Both of these projects can easily be created using Google Sites. They are a wonderful tool to keep your students organized, engaged, and creative. With learning happening online, providing students with a digital option to store and curate their work promotes creativity and an authentic method of sharing their content.
Our own Kevin English, from WCW, has been using Google Sites as a platform for student portfolios for a few years now. Here is a student example shared with permission.
eBinders are meant to be accessed and used regularly throughout your course. Student Portfolios, are meant as a platform to showcase your best work.
I love this teacher's video on how to create and use eBinders in the classroom. He walks you through the entire process and how he uses these binders in the classroom. Check out his websiteto see specific examples of student eBinders.
Cheryl's Seesaw Scoop 🍦
Attention all Seesaw teachers! So many of you have shared great ideas for features that you would like to see in the Seesaw learning platform. And, many of you have those questions that are better answered by the creators of Seesaw. So now is your chance to connect with Seesaw directly.
The Seesaw company is hosting monthly Q & A sessions for teachers to ask the experts their questions. This is also a great way to share your thoughts about updates the learning site should include in the months to come. What a great opportunity to go to the source and ask questions to the company who created this awesome learning platform. Register Here for upcoming dates to attend this virtual support opportunity. Dates are: December 9th, January 13th, February 10th, March 10th, April 14th, and May 12th.
Please remember that, within the district, I am here to support TK - Second Grade teachers with education technology integration, with Seesaw, and so much more. You can always reach me via email at cherylc@vacavilleusd.org, and I am also available via Zoom or in person for teacher coaching too. Coming up in January, I will also be offering tech teaching topics, to Zoom into your class, and virtually teach 21st century digital skills. Please don't hesitate to reach out! I am here to help!
Drew's Temporary Title 🌴
Hi everyone! This month I'd like to share two tips that I got from fellow educators:
The first is a short tutorial from Darin Nakakihara for sharing only a portion of your screen on Zoom. Here's the link and jump straight to 1:40 in the video to see it in action! This is a great tip that Kimme teacher, Jackie H. forwarded to me before break. Thanks Jackie! This feature may not work if you are hosting your Zoom from a chromebook, however it will come in handy for making the things you share on Zoom more visible for your students on their chromebooks.
The next item I have is a tip aimed at students for arranging two tabs or two windows in their chromebooks. This can be handy for a google Classroom or Seesaw tab and a google document or other work tab on each side of the screen. This short video is from Jake Miller, and the hat tip goes to Jennifer L. in Technology for bringing this one up last week. Thanks Jennifer! (Spoiler, the keyboard command is Alt + [ )
Both these features have been around for a while, but have new usefulness this year.
Aaron's Awesome Additions
Pear Deck Flashcard Factory
Redefine how your students learn vocabulary.
Flashcard Factory was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary. When you play Flashcard Factory as a game students pair up and work together to create dynamic and engaging flashcards. Students collaborate to illustrate and define terms, making learning vocab an active and social experience!
ChatGPT / AI in Education The above image was created with an AI Image generator with the following input. "an image about artificial intelligence in education with a renaissance masters art style" No more searching Google for an image that fits your subject matter! Just create it! By now, you have all probably heard about the latest artificial intelligence program ChatGPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer). See this video explaining what AI is and how it can be harnessed for learning. Perhaps you have only heard of it as a method for students to automatically generate essays and research papers that are not of their own creation. Often, the output results from ChatGPT are undetectable by the most common plagiarism software such as Turnitin and Google Classroom. For this reason, many teachers are quick to dismiss it as nothing but a cheater's tool. However, let's take a look at some of the beneficial uses of such programs be...
Happiest of New Year to you all! We hope that this blog finds you well rested and ready for great things to come. The New Year brings the opportunity to continue to grow your education technology skills. We have it on good authority that more Tech Fest opportunities are coming our way. Stay tuned for more details to come! We will continue to provide technology integration support to you and your students. As your Digital Education Coordinators, we will be offering class lessons, beginning in January, as well as continued opportunities for tech coaching during our virtual office hours. We are here to support and guide your technology use in the classroom. Dynamite Dawn Marsh Google Slides is such an amazing tool for teaching and learning. I'd like to share a couple tips to make Google Slides even more useful for you. Have you ever just wanted to share a clip of a video with your students, but thought the process of getting just a clip is too much work? Google Slid...
Back to school in so many ways... Help your students Research like a Boss! Research projects can be extremely frustrating! Students have difficulties finding reliable sources and teachers often have a difficult time teaching students proper research skills. Use this Slide Presentation to assist your students in effectively utilizing multiple Google Search Tools, including Explore, Scholar, YouTube filters, images, citations and more! Something Googly for Everyone! Google for Education has started a short series of 30 minutes Google Tips and Tricks. These sessions are usually held during school hours so they are not available to most teachers to view live. The sessions are super helpful! I'm including the page that holds the Recordings so you can view on your own time if you would like. Some really great tools on display in these sessions . Here are just a few of the topics so far: Google Classroom Glowup Chrome Sweet Chrome - What's New? Get St...
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