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.
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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 . . . Just learned on Twitter about a collaborative online whiteboard called Bitpaper.io. Create a 'paper' and then share your paper URL with a friend. Sketch and create notes collaboratively, in real-time. Imagine students being able to sync their online whiteboard with a buddy & do step-by-step problem solving together. Some great teamwork and collaborations in the making! Challenge: Have students try collaborating with peers beyond their classroom! Follow #bitpaper on Twitter for ideas. Lots of educators sharing how they are using it in their classrooms. Try #appsmashing with Bitpaper, Pear Deck and Google Slides!! Whaaat!?! Soo cool. Click here to get the scoop on this! Watch video tutorial below for a quick intro of Bitpaper. Length of video: 1:23. Padlet is essentially a digital bulletin board where you can post, bookmark or pin digital content, but it can also serve as a social learning community where students can create & collaborate using multiple medias, such as text, images, photos, video, audio and drawing. This is NEWSworthy!! One of the newest features they have added is the ability to screen record! You have to install the Padlet Mini extension first. SB teachers.. you can just go to the Chrome Web Store and add it to your account. We have already added it to our students' accounts, so they are good to go!
Have you tried the Pear Deck ADD on a Google Slide presentation yet? Instantly add formative assessments or interactive questions directly to your Google Slides! video length: 49sec.
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