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New Hire Summer Technology Training
New Hire Summer Technology Training
Mandatory Tools (If not familiar)
Mandatory Tools (If not familiar)
Google Calendar is the main form of scheduling utilized at the schools and Gmail is used as the main form of communication. Both Calendar and Gmail are vital in day to day operations. Google Drive is our main way of saving, creating, and sharing files. Similar to Microsoft Office, it has tools to create word documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Additionally, it has ways to create online surveys/quizzes, websites, and more.
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Drive- Create, share, and organize files
Docs and Slides- Create, format, and share
Forms- Create, set permissions for quiz style, and review results
Sheets- Basic spreadsheet creation and formatting
Calendar- Basic use as well as creating events
Gmail- send and organize emails
Google Classroom is our main way of distributing and collecting online assignments and materials with students. This tool is utilized daily in all classrooms.
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Navigation within Google Classroom
Manage class settings
Add resources
Create assignments
Grade assignments
Optional Tech Tool Trainings
Optional Tech Tool Trainings
Tool: Canva
Grades: All
Description: Canva is used to create all sorts of digital and print resources- posters, infographics, videos, presentations, etc. and includes a large template of pre-created resources. It includes a classroom assignment section to easily assign and collect materials students have created. Posters can be printed at each building using the school’s poster printer
Tool: Kami
Grades: All
Description: Kami is a collaborative PDF editing tool that allows you to take any existing document, including scanned PDFs, and write, draw, type, annotate, comment, augment, enhance, and etc. It integrates into Google Classroom so you can then assign it to students.
Tool: MagicSchool
Grades: All
Description: MagicSchool is a tool that utilizes AI for both teacher and student creation and interaction. It comes with pre-created prompts that make using AI easy and effective. Additionally, there is a classroom management section that allows the teacher to selectively assign tools that students can utilize with teacher oversight.
Tool: Newsela- Science and Social Studies
Grades: 9th-12th
Description: Newsela Social Studies and Science provide news articles and historical documents that are differentiated by Lexile level. This can be used to distribute reading materials to students or as a place for students to research materials.
Tool: Padlet
Grades: All
Description: All
Padlet is a collaborative tool that can create blogs, timelines, org charts, bulletin boards, and more. You can create your own to share or have a whole class working on one together.
Tool: Pear Deck
Grades: All
Description: Pear Deck takes any Google Slide deck and makes it interactive by adding a variety of different question types for student response such as multiple choice, fill in the blank, drawing, matching, etc. The answers are then compiled onto a teacher dashboard to review in real time.
Tool: Wayground (Formerly Quizizz)
Grades: All
Description: Wayground is a gamified quiz creation tool that has a bank of other teacher created questions or can utilize AI to generate questions based on materials you provide. Quizzes can be inserted into existing Google Slides, run just as an online quiz, or given as a paper quiz live or as homework.
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