Google Teacher Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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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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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• Visit the Moon and planets on Google Maps
• Street View goes to the “top of the world”
• New Google Calendar
  • Learn What’s New

• Comments (and nested comments and tagging)
• Linking directly to a comment
• Comment history
• Add, edit, reply or delete comments

• Assigning Tasks
• Suggested Edits
• Kaizena
• Keep integration (doc stickers / common feedback phrases)
• Bitmoji Chrome Extension
• Read & Write for Google Chrome allows voice note

• Keith George (Alabama) talks blurring in YouTube videos
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FAP2wtsYoM
• Alex Adams -- opening up new module after submitting work on Google Classroom?
• Amy Eagle (NY) -- "I love Google classroom. But I am wondering if we should be teaching basic drive skills that are no longer as critical when we use Classroom to disseminate and turn in work. Clearly, it is easier to use Classroom than to teach sharing etc. How would you reconcile the two?"

• Matt - Memory Game with Google Slides (via Mandi Tolen)
• Kasey - 4 Must-Have Google Classroom Skills

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On this episode, Matt and Kasey are sharing a joint keynote presentation they gave during the Summer of 2017. Below is the presentation used...

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During episode 24 Matt and Kasey made it known that sometimes there just aren't many if any updates to speak of. No sooner did they utter those words and Google went crazy with a number updates!

• Expeditions on iOS with Self-Guided Tours and Annotations
• Google Classroom: Import Google Forms quiz grades—Teachers can assign a Google Forms quiz and automatically import grades to the Student Work page.
• Google Data Studio
  • Google Data Studio (beta) turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable. Dashboarding allows you to tell great data stories to support better business decisions.
• New Google Hardware

Google Slides is a cornerstone application of G Suite and recently Google added a number of features to improve functionality and usability. Some of the features mentioned were long-time requests by users like you and others were bonus add-ons that were unexpected.

• Slides now features Google Keep integration
• New Add-ons...
  • Unsplash - Every Unsplash photo is high-res and completely free to use for commercial and personal purposes.
  • Adobe Stock
  • Shutter Stock
  • the Noun Project
  • Pear Deck
• Features...
  • Linked Slides
  • Slide Sorter
  • Insert Diagrams
  • Skip Slides (during presentation)
  • Apps Scripts

Dena Dellere (@DDellere) tweeted about her use of Google Classroom for a recent technology-related in-service at her school in Oklahoma. "Each topic is a Session."

Using GC for 17-18 Tech Inservice.  Each topic is a Session. Genius idea from our Business T to clear GC clutter. #gttribe #OklaEd

Sam Mora, via SpeakPipe, from Arizona, uses Screencastify and is looking for a way to blur sensitive information in the videos she creates.

Christina Smith Rivera, from Colorado, works with teams of Student TechXperts. Her students provide PD for students and staff members at the school. She is looking for ways to connect her student tech leaders with other groups throughout the United States.

• Matt - Classroom video calls. You can do this. Here’s how.
• Kasey - How to Create Screencast GIFs

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In a lighter week of news and updates the only things of note were additional colors to Google Keep Notes and revamped icons in the G Suite interface when using Docs, Sheets, etc

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

His focus is not on ways educators teach their kids, but rather on new ways they can better reach their kids.

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 provides insight on his TACO initiative, which is a STEM camp for students who want to teach STEM.

• http://SonsofTechnology.com
• Shared Lesson: One-Pager Group Presentation (Want a copy? Go to File>Make a Copy)
• A blueprint for Twitter and social media in the classroom with Joe Marquez
• NewsELA

• Cara Wilmot (FL) shared a comment on episode 22 regarding captions on Youtube.

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• Gmail will create links to contact info
  • How it works: Clicking an address link will take the user to Google Maps. Clicking an email address will compose a new email, using the user’s default email client. Finally, when using a mobile device, clicking a phone number will start a call request using the default phone app.
• View the world through someone else's lens in Google Earth

Google Drawings allows you to add some color to your documents, presentations, and websites with easy to create charts and diagrams. However, Matt and Kasey provide you with some additional applications for you and your students.

• Visual Thinking with Google Drawings
  • Power of images and text on the brain (dual coding)
  • Google Drawings: like a digital poster board (or paper)
  • Only tools: lines, shapes, text and images
  • Annotate on images
    • Example: Tres de Mayo painting annotation
    • Take a snapshot and add speech bubbles
  • Photo comic strips
    • Mike Petty’s site on photo comic strips
  • Create infographics
    • Icons: The Noun Project (thenounproject.com)
    • An example infographic: DitchThatTextbook.com/hunter
    • Create eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings
  • Graphic organizers
    • 15 free graphic organizer templates

• FREE Google Drawings Cheat Sheet
• 10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes
• The Google Drawings Manifesto for Teachers
• Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking
• Google Drawings interactive posters (no glue sticks necessary!)
• 10 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom

• Meghan Eberhart (MN) asks about web-based video editors with the recent Google killing of the Youtube video editor/creator.
  • Matt and Kasey recommend WeVideo.
  • Producer Chris Nesi featured Bruce Reicher, a WeVideo ambassador, on episode 87 of House of #EdTech.
• Becca Glassberg (NY) had a quick question regarding Google Classroom differentiation and how assignments appear on Google Calendar.
• Tim Baker (KY) runs a Student Tech Leadership Program (STLP) and is looking for an app, tool, or extension for managing checklists for repetitive tasks.
  • Matt and Kasey recommend Google Keep.
  • Episode 11 was all about Google Keep

• Matt - From Topic to Thesis, Teaching Students to Write Argument (Shaelynn Farnsworth)
• Kasey - How to Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube

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• What’s Really Going on With Google Drive
  • Original announcement: Drive File Stream Coming to G Suite
  • Blog post from Michael Fricano explaining it all!
• Applied Digital Skills: New Lessons and RubricsThe Applied Digital Skills program recently added new lessons plans and assessment rubrics. Additionally, Applied Digital Skills is now aligned to the state standards for ten states, with more coming soon. Explore the curriculum now.
• Earlier this summer, Google Arts & Culture launched 'We Wear Culture’, looking at the history of fashion and the stories behind what we wear. From the story of the Sari in India and lace making in Switzerland; this project covers a wide range of designers, fashion icons and subjects. There are 6 Google Expedition tours to accompany the project.
• Create a Culture of Innovation at Your School The beginning of the school year is a great opportunity to proactively shape the culture of your school, and a culture of innovation can amplify the impact of technology. Take advantage of this time to nurture an environment where teachers are encouraged to take risks and try new things in order to better serve students. Use this guide to access guiding principles and actionable tips for creating a culture of innovation among teachers and staff.
• Embed on Google Sites

• What's New In YouTube?
  • Got a new look and features on Aug. 29 - highlights
    • Lots of updates to mobile - Watch this video
    • Google for Education on YouTube
    • EDU in 90 on YouTubeWant to keep tabs on the latest updates from Google for Education, but don’t have much time? Check out EDU in 90, a new video series from Google for Education. Each episode, we focus on an important topic for educators, administrators, and school leaders - things like product updates, new programs, and helpful resources for the classroom. Subscribe to the Google for Education YouTube channel to make sure you don’t miss an episode.
    • Episode 2: What’s New in Classroom
    • New embed options
    • New look and feel
    • Open transcript
    • Dark theme great for whole class watching in the dark
    • GTT on YT

• Google Doc Tips Sketchnotes from Wanda Terral
• Great hyperdoc from Karly, Sean, Heather, and Michelle

• Matt - 22 Killer Keyboard Shortcuts (and a Challenge!) for Busy Educators
• Kasey - 8 Ways to Support Digital Citizenship Skills with Google

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• First Day of Classroom
• Version Control in Docs
• Be Internet Awesome
• DigCit Training for Teachers

The 2017-18 school year is here and Google did not disappoint as many improvements, enhancements, and new features were added to the popular Google Classroom.

• View all student work on one page
• Move tiles in your classes
• Display class code in full screen
• Teacher/student can specify which email notifications they receive

• Updates to Classroom & Forms

• Miriam Bart wants to turn off Classroom notifications.
• Amy Diamond has teachers who want to make more attractive slides
  • Make Your Google Presentations Shine
• Lisa Byrd: DocSecrets add-on to blank out words and reveal them as you go

• Matt - The Hyperdoc Effect: 7 Ways Using Hyperdocs Has Changed My Classroom
• Kasey - 6 Android Apps to Try on a Chromebook

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