G Suite

If you are a Google district, you probably already know about the G-Suite. These are all the Apps available through the google platform. If you are not part of a google district, you can have access to all these Apps by signing up for a Google account.

An important word about ownership:

If you create something on your school's google account, the district has full access and ownership of the document. I knew a teacher who left her position and found out later that her documents were being used after she left without her permission.

I don't mind sharing my documents, but I did have problems with access after leaving a district. Download everything to your personal computer. I left a district and even though I shared everything to my personal account and added it to my drive, it all disappeared when they deleted my account unless it was a document I revised/edited with my personal account. I recommend creating everything with your personal account first and sharing it with work.

The ChromeBook Classroom Podcast

Draw - A Graphics Program

• How to make graphic organizers with Google Draw

Drive - stores your documents. Accessible from any computer, a great way to share files from home to work, and is a great back up in case your computer or flash-drive crashes, fails, or gets stolen.

• Important tip: Create a personal google account and upload all your materials there. Then share it with your school account and add to your drive. That way if you change districts or retire, you still have all your content.

• How to transfer ownership of a Google Drive Folder

• Consumer Drive users: You can't transfer ownership of a synced or uploaded file (like a PDF or an image file).

Calendar - allows for multiple calendars in one site. Can turn on and off different calendars. View-able from any computer and even your phone. Create events with alerts and never miss an appointment again.

docs - Word processing program. Can read and convert from MS Word.

• Using Google Docs for To Do Lists from Control Alt Achieve

• Holiday Card with Google Docs

sheets - spreadsheet program similar to Excel

• Pixel Art with Google Sheets from Control Alt Achieve

• Google Sheets check boxes and 3 ways to use them

• How to freeze header row

slides - presentation program similar to PowerPoint

• Google Slides Rotate to Portrait Mode from Alice Keeler

• 25 things you didn't know Google Slides Could Do

• I create all my signs with Google Slides

• Google Slides Templates from SlidesMania

sites - for creating websites

• Digital Portfolio

Library Webpages on Google Sites from School Librarian's Workshop Facebook Group

• Arroyo Secco JHS Library

• Laurel Mill Elementary School

• Mrs. C's Resources (Elementary)

• Anchor Pointe Elementary School

• SES Library

• In the LMC With Mrs. Nase - Google Sites Classic format

• Eastlake High School - Embed Instagram

• Penn Manor Elementary Libraries

• Elvin Hill Elementary

• Rice Lake Media Center

• Hawthorne Library

• Village Elementary School Media Center

• NWE Media Center

• NAMS Digital Reading

• Will Rogers Mustang Library Elementary k-5

• Voorhees Library Media Center

• HSD36 Library

• Reynolds School Library

• Whittemore Library

• Seaward EL Library

• HHS Library

• Bloomer High School Library

• Hunt Huskies Library

• South Elementary Library

• Greenlodge School Library

• NHS Library

• SFHS Library

• Millikan Middle School Library Blair Carroll, LAUSD

• BHA Library

• SG High School Library

• Glen Rose Intermediate School

• Searingtown Virtual Library Elementary K-5

• Kilgore ISD Libraries (district library Page)

• Lincoln High School Library

• AISZ Library - very simple home page, links on top

• Paetow Library

groups - Google's Social Media Platform. Good for building your Professional Learning Network. Educational Accounts only.

contacts - for g-mail and groups

keep - digital post-its

forms - for quizzes and surveys or elections

Google Forms: Peer Collaboration Evaluation Template from Alice Keeler

hangouts -Webinar program for virtual meetings

classroom - to push out content to your students or colleagues

• Creating a poll in Classroom

• Google Classroom Cheat Sheet for Teachers

• How to reuse and assignment (not a post)

noodle tools -for bibliographies

Extensions:

• Crafty Text: Makes Text Large enough for students to see

• Bitmoji: makes cartoon avatars

• Shortcuts for google docs

• Alice Keeler is a great resource for tips and tricks with the G Suite