I hope everyone's week is going well. I've been focusing my time on ways to streamline our remote learning practices. With that in mind. Here are a few.
Google Classroom Tips For Remote Learning: I stumbled upon this VIDEO which outlines different features to utilize in Google Classroom during remote learning. These features can streamline your teaching and facilitate student learning.
**Note the video goes into lots of ideas, I've noted 3 of them below.
- Declutter Stream - Did you know that every time you post materials, make an assignment, or an announcement in google classroom, a notice appears on the classroom "STREAM" page. This makes the stream very long and almost unusable.
- Student Comments - You might find that you want students to comment on assignments. Typically I have this feature turn-off in my classroom, but we are all working a little bit differently and this could be a great feature to facilitate quick questions/responses.
- Create Topics - useful in keeping your assignments organized and sorted for students. Maybe you already do this but a suggestion for remote teaching is creating topics by week (not by subject).
Google Sites Update: There are 2 new features in Google Sites.
- Banner - Great for putting a quick announcement along the top of your page
- Templates - Don't want to start a website from scratch? Check out the brand new template gallery. Simply replace text and images with your content.
Here is a video explaining the above 2 updates!
Seesaw Tip - Share Student Work with the Entire Class: Have you ever wished that you could share a student journal entry with the entire class? Maybe it's a picture, story or a special share?
Watch this short video to learn how to share a student's work with the entire class (or you could select a small group from your class).