Google Teacher Podcast

• Create your own Street View imagery with new 360 cameras
• G+ - Invite people to community with a link
• Subscribe to Google for Education Newsletter (<-very bottom of this page)

• Automatic substitution
• Three finger drag with Chromebooks
• Clear formatting
• Insert > Image > Search (labeled for commercial reuse with modification)
• Email collaborators

• • Insert GIF
  • Force a Copy
  • Voice Typing
  • Tagging in Comments
  • Paste & Match Style

• 10 Google Apps tips EVERY teacher should know
• How to Insert Super Cool GIFs in Docs and Slides
• Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc
• 5 Google Drive Tips Everyone Should Know
• Google Drive Resources from Shake Up Learning
• 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools
• Image Search Tricks that Every Teacher Must Know

• Paula Frank
• Arlee Hall

• Matt - Flashback to 2000: Classroom Tech That Doesn’t Exist Anymore (Edudemic)
• Kasey - The Educational Hashtag and Twitter Chat Database

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• Test your knowledge of natural wonders in Google Earth
• It’s story time, and the Google Assistant has a tale for you
• Coding for Conservation

The end of the school year is coming in many places in the United States and around the world. As you navigate these sometimes difficult waters perhaps you can use some of the Google solutions we are sharing!

Let us know in the comments.

Change the Game Design Challenge from Google (Carlos Garza)

Emoji Scavenger Hunt

Create a Tic-Tac-Toe Learning Menu on a fun topic (Stephani Ann)

Try the 4 C’s Learning Menu to take their c’s to the next level

Sites for students with free time on their hands: (From 10 ways Google tools can make the end of the year rock)

• Quick, Draw! — In this game, you’re given an object/idea to draw and Google’s artificial intelligence tries to guess what you’re drawing. It’s a fun introduction to AI for students.
• AI Duet — “A piano that responds to you.” Google’s artificial intelligence uses tons of data to guess what it should play in response to what you play.
• Google Trends — Learn what other people are searching for all over the world.
• Google Earth Time Lapse — This shows what the world looks like as it changes over 20+ years. Watch the time lapse in motion. See the whole earth at once or zoom into your hometown!
• GeoGuessr — Use context clues to guess where you’ve been dropped in Google Maps. The closer the guess, the more points you earn!
• Just a Line -- Make simple drawings in AR, then share your creation with a short video.

Student-created Google Forms quizzes: (From 10 ways Google tools can make the end of the year rock)

By using Google Forms (Google’s survey tool), students can create their own quizzes. By turning on the quiz features in the settings gear, students can add immediate feedback for anyone who takes the quiz. This immediate feedback can be WAY more effective than comments written on student papers and passed back to them later. Plus, when students create the quizzes, they’re experiencing the content from a different perspective.

6 end-of-the-year Google Classroom clean-up tips (via ControlAltAchieve.com) --

• Return all student work
• Un-enroll students from old classes
• Archive old classes
• Remove old class calendars
• Move old class folders in Drive
• Remove old class files from “Shared with me” in Drive

• Rasa Conklin (Federal Way, WA) -- I created a Google sites for my students to display/ publish their work. I was having each group add a page to the site I created. When YO and DB, who were working on their page all of a sudden were upset because all their work disappeared and DL and IO work appeared on their page and all the other pages. I have a funny feeling that this is due to something small that we did wrong, but I need help. Is there an easy tutorial, or website for step by step directions? https://sites.google.com/p12fwps.org/build-a-generator/home
• Carly Black (Ohio) -- Hello, Thank you for the emoji extension tip. I was wondering if you knew a way to add GIFs just as easily? I've been thinking about letting students create literary analysis through a series of GIFs and emojis. The problem is finding the right tools to execute this well. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
• Matt Jacobson (Galesburg, IL) -- Hi Matt & Kasey! Just listened to ...

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The Chrome Squad is an elite group of students at Royse City High School that provide tech support and learning opportunities for both students and teachers. In the four years the Chrome Squad has been in operation they have evolved--developing new teams and products to serve not only Royse City ISD, but others districts as well. The Chrome Squad has helped over 50 other districts across the US start student internships, spoken at conferences like TCEA, and have been able to spend time at the Googleplex and Google HQ2 in Austin, Tx. The Chrome Squad is made of twenty-one 10th-12th graders working across 8 teams.

• Tech TV
• Connect Store
• Tech Tips
• Connected for Learning: The Podcast
• Inventory
• Chromecierge
• C4L Ninjas
• Promotions

There have been a few changes since the Chrome Squad was last on the Google Teacher Tribe Episode 8. They have started a podcast that focuses on the great things teachers are doing and the ways a teacher can better empower learners with technology. You can find the teaser for the podcast on iTunes (Google Play will be coming soon).

The Chrome Squad also adopted a goal setting process used by companies like Google called OKRs, or Objectives-Key Results, as well as Design SPRINTS. This has allowed the Chrome Squad to design and project plan an entire year’s worth of work in a few days during the summer.

• Connected for Learning: The Podcast
• ConnectedforLearning.org
• Re:Work with Google OKRs
• Design SPRINTS
• C4L BadgingTwitter: @Chrome_Squad

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• Expanded Page Hierarchy in Google Sites
• Gmail Add-Ons
• Checkmark Chrome Extension from EdTechTeam
• Rachel Smith (The Isle of Man) -- Keep for regularly used phrases / Permanent Clipboard extension
• See where the file is in Drive when you click to change the file name (via Mike Mohammad @mo_physics from Wisconsin)

Mason Mason, M. Ed. is an Education Technology National Instructor with EdTechTeacher, Inc. and an Ed.D. student at Southern Methodist University studying PreK-12 Educational Leadership. He is passionate about helping educators transform teaching and learning through technology integration and closing the digital divide through equitable access to technology for all students.

Mason obtained his B.A. in English and Education from The Ohio State University and his M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Southern Methodist University. He taught secondary English, Language Arts, and Reading for eight years in Dallas ISD and Plano ISD and spent a year as an Education Technology Instructional Coach at a 9-12 one-to-one iPad high school in Garland ISD. His passion for improving teaching and learning has guided his work in schools across the nation and at various local, regional, and national conferences.

Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1, Google Certified Educator Level 2, Google Certified Trainer, Google Certified Innovator

• Twitter: @EdtechMason
• Website: http://www.edtechmason.com

• Denise Wolfe (Nebraska) - Just wanted to take a moment and THANK YOU for your podcast!
• Heather Moores (Quebec, Canada) - I came across a Google Chrome Extension called “CheckMark”. Have you guys heard of this?

• Matt - Custom Bitmoji Feedback (via Mandi Tolen)
• Kasey - How to Become a Google Certified Trainer (FREE eBook Download)

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• Bringing online safety education programs to UK schools
• Providing more comprehensive results to your questions in Search
• Capture more of your favorite moments with Google Clips
• Google.org and StoryWeaver feed a hunger for reading

• The Guide to Keeping Up with Google
  • Part 1 – The #Google Hashtag Dictionary
  • Part 2 – Twitter
  • Part 3 – Who & What to Follow on Google+
  • Part 4 – Google+ Communities
    • Google Educator Groups
  • Part 5: Blogs
    • Keeping Up with Google: The One Blog to Rule Them All!
      • The Keyword Blog
      • G Suite Updates Blog
• @GSuiteEDUHelp Twitter account

I wanted to offer two ideas that tie in to your bell ringer tips in Episode 43. Now that my school is 1:1, I have my students do warm-ups in an interactive journal using Google Slides. It used to take me forever to grade their paper journals and I always dreaded it...until this year. I now collect the online "journals" once a quarter and I use the Doctopus add-on with a Goobric to grade them. This has saved me a lot of time AND increased how much feedback I'm able to give them. Win win! Also, I've used their bell-ringer/warm-up journals to review vocabulary words. I randomly assigned students a vocabulary word and asked them to find an image that show the words meaning. Next, students put their slides in presentation mode, then do a gallery walk. As they view each other's work, they write down the vocabulary word they think is being depicted on a sticky note next to each laptop. When students return to their seat, they'll know whether their picture sufficiently showed their assigned word's meaning based on their peer's anonymous feedback. Plus, it gets them up and moving. :)

Library Chrome Extension recommendation from Noah Geisel lets you know if a book is available at the library:

This chrome extension lets you know if the book you're about to buy is avail at the local library!!! https://t.co/uRPjSOhF0D h/t @bhwilkoff cc #gttribe #gsuiteedu @StackupScore

— Noah Geisel (@SenorG) February 13, 2018

• Matt - The 30-Day PIRATE Challenge and Kim Snodgrass’s PIRATE hook lessons on Twitter
• Kasey - 3...