We have a premium license for high school and middle school teachers and students, which means that not only can teachers use Screencastify to create instructional videos for their students, they can have their students use Screencastify to record videos and screencasts as well!  Elementary teachers can use Screencastify premium, but no student licenses were purchased.  Their students can still use the free version of Screencastify...the biggest difference is that the free version only allows up to 5 minutes of recording at a time (if a recording needs to be longer, the student would have to do it in segments).

🔴 VIDEO: Overview of how to use Screencastify

🔴 VIDEO:  Create your YouTube Channel if you want to publish to YouTube (often will stream better than from your Google Drive)

🔴 VIDEO: How to edit a video in Screencastify You can open the video editor immediately after you finish recording, or you can open the video from Google Drive to edit it.  In the video you will notice that he right-clicks on the video file and selects "Open with > Screencastify Video Editor."  If you don't see that in your Google Drive, just click "Connect more apps," search for Screencastify and you should be able to find and add the Screencastify Video Editor to your Google Drive!

🔴 VIDEO: How to stitch together multiple video segments in Screencastify

🔴 VIDEO: Ways for Students and Teachers to use Screencastify in the Classroom You can obviously record a lecture, but you can also use Screencastify to record feedback for students, communicate with parents, record a tutorial/instructions on how you want something done and for students to do presentations virtually (or for the benefit of the students who are not currently in class on an A/B schedule).

🔵 RESOURCE: Student instructions for using Screencastify

🔴 VIDEO: 50 Ways to Use Screencastify

Once you have edited your video, you are ready to post it in your online classroom!

Google Slides is hands-down one of the BEST and most versatile tools for designing online learning!  You can create interactive worksheets, embed videos directly into your presentations, create student portfolios, create choice boards, create hyperdocs, create drag-and-drop matching activities...the possibilities are endless!  PRO TIP:  If you want/plan to print your slides off for students who need a paper copy, take a moment when you open the file and click on File > Page Setup, choose Custom size and make it 11 x 8.5.  Now everything in your Google Slides file can be printed off EXACTLY how it looks on your slides!

🔴 VIDEO:  Slides Add-Ons to add more functions to Slides (images, fonts and Peardeck)

🔴 VIDEO:  How to insert hyperlinks in Slides

🔵 RESOURCE: Example of a student portfolio template in Slides

🔴 VIDEO:  How to create a custom slide deck for your classroom that can be quickly printed into full-page handouts

🔴 VIDEO:  How to create an interactive worksheet with locked background elements that cannot be moved or changed 

🔴 VIDEO:  How to create a drag-and-drop activity  

🔴 VIDEO: How to create a graphic organizer in Slides

🔴 VIDEO:  How to create an interactive worksheet from a PDF or document. PRO TIP: In the video, Jamie Keet tells you to insert a text box for the places that you want your students to enter their response, and type "Click here" so your students have a box to type in.  If you INSTEAD go to a blank Google Slide and grab one of the text placeholders that say "Click to add text" and then copy and paste them as much as needed, your students will not have to delete the typing that you entered before they start typing.  When they click on the placeholder the words 'Click to add to text' will disappear and they can just start typing!

🔴 VIDEO: How to create a choice board for students (click HERE to learn more about choice boards)

🔴 VIDEO: How to create a hyperdoc (click HERE to learn more about hyperdocs)

🔴 VIDEO: How to create student portfolio (click HERE to view an example of a student portfolio template I used for STEM)

🔴 VIDEO:  How to apply a custom theme to your Slides presentation

🔴 VIDEO: If you are interested in doing unit-long, semester-long or year-long interactive notebooks, the "Slip in Slide" Slides add-on might be a great tool for you!  You can preview for free, and purchase for $8.50 for lifetime use.  It allows you to push new slides into your students' notebooks through the year.

🔵 RESOURCE:  Slides Carnival creative Slides themes you can use for free

🔵 RESOURCE: Halloween Slides themes

🔵 RESOURCE: Daily and Weekly Agenda Slides themes

Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on that you can use to move your students through your slide deck at your pace, and it also allows you to add in some quick feedback-type questions like the PD question I posed to you during our meeting.  With the free version, you cannot track student-specific data from their responses, but it is a great way to embed exit-slips, conduct surveys and gather reflections/feedback in your presentation as you move through it.   

🔵 RESOURCE: Step-by-step guide

🔴 VIDEO: How to liven up your Slides with Bitmoji scenes and Classrooms

🔴 VIDEO: How to convert a Google Slides activity or Bitmoji Classroom to a clickable activity in Seesaw

🔴 VIDEO:  How to create a Bitmoji account and create your avatar

🔴 VIDEO: How to liven up your Slides with Bitmoji scenes and Classrooms 

🔴 VIDEO: How to publish your virtual classroom to post in Google or SeeSaw

🔵 RESOURCE: Library of Bitmoji Assets 

🔵 RESOURCE: Google Slides example of a virtual reading room using Epic! books (scroll down towards the bottom of this page to learn more about using Epic! in your classroom)

🔵 RESOURCE: Bitmoji PBIS Cards

🌎 LINK: Remove.bg  (use this website to remove backgrounds from images)

🔴PRO TIP! To launch your Bitmoji classroom you'll need to first "publish it."  Once you publish it, you'll grab that link and post it in SeeSaw or your Google Classroom.  Here is a video to show you how!  OR, to launch it in presentation mode with no navigation tools popping up in the lower left corner of the screen, change the URL by replacing everything from /edit to the end of the URL with /preview?rm=minimal.  Lastly, to keep students from advancing to a new slide by randomly clicking on the slide, you will leave your first slide just as it is, but then right-click on each of your other slides and choose "Skip slide."  (Shout out to our first grade team for helping us figure out how to do that!!!)

Google Meet is a way to meet with your virtual students from anywhere!  Your Google Classroom now has a static link for each classroom that never changes.  When you open a Meet using that link, it is live and ready for students to join.  When you get all students out of the Meet and then close it, the link is now 'dead' and cannot be accessed by students until you open a Meet session again!

🔵 RESOURCE: Step-by-step guide form Google Meets not hosted in the Classroom Meet Link

🔴 VIDEO: Creating a Google Meet for 1:1 Meetings

🔴 VIDEO: Creating a Virtual Office Meet

🔴 VIDEO: How Google Meet works in Classroom

🔴 VIDEO: Basics of Hosting a Google Meet (overview of starting and closing a Meet, along with the controls)

🔴 VIDEO: How to incorporate a Google "Jamboard" session in Meet to have an interactive white board

🔴 VIDEO:  How to record a Google Meet and post to your Google Classroom for all students to view when they have time, AND how to attach that recording to an assignment. 

Classroom screen is a website that allows teachers to use many different tools on their projectors/whiteboard.  It has a stoplight, timer, dice, sound monitor, and many other tools!

🌎 LINK:  Classroom Screen

All students K-12 will now have a Google login!  That means that even the lower elementary grades can now enjoy the power of a learning management system for in-class and remote learning.

🔴 VIDEO: Intro to Google Classroom

🔴 VIDEO: Intro to Google Classroom On the Mobile App (iOS and Android)

🔴 VIDEO: How to Configure Settings and Organize your Google Classroom 

🔵 RESOURCE: Teacher Step-by-Step Guide to Classroom

🔵 RESOURCE: Tracy's Intro to the Basics of Google Classroom Slide Deck

🔵 RESOURCE: Tracy's Google Classroom Cheat Sheet

🔵 RESOURCE: How to push Google Classroom Grades into Infinite Campus

🔵 RESOURCE: Teacher Welcome to Dojo Slide Deck

🔵 RESOURCE:  Full teacher onboarding videos library

🔴 VIDEO: Overview of Class Dojo 

🔴 VIDEO:  Tips for using Dojo for remote learning

🔵 RESOURCE:  Check out this Facebook group for Dojo Teachers! (45,000 members!)

🔵 RESOURCE:  How do students login at home?

🔵 RESOURCE:  How do students check how many points they have?

🔵RESOURCE:  Dojo's Teacher Help Page with instructions on just about everything!

WHAT IS CLASS DOJO

Class Story:  You can share up to 10 photos, along with videos, files and links to your parents in each post. It is a private feed that only your connected parents can view.  Dojo can also translate posts into up to 35 languages.

🔴 VIDEO: How to record a video for your class

School Story:  Select members of the school can post newsletters, photos, videos and such to the School Story.  This is a private feed, and a great way to communicate to parents.

Messaging: Send a message to parent cell phones without giving out your cell phone number.  Parents can text back as well!

Portfolios: Teachers can post assignments in Portfolios and ask students to take a picture, record a video, draw, or type a response.  If the student takes a picture, they can also draw and annotate over it, or record themselves talking about it.

🔴 VIDEO: How to use the new features in Student Portfolios

Events: Teachers can now schedule Events like parent conferences, virtual office hours, classroom parties, etc.  

🔴 VIDEO:  How to schedule a classroom Event

Toolkit:  Teachers now have a collection of widgets like group maker, timer, music, noise meter, announcements and random student selector: 

🔴 VIDEO:  Overview of Teacher Toolkit Dashboard. 

Skills: Teachers can define what skills they want to reward in their students (collaboration, helping, following instructions, perseverance, etc.) and use Dojo points to reward positive behavior, which supports our PBIS initiative.  Teachers can then establish creative ways for students to redeem those points (teacher helper for the day, pencils, first in line to lunch, etc.). 

🔵RESOURCE: How to redeem student points