Hello Wyoming Educators! I’m really looking forward to this conference to see how things are done in other states. Below are links to my session resources:
- Keep It Together with Google Keep, Thursday @ 3:30 pm
- Pain-Less Password Management, Friday @ 9 am
Please follow me on Twitter @sedcclint – I’ll try to do something special for my 1,000th follower. Make sure to also use the #WYInnovations2018 hashtag too!
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Thanks for joining us today to hone your skills with the G Suite Apps. I want to know what YOU want and need to learn, so let’s start off with a quick little Google Form. Please mark a few topics under each Google Tool that you would like to know more about and dig a little deeper into.
Google Docs & Drive Survey
For your reference down the road, please refer to a few helpful posts on my site on G Suite Tools:
- Google Teacher Center – free, online training for the classroom that helps educators do what they do best, even better.
- Google Drive Basics
- Google Docs ‘Super Powers’
- Advanced Google Forms & Sheets
- Getting Started with Google Classroom
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Take a look at this presentation on Password Management below to learn how to take the hassle and pain out of keeping track of ALL of your passwords, and creating new and much safer passwords. Below are the links included in the presentation:
- 1Password
- Intro Video on Vimeo
- Downloads for Mac, PC, iOS, Android and all of their Browser Extensions
- Features
- LastPass
- Dashlane
- A free plan is available for up to 50 passwords and the app on one device and the setup process is the best I’ve seen. Subscription service is a little more per month than the others. but includes some great identity monitoring and personal security features such as a VPN.
- Retail Security Breaches in 2018, 2017, and 2016.
- 7 Bad Password Habits to Break Now!
We all want our students to be creative, collaborative, communicators and critical thinkers, but are you enabling your students to learn this way? HyperDocs just might help get you there. HyperDocs are to worksheets as what Instagram is to passing notes in class. They are interactive, visually engaging Google Docs that allow students explore and engage in topics in depth, and at their own pace. Take a look at the slides below to learn more about using and crafting HyperDocs for your students, and make the jump to hyperspace with your instruction!
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Google Classroom
Curious about Google Classroom? Hopefully your questions will be answered by clicking “Continue reading” below or take a look at my Getting Started with Google Classroom video (YouTube) or presentation here.
Open up the Media Research Assignment Google Doc I demo during most trainings and follow the prompts to make a copy of your own. I also have versions for Football Season and Christmas. If those don’t suit your fancy, here’s a collection of teacher created docs that guide students through the great tools in Google Docs. Lastly, here’s my Google Docs demo using the Media Research template (YouTube).
Looking for what is new in Classroom? Here’s Google’s What’s new in Classroom updates page.
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Thanks for joining us today to grill up some learning and knowledge with some basic G Suite Apps. I want to know what YOU want and need to learn, so let’s start off with a quick little Google Form. Please mark a few topics under each Google Tool that you would like to know more about and dig a little deeper into.
Google Docs & Drive BBQ Survey
For your reference down the road, please refer to a few helpful posts on my site on G Suite Tools:
- Google Teacher Center – free, online training for the classroom that helps educators do what they do best, even better.
- Google Drive Basics
- Google Docs ‘Super Powers’
- Advanced Google Forms & Sheets
- Getting Started with Google Classroom

- 3:40 pm: Slice and Dice Data Like a Ninja: Advanced Google Forms and Sheets, ED 339
- You’ve used Google Forms to quickly collect data. The automatic summaries and charts are great, but what’s next? How can you see beyond simple averages and totals to make better decisions and gain true insights? Join me to learn more about some powerful features in Forms and Sheets like data validation, data filters, and pivot tables. We’ll also take a look at some useful add-ons that will allow you to do some amazing things for any classroom.
- 11:35 am: Playground: LocoXtreme Robots & micro:bit, Sharwan Smith Student Center, Brian Head A & B (repeats)
- Come to the Playground and get your hands on a code-able, programmable mini LocoXtreme robotic ‘Tank’ from LocoRobo, as well as a $16 fully functional, programmable micro:bit computer.
- 1:30 pm: Playground: LocoXtreme Robots & micro:bit, Sharwan Smith Student Center, Brian Head A & B (repeat)
- Come to the Playground and get your hands on a codable, programmable mini LocoXtreme robotic ‘Tank’ from LocoRobo, as well as a $16 fully functional, programmable micro:bit computer.
- 9:00 am: Reach the 4 C’s of 21st Century Learning with HyperDocs, GC 306
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We all want our students to be creative, collaborative, communicators and critical thinkers, but are you enabling your students to learn this way? HyperDocs just might help get you there. HyperDocs are to worksheets as what Instagram is to passing notes in class. They are interactive, visually engaging Google Docs that allow students explore and engage in topics in depth, and at their own pace. Join me today to learn more about using and crafting HyperDocs for your students, and make the jump to hyperspace with your instruction!
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- 10:10 am: Keep It Together With Google Keep, GC 306
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You may not have heard of Google Keep, but you NEED to know about it. Keep is an incredible and easy to use tool for organizing all of the bits of information busy educators tend to collect whenever, wherever, that always seems to get lost. Keep allows you to bring together notes, links, photos – really anything you can grab with your computer, tablet and phone! Beyond gathering and organizing your digital ‘stuff,’ you can share your notes, collaborate with others, set reminders… even drag-n-drop text and photos into your Google Docs! Join me today and make Google Keep an integral part of your daily workflow.
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In this two-day course, we’ll get you up to speed on the incredible array of services and applications that Google provides to teachers and students for free. If you have Chromebooks in your classroom, this workshop will open your eyes to the possibilities and realities of a paperless classroom, as well as having a place to showcase student work, collaborate with experts in the outside world, and managing your limited time in a more effective way.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Create a Google Site to provide information to students and parents, highlight classroom activities, and showcase exceptional student work.
- Create a collaborative Google Slides presentation, and publish it to their Google Site.
- Be able to effectively use Google Classroom for assigning and collecting student work digitally.
- Create a lesson plan utilizing additional Chromebook apps where students will create a project, demonstrating strategic and/or extended thinking.
Day 1:
- Welcome and Introductions
- Get Signed into my Google Classroom – Access Google Classroom here
- Google Apps Scavenger Hunt
- You may want to review the Google for Eduction Blog later on
- Google Cast for Education in YOUR Classroom
- Mastering Gmail and Google Search
- Have a lot of “Bacon?” Try Unroll.me
- What Else Besides Gmail? Rundown of:
- Google Calendar, would this be helpful (YouCanScheduleMe)?
- Google Keep – Chrome Extension, iOS and Android apps
- Google Jamboard from URSA Conference
- Google Sites
- Task: Create an About Me Teacher Google Site
- Take Your Pulse – Google Docs Experience Level
- Google Drive Basics
- AirServer app to view iOS/Android devices on your teacher computer
- Sharing & Collaboration in Drive
- Task: Create a Google Slides Presentation, focusing on highlighting the 5 best things they’ve learned today
- You may want to try SlidesCarnival.com
Day 2:
- Cool Detours
- Google Sheets in Depth
- Google Hangouts and YouTube Live Streaming. Hangouts is changing (slowly) to Google Meet (Hangouts is more for consumers, Meet is more for business-type meetings). Don’t have your own YouTube Channel? Here’s how to set it up. You can also take a look at Jing and SnagIt. Don’t forget about Utah’s Online Library with educational videos in eMedia!
- Anyone interested in storytelling with 360˚ photos? Learn more about Google Street View (app downloads on upper right of new window) and StorySpheres.
- Google Classroom Overview
- Quizzes in Classroom with Forms
- Share to Classroom Chrome extension – one more reason to use Classroom!
- Task: Create a class in Google Classroom, including class rules/expectations, syllabus, links to frequently used websites and creating a class discussion topic and assignment. Invite teachers from class to participate as students in their classes and turn in assignments. Use Screencastify or Screencast-O-Matic to record a tour of your Classroom.
- Google Docs: Media Research Assignment
- Optional Task: Create your own themed Google Docs Research Assignment
- Useful Chrome Extensions
- Creative Chrome Apps for Depth of Knowledge Levels
- Task: Create a lesson plan using a creative Chrome App or any other G Suite tool that we have learned about in our class. Please include in your plan a student-created project or activity, aligned to a core area of yours, aimed at DOK level 3 or 4. You can submit a Google Doc, a video, or any artifact that illustrates and demonstrates to me how you will use these tools with your students in your classroom.