Microsoft Training
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom with WE Teachers
- WE Teachers is a no-cost program to help educators become aware of social issues in their classroom.
- The topics for the 7 modules are trauma- informed classroom, mental well-being, bullying, diversity and inclusion, pandemic- informed community, poverty, and youth violence.
- Walgreens partners up and gives out the teacher award.
Teach Forward: Best Strategies for Hybrid, Remote, and Blended Learning
- Teachers typically use group discussion to launch blended learning.
- Teachers can support independent work by providing structure for supporting students and goal-setting.
- Microsoft teams best supports setting up a blended classroom setting.
WE Schools Tech for Good
- WE schools tech for good program has many benefits including encouraging digital literacy, sharpening social- emotional skills, personalizing learning, and amplifying all students.
- Technology holds great promise to help develop social skills and emotional literacy for students.
- The WE tech for good program uses WE schools, ISTE standards, microsoft educator center as resources to support teachers and students.
Google Training
Get Ready to Use Technology in the Classroom
Get Ready to Use Technology in the Classroom
- Technology is a tool to support teachers in their efforts to increase student learning
- Google sheets allows you to analyze data
- Building Resilience helps students cope better when faced with challenges online.
- Youtube playlists allows a teacher to put together a collection of videos on a specific topic.
- Anyone can reply to someone's post in the Google for Education Help Forum to provide guidance and help.
- PLN is a personal learning network.
- A Google for Education Certified Innovator is a local google expert.
- You can share as well as color code folders in your google drive.
- Microsoft office documents are compatible with google drive.
- Some question options in a google form can be objective, subjective, images, and youtube videos.
- The translate feature in google opens up trusted lines of communication with families and community members who would otherwise be left out of the school conversation.
- You can search gmail from sender, subject, content, and/or attachment.
- When you delete a conversation in your Google Chat list, the conversation is still visible for any other person involved in the conversation until they also delete the conversation from their Chat list.
- The three levels of Basic Permission settings in a group is "Anyone can ask", "only invited users", and "public."
- Maintaining a Google Site as a class site is valuable because you can communicate easily with a large audience.
- All events on a calendar will receive the default notification setting unless otherwise changed.
- With a google keep note, you can add pictures to notes, color code notes, and remind the user of when something needs to be addressed.
- Google Keep reminders will automatically show up on your Google Calendar when assigned.
- Meeting resources, such as projectors, laptops and rooms, can all be booked through Google Calendar.
- The maximum number of participants in a Google Meet is 250.
- You can share your screen during a google meet by clicking the menu, then clicking the Share Screen button.
- With a google classroom, teachers can upload class materials, assign and collect student work, and send announcements out to the class.
- In a classroom, you can files, links, and videos to your assignment.
- On classroom, teachers can view how many and which students turned in an assignment.
- Two ways you can provide feedback on a doc is comments and suggested edits.
- The google tool that creates a digital questionaire to collect entries is google forms.
- With google forms the data you can collect could be text, dates, and numbers.
- Charts created in google sheets can be added to a google site.
- Teaching students to "search smart" reinforces that they save time, become critical thinkers, can access information easily, and understand how to narrow search results.
- Using Advanced search, it is easy to filter images based on usage rights.
- Bookmarking using Chrome is a valuable tool to help to organize resources.
- To engage learners with google slides you can use images and videos to connect main ideas for greater visual comprehension.
- Some apps and extensions in the Chrome Web Store do not require an internet connection to function.
- I'm feeling lucky, new project, and voyager are all tools on the web version of google earth.
- You can use your plan, your planet on ant device with a web browser that is connected to the internet.
- Google classroom, google slides, google forms, and google sites are all google workspace apps that have youtube integration built in.
- By subscribing to a channel, you will get updates every time that channel uploads a new video.
- Some benefits to full screen mode when presenting a video to a classroom are easier to read captions, decreased distraction, and it's just easier for students to see.
- When planning for collaborative learning experiences, it is important to align with learning goals and student outcomes.
- The revision history will color code the revisions made by each student helping the teacher view the contributions in a collaborative google doc.
- Google Keep allows you to create to-do lists shared with many people.
- The best way to protect your online life is by choosing a strong, secure password, and enabling 2 step verification.
- The main reason for using chrome in Incognito mode is that your browsing is completely private and secure, and all history is cleared when you close chrome.
- Three concepts to keep to be safe online is respect, report, and protect.