. (Kasey’s Alan November story.)
  • Collaborative Notes with Google Docs
• Slides suggestion - New slide for each session gives natural division to your notes.

Google Keep

• Take notes in Keep, share with your team or teacher friends
• Use the Keep extension to add bookmarks of resources and presentations
• Add audio, photos, or even annotate or draw
• Use the mobile app and add notes with dictation on the fly
• Grab text from a photo of a presenter slide or (gasp!) paper handout
• Google Keep Cheat Sheet
• Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students

Chrome

• Use Chrome bookmarks and bookmark manager to save all your links and organize into a folder for the conference.

Google Photos

• Lots of people take pictures of links and presenter slides (as well as selfies)
• Sync new photos to your Google Photos collection
• Create an album and share with others

Jamboard

• Can use the web app without an interactive panel
• There’s a mobile app, too
• Swap between devices
• Take photos with your phone, draw with your finger
• Draw with a stylus and add sticky notes on the app with a tablet
• Use dictation tools (voice typing) to add text quickly
• Integrates with Google Photos AND Google image search
• Collaborate with others
• View notes across platforms

Hangouts Chat

• Backchannel to stay connected with your peeps.
• Discuss and share ideas and questions.

Edcamp.org

How to Maximize the Edcamp Experience

15 building blocks to a meaningful conference experience

Wakelet

• Grab social media posts (tweets, etc.) and add to a Wakelet collection
• Take your notes in Wakelet, adding text with titles above each session you go to
• Adding links creates a website card instead of just a link, giving you a preview
• Embed videos
• Upload a PDF (session materials)
• Also, add previous posts (bookmarks) to your collection
• Collaborative Wakelet collections: create shared notes with buddies or colleagues

Evernote

• Create a notebook for the conference
• Take notes and use the web clipper to save all the links and notes in one space.
• Add images and audio
• Searchable (even text in images)

• Sarah Kiefer (Speakpipe)

• Cam Ross (Melbourne, Australia) -- Just re-listened to Episode 18 to learn some more about what Google Slides can do, and came across the DriveSlides Chrome extension. What an amazing tool, and one that I have been able to use with the family pics at home but also with school-based projects. Keep up the amazing work, as I am learning so much each and every episode.

• Matt - 30 activities for any Depth of Knowledge level (Slides vocab cards Stella, applied digital skills Amy DeFriese, Google Slide sticky notes/infographics)
• Kasey -  The Google Certified Trainer Ultimate Planner & Checklist
  • Google Certification Courses open on May 21st!
    • (1) The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy
    • (2) The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy
    • (3) The Google Certified Trainer Academy

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A G Suite user guide to accessibility!

Google News and Updates:

• Work anywhere with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in new offline mode
• Work with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in Dropbox with a new beta
• Duplicate larger sites in new Google Sites
• Visit US National Parks in Google Earth

Google Accessibility Features:

https://www.google.com/accessibility/ - FULL LIST!

G Suite user guide to accessibility

Adapting to the needs of learners, educators and schools with Chromebooks

Accessibility is a key part of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines

• “to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn”

Chrome Browser

• Use TalkBack to browse the web with Chrome
• Chrome low-vision features help
• Chrome assistive technology help
• Chrome keyboard shortcuts
• Change text, image, and video sizes (zoom)
• • Running things in the browser enables webpage zoom
• Chrome keyboard access
• High-contrast Chrome extension
• Chrome accessibility extensions
• Videos: Chrome & Chrome OS Accessibility

Chromebooks

• Chromevox
• MATT -- Magnify your screen on a Chromebook

Docs

• Accessibility help for Docs editors
• Google Docs screen reader help
• Google Docs keyboard shortcuts
• Voice typing in Google Docs
• • 7 Reasons You Need to Try Voice Typing in Google Docs
• Braille support in Google Docs
• Make documents more accessible
• Video: Get started with Google Docs using a screen reader (19 minutes)
• Google Docs VPAT

Slides

• Accessibility help for Docs editors
• Google Slides screen reader help
• Present slides with captions
• Braille support in Google Slides
• Google Slides keyboard shortcuts
• Video: Get started with Google Slides using a screen reader (16 minutes)
• Google Slides VPAT

Hangouts

• Accessibility for Hangouts Meet
• Keyboard shortcuts for Hangouts Meet

Slides

• 6 ways to make the most of closed captions in Google Slides

Mailbag:

Alex Tougas (Annapolis, MD) -- Google Forms: can’t break quiz up in sections or save as you go. Workaround? Google form for summative assessment -- like 50 questions.

Kamilee Jorgenson (Rangely, Colorado) -- Is it possible to go into Calendar, search for, and extract particular events? I am using my calendar to record my times driving a route for the school. Is it possible to go into Calendar, find all of that particular event, and then export them to a different document?

Export from Calendar (ICS)

Export to Sheets

On the Blogs:

Matt:60 tips to spark creative lesson ideas

Kasey: 60 Tools to Inspire Students with Chromebooks

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• At Tech Day, hundreds of kids dive deep into STEM
•  

  On World Heritage Day, explore historic sites in 3D

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  Want to Change the Game? Design your own with Google Play

•  

  Avoid double-booking rooms in Calendar

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  RSVP to Calendar events from forwarded invitations

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  Save time with new scheduling features in Calendar

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  Master your email with these essential Gmail tips

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  Improvements to organizing and finding Team Drives

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  Easily customize theme colors in Slides

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  Get more done in less time with G Suite Add-ons beta

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  Google Voice for G Suite: Cloud telephony with the intelligence and security of Google Cloud

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  Introducing Currents, the newest G Suite app

•  

  Work smarter in Sheets with several new features for objects

•  

  Apply to be a part of the Hangouts Chat Accelerated Transition Program

•  

  Summary: Next 2019 announcements

• Rebecca (@tccsapd) on Twitter -- Save a webpage to your @googledrive instead of printing! I just found this by accident. 😳 Simply change your print destination to Google Drive and the web page you are looking at becomes a PDF. Or follow these steps:https://support.google.com/cloudprint/answer/2541913?hl=en
• Joe Marquez (@JoeMarquez70) on Twitter -- Are you an @PearDeck fan and have been dying to use the closed captioning feature during a PearDeck lesson? Here is the way to do it :) https://youtu.be/5kcCITjhkRY
• Bailee Sandsmark -- Update fitness scores through Google Form to Sheet and Autocrat runs them a report. Would like to use the same form to the same sheet, but when it goes to Autocrat, wants most recent data and all data graphed.

• Matt - 35 creative Google Drawings activities for classes
• Kasey - The Teacher’s Guide to Digital Choice Boards (Free eBook with Templates)

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• Live captions in Hangouts Meet
• Exploring new possibilities in cloud-based education technology
• Gmail Smart Compose subject suggestions
• Office editing makes it easier to work with Office files in Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Joe Marquez is a passionate educator who loves nothing more than to discover new ways to motivate and engage students.

Technology has been the spark which has ignited his exploration into next-generation educational technology and pushed him into becoming a leader and technology coach for the Clovis Unified School District.

Joe is now a K-12 Education Strategist for CDW-G helping educators across the US reach their full potential with devices in the classroom. His innovating spirit, outgoing attitude and outrageous personality has earned him the coveted titles of Certified Google Innovator, Certified Google Trainer, Prezi Educational Society member, PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator, Nearpod PioNEAR, Remind Connected Educator and Advisory Board Member, Quiver Ambassador, Common Sense Ambassador, Flipgrid Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator, CUE Rockstar Teacher Faculty and CUE Lead Learner. Recently Joe was the recipient of the CVCUE 2014 Educator of the Year Award, the prestigious Clovis Unified Crystal Award and featured speaker at the California Teachers Summit in 2015, 2106 and 2017. 

• Also a guest on episode 24 (Engaging Science Students)
• Twitter: @JoeMarquez70
• Website: sonsoftechnology.com

• Blake Bray (Texas) -- YES!!!! Duplicate copies! That's why y'all have a podcast... genius! Thanks!
• Allison Fluet (Maine) -- I was very impressed with myself when I heard Matt recommend a Google Slides workaround that I’ve been using. It was in response to Blake from Texas and how to get his slides to auto advance (duplicate slides and publish to the web). So, I have that system in place to run my classroom schedule but when I’m gone I have my laptop with me. I have an iPad that I leave behind for my sub but I cannot get Slides to autoplay an inserted video that I’m using as a transition song for my students to know it’s time to rotate in their math stations. Do you have any workarounds to get a video to autoplay When presented on Slides on an iPad?
• Wendy Cohen (New York) -- When using multiple Google accounts in Chrome, right-click a link and choose “Open as …” to choose which account you’d like to use when opening the link. Can save you time from seeing the “You need access” error messages. How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts

• Matt - 35 creative Google Drawings activities for classes
• The #DitchBook Twitter chat -- It’s 30 minutes every Thursday at 10pm Eastern / 9pm Central / 8pm Mountain / 7pm Pacific. We chat about a specific topic every week. Don’t know how a Twitter chat works? Check out this ebook on using Twitter for educators.
• Kasey - How to Become a Google Certified Trainer (6 Steps)

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• Write now, send later with Schedule send in Gmail
• Enhance presentations in Slides with audio
• https://snake.googlemaps.com/
• Quickly find support resources in Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar and more

Google Classroom is one of the nicest kids on the playground of education technology. There are many apps and websites that want to play with Google and Google is happy to play with so many of the other apps and sites that are enjoying the nice days and time to play.

Matt and Kasey share and discuss some great tools that are fine on their own but when they play Google we never want edtech recess to end!

• Duolingo -- Many teachers and even entire governments around the world already view Duolingo as the perfect blended learning companion for their language classrooms. Duolingo lessons give each student personalized feedback and practice, preparing them to get the most out of classroom instruction.
• Quizlet -- Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free. (See also 6 new ways to play a Quizlet Live game)
• Quizizz -- This integration makes it seamless for teachers to assign Quizizz games to their class. Students can join a Quizizz game with one click and all their performance data is sent back to Classroom. (See also Gameshow Classroom: Comparing Kahoot!, Quizizz, Quizlet Live and Gimkit)
• Edpuzzle: Make any video your lesson. Pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students’ understanding. With the EDpuzzle integration, teachers can automatically import all Classroom courses and students at sign up.
• Flipgrid: Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create “grids” of short discussion-style questions that students respond to through recorded videos. Each grid is effectively a message board where teachers can pose a question and their students can post 90-second video responses that appear in a tiled “grid” display. Easily share links to Flipgrids and add them to assignments in Google Classroom. (See also Catch the Flipgrid Fever! 15+ ways to use Flipgrid in your class)
• Insert Learning: InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn websites into interactive lessons. You can add sticky notes, links, videos, discussion questions, multiple choice questions and more! Then easily share your lesson with students in Google Classroom. InsertLearning is featured in my FREE ebook: 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018 (See also 4 Ways to Blend Learning with InsertLearning.)

See Kasey’s Full Blog post: 60+ Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom

Jennifer (New York) -- Mark from Wisconsin asked on episode 80 about turning off spell check to proofread a poorly written letter.

I have an assignment in Literature that requires the students to proofread a poorly written letter (roughly 50 mistakes) and make corrections. Is there a way to turn off Spell Check in the shared document? I have it turned off on the master copy, but when I send it out through Classroom, each of their Chromebooks turns Spell Check back on. Thanks!

Blake (Texas) -- Hey y'all, I'm a 1st-grade teacher in Texas and I listen to GTT on my way to work all the time. Then, I run in my classroom and write down the ideas you have sparked so that I can try them.

One of the ideas is to use slides as kind of an "auto-pilot" for a day when I may need a sub. I have 2 large screens in my room and the idea was to make a slide deck that would walk them through the day. (I've even considered uploading videos of myself teaching the lesson and explaining. Phonics, for example, is a difficult lesson to teach as a sub.) So, the sub walks in and opens the slide deck at 8am. and the slides have instructions/video/example ... the students do the work... and then the slide changes to a yellow background when there are 5 minutes left, then to the next thing on the agenda.

Yea, sounds like a neat thing to try to me too. But I can't use a slide deck because I can't set different times for the auto advance.

That was a long way to ask if you know of a way to set different times for each slide. I know I could use another presentation app but we live on the G suite at my school so sharing would be easier if I could find a work around on slides.

Thanks guys. Y'all are awesome! I'm off to drink my sweet tea before the fun times get back from P.E.

• Make it into a video with Screencastify and advance as you’d like? Then play the video?
• Duplicate slides and set auto-advance times for 1 min each

• Matt - 10 ideas for digital end-of-semester final projects
• Kasey - 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects

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• Set start times and import reminders in Tasks
• Dynamic email in Gmail (beta)
• Threading changes in Gmail conversation view
• Take action faster with customizable swipe actions in Gmail on iOS

20 sites for students with free time on their hands

• GeoGuessr — GeoGuessr uses Google Maps Street View to place you on the ground somewhere in the world in full panorama. The problem? You have NO idea where you are! You must use context clues to guess your location and pin it on a map. Choose to be dropped in certain continents, countries, cities, etc. … or make your own GeoGuessr game with GeoSettr!
• Smarty Pins — Smarty Pins is kind of like GeoGuessr’s cousin. It asks questions from categories like arts and culture, science and geography, and history and current events. The answers are locations, and you must pin them on a map to answer. It makes geography a game, and the closer you guess, the better your score is.
• A Google a Day — Most of us search the internet daily, if not multiple times per day. But effectively searching for something is a skill. A Google a Day challenges users to put their searching skills to the test by asking them to answer a question using Google search. With Google’s search education lesson plans you can take this game even further and begin teaching search literacy in your classroom.
• Street View Treks — Google Maps Street View lets its users see what life is like from the road, in full panorama. Street View Treks take that same technology to some of the most spectacular locations in the world, from Mount Fuji to the Grand Canyon to the Taj Mahal in India. Swim underwater at the Great Barrier Reef or climb the El Capitan rock face at Yosemite National Park.
• Google Arts and Culture — Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces. See super high-resolution images of some of the best works of art in the world. Walk world-famous museums. Examine historical happenings in detail.
• Google Quick Draw! — Quick, Draw! tells you what to draw. Then, Google’s artificial intelligence tries to guess what you’re drawing. It’s a neat way to introduce students to artificial intelligence OR to look at how we convert words/ideas into images.
• Emoji Scavenger Hunt - Emoji Scavenger Hunt is a super fun game from Google Experiments. Using the camera on your device, students identify emojis in the real world. The application uses artificial intelligence to try and determine what’s in the picture and see if it matches the emoji.
• Autodraw - AI experiment that allows you to draw and tries to predict what you are drawing so you can then select a more professional image to add to your project.
• Story Speaker - Combine the power of Google Docs with AI! Make interactive, talking stories without coding and play your story instantly on Google Home. What I love about this tool is that it will give you a “Choose Your Own Adventure,” story template in Google Docs, so that alone is worth exploring! Help students improve writing and get creative. Even if you don’t have a Google Home or cannot use it in your classroom, the Story Speaker tool and template are worth exploring!
• Talk to Books - When you type in a question or a statement, the model looks at every sentence in over 100,000 books to find the responses that would most likely come next in a conversation. This is a really interesting way to help kids connect and learn with literature, discover new authors and books, and strike up some interesting conversations!
• Made with Code - Made with Code is a program designed to help close the gender gap in the programming industry, and give girls and young women fun ways to learn how to code the things they love.
• More tools and resources from Kasey: Stranger Google: Crazy Tools from the Upside Down

• Matthew Reischer (NJ) - Google Forms/Quizzes question
• Nancy Richards (North Hollywood, CA) - Thank-you for your great ideas, suggestions and tips, Matt and Kasey!

• Matt - 60 ideas for using Google MyMaps in any content area
• Kasey - Meaningful Technology Integration and Dynamic Learning (5-Part Podcast Series)

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• It’s now easier to insert images in cells in Google Sheets
• Work smarter with the new Priority page in Drive
• Driving change with Rolling Study Halls
• Your mission, gumshoe: Catch Carmen Sandiego in Google Earth

Spring has finally sprung! Matt and Kasey share some great Google related things you can do on Spring Break or related to Spring Break!

Courses to Try Over Spring Break:

• FREE Course: How to Create Magnetic Poetry with Google Slides and Drawings
• The Google Classroom Master Class
• The Google Slides Master Class
• HyperDocs on Air: 12 free videos
• Master the Screencast: FREE online course by Screencastify

Books to Read Over Spring Break

• Go See the Principal: True Tales from the School Trenches by Gerry Brooks
• You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education by Sir Ken Robinson
• The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor
• Shake Up Learning Book Study (starts March 28th)

• How I started traveling the world on my own, thanks to Google
• Local Guides Connect
• A safer way to share your ETA, now on iOS
• Virtual spring break trip with Google Maps Treks (staycation!)
• 20 sites for students with free time on their hands

• Craig Klement (Garland, TX) -- Choice board on Google MyMaps: pins on different locations, students choose their own adventure, detail the activities in the pin, layers to highlight the route that they took on their adventure.
• Mark (Wisconsin) -- I have an assignment in Literature that requires the students to proofread a poorly written letter (roughly 50 mistakes) and make corrections. Is there a way to turn off Spell Check in the shared document? I have it turned off on the master copy, but when I send it out through Classroom, each of their Chromebooks turns Spell Check back on. Thanks

• Matt - The Hyperdocs Toolbox: 14 engaging example activities
• Kasey - 60+ Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom
  • The Shake Up Learning Show starts March 26th with a 5-episode series!

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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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