Video Tutorials

Video Highlights:

• Our UCC Schools pays for all staff to have access to Screencasitfy

• Follow the steps in the video to see how to set this up!

• Make sure set up your account by "Signing in with Google", and logging in with your @bgcsedu.org or @uccacostams.org account!

Video Highlights:

• How to use Canva to create a professional and beautiful looking image to share with families

• How to post this image to ClassDojo

• How to share links using Bit.ly

Session Highlights:

• Google Sheet Training Materials

• Google Sheets Basics

• Filtering Data

• Conditional Formatting

• Data Validation

• Protecting Cells and Sheets from Editing

Session Highlights:

• Here's my Google Slides page for more information!

• Google Slides settings

• Inserting pics, videos, audio, and more!

• Presentation modes and Q&A feature

• Unique links for each page

• Linking within presentation to separate pages

• Hyperlink: PC: control + K, Mac: command + K

• Adjusting page layout for printing and viewing

• Closed captioning in presentation mode!

• Add Ons: FlatIcon, Noun Project, Unsplash (images and icons)

Session Highlights:

• **Apologies for the video quality! My internet connection was poor on this day! I will re-record!**

• Basic and advanced Google Drive settings

• How to organize your files

• How to FIND your files

• How to add functionality to your drive

• Sharing files

• Advanced sharing settings

• Quick overview of Google Docs (add ons)

• Top Google Sheets functions (conditional formatting, filtering, and data validation)

Session Highlights:

• Overview of Gmail functions

• How to set up your Gmail settings to work for you

• Cool functions you've never noticed!

Session Highlights:

• Using Google Classroom as a Staff Member vs as a Teacher

• Student view vs. Teacher View

• Settings to Adjust

• Organizational tips: organize content by instructional week, and number assignments for students

• Creating a Bitmoji header

Session Highlights:

• ClassDojo parent view vs. teacher view vs. student view

• Different between the desktop and phone platforms

• How to connect families

• How to set up student portfolios

• How to create portfolio activities

• How to view, provide feedback, and "approve" portfolio activities

• Parent perspective: how to see activities and submit work

• Uploading photos and videos to ClassDojo

• Sending messages and files to families

Session Highlights:

• What is a PDF?

• The advantages of using PDF's when sending files to families and students

• Image file types and their advantages/disadvantages

• Taking a screenshot of an image to edit or share it elsewhere

• Tools to turn files from PDF to JPG (or the other way) and to automatically separate or converge the pages.

• How to create PDF's from photos on your phone, or pictures you take (use your phone as a scanner!)

• Annotating an image with the photo markup tool on any phone

• Annotating using Instagram or Facebook

• Creating fillable Google Slides worksheets

• Using Kami to send students PDF worksheets they can edit and engage with

• Additional benefits of Kami: Google Classroom integration that allows you to schedule assignments to multiple classes in advance!

Session Highlights:

• The elements of high quality feedback

• When should we give feedback?

• Audio Feedback:

  • Talk & Comment

  • Mote

  • Kaizena

  • Vocaroo

• Video Feedback:

  • Screencastify

  • FlipGrid

  • Google Meet Recording

  • Loom, Screencastomatic, etc

• Text Feedback

  • Code your text using Auto Text Expander!

  • ClassDojo comments

    • consider sending along links to audio!

  • Google Classroom Comments

    • use the comment bank!

  • Consider using substitutions or coding your text to make commenting easier

• Feedback Platforms / Programs

  • Classkick

  • Seesaw

  • Peardeck

  • Nearpod

Session Highlights:

• Google Sites = great for building a simple site that you can share with other staff to collaborate on!

• Does most of the formatting for you!

• Drag and drop tools

• Easily allows you to link to ANY content within your Google Drive!

• Note: Any sites you build using your school issued email account will remain with our school/domain and CANNOT be transferred elesewhere

• If you want a site to use elsewhere, consider Weebly, Wix, or Wordpress

• For additional information on Google Sites, tutorials, and a comparison between alternative website platforms, look at the resources here

Session Highlights:

• Social media platforms and the benefits of each

• How and WHY to use various social media platforms

• Picking the platform that works for YOU

• Protecting yourself and your students

• Using hashtags to find and follow content

• Creating a clear brand for yourself

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Session Highlights:

• See the list of all extensions and add-ons shared, what they do, and how to add/download them here!

Session Highlights:

• The benefits of FlipGrid!

  • Inclusive

  • Engaging (kinda like Snapchat for kids)

  • FUN - stickers, emojis, filters, and more!

  • Encourages ALL students to participate and make their voices heard!

  • Allows you to provide feedback more easily and quickly

  • Allows students to share their thinking and learning more easily

• The "grid" = a classroom where you can create tasks/topics for students to respond to

• "Topics" = a task you give students to respond to through video

• You can "moderate" videos so students don't see other student videos until YOU approve them

• You decide if students can respond to each others videos, like each others content, or can see the total "views"

• "Disco Library" = discussion library, use pre-created topics and discussions with content already created!

  • Flocabulary

  • Wonderopolis

  • Code

  • BreakoutEDU

  • EPIC

• "Mix Tapes" - gather together exemplarily student responses to share with students to view!

• Student Logins

  • Decide if students need a @bgcsedu.org/@uccacostams.org, if YOU create their logins, or if they can just get in with a link and password!

• Flip Code: your unique URL for ALL your FlipGrids! - share this with students so they can see ALL your topics

• Integrates with Google Classroom!

• Add a "co-pilot" - a co-teacher to also view all your topics and student videos! (there is NO LIMIT to co-pilots on a Grid!)

• Students can submit videos and then add filters, emojis, stickers, notes, etc!

• Students can also film a screencast of THEIR screen! (They could present Google Slides and speak over it!)

• When student work is submitted, you can view all videos, and provide feedback, scores, and even use a rubric to score student responses!

• Keep in mind, you can limit student responses to between 15 seconds and 10 minutes!

• Remember to outline some GROUND RULES for students using FlipGrid such as always be KIND, be respectful, only provide positive and constructive feedback. I always explain to students to provide "feed forward" instead of "feed back" --> think about providing comments that help students move FORWARD and not "back"

Session Highlights:

• General reminders for creating instructional videos:

  • Know your audience and choose the tool/platform/format that works best for THEM!

  • Keep in mind you purpose/objective, clearly state it at the beginning of your video, and end your video with that same statement

  • Length: Most students (and adults) can't tolerate more than a 2-3 minute video. Consider "chunking" your instruction into smaller videos, and providing formative tasks or assessments after watching each video (think EdPuzzle!)

    • Try to never have your overall video exceed 10 minutes, since more than that is a LOT to ask a child to sit still for

  • Make a script in advance and story board out what you'll say and do within your video - helps ensure a clear and concise message

  • Be yourself! Try to be natural, use your sense of humor, pretend your students or family are right in front of you and ignore the camera.

  • Use titles or captions to help draw focus to your main points

  • Use screen annotation tools (see below) to be able to draw on your screen, highlight, circle, arrows, etc

  • Most likely, your video will take a couple takes, so be flexible and it's ok if you make mistakes!

  • Tools to consider purchasing (or just finding DIY alternatives to)

    • Lighting - consider a lighted selfie stand like this, or just use a makeup mirror, flashlight, or lamp!

    • Headphones - improve your audio quality and drown out background noise by using headphones with a built in mic

    • Lapel Mic - a cheap way to improve audio quality

    • External camera and mic (webcam) - nice, but not necessary (good if you don't have an extra device to use as a document camera)

    • Gooseneck Phone Stand

  • Screencastify - overview of how to use the program and editor

  • WeVideo - overview of how to us the program

  • Animoto - quick overview

  • YouTube and Vimeo - possible locations to upload to (keep in mind the various ways videos can be posted public/unlisted/private and what this means)

Session Highlights:

• How to get your FREE accounts for Peardeck and Nearpod

• Both tools allow you to take over your students' screen and lead them through a slides presentation with additional engagement and assessment tools

• You can ask poll questions, ask multiple choice questions, open ended questions, create a drawing, and so much more!

• Students can work through these LIVE with you controlling the pace of the slide OR in "student-paced mode" where they work through the content when they want, and at their own pace (great for synchronous or asynchronous learning!)

• Nearpod Benefits: HUGE bank of pre-made presentations, some you must pay for, but the pre-made content is beautiful! You can create your presentation IN Nearpod, or use the Google Slides Add-On.

• Peardeck Benefits: Take a Google slides presentation you already have put together, and ADD functionality! Really cute and fun pre-made engagement slides to add to your slide deck!

• Both platforms allow you to look at the data and "reports" after the presentation to see engagement levels, wrong/right questions, and so much more! This could be used as formative assessments!

• Nearpod Slides Add On

• Peardeck Slides Add On

Session Highlights:

• Students CAN be in MULTIPLE session and chatting with many teachers simultaneously!

• Do NOT activate SCENES during our closure! Leave the default scene as NONE.

• Remember to "add teachers" to your classroom who also work with your students

• Use the "OPEN TAB" feature to directly open Google Meet sessions on student Chromebooks (this way they don't even need the link!)

• You could also use the OPEN TAB feature to directly open a Google Meet session for small groups of students that you want to have a discussion with

• When multiple teachers are attached to ONE classroom, all the chats for a single student are grouped together, and students often can't tell who they are speaking with.

• Feel free to create a separate GG classroom, and you can add and remove specific students from that classroom when you are working with different student groups (use their emails)

• Use the "Sessions" area to see past sessions, past chat history, and other information from past sessions

• Remember, only ONE person can import a classroom from Google Classroom. Whomever does this, then needs to add additional teachers to this classroom who needs access to the class.

• Alternative ways to participate in discussions with kids: Padlet, using a shared Whiteboard, use shared Google docs with individual students as a journal between a teacher and student