EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

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Download the Seneca East App! Here are the directions.

Here are tutorials from Google's Teacher Center on Google Classroom: https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/first-day-trainings/welcome-to-classroom

Here is the Google Classroom Help Center. Lots of tutorials and answered questions. https://support.google.com/edu/classroom#topic=6020277

Google Classroom:

Google Classroom is a free web service for creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students.

Features of Google Classroom:

1. Easy to set-up for teachers and sign-in for students.

2. Once students are signed into a class they can easily access all of their Google Classrooms from all of their teachers.

3. Easy to add assignments and materials for students to access.

4. Auto-grading with Google Quizzes.

5. Integrates with many other educational applications, like Peardeck, Edpuzzle, and Quizlet.

How to get started with Google Classroom:

1. Create a Google Classroom for the classes you teach.

2. Have students sign-in to your Classroom. Once they do this, they will see your classroom on their homepage until you delete the Classroom. Google Classroom is very convenient for students getting online resources from many different teachers.

3. Post assignments, quizzes, questions, and materials to classrooms.

4. Grade and provide feedback to students.

Articles on Online teaching:

Advice for humanizing online teaching: Link
If I had to do it all over again/ what I wish I knew: Link
Putting your course online: Link
Free Resources for Teaching Online: Link
More free resources for online teaching: Link

*Be cautious in implementing new technology with your students. I find it difficult to introduce new educational technologies normally, even when I can get face-to-face feedback from students. Introducing new educational technologies all online could be very frustrating for you and your students.

Technologies to use with Google Classroom :

Here are some of the resources I find valuable and easily integrate with Google Classroom. Many of these apps will require students to sync with their se-tigers account which will allow you to auto-grade their work.

Google Drive:

Google Quizzes, Forms, Documents, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings can easily be shared with Google Classroom. These files can be shared with students to view, edit, or make a copy for each student.

Pear Deck: https://www.peardeck.com/

I create some informational google slides and then use the Pear Deck add-on to add questions.

Here is a Doc for getting started.

Here is a Doc for starting Student-Paced mode. The only way for online learning. I ALWAYS use Student-Paced Mode for online teaching.

When I start a Pear Deck session, I share to Google Classroom, and students can practice questions.

Viewing a PearDeck like a student.

Embedding simulations from other websites into a PearDeck.

Screencastify: screencastify.com

With this app, you can record your screen and use your camera to record yourself. You can then easily share your videos to Youtube or Google Classroom. The free version will only allow you to record videos under 5 minutes. Here are the DIRECTIONS.

Google Meet/Google Hangouts: https://meet.google.com/_meet

These two apps I think Google is merging into one app, Google Meet. You can have a class video chat, share your screen, and record your session. Here are the directions.

Google Voice: https://voice.google.com/

This app allows you to send text messages, call, and receive phone messages through your computer. I like it because it documents all of my parent communication. Also, then I don't have to use my cell phone to interface with parents. I have been using as my office phone, but I mainly use the texting feature.

Edpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/

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.

Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/

Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools.

Quizizz: https://quizizz.com/

Find, create, and assign quizzes to asses students.

CK12: https://www.ck12.org/teacher/

Free online textbooks. Practice assessments with the textbooks allow you to auto-grade students' work.

Padlet: https://padlet.com/

It works like a piece of paper and you can literally put whatever you want on it. From videos to recorded interviews, writing out texts, and uploading documents, you can also customize wallpapers and themes to your project.

IXL: https://www.ixl.com/

Math skills that can be integrated with Google Classroom.

Flipgrid: https://info.flipgrid.com/

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.

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