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• Google Voice Updates - Long awaited and needed updates have been made to this popular Google product. Updates start with a facelift to the desktop and mobile apps along with some great new features!
• Tour Petra in Google Cardboard
• Quickly open NEW docs in browser
  • Docs: docs.google.com/create
  • Sheets: sheets.google.com/create
  • Slides: slides.google.com/create
  • Forms: forms.google.com/create
• TIP: Command-click on a bookmark bar folder to open all bookmarks at once

Carrie Baughcum is a self-described inspiration junkie, idea spreader, and learning enthusiast! Most importantly, she is a passionate believer that all children can learn, we just need to find out how.

Baughcum is currently the 6th, 7th and 8th-grade Extended Resource Special Education class in Arlington Heights School District 25. In her classroom, Carrie integrates technology, creative thinking, a fearless attitude, the power of gamification and endless doodles to enable her students to access information and materials, enhance their learning and empower them to achieve things they never knew they could do or be a part of.

Carrie is also the mother of two daughters, 9 and 11 years old. At home, she encourages them to explore, learn and try anything their imagination can think up. She works hard to create and involve them in activities and experiences with exploration, creativity, problem-solving and making.

She shares her experiences from her classroom, adventures, experiences and time with her husband and daughters with other at conferences and at carriebaughcum.com.

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Shared by Carrie:

• Using Google Calendar as an Assignment Notebook
• Gamification Resources from Carrie
• Lesson: Argument Paragraph and Speech (Want your own copy? Go to File>Make a Copy in the Doc)

Matt - How to get parents on board with your big changes Kasey - How to Differentiate Assignments in Google Classroom

• Kevin White, The Learning Choice Academy in California, wrote in:
  • Matt, I love your site! Need to spruce mine up. I like the new Google Sites (been using Classic Google Sites), but it seems a bit limited. What do you use for your Ditch That Textbook site? Did you design it yourself? I hope you do not mind, I will be presenting and sharing some of your blogs at our next teacher tech training in Feb! Keep up the good work, I find your passion for educational technology to be exuberant!
• Tracey Nangle, ELA/Geography teacher, North Smithfiled Schools in Slatersville, RI
• Keturah Rush, Monticello School District in Monticello, AR
• Thank You Pam Q for your 5-star iTunes review!
  • This podcast was easy to listen to: clear, concise and useful for teachers and administrators. Kasey and Matt include current information for any educator who is integrating technology in their classrooms and schools. Can't wait for the next episode!

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Google News and Updates

• More options for copying presentations in Google Slides
• New Chromebooks for 2020
• Doodle for Google 2020: How do you show kindness?Submissions close on March 13th, 2020
• New look for Google Forms on mobile

Featured Content

You can share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone.

When you share from Google Drive, you can control whether people can edit, comment on, or only view the file.

• Share button settings
• Kasey’s Guide to Google Drive Sharing
• Copy/template links, etc
• Create G Suite Templates with This Mind-Blowing Hack
• Sir Links a Lot extension
• Email collaborators
• Shared folders
• Shared drive
• Add to Drive button
• How to Make a Copy of Google FilesDoes not get updates from the original file
• Does not work in GC
• Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc!
• 10 ways for teachers, students to share links in class
• Attach in gmail
• Attach in Google Calendar

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Jennifer Conti (Ohio)

Kathy Hilby (Wisconsin)

On The Blogs

• Matt - 4 classroom test/quiz strategies to avoid the gotcha game
• Kasey:
• The Top 10 Secrets of an Awesome Tech Coach (FREE eBook)
• It’s NOT About Google (Part 1) with FREE Dynamic Learning with Google Toolkit

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Google News and Updates

• We need a hero: 2019 in Search
• Interpreter mode brings the real-time translation to your phone
• Review the latest changes to a new Google Site before publishing
• Send emails as attachments in Gmail

Featured Content

E16: Tour the World with the New Google Earth

Create your own maps and stories in Google Earth

5 Tips to Start Creating with Google Earth (FREE PDF from Google) - CHEAT SHEET

Creating Stories About the World

• The Diary of a Young Girl
• Math on Maps
• Golden Eagle Migration

LitTrips

https://arvr.google.com/tourcreator/

Creating with Google Earth: 10 ideas to try (Ditch That Textbook blog)

Some features in Google Earth’s creation tools:

• Placemarks
• Lines and shapes
• Street View
• Slides
• Present

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Dianne Miller Duncan (Southern California)

Thanks to Brian Briggs for sharing this #createwithchrome Google advent activity: bit.ly/CreateAdvent

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 20 sites for students with free time on their hands
• FREE Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit (December 21-January 8): DitchSummit.com
• Kasey:
• 6 FREE Google Templates for Teachers and Students from TechChef4U
• Holiday Reading: 6 Books to Transform Your Classroom

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Google News and Updates

• Originality reports and rubrics now generally available for Google Classroom users Improve student writing with originality reports and rubrics in Classroom
• G Suite Add-ons now generally available in Calendar, Gmail, and Google Drive

Featured Content

The Five Principles of Don’t Ditch That Tech

1. Technology should be used to enhance students’ learning and should rely on evidence-based practices. There is no substitute for great teaching or great student-to-teacher relationships.
2. Technology should help us work with content in interactive, meaningful ways.
3. Technology should help teachers and students cross varied developmental levels.
4. Technology should eventually empower students to be designers of their own learning. The goal is for students to become critical thinkers and life-long learners.
5. Technology should promote reflection and metacognition.

Iorad - online tutorial builder

A Dangerously Powerful EdTech App: iorad (from Teaching from the Ridge blog)

Dotstorming -- Dotstorming takes the process of dot voting online to allow groups of people to collaborate on a topic.

Penzu Journal -- A private, 100% customizable online journal.

Twitter: @TeachFromRidge

Website: http://www.teachingfromtheridge.com/

Resources

• Don’t Ditch That Tech (book)
• Free book preview and book study resources
• PDF notes from Nate and Angie’s presentation in the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit
• Nate and Angie’s Make It Til Friday podcast

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

Melanie Samson-Cormie (Edmonton CA)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• 10 social media-inspired learning activities: no account needed
• Kids blogging in math class: Why and how
• Kasey:
• It’s NOT About Google
• How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

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Google News and Updates

• Autocorrect now available for Google Docs on web
• Smart Compose in Google Docs now generally available
• Edit your new Google Sites faster with a revamped Settings menu
• Google Maps 101: how contributed content makes a more helpful map
• The Suite Life: 4 tips for a more manageable Gmail inbox

Featured Content

Jessica Brogley currently teaches courses in educational technology in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin Platteville. Prior to this, she served in the Platteville School District as the Instructional Technology Support Specialist and the Digital Communication Specialist for three years. Jessica cut her teeth as an 8-12th grade English Language Arts and College Credit Public Speaking for Seymour Community Schools in Seymour, Wisconsin for 11 years.Jessica is one of the few educators in Southwest Wisconsin who is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, Innovator, and Google Streetview Certified. She's also a Level 8 Google Local guide with over 1700 photos, over 500 are photospheres. This past fall, Jessica was also one of 200 people selected world-wide by Google to attend the 2019 Connect Live event, completely sponsored by Google in San Jose, CA in the Fall of 2019. That conference not only celebrated the top Google Maps contributors, but it also gave her a chance to ask questions and provide feedback to actual Google employees. She also founded the Southwest Wisconsin Google Educator Group.

Resources

Insta360 cameras (two fisheye lenses on each side). Connect the phone to the device via wifi. The phone is like the shutter. Stitches image together as one spherical image. Transfer back from the camera to phone: what to do. Retouch ($2 app) erases yourself out of the photo. Use Google Street View app: upload to google maps. Tiny Planet photography.

Kids write about aspects of the community. (Early standard in elementary.) Use camera: photograph police station, firehouse, city hall, school, etc. Publish to account. Use tour creator to write about the significance. They can’t write collaboratively but can take turns. (Fire department: didn’t know what certain things are. Study: what that is what does it do?) Tourist opportunity: where to enjoy an afternoon, historical locations, etc.

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

Laura Cahill (Massachusetts)

On The Blogs

• Matt - 20 free Google Slides and PowerPoint themes for teachers (plus lesson ideas)
• Kasey - The Instructional Playbook (interview with Jim Knight)

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