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Welcome Back SB Peeps! Hope the summer treated you well and you are ready to kick off the school year integrating some great tech tools in the classroom! Here are a few things to keep in mind . . .
GLOBAL READ ALOUD 2019! Did you know that 4 million students from more than 86 different countries participate in the Global Read Aloud? The 10th annual project takes place worldwide from September 30th through November 8th and during that time, if you choose to participate, you read aloud one of the GRA 2019 Book Selections to your students and then make connections with students from other classroom(s) somewhere else in the world to exchange ideas and perspectives about the book. Click here to learn all about the project and how you can get your classroom involved. FLIPGRID has some AWESOME new updates!
Google Classroom Updates Google has been busy making lots of updates. gClassroom is more efficient than ever in helping you to create a paperless classroom! Scroll down on this page for more details about the latest changes. Need some ideas to spice up your parent-home communications? Go to the Digital Tools Library to find lots of great suggestions for creating digital newsletters, websites, and beyond. Look for the list of tools that will help you create something awesome, such as Adobe Spark, Remind, Google Sites, Wakelet, and more. To get the latest updates on Classroom by following Google for Education on Facebook, or Twitter and subscribe to the Google for Education blog. Check out the latest updates here. Plus, Google has a Help Center loaded with Google Classroom tutorials for both teachers and students, for the advanced users and newbies . . . access it here: Google Help Center. Updates to Gradebook:
Google for Education posts lots of quick tutorial videos about gClassroom on YouTube! Go here to check them out. Here is a one on creating a quiz . . . This 30 minute, on demand broadcast, is a MUST SEE for all classrooms and definitely for 5th grade classrooms studying fantasy fiction writing! Go behind the scenes to learn how stories come alive in this free 30-minute classroom broadcast with Cressida Cowell, the author & illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon series. Cressida will inspire students to tap into their boundless imagination and will show how using character development and details in stories make them more believable and fun! You do not need any special equipment to view the broadcast. Just your projector and speakers. For more information and resources to prepare your class & extension activities, go here. Because it is fully integrated with Google, students can create & store unlimited maps directly in Google Drive, plus they can share & collaborate with their peers. Students can download their mind map into a outline in Google Docs, so that they can continue to edit their writing, or import their maps into docs, slides, etc. It is simple, clean & easy to use.
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