Teachers: Technology to INSTRUCT Online
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Tutorial Videos Done WITH and FOR Teachers
Tutorial Videos Done WITH and FOR Teachers
> Taking attendance during a Google Meeting
> Taking attendance during a Google Meeting
> Receiving individual and real-time feedback from our students
> Receiving individual and real-time feedback from our students
Real-time feedback & attendance.mp4> Dynamically annotating your presentation screen
> Dynamically annotating your presentation screen
> Using a document camera to display hands-on exhibits
> Using a document camera to display hands-on exhibits
> Creating videos for your students' asynchronous learning
> Creating videos for your students' asynchronous learning
Dynamically annotating.mp4> Training our ESOL students to speak to us in a Google Meeting using their Google Translate
> Training our ESOL students to speak to us in a Google Meeting using their Google Translate
Google Translate.mp4> Creating small-group student discussions using breakout rooms in Google Meet
> Creating small-group student discussions using breakout rooms in Google Meet
Breakout Rooms.mp4Class ANNOUNCEMENTS and Lesson PRESENTATION
Class ANNOUNCEMENTS and Lesson PRESENTATION
Can use for Google Docs and/or Google Slides.
Confirm the Sharing rights are set to "View" and give that link to your students so that they can access your document and can refer to it later.
Example of Using Google Slides for Announcements and Lesson Presentations
Example of Using a Google Doc for Announcements and Lesson Presentations
Google CLASSROOM
Google CLASSROOM
“Add item” options to an Assignment
“Students can view file”: to edit, they have to make a copy, save it, then upload it.
“Students can edit file”: they all work on the same file
“Make a copy for each student”:
E.g., PDF (using the Kami Chrome Extension), G Doc, G Slide, G Sheet or G Jamboard.
If using a PDF in Kami: Can also turn it in from Kami.
Grade Categories
Students have “View your work” at the top left of their Classwork tab.
It lists their work and their G Classroom grade.
Send email to a batch of students (e.g., who did not complete a particular assignment)
SEEING Your Students While PRESENTING in a Google Meeting
SEEING Your Students While PRESENTING in a Google Meeting
In your Google Meet tab, click the 3 dots at the bottom right, then “Change layout” to “Tiled”.
But even better is to install the Google Meet Grid View Chrome browser extension that allows you to easily see each attendee even while someone else is presenting. Make sure that you are logged into your District Google account so that you are adding the extension to that account.
In order to view this while you are presenting:
Use ANOTHER device to log into your Google Meet (e.g., a District Chromebook or even your personal iPad or cell phone).
Or add another MONITOR to your main desktop or laptop computer.
Or SPLIT your screen into different windows and only present one of those windows.
Student Feedback Using NOD
Student Feedback Using NOD
Go to the “Chrome Web Store” and search for the “Nod” Chrome Extension.
Click the blue “Add to Chrome” button.
Click “Add extension” in the dialog box.
Confirm you have the Nod thumbs up icon in your Chrome Extension tray.
In order to initiate it for the first time, close both your “Chrome Web Store” tab and your “Google Meet” tab and then rejoin our Google Meeting. Once you are in an actual Google Meeting, look for the control box in the top left of the Google Meet window.
When anyone does a quick response (e.g., thumbs up) or raises their hand, everyone else who has installed the Nod extension can see it and can also cancel it. Our classroom rule is that the only person allowed to cancel a person’s raised hand is the teacher and that particular person once his/her question is addressed.
Take Attendance Using MEET ATTENDANCE
Take Attendance Using MEET ATTENDANCE
This Google Chrome extension creates a Google Sheet record of the attendees present at particular times.
Each time you click on “People” in the Google Meet, it will take a snapshot of the current attendees and add them as another column in the Google Sheet that “Meet Attendance” created for that particular Google Meeting.
This Google Sheet automatically opens as a new tab in your Chrome browser (if it hasn’t already). This Google Sheet is located in your “My Drive” folder and named “Meet Attendance” with a date and time stamp of the first time that you clicked on “People” in that particular Google Meet.
Con: The students are listed merely by their District email address which only includes their student number and not their name.
Attendance + Feedback: SMART’s “Shout Out” Activity
Attendance + Feedback: SMART’s “Shout Out” Activity
Enables you to receive student answers that are immediate, individual, and private.
Students respond to the question that you post in your presentation.
The only SMART activity that is able to create a record of the students’ input is “Response” and it must be downloaded after each session or it is lost.
As an example, here is my Google Slide instructing students to Check-in for attendance and to also tell me a little bit about how their day is going.
I initiated the SMART activity from my District Chromebook that I had running on the side and not from my main desktop computer from which I was presenting.
Here is a screenshot (taken from my District Chromebook) of the students' real-time data.
This is the SMART activity (from the students' perspective) that I used throughout the lesson to obtain their response to questions that I asked verbally or in writing on a Google Slide or Google Doc.
Here's an example of my students' responses.
In this particular example, my sense (based on their verbal comments) was that this was an easy problem for them.
But notice the significant difference between their answers.
Without this individual and immediate feedback from my students, I would have moved on to more difficult subjects before clarifying and practicing these more basic skills.
Feedback: Google SLIDES’ Audience Tools
Feedback: Google SLIDES’ Audience Tools
Click “Presenter view”.
Click “Audience Tools” and the “slides.app.goo.gle/ . . .” link in order to open an audience response tab.
In this new audience response tab, copy its web address and paste that into the chat of your Google Meet to make it easy for students to go to their own audience response tab.
Attendance + Feedback: Google FORM Connected with a Google SHEET
Attendance + Feedback: Google FORM Connected with a Google SHEET
Here’s the current version of my Google Form. You’re welcome to make a copy and revise it for your needs.
In Settings / General, the “Limit to 1 response” option is unselected so that they can send me multiple answers by simply clicking “Submit another response”
My Google Slide instructing students to register their attendance using the Google Form.
An example of a Google Slide (written also in Spanish and Haitian Creole) instructing students to enter their answers to the five questions into the Google Form. When the timed response is up, I will remove the right-side box to uncover the correct answers.
The Google Form
Simple and limited data displays
The Google Sheet
How to open the Google Sheet that is attached to your Google Form.
Zoom
Hide menus
Freeze top row
Rearrange columns
Text Wrapping format for Emails and Answers
Hide columns
Adjust column widths: select, Shift + drag
Undo keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Z
Create a Filter: e.g., Period, Student
Change Date format
Apply to new entries Ctrl+Alt+V
“Sort range” of only particular rows according to a particular column
Select and Count
Explore Data Displays
Column chart
Radar chart
Histogram
Disconnect the G Sheet (actually just that particular tab) from the G Form
How to share the Google Form you created with other teachers so they can use it in their class.
How to share the Google Form you created with other teachers so they can use it in their class.
Inking PROGRAMS
Inking PROGRAMS
During a live presentation or when creating a screen-capture video, this allows you to easily and naturally draw your students’ attention to particular items on your screen.
Epic Pen
A free Windows program to install onto a Windows laptop or desktop. That is, Epic Pen cannot be installed on a Chromebook or a MacBook.
Writes on the screen regardless of what is being displayed “underneath” the screen.
It allows us to write “on top of” anything on our screen.
Website to download the Windows program
Web Paint
A free extension that installs into your Chrome web browser.
Works separately on each individual tab of a Chrome web browser.
Install from the Chrome Web Store.
Windows Ink Workspace
Works on Windows Whiteboard or Full Screen snip
YouTube Tutorial to turn on this innate feature in Windows.
Kami PDF Editor
A free Chrome browser extension for teachers and students to very easily write, draw or type onto any PDF.
Integrated with Google Classroom so that teachers can assign a Kami PDF that creates a new copy for each student and allows students to turn in that Classroom assignment from Kami.
Kami Extension in Google Chrome Web Store
Here are my instructions to students on how to Edit a PDF Using Kami
Foxit PDF Editor
A free and excellent Windows program that allows annotations on top of and bookmarks.
In my opinion, this is the smoothest and quickest way to open and handle PDFs.
Also allows us to add or delete pages and rotate pages.
Inking PENS
Inking PENS
Now that you have a “pen” to annotate on your screen, here are ways to control that pen.
Mouse PAD
Works sufficiently to mark general sections of your screen.
HANDHELD Mouse
More precise than mouse pad, but stilted and awkward when trying to write text or numbers.
Your Finger or a STYLUS on Your Touchscreen
Many of our District Chromebooks have touchscreens.
This is only when you are presenting from your touchscreen device (e.g., a District Chromebook). I do not know of a way to use a Chromebook as a writing pad.
MOBI Board and Pen
If your school still has one of these, I can give you the old Insight 360 program to run on a Windows laptop or desktop and be able to use this functional drawing pad.
Drawing TABLET
Enables you to write with precision in a natural and very easy way.
And example of a very helpful drawing pad is the Wacom CTH490AB Intuos Art Pen and Touch Tablet Small. Because this is an older model, it is often available as "renewed" (i.e., preowned) on Amazon for about $55. This older model also has four shortcut button at the top right and top left of the pad which can be personalized to do common functions such as selecting writing or typing and increasing or decreasing the size of the writing.
The newer Wacom model can also act as a large mouse pad to use your fingers to zoom, slide or rotate the document.
How to Present a Video WITH Audio in Google Meet
How to Present a Video WITH Audio in Google Meet
When you present your screen, select “A Chrome tab” and the particular tab from which you will be playing the audio.
Setting up a DOCUMENT Camera
Setting up a DOCUMENT Camera
If you are working from home, ask permission from your principal to borrow your classroom's doccam.
The red Lumens Ladibug DC193 HD
Up until around 2017, our District provided this doccam and some classrooms still have it today.
Here's a description of it.
It likely requires the installation of a program and it which may no longer be available to download from the web.
The older AVerVision F50HD
This is a bit larger than our District's newest AVerVision doccam.
Both versions have a flexible gooseneck allowing quick changes to either a webcam on your face or a doccam on your desk.
It uses AVer's Sphere2 software (as does the AVerVision U70+).
When setting it up, make sure the USB switch is in the PC position (see image below).
The newest AVerVision U70+
I believe this is currently our District’s standard classroom doccam.
The 13 megapixel camera has excellent resolution like newer cell phone cameras and is better than most 1080p HD webcams that cost around $100.
SETTING UP an AVerVision Visualizer
To use it with a Windows or Apple desktop or laptop, I believe that you must first install AVer's Sphere2 software (at least that's what I did). But it might work as a webcam without having to install the Sphere2 program.
The Sphere2 program has some additional functionalities that could be useful when using the AVerVision solely as a doccam (e.g., in the classroom with your video projector).
But when using the AVerVision as your selected webcam in a web conference (e.g., a Google Meeting), it is not necessary to open the Sphere2 program.
Here are helpful video guides by AVer on set up and use.
Only the AVerVision U70+ (with a USB plug) works with a CHROMEBOOK. You must first install their Sphere Lite Chrome extension.
Using a MOBILE Device (e.g., Cell Phone or iPad) as a Doccam
This can be done by simply entering your Google Meeting with your mobile device (instructions on my Student page) and presenting from it. In video below , she uses Zoom but you can do the same thing with Google Meet.
Or you can connect your mobile device directly to your computer. I have not tried this and it sounds a bit tricky, but the video below should be helpful.
STUDENT Tutorial Videos
STUDENT Tutorial Videos
Creating HANDHELD Videos
Creating HANDHELD Videos
Stabilize your handheld device (cell phone, iPad or tablet) and ensure there is sufficient lighting.
Here is a GOOD orientation and set up that pushes the camera down close enough to the paper so that the entire WIDTH of the page fills the view of the camera.
This makes the print large enough so that students can read it even when viewing the video on their cell phones.
Turn your device sideways (in Landscape Mode) and then lock the screen so that your video will be in the correct ORIENTATION when others watch it on a computer screen.
Doing so avoids the error (as seen in the screenshot below) of the viewer having to tilt his/her head 90 degrees to the right in order to correctly see the video on his/her computer screen.
Create Screen-capture Videos with SCREENCASTIFY
Create Screen-capture Videos with SCREENCASTIFY
The free version of this Chrome browser extension can be easily used by teachers and students to make videos up to 5 minutes long.
See "Create Video Tutorials Using Screencastify" on my "Students: Technology to LEARN Online" webpage.
See "Edit a PDF Using Kami" and "Kami Annotation and Presenting Tips" video on my "Students: Technology to LEARN Online" webpage.
BREAKOUT GROUPS in Google Meet using a Shared Kami PDF for Each Group
BREAKOUT GROUPS in Google Meet using a Shared Kami PDF for Each Group
What is our Motivation for doing the hard (but rewarding) work of setting up breakout groups?
Learning requires thinking. And thinking is stirred and fueled by talking.
We want to cultivate lively class discussions amongst our students. But students (and also we teachers) are fearful of saying something foolish in front of the entire class.
As a smaller and safer stepping stone toward whole-class discussions, we push our students to talk and interact with each other in small groups in order to:
Awaken and motivate our students to think
Build friendships amongst the students
Promote a learning community in our classroom
Give our students the opportunity to learn by teaching and to have the deep and satisfying joy of being useful in helping other people
A Strategy for Online Breakout Groups
Here is a very quick 5-minute description of the process.
Breakout Groups in Google Meet using a Shared Kami PDF for Each Group.webmPreparation
Mute Tab Chrome Extension
Create a shared document for each Group of students so that all the students of a particular group will be viewing and working on the same document.
There are a number of different formats that you can use to create your shared documents. For example, you can create PDFs that students open using the Kami extension in their Google Chrome browser. Or you could use any of the Google apps such as Docs, Jamboards, Slides, or Sheets.
The Google Classroom Assignment from the Teacher’s perspective:
The Google Classroom Assignment from the the student’s perspective:
In addition to the Google Meet of our main classroom, initiate a Google Meeting for each of your Breakout Groups before the class begins.
Here are the written instructions that I show and explain to my students.
Close the tab of our Class Google Meeting (evansgeo)
Join your Group Google Meeting
Meeting Codes:
Group 1: evansgeo1
Group 2: evansgeo2
Group 3: evansgeo3
Group 4: evansgeo4
Group 5: evansgeo5
You are using Google Meet only for the audio to talk privately with your group members as you edit the same Kami PDF together.
To help facilitate smooth communication between each of you:
Ensure you are in a quiet place without much background noise.
Unmute your microphone during this time
Wear earbuds or headphones to prevent feedback between your speakers and microphone.
In Google Classroom, open the particular Kami PDF for your Group.
All of you are editing the same Kami PDF.
Each of you is welcome to type and/or write onto the PDF.
In your group, please work together in ways that allow and encourage each group member to participate and play a role in understanding and/or recording how to solve the problem assigned to your group. Therefore, don’t merely allow the stronger person to do all the work.
Each person in the group is responsible to understand the problem and to be ready to explain its solution to the entire class.
When the Time Keeper announces that it is time, close your Group Google Meeting and return to our main Class Google Meeting (evansgeo).
When we gather back together as an entire class, I will be calling on different members of each group to read your Group’s problem and explain how to do it. So, wisely use your group time to understand the problem and to practice explaining its solution.
Designating Group Members
Group 1 = evansgeo1: (1st is Scribe, 2nd is Time Keeper, 3rd is Initiator)
Name of Student 1
. . .
Name of Student 5
Group 2 = evansgeo2: (1st is Scribe, 2nd is Time Keeper, 3rd is Initiator)
Name of Student 6
. . .
Name of Student 10
Group 3 = evansgeo3: (1st is Scribe, 2nd is Time Keeper, 3rd is Initiator)
Name of Student 11
. . .
Name of Student 15
Group 4 = evansgeo4: (1st is Scribe, 2nd is Time Keeper, 3rd is Initiator)
Name of Student 16
. . .
Name of Student 20
Group 5 = evansgeo5: (1st is Scribe, 2nd is Time Keeper, 3rd is Initiator)
Name of Student 21
. . .
Name of Student 25
KHAN Academy
KHAN Academy
Add new class / Import your class from Google Classroom
Assign Practices to Khan classes from the Lesson Page
But they don’t show up in G Classroom
Manage Assignments: for each particular class
Assignment Scores
Click a student’s individual assignment
Click an individual student
Activity Log
Assignments
Settings
Click an individual assignment = View report
Questions ordered by most missed
“Select students”
“Reveal answer”
“Help with this page” at the bottom left (also use Teacher Dashboard resources)
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