Google Teacher Podcast

• Now students can create their own VR tours
• Google VR Tour Creator
• Google Lens: real-time answers to questions about the world around you
• 13 ways you’re using AI in your daily life
• Lessons from Teachers of the Year (a YT playlist)
• SUBJECT: Write emails faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

Summer vacation is used by so many teachers around the world as a time to unwind, relax, and recover from the grind that is education. There so many ways that teachers like you continue to devote time to learning and growing professionally.

• The Dynamic Learning Workshop (companion course to the Shake Up Learning book)
• 18 Challenges for Teachers in 2018
• The Google Certified Educator Academy Level 1
• The Google Certified Educator Academy Level 2
• Become a Google Certified Trainer
• All certification courses open May 28 and close on June 10!

• Tech to Learn free 3-video series and video course

• TxGoo - The Texas Google Summit where WE are the keynote!
• 2018 Strobel Summit
• Join us at the 2018 CSTA Conference to learn about CS First and Machine Learning in the classroom Google is hosting several events at the 2018 Computer Science Teacher Association’s Conference on July 7-10 in Omaha, Nebraska. Join us for a hands-on session and workshops to introduce CS First and Machine Learning in the classroom. Register today for the opportunity to build skills at cstaconference.org #CSTA2018.
• Edcam PS across the globe
• #ISTE18 Twitter hashtag + other conferences + and presenting together

Nanci Greene -- Your podcast is one of the few that I've listened to all of the episodes of. Thanks for all you do to help us educators grow in our craft. For the teacher who asked about creating animated GIFS, Tall Tweets (https://talltweets.com/) might be an option. It allows you to easily create animated GIFS from Google Slides.

• Matt - 30+ ways to Ditch That Textbook: Ideas for teachers by teachers
• Kasey - Google Certified Educator Level 2 Challenge Tasks!

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Matt and Kasey have a lot of fun hosting the podcast! So much fun that they've inadvertently caused a new hashtag, #superexcited! Jen Giffen, their guest in episode 1o, created this graphic to help Matt and Kasey with their choice of words:

• Viewing Video Attachments in Gmail: when opening an email with video attachments, you will see a thumbnail of the video and have the ability to stream it, right from inside Gmail.
• Update Google Drive Plug-in for Office (Before April 20): The Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office allows users working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to open documents directly from Google Drive, and save to Google Drive, without leaving their Office programs.
• Journey Under the Earth in Street View

Google Keep is a note-taking service developed by Google. Google Keep is available on the web and has mobile apps for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Keep offers a variety of tools for taking notes, including text, lists, images, and audio.

• Now part of G Suite
  • Google Docs Integration
  • Google Keep Chrome Extension
  • Mobile Apps (iOS and Android)
  • Google Keep Support Page

• Google Keep Cheat Sheet from Shake Up Learning
• Eric Curts Grading with Google Keep
• Stephanie Filardo -- DocStickers with Google Keep

• Lynn Legg (Castle Pines, Colorado) asks: I would love to know how I can clean out all the essays and assignments in my Google drive from previous year's Google Classrooms

• Matt - 10 ways Google Keep can help streamline life at school
• Kasey:
  • 15 Ways Students Can Use Google Keep [infographic]
  • Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students

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• Machine learning meets culture
• Learn what you can do #withClassroom
• Math Games now integrates with Classroom

Google Forms have come a long way since starting as a simple survey tool. Educators quickly found ways to use Forms in other ways; from teaching math to using them to give various assessments.

• Get started with Quizzes
• Google Forms Quizzes support
• Adding links to feedback to differentiate
• The immediacy of feedback makes it more valuable
• Focus on Formative Feedback (Valerie Shute):
  • Rresent elaborated feedback in manageable units,
  • Keep feedback as simple as possible but no simpler
• Settings:
• Export grades to Classroom
• 24 Tips for Google Forms Quizzes

• Sarah Gershon (Waukegon, IL) -- Made a choice board for students, loves the show and told us via our SpeakPipe!
• Mr. Blight (via Twitter): I'm having some issues when putting my Drawings files onto my Site. It shows up faded when the site is published. Any thoughts or ideas? #gttribe #gsuiteedu

• Matt - OMG Becky, PD is getting so much better! (via Cult of Pedagogy Podcast)
• Kasey - Pre-order the Shake Up Learning book and get The Dynamic Learning Workshop Course FREE!

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Google News and Updates

• Helping educators and students stay connected
• Learn@Home on YouTube
• Connecting people with COVID-19 information and resources
• Now you can transcribe speech with Google Translate
• Join a GEG - Google Educator Group

Featured Content

Hangouts? Meet? Compare Meet with classic chat video calls

FREE Hangouts Meet Tutorials

Manage Meet Video meeting

13+ over questions - Communicating with Parents and Guardians about G Suite for Education

G Suite Enterprise features available:

• Recording videos
• Live streaming (through Calendar)

Google updates:

• Mute/block only by event creators
• Can’t rejoin in nicknamed meetings when event creator is last to leave

Infographics below:

• Tips for teacher users
• Tips for student users
• Teaching ideas for using Hangouts Meet

20 virtual field trip ideas and activities

30+ digital escape rooms (plus a step by step guide to creating your own)

Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag

• Yudelka Alvarado (NYC)

Bailey Sandsmark (San Diego)

On The Blogs

• Matt:
• How to use Google Meet for online learning, elearning
• Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources
• 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials
• Kasey:
• Google Classroom Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students
• 10 Google Docs Tips Every Teacher Should Know

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• Add custom links to the navigation bar in the new Google Sites
• New in Google Slides: linking in Docs, guides and rulers, and improved commenting
• Checkboxes in Google Sheets
• Get more control over chart data labels in Google Sheets

• Improved security
  • Confidential mode
  • 2-step verification to open
  • Block forwarding and printing
  • can also make messages expire after a certain time
• Busy
• New tasks
  • Improved functionality and you can SEE it!
• Calendar and Keep integration
• Hover
• Similar to Inbox by Gmail features
• How to get it
  • Don’t feel left out b/c some of these features aren’t even available yet
• Cannot control size of sidebar
• Display density
• Settings looks mostly the same
• Expect add-ons to continue to grow
• Fancy splash page
• Default view: icons with G Suite files (under Settings > Display density)
• Snooze items until later (“someday”)
• AI suggested responses (like Inbox)
• Warnings for risky emails

Zach Ripley - Sheets add-ons (50), teacher question: middle school PE with data. Functions and formulas ... import range function: master spreadsheet, one at a time: open student spreadsheet (only do once), copy key from URL, paste URL into import range function, master spreadsheet: import data from student sheet, real-time update (not copy paste) as students update.

Sara Reed (Aledo, TX) -- Google Classroom: see time stamp when a student turns in an assignment or mark it as done? If not, how do you handle students that say they did it and it doesn’t reflect in Classroom? (Click on “done” from assignment>then click on the student’s name from the roster on the left>then click “see history”)

Beth Cohen (Pennsylvania) -- HI Matt and Kasey! I love all the tips, tricks, and resources you share! Every year our Freshmen complete a unit on Academic Integrity. We have been using Moodle, which includes a self-grading quiz that lets students know whether they have achieved the minimum score and prompts them to review the resources and retake the quiz if they didn't pass. We will have GAFE instead of Moodle next year, so I want to reproduce the quiz in Forms, but I can't figure out how to set a minimum passing grade and notify the student whether he/she passed at the end. I could use branching and direct students back to the resources after every wrong response so that ultimately everyone ends up with a perfect score, but I'm hoping for a final pass or fail submission response. Hope you have some ideas! Thanks, Beth

Ben Whitaker (Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, UK) Sheets: In Excel, can lock down certain tabs so they can’t be edited in collab spreadsheet. Is there a way in Sheets? Add-on? Keep up great work!

3 Ways to Protect You Google Sheets Data

• Matt - 10 ways Google tools can make the end of the year rock
• Kasey - When the Lecture Ends, the Learning Begins from @Mo_Physics (Mike Mohammad)

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