Amazing Add-Ons
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to my colleague, Diana Benner (@diben). Several of her resources are linked and shared in this presentation. Follow her at the TCEA TechNotes blog.
Accessibility & Assessment
Immersive Reader
Thanks to Joe Marquez for sharing this. Check out his video, as well as his Wakelet on favorite Chrome extensions.
Closed Captioning for Google Slides
When you present with Google Slides, you can turn on automatic captions to display your words in real time at the bottom of the screen. Read Blog.
Built In Chromebook accessibility features
Chromebooks are so powerful that they come with built-in accessibility features right out of the box. Read Blog.
Google Forms
Google Forms is a great way for teachers to collect data on student growth and achievement.
View examples and make copies of the Formative Assessment forms below that were created by Bradley Lands.
Formative Assessments - Google Drive Folder link
Communication
Protect Your Privacy
Learn how to use a free tool, Google Voice for your personal Google account, to make parent phone calls. Learn what settings are best, etc. We'll start from scratch.
Digital Mail Merge for Parent Contacts
Learn three easy ways to provide personalized parent communication using Gmail and some great add-ons that will make connections a breeze.
Glide is a service that lets you add information to a Google sheet, then quickly create an app from its contents, all without coding. Just pick one of your sheets and Glide assembles it into a polished app that you can customize, share with a link, and even publish to the app store.
Ready to Give it a Try? Check out these examples and follow these simple steps! And, here's a terrible video.
Differentiation
Digital Choice Boards with Google Slides
Need to create an engaging, student-friendly digital choice board with Google Slides? In this fast-paced walkthrough you can watch again and again, learn how. You'll see how to "hide" slides that you can link to and create a hyperslide deck.
Learning Menus with Google Slides
Learning Menus are forms of differentiated learning that give students a choice in how they learn. Each choice on the Menu encourages students to engage in an activity that requires them to actively engage with the content.
Digital Media
Digital Audiobooks
Amazing audiobooks and content are available online for educational use. Let's explore a few of these and how you can use Reciprocal Teaching strategies to deepen learning. Video content sources will also be shared.
NonFiction Media
Need MORE nonfiction content for your remote learning classroom? Several online providers of nonfiction have made content available for K-12 education. In this session, we’ll explore a few high-effect size instructional strategies and nonfiction media sources.
Did You Know?
"I would be interested in learning how to do a book club with my students online. I want to focus on short stories for 5 – 8th grade boys to improve their reading comprehension skills and vocabulary." - Lydia
Organization
Create schedules for students with Google Docs
Use Google Docs to create home learning schedules for students and families.
Get Organized with Google Keep
Help students get organized by creating lists in Google Keep. You can even create lists for yourself.
Screencasting
Screencastify
Screencastify will allow teachers to record lessons, demonstrations, and more from the Chrome browser. You can record up to 5 minutes for free.
Flipgrid_Screenrecording.mp4Flipgrid
Flipgrid announced on April 1, 2020 that they are adding screen recording to their amazing product. It’s a free, no-cost offering.
You can now organize your screencasts, such as of your desktop and apps, into grids and allow others to contribute. What’s more, you can export those screencasts as MP4 video files to place on YouTube. It also allows you to start and stop video recording, which is an amazing feature.