Here are some highlights of the new Gmail from the techy coach blog. Snooze emails until laterPostpone emails to a future date or time that's more convenient for you. Learn how to snooze emails. Use suggested replies & follow-upsQuickly reply to emails using phrases that'll show up based on the message you've received. Learn how to use Smart Reply. View Calendar, Tasks, Keep & Add-onsYou can now use Google Calendar, Keep, Tasks, and Add-ons while in Gmail. Learn how to use Calendar, Keep, Tasks, and Add-ons with Gmail.
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Note: If you use Gmail with your work or school account, ask your admin to allow you to get the new Gmail. Have Students Set Goals
One researcher I particularly admire is Carol Dweck from Stanford (and author of the best selling book Mindsets.) One of the effective practices she shares is using short-term goal setting. Short term goals lead to long-term goals. Short-term goals should be measurable, and not by grades. These are not things like “I will get a B” but rather “I will use proper nouns 5 times this week.” Google Classroom Google Forms could be a good way to have students set short-term goals, however, the challenge is how to provide feedback to students to refine their goals and how students reflect on their goal to see if they met them. Google Classroom provides an excellent platform for short-term goal setting. Create a new assignment in Google Classroom titled something like “Short-Term Goal for this week.” Ask the students to, in the Private Comments, state their goal for the week along with their actionable plan to reach that goal. Feedback It is highly likely that the student will need feedback on their goal and will need to revise the goal. Private Comments makes this a much easier process. You can see the student’s goal. Easier than sending an email you are able to reply to the student to help them with refining the goal. The student can then update their goal. Return to the Goal Using the SAME assignment, return to the goal. On the assignment click on the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and choose “Move to top.” Students can then open the assignment they set their goal in and provide a reflection on their goal in the Private Comments. Attaching Evidence Because the student is using Google Classroom it is easy for them to provide evidence. Taking screenshots of evidence is an excellent way to submit to Google Classroom. Students can, in the short-term goal assignment, click the “Add” button and add files from Google Drive or screenshot files from their computer or tablet. C. Smith has created a new website using Weebly for her Kindergarten students and parents. I wanted to share this with you as a technology idea, and as an example of how you can use Weebly (free).
https://hellokindergarten.weebly.com/ Here is a link to how to create a website using Weebly. It's really quit easy to use the voice typing tool in Google Docs.
1. open a Google Doc 2. click on Tools 3. click on Voice Typing 4. click on the microphone 5. click "allow" is needed 6. begin talking and watch your words type on the page 7. click on the microphone to stop GRADE 1 example: Snap and Read is a reading tool for google chrome and iPads. Here are few things it helps with:
* Reads accessible and inaccessible text aloud • Works across Google Drive, email, websites, Kindle Cloud Reader, and PDFs • Works offline • Dynamic Text Leveling • Study tools • Annotation • Translation into 100+ languages on Chrome • Data for reading level and usage • Bibliographer • Shows Readability https://www.useloom.com/share/be316dd11b0e4710aa057b98f3717039 Here are 15 graphic organizers that can be used for many different subject areas and grade levels. Feel free to make a copy of any of them and adapt them for your own use: ( Ditch That Textbook by Matt Miller)
Venn diagram: Lets students write similarities and differences on a topic. KWL: Lets students list: what I know, what I want to know, what I have learned. Timeline: Lets students plot dates and events over a specified time period. Evaluation: Lets students identify criteria, explain whether it was successful and why, and provide evidence. Cause and effect chain: Lets students identify actions that caused other actions and their effects. Fishbone planner: Lets students list advantages and disadvantages of a topic. Word web / semantic map: Lets students branch ideas out from a main topic into subtopics. Flow chart: Lets students display the linear relationship among several things. Hexagonal thinking: Lets students connect ideas with multiple contact points. I first learned about hexagonal thinking at Google Teacher Academy in Austin, Texas, in December 2014. Character map: Lets students list important information about a character, like what the character says and what the student thinks of the character. Cornell note-taking: Lets students list main points and evidence, details and location. Plot diagram: Lets students show how a plot builds, climaxes and resolves. Vocabulary cluster: Lets students identify synonyms, antonyms and related words to a specific word. Vocabulary concept map: Lets students make connections to other words from a specific vocabulary term. Think about your thinking: Helps students think through their decisions and how they arrived at their conclusions. |
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