*Google for Education tools can help your learners.
*Google for Education gives you access to lots of resources for sharing, managing files, and connecting with families, students, and other educators.
*Google for Education is intuitive to use and will save you time (and paper)!
*for help using Google tools, read and ask questions on the Google Help Forum.
*Google trainers will come to your school to teach a group of educators how to use Google tools.
*Google advanced search is a skill you should teach your learners.
*Google forms provide a way to gather student data.
*Google forms are an easy way to do pre- tests and quizzes.
*Google Drive saves all your files even if it is not connected to the internet and uploads them when it reconnects.
*Google translation feature in Gmail helps with communication to families of English Language Learners.
*A class Google Chat can help students collaborate with one another and get questions answered outside school hours.
*Google Groups is a good tool for emailing large groups of parents and getting everyone on the same page with less effort.
*Google Tasks can help you keep organized
*Google calendar can be public so that you can use it as a classroom calendar that parents will see.
*You can make multiple calendars with a different color for each one that appear on the same calendar.
*Google Meet can bring experts right into your classroom.
*Google chats combined with calls and video calls allow you to do office hours where you’re available to help with homework, in the evenings when students are at home.
*The agenda and minutes from a meeting can and should be a Google Doc that everyone who was part of the meeting can access.
*Create rosters to facilitate assigning work
*provide feedback with comments and suggestions in Docs; Google Classroom encourages collaboration between students and keeps them organized for the teacher.
*Google offers a toolset that allows teachers to collect and analyze student data and share it with others
* It’s important to configure the information to accurately represent the results
* be sure to pick the right tool for the learning objective you’re trying to teach.
*Learn digital literacy skills
*Teaching how to evaluate sources
* Avoiding plagiarism while doing web research.
*Add images and video to slides- it's easy to crop images or fit them into shapes.
*Allows listeners to learn through auditory and visual methods; interaction encourages active learning.
*Embed links behind text to make the presentation less predictable and allow students to explore on their own, like uncovering a treasure box.
*How to use YouTube to improve student engagement
*Best practices for introducing YouTube in the classroom
*Be sure and subscribe!
*Facilitate group work with Google tools
*The difference between synchronous and asynchronous discussion
*How to assign and collect assignments using Classroom
*Digital citizenship & understanding your digital footprint
*Protecting yourself with strong passwords and avoiding hoaxes
*Defining and managing your online identity, resiliency and dealing with cyber bullying