This page offers a collection of resources developed by experienced facilitators, specifically designed for use in 1:1 Chromebook classrooms. These practical, ready-to-use materials cover a range of curriculum areas and platforms, and are available for you to use and adapt, to enhance your in-class facilitation.
Here's a table of contents to help you navigate these resources:
Smart Learner
Smart Footprint
Smart Relationships
Smart Media
Secondary Resources
Other Handy Resources
Smart Learner: Learning to become more confident using Google Presentations.
Instructions:
- Make a copy of the presentation.
- Write the food in the space provided on the first slide
- Use the Research Tool and switch to images to search for an appropriate Image
- Continue the process on each slide and finish the presentation.
Smart Media: How to use AI to generate images. Debugging prompt to achieve the desired image.
Oral Language: Vocabulary and grammar
Writing: Composition | Writing to entertain
Learn: How to compose a quality blog post that captures the purpose of the post.
Create: Experiment with various ways of capturing the visual art content that we are creating.
Share: Individual Edublogs.
Learn: Conduct research, using smart surfing strategies, find out what happened at the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and summarise the key events. NZC – Social Sciences Phase 4 (Years 9–10): Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi and constitutional significance
Create: Google Drawing comic strip.
Share: Individual Edublogs.
Learn:Conduct research, using smart surfing strategies such as using quotation marks to search for exact phrases. Find out what happened at Parihaka and summarise the key events.
NZC – Social Sciences Phase 4 (Years 9–10)
Causes, key events, and outcomes of the New Zealand Wars (1845–1872)
Create: Create a comic strip to tell the story of Parihaka using Google Drawing.
Share: Edublogs
AKO / LEARN:
Cybersmart: learners confidently navigate and harness their device and learning applications.
Google Skills and Digital Citizenship: students will learn to use Google Slides as an interactive tool to create a non-linear presentation, while applying digital citizenship "smart sharing" rules to their personal content.
HANGA / CREATE:
A pick-a-path game about yourself with five statements - three are true, and two are false.
TOHATOHA / SHARE:
Embed your game on individual sites.
Learn: How to create a slide animation in Google Slides. Workflow of starting a new project, giving it an appropriate name for ease of relocation, and filing it appropriately (cybersmart folder). How to import images that you have the right to use, or create your own characters. How to embed in a website and increase the playback speed.
Create: A Google Slide animation.
Share: Embed your game on individual sites.