This tool is amazing. You can view a student's browsing history, recordings that they have done, send them a message, block websites and more. Wow, what a game changer for the Google Classroom remote teacher.
https://classroom.relay.school/groups/f3c3e223-a6ec-4f69-a2a3-9e3d4cd730c9 Hi DAWN, Welcome to Relay Classroom! Here are some resources you might find helpful:
2 - Focus on the right students. Use the "Currently Browsing" and "Status" sections to narrow down your view: just click on any item listed to instantly filter students. Learn more about filtering your view. 3 - Keep students on task. Click on a student to see their screen and open tabs. Any of their tabs can be closed, and you can even lock their screen completely. Learn more about interacting with students. Have you ever wanted to have a wide variety of fonts to use for newsletter, brochures and other documents, here is a great website for doing that. These fonts will install in your Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Ppt), but NOT in Google docs or slides.
If you are interested in some Christmas fonts, check out my help guides. If you need help, just let me know. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qWpsikuFtcqM_P6IQH0IvriXmSWGRrtG2eMHjMIMMo8/edit?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7M1zk6InbHca3VWTVpiRGp1bHM/view?usp=sharing Take your own pictures and let students be the stars of the comics! Here is one favorite way to personalize comics, or for students to personalize book reports, essays, and other digital products. Use the Alice Keeler Webcam Snapshot Chrome extension to take a webcam picture. When it saves to Drive, just insert it into your comic from Drive. They can pose, dress up in character, bring in props, etc.
Comic Google Drawing template You can resize your Google Drawings or Slides to make them wide like traditional newspaper comic strips. Go to File > Page setup > Custom. Choose the size you’d like. In this template, I made it 8 inches wide and 3 inches tall. Resource: Matt Miller Have you used Google Jamboard? It is a fun new tool that lives in your google suite apps.
With Jamboard you and your students can:
Templates from Matt Miller Thumbs Up Fist to Five Three Things For more ideas, go to: https://ditchthattextbook.com/jamboard-templates/ Here is a link to my Snap&Read help guide.
Why use Snap and Read? Snap&Read will read webpages, Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Classroom, etc. aloud to students, when they are using the Chrome. web browser: This is a valuable tool for our lower readers. If it isn't installed on your classroom Chromebooks, just put in a help ticket or ask Dawn T to have IT install it on all PC Chromebooks! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RKy1UnK_dbSwzSIx_PfKntp8EZEwmWhIGLMBndEVCJA/preview Many people have asked how to display the bookmarks bar on a student's Chromebook.
1. Click on the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner of the screen. 2. Navigate to Bookmarks and then to Show bookmarks bar. Being able to add audio to Google Slides can be used in so many ways in school:
If you are on a Chromebook though, this is an easy tool to use. Here's how it works:
That's it! This tool doesn't offer any other editing options. Just a simple way for anyone to record and save audio on a Chromebook. Audacity Use Audacity to record and save file as a .wav file. Then add to DropBox (you must have DropBox downloaded to your computer). Once in Drop Box, right click the file (within Drop Box). Choose the DropBox option from the pop up menu. Select "Copy Public Link".
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December 2020
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