WOW!
First off, WOW!! It's the beginning of our second week of learning at home with Google Classroom, and I want to give a special shout-out to our K-8 teachers who have rapidly created over 800 classrooms to reach our scholars. Ranging from Kindergarten reading to middle school science, from guitar lessons to Mandarin and tech, all of our students now have access to high quality academic content. Chromebooks from our schools were distributed to families last week, and our scholars were able to showcase their proficiency in using Google Classroom through an assessment given by the tech teachers. Wow!AMS YouTube Playlist
We are continuing to make short videos for our AMS teachers to help you over hurdles. The list so far includes how-tos on these:
- Testing your classroom from a student's perspective using Chrome Google Classroom and our suite of test student accounts
- Managing multiple Google accounts using the Chrome browser
- Using Drawing or Slides to give students an image they can fill in answers on top of
- How to clean up your Classroom Stream to engage students in more interaction with you and their classmates
If you want a link to the playlist please contact me (mbienkowski at amsteachers dot org) or ask your school leader for the link.
Basic Computer Skills Videos
If you or your students/families need a brush up on basic computer skills, check out these short and easy-to-use YouTube resources for Google apps from the GCF Global Foundation.
Google Drive/Docs playlist:
20 lessons, each under 3 minutes
Google Sheets playlist:
Also starts with videos on Google Drive, then 8 short videos on Sheets
Google Slides playlist:
Also starts with videos on Google Drive, then 5 short videos on Slides
If you want to practice right inside the Google Apps ecosystem, try these video-based tutorials from Google on Drive, Docs, Classroom, Forms, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, and Sites. Each lesson takes less than 15 minutes to complete and provides basic training to get you started with G Suite for Education. If you want to do them all at once. use this link.
If you want to practice right inside the Google Apps ecosystem, try these video-based tutorials from Google on Drive, Docs, Classroom, Forms, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, and Sites. Each lesson takes less than 15 minutes to complete and provides basic training to get you started with G Suite for Education. If you want to do them all at once. use this link.
What's Next?
The academic team is looking at some Google apps (Sheets and Forms) add ons for quizzing and assessment. These will be covered in next week's update. Are there add ons, apps, or other items you would like to use? Email me and we can evaluate them and vet them. Once vetted, we will let IT know they can install them for all to use.
