Do You Speak Tech? The Pandemic Edition: Google Classroom Ninja Training

you for joining us for do you speak tech uh google classroom ninja training which is part of our series for do you speak tech the pandemic edition and you'll see the bitly there that's got some links to the previous presentations and you can also get the uh presentation from today and so i'm just gonna put that into the chat just in case and we've got three more coming up here so uh next week we'll be talking about youtube and then the week after that is social media and our last session we're going to be talking about the new normal so sort of focus on distance learning and video classes and things like that so again just looking at some effective uses of google classroom uh for languages and this is what we're going to be looking at today so our biggest section is going to be the getting organized and saving time but we're going to look at how to really extend some learning and have some fun with google classroom and i've also got before we get started um a little playlist for you as well that i'll be giving you later where we've got some tutorials for all the technologies that we'll be featuring today so my name is stephanie and yeah i love google classroom i'm a former french as a second language english language arts technologies teacher mostly the secondary level so junior high and high school and i'm now work as a french program coordinator at islami institute for innovation and second language education at edmonton public schools please don't hesitate to email me if you have questions or an idea you'd like to share um anything at all i'm you know love hearing from from other teachers who are using technologies so our first little activity just to kind of get introduced here today is how do you feel about google classroom so far um so use uh you can use a number and just put that right into the chat so yeah i'm cool with that very uninterested in that option i don't know what that means it's okay or i'm obsessed um or maybe you've got another david quote that you'd like to share with us that uh means a little more closely to how you feel about google classroom i have to say i'm out of five myself so as we're getting some responses in here i want to say i was probably about four and a half like i thought google classroom was pretty cool but i might be like a six now after going down the rabbit hole of of youtube videos of seeing what some of the teachers are doing with google classroom out there in the world that's pretty neat i'm seeing some pretty positive uh reactions here to google classroom so this is a strategy you can use in your class we've done this in the last couple sessions with emojis but this time i chose some gifts and it's just a neat little way to check in with your class and get some feedback on how they how they're feeling and things like that and dale gives a nice idea there image play to make gifts for yourself for each of the emotions which is really neat and i got these from giphy but you can uh you know there's a lot of different apps and extensions and things out there that'll help you with uh bringing a little more engagement into your lessons so we're going to look at creating our first google classroom now before we get started again so here is that link i'm going to paste it into the chat as well just in case and as i was looking for some tutorials of some of the features and ideas that i wanted to show you today i sort of went down the rabbit hole and found some really neat uh teachers that are doing some pretty cool things with google classroom uh there's a couple here that i just really want to take a moment to specifically point out and one of them is the channel pocket full of primaries this girl right here and she's been doing some amazing ideas and she's got some great great great inspiration um so pocket full of primary and the other one is this teacher fyi so i've gotten quite a few ideas from them tonight and some of them again just sort of fell on their channel as i was looking for tutorials uh of things that i was going to show you tonight and so i thought that was pretty cool so as we go on uh again there's the link for the youtube tutorials and to get started with google classroom you're gonna go to google classroom and use the plus so i'm actually going to show that to you here and i'm just going to share my other screen [Music] so that i can bring that up now because i am presenting to teachers who are from all different districts and around the world i had to sign in with my personal account and so i created this classroom but imagine if i were to come here and i don't have any classrooms we're going to start by going to the plus sign and very simply either join or create a class so if you're going to um i'm actually going to have you join my classroom today if you can from your personal google account if i have even just two people in the classroom it works a little bit better to sort of demo the the things here today and if you can't then then that's fine as well and the code i will get it here and i will paste it into the chat as well to maybe save you having to type that in and so oops i pressed enter there instead of in the chat there we go and so it's just classroom.google.com and to join my class it's a-o-s-e-x-z-b and so yeah my work account won't let people that are non-edmonton public schools join and then um my a lot of times you wouldn't be able to join with your your work account so when you're getting started with google classroom if you really want to go in full full you're going to want to change everything to google so you want to change your word docs to google documents you want to have your powerpoint presentations in google slides and you can even change if you have uh tests that are in word documents you can change those into google docs and then use the doc to form add-on that's linked there to change it into a google form in your settings in your google drive you can actually make it so that it will um if it will get rid of this little window here and you can see that it will let you uh choose a convert uploaded files to google docs editor format and so as soon as you bring in a word document or a powerpoint it'll change it to that document onto the you know google doc format or google slides automatically which is makes a little bit easier so the class home page i've got this image here for a reminder for you but i'll just go ahead and bring up the classroom so that you can see and so all i did when i created the join or create a class and then you're going to put the name of the class and of course i'm not using this with student-centered swim using with adult city so we're good your name your section your room and that kind of thing so that's all that i did to create this classroom i did nothing else and the rest that we're going to be looking at together today so we have uh up here in the right the main menu of the hamburger that's where you're going to access all your other classes uh including your archive classes so you know from last semester or last year and we're going to be looking at this to review later on uh your stream up at the top you've got your classroom stream and we're going to be talking about organizing that later but this is sort of like your welcome home page so where you're going to communicate with your class the classwork page is where you're going to put your resources and and assignments for for students and things like that and then when we go to people yeah i have two people um so we're good to you know assign things out and that so you can see your students and teachers so you can actually have more than one teacher in your classroom that's not a problem and then when you have some assignments and grades and things you'll get a nice little chart here that will show you uh you know what everyone's gotten on every on every assignment so pretty neat okay moving on when we're looking at the settings there's a few things so the settings are right here in the top so always you know that year you've got your class name and then you've got a little bit more information down here so for example you could send a link to your students um or you could post this link up on your learning management system or your class website and that's a really easy way to get your kids to join or very simply um display the cost code in person or you know when you're sharing your screen like on a google meet or in a zoom meeting like now and have kids put in this uh put in the link i suggest doing this instead of emailing all of the kids it's a lot easier just to get them to to put in the clothes themselves i hear we're gonna talk a little bit later about some of these options but um you can have students post and comment on the streams you can have them just comment or only the teacher gets to get to touch that and so you may sometimes want to toggle back and forth like maybe if you've had some students kind of abuse that privilege then you might want to turn off the student posting for a while and uh classwork on the stream so this means when you're posting an assignment in classwork does it also get posted on that main page stream and so how do you hide notifications means it's not posted there at all you kind of get a condensed version or where you see the whole the whole password and then grading calculation i would just uh say maybe be very cautious about this because you probably have a grading system that you're you know that your school board has paid for that you'll be using so that is how you get started with google classroom and uh you know create your first class or get students to join your class and so congratulations you've got your white belt ninja training i don't even know if ninjas have belts but i thought it was cute so there you go so next this organizing so when you're looking at getting this classroom when you first start posting assignments and things on your page it can get quite overwhelming very quickly and so we're going to take a look at how you know some strategies for optimizing that stream or that home page and then that classwork page so some some tips or some ideas is using the stream only for daily announcements or emerging updates so where anything that's like a link or a resource or a lesson student work that's all going to go under classwork and if you have something important to say or for example if you're on your zoom chat and it gets stopped for some reason and you need to tell students they'll go here or do this then you would put that on the stream so that's sort of where students know where they're gonna go get that important information is on that home page and then the classwork and anything that they're doing in class or that they need to access for work is going to go in the classwork tab now in order to keep those separate you are going to have to change some of those settings and so that's where we're going to go in and change to just a second so that's where we go here and we change this to students can only comment because we don't want students posting on the stream we just want the teacher important notifications and then we're going to hide the notifications from the classwork on the stream so the classwork is all going to stay in that classwork tab and so that's one way that you can kind of keep those a little bit separate so that your stream doesn't get so full um with not only announcements but also everything you're posting in okay next organizing your classwork you can now add in google classroom topics so when you're um in your classroom stream here under classwork we're going to go create a topic and at the top of my page i'm going to want to have something like frequent links or you know sort of that important resources or you know the things that that the students are going to be getting all of the time and so i might add some material like i might add um the uh session presentation do you speak tech ninja uh g classroom ninja training right and then i'm going to add a document in there i'm just going to go grab this link so that i have something to post and oh that's the description sorry oops add a link oops control v to paste and then there you go or i i might have um a textbook an online version of a textbook that i want to link there or something like that and so i'm putting it in this classroom if i have more than one class then i can do that and i'm going to post it oh i forgot to the whole point was to show the topic and so again when you make mistakes and go we just go here and i'm going to put it under frequent links and so all that's going to do is you know kind of tuck that under frequent links now i'm also going to create a topic for this week and so this week is march 1st to 6th 20 21 and then um maybe you can also put like a unit name or something like that if you want and then all i'm going to do is take this and drag it down here and then this is where i'm going to you know maybe create an assignment um that you guys are going to be working on i'm going to give some instructions here or whatever it might be and i'm actually just going to go right in and attach attach an activity okay so there you go now i'm going to pick my topic and since this is going under here and we'll look at some of the other you know options here i'm just going to make this right now make a copy for each student so when i am assigning um you know an assignment for for students in this particular assignment um i not only have the instructions so if i just wanted students to read instructions i can go that they can view if i'm doing for example in that the last session that last week we talked about doing memes and so maybe i have one file or a slideshow i want all the students to edit then i'm going to choose students can edit file in this instance i'm doing students make a copy for each because not only does it have the instructions at the top of what the students are doing but i've got a little something here that they're going to be filling in and so i'm you know each student instead of having them make a copy sharing it back and things like that one of the beautiful things with google classroom is that i can just say make a copy for each student and it's going to do that all for me and this is ungraded it's just a little formative kind of thing here and i'm going to put in my due date just put tomorrow you can even put a time but that's getting a little nitpicky and i'm gonna sign it it's just gonna take it a few seconds so you can see i've got my frequent links and then here i would put all of my work all of my little lessons and slideshows that i'm gonna be doing with my students right and so keeping those topics is really gonna help um keep things a little bit more organized in your classroom stream so march versus six money decal or whatever it may be now within your topics you also want to kind of keep organized and keep things you know if you've got uh especially elementary maybe you've got multiple subjects going on in the same classroom or maybe if you are uh seeing students multiple times a week and you've got you know kind of your monday tuesday wednesday things planned out or whatever that might be you can do that by when you're creating your assignments i'm just going to edit it here simply putting in some kind of a little uh you know monday give your name or your day of the week uh kind of name what you're doing and then there you go now i just need to go grab the other idea is to have some color coding or some kind of visual icon and you can do that by using some emojis and so they're simple just like colored dots if you wanted to use and that makes it really easy but let's imagine that on uh you're doing the lip sync battles and it's sort of listening to some songs so i'm going to take this and it's been copied and so i can go back here and just paste that in and not only am i giving the students kind of a visual cue but when i've got three or four or five things under each topic or under each day of the week then that's really just gonna kind of you know keep them organized and then i can drag and drop things in between so if i accidentally put it in the wrong topic i can just move it um or if i've created them all and i want them to be in order monday tuesday wednesday it's just all drag and drop so super super simple from that point of view and there's an emoji keyboard there an example so topics uh just one way that you can organize your topics is to have you know first you've got your frequent links or your resources whatever you want to call that and then you've got your current week so the the week that we're actually working on and then maybe you have a topic for extended learning and we'll talk about that in the extend learning section a little bit later what you could put for example in that in that topic and then under that just have all your past weeks so as you're finished a week you just drag that whole thing down underneath the underneath extended learning or underneath everything that you're actually working on so it's just an easy kind of simple way to keep your your classroom organized is one way uh but there's definitely more more ways you know once you play around with it you'll find what works best for you so yeah congratulations you're now have a google classroom and hopefully can stay organized in your classroom orangeville okay this is really where we're gonna get our big bang for our buck is our saving time so i put in all of this time getting this google classroom i've converted all of my documents like so far i'm not saving any time stephanie you got to tell me where am i working smarter instead of working more because so far this seems like more work so some of the features in google classroom that uh we'll be discussing and looking at are some of the features that can save you time are for example being able to schedule posts in advance so you may not want students to look ahead to next week of what you're going to be posting for them but you can um when you're uh posting you know schedule it to come out the day that you would like that to be available to them uh you can also assign to multiple classes at once so in in my context i used to teach uh three grade sevens three grade eights and three grade nines it was nice that once i got all those instructions ready i was just click click click to assign it to all all the classes it needed to go to and then there's this reuse post uh sort of feature that we're gonna talk about how that you can use that to save you a lot of time as well as co-teachers so adding your guest teachers or your supply teachers as co-teachers in your google classroom is a great way to save them time and save you from having to put so many instructions in there um you know for that guest teacher because most of that's going to be already given out instructions to the students on the google classroom but we're going to talk about a couple more ways that you can use co-teachers to save yourself some time there's also rubrics and comment banks in google classroom pretty new feature that's pretty neat and we'll look at that a little bit more in depth here in a few minutes and then plagiarism and originality reports so you can actually run for five assignments per classroom you can run an originality report and it'll tell you if you know things have been plagiarized or not from that i'll show you that excuse me i'm talking so much so scheduling posts in advance is pretty simple uh when you're creating that assignment you instead of clicking on a sign you just click the little drop down um arrow and you can save that as a draft if you're not done so if you get interrupted and you know you've got to go you know feed the kids before you can post that you can just save that draft or you can schedule it so it'll just you know bring up a little calendar and you choose the date and time that you want that assignment to then be posted so when you have time you make the posts and you schedule them to be posted when you'd like them to come out and then you're not having to rush that day or sunday night to you know get that that post on for monday another neat feature in google classroom is this reused post so when you click on the create in classwork to create an assignment or a quiz or material or whatever it is um you can click on reuse post and what that does is it gives you brings up a menu where you can then choose a google classroom and choose um something that you've created for you know a different assignment or a different materials post or something that you've posted in the classroom elsewhere and so that's a really uh you know neat way to save some time you can use that so not just for year to year like next semester or next year where you've got the same assignments or the same project with kids um it's can also use that as sort of a way to i know you've got those routine activities like maybe you've got a writing prompt where you always give the same instructions and you're just changing one sentence instead of typing that all out reuse the post and that's going to save you a lot i'm so sorry i need a i hope they edit that out oh i have tears in my eyes i'm really sorry i'm gonna frog in my throat from talking so much um so one last idea with this um sharing or reusing posts is if you have a collaborative classroom so for example if you have some department teachers or some other teachers in uh in a different school that teach the same thing as you and then have them um but you know what thank you rochelle i am just gonna go grab a glass of water really quickly i'm really i really apologize but this is just gonna be silly if i don't get a glass of water here and hopefully the erlc will edit this out so it's not safe forever one moment alrighty i'm back that's much better so collaborative teacher classrooms we'll get back to this reusing post here uh when you're adding uh you can add as we talked about co-teachers so some ideas of doing this is adding someone uh maybe a grade level colleague or someone in a different school or even someone in a different country um that maybe has some some you know similar teaching assignment to you or maybe just in your same district post lessons that you want to share but post them as if you were posting to students so just you know include the instructions the make a copy for every student whatever it may be and then when everyone's sharing those you could then go into your google classroom for the class that you actually teach you can go reuse post and bring up that classroom from from the other class and just kind of steal it from there i'm going to actually just show you what that looks like quickly because it's a pretty simple simple thing so i'm gonna for example create an assignment um actually i'm gonna show you that in a classroom that i created for that purpose you'll notice if you haven't ever noticed that if you want to get to any google products it's always like the name of the product.google.com so like if you want google drive it's drive.google.com so um i had this digital publishing group just i had to teach a digital publishing class and then you know there was a few teachers that were like i don't know what i'm supposed to supposed to do and so um this is the older but i'm just going to go right to reuse and so here i can uh choose one of the um oops i can go back here so i can choose from a different class so for example let's say i wanted to choose something from this leadership and languages and then i wanted to use this post and i'm going to say reuse and what it's going to do is bring up this post and then i can go in here and maybe um you know just change one word if this was a reading prompt i was using all the time or maybe i just wanted to change something that the teacher who had shared this said or whatever it is um and so i can do that here and then so it's pretty neat way to um to save some time instead of all of us always making the same presentations or always making you know the same posts and even if you can save two minutes from not having to type out teacher instructions every time that's a win in my book okay the next section we're going to talk about is the to review section now this is really neat and this is a way to help with your making sure that you have enough or making sure that you're up to date with your uh with your marketing so you're just going to go into the little main menu the hamburger there and you go to to review and i can see here um all the things that have been handed in but i haven't marked them yet um these ones in the middle they've been assigned and so this student um like has been assigned it but they haven't handed it in so maybe they've started working on it or maybe they like open the dock and that's it um and then returned or marked and so if i've i'm done returning them um and so once i get this you know this column to zero that's sort of our goal is to get this handed in column to zero because it means it's handed in but it's not marked and so i can just click right on this uh click on to review and that will take me i'm gonna go on this one and then that will take me right here to where i can see like all their assignments and things like that and so that's a pretty neat way to to make sure that you're you're staying on top of your marking without having to go open every single class and then go open that um you know go open that assignment and then you know find the students and everything else it's just all in one spot so super easy and then when you are you know marking there's uh some pretty neat features in google classroom that will make that easier for example the comment bank and so this is the little gift from um google classroom that shows you how you can do this in your own assignments so i'm going to i'm just going to close this out and i'm going to go to this assignment and i'm just going to you know open a random teacher a random student document for example now let's imagine that this was an assignment that the that the students were working on um and let's imagine that this was writing that they had done or you know maybe they filled in this table at the bottom so uh it looks like the student didn't finish this yet which is normal so i'm going to right click and say comment and i'm just gonna say um please go back and ensure [Music] you complete all the sections okay now i kind of feel like so i'm gonna go comments um i kind of feel like that's a comment that i would be using again and again uh with students so what i'm gonna do i just have to zoom out because my screen is a little bit um if i go on these three little dots then i can say add to common bank um and so i can just add that comment right to my comment bank or when i'm marking the student i can go down here to common bank and then here's where i got that gif um and they will show you how to uh for example maybe i've got a word document that's got a whole list of comments i can just add multiple comments by starting a new line so each comment on a different line and then all of a sudden i've got you know great job um please go back and elaborate more whatever it may be so i go add and then see i've got all of these already and so a pretty easy way to you know kind of add your comments and save you a lot of time even if you're a fast typer now there's two different ways that you can leave a comment for a student or that you can leave feedback for them comments so there's private comment which is sort of like inside google classroom so it's uh like it's sending them a private comment through google classroom to them or there's insert comment where you're um like highlighting a specific part of their text or a specific part of their slide or something like that so an idea to kind of keep those separate is to use the private comment for when you're giving overall feedback about the whole assignment like you know maybe they're completed and you've marked it you want to give them a little feedback or maybe you want to say like oh you need to go back and check the specific comments to improve your work before you know before i mark this and then use that insert comment so when you're highlighting a specific piece of text or a specific piece of the of the student doc to really um you know get it that more you know targeted feedback like you elaborate more of this etc etc the other thing is when i am in this document and if i right click and so this is the insert comment right click where you can also go to insert comment and let's say if i start typing in elaborate it'll bring up my comment bank underneath so you can use hashtags or you can just like have kind of a keyword in there and then there you go it's gonna add that in so this is where i'm gonna have those and then up here is where i'm gonna say uh you know please go back and see my specific comments uh to make edits or whatever and so there you go um if the student work is a slideshow you're going to want to teach the students how to look for the slides that have comments so uh when you're on a slideshow like if i um actually add like if i added a comment here and you can see here that it comes up with that little you know indicator there so you're just gonna have to teach students to look for the slides that that you left comments on for them so next rubrics so you can import a google sheet and there's a link to a tutorial that's also in that tutorial playlist and then this is the link to the spreadsheet template but i find it probably a little bit easier just to use the create rubric i also suggest using common rubrics and common co-created so maybe you know create those rubrics with your students so that you know there's consistency in the expectations they know that when you're doing a written activity you're always looking for like communication of ideas and this and that um when you're doing an oral interaction you're always looking for a greeting you're always looking for you know whatever specific things that you're looking for um and then it's also you know a little more efficient so you're not creating a new rubric for every single assignment so let's just take a look here at the how to create rubric so if i am in my assignment right here i'm going to go back to instructions and i can edit this um so this is i can do this afterwards or i can do this as i'm creating the assignment right and so i'm going to go here to rubric i can reuse the rubric so this the first time we're creating it but hopefully getting to reuse rubrics pretty soon um and so the criteria it might be like written ideas um you know shares i can't even spell written for written ideas isn't that kind of um so shares interesting and logical information whatever you have one point and then i can you know call this excellent if i actually want to make it a rubric instead of just a rating scale i can give a description and then this is going to be you know maybe two points um and then three points so that would not be excellent if it was one it would be you know low or you know limited and all the way up to excellent and three and just be if i put good on a rubric i'm they're going to take away my teaching certificate so there we go so then when i go back and open up my student work so right here and i just have to refresh it and here we go so i've got my written ideas i can expand this so i can actually see the criteria and i could just click or i could put the number in so i'm going to say that she's doing an excellent job and then it's going to add it all up for me and and do that can you re-share the make a copy for students um [Music] i'm not sure if i understand the question can you maybe elaborate a little bit more for me please i'm just gonna so when you repost from like say semester one into your new class am i able to have the feature like say it's a poetry assignment and i can i'm reposting it can i still make copies yes yeah so when you made it the first time and you said make a copy for each student it'll post it like that for your like when you reuse the post and then maybe you decided like no i don't want them to make a copy i just want them to look you could change it then okay i have noticed if you make something like students can view that you can't go back and say change that to make it a copy for each student so if you want something to be make a copy for each student like you have to do that rate from the beginning like before you save before you save the assignment does that make sense yeah so if like say if in my first semester i it was a material it was something that they just they i just made them a uh view but then when i repost it i can go i can repost it as us um make a copy then right yep or does it have to have been a made copy in the first post no i think you can still you can change it's just once you it once you go reuse post if you save it as students can view um like when you're reusing it then you gotta start again right yeah and my other question was like i found like say last march when we started online like i made other staff or teachers my my co-teacher and then vice versa but then i realized i could go right into their google drive anything that they had shared into the into that classroom yeah but is there a setting that maybe i didn't put on mine because i could actually go right into all of her whole google drive and she could do and she could go into every like you know i don't mind her going in or them going into my folder of what i've shared yeah for the class sounded a little bit interesting that like i felt kind of they couldn't see everything in my google drive is that sure i'll have to look into that and see i'll have to look into that i'll have to test that out and see okay maybe i'm just maybe i'm just thinking that it was just the shared documents but um i'll have to check yeah thank you no problem um the other thing i wanted to say with regards to saving time with your so once i've marked that student um normally you would think oh i'm now gonna go and like return this work but i'm actually not so um what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go and i'm gonna mark joe's and he did an excellent job i'm actually not gonna return it i'm gonna go forward to the next student by clicking this arrow and then i'm going to mark this student i'm going to do three or four of those before i go to return and then i'm going to click the little arrow and i'm going to choose return multiple submissions anyone that i had already done would be checked here or i could check them here for all of them when you return a student it takes it like like four seconds when you're returning five students at once it takes it like six seconds so i mean seconds but it'll save you quite a bit of time and especially when you're kind of on a roll and like stopping for five seconds every time um you know it'll save you a little bit of time every second counts when you're a teacher right so yeah return multiple submissions together and then uh the last thing i wanted to talk to you about on saving time is originality reports so sometimes we need to make sure that students didn't copy the information from somewhere else and you can do that when you're creating the assignment under rubric there's a check plagiarism box and you just check that and you're allowed to do that for five assignments per class so keep it for you know those assignments that you think that students really would maybe you know go and get sections from the internet and it'll bring up an originality report where you can go through and make sure that anything that was cited from somewhere else was actually cited and so it saves you quite a bit of time congratulations you've now got a blue belt in google classroom okay now we're going to get into some fun stuff so that was sort of the basics and now we're really looking into this going a little bit further so the google classroom when you're assigning work you don't have to assign things to the entire class you can choose to assign just to some student so in that assign button again if i click the little button or the little arrow it gives me a little drop down menu where i can choose all assignments or i can just click whichever students i think need to get that assignment so you can do that for example you have differentiated assignments so maybe you have modified expectations for some students who are english language learners in your spanish classroom or maybe you've got a different expectations or a different assignment for the former um french immersion student in your junior high french classroom and so you know you're gonna you know give those different assignments and assign them to the people who need them so they're not getting assigned work that isn't meant for them if you're assigning group work so if you have um for example a slideshow that students are going to be working on and you call it slideshow group one and then those uh kids will work um you know assign that slideshow to the four people that are in group one and then you sign slideshow two to the group two to the people in group two and things like that um exemplar creation so this one uh this last one is sort of a advice for i don't know about in your context but here in alberta when you're teaching french second language you often have like kindergarten the university level french in the same class so you might have a student who's brand new to canada and so doesn't speak english or french and you might have a student who is from a french-speaking country and that's his first language and then you put every level in between and so for those students who are maybe former french immersion or maybe their first language is the language that you're teaching in your class or they're just got really advanced language proficiency you can assign them work like creating exemplars when you have a project they're going to create the exemplar that the other students are going to be looking at to you know to help them uh giving them research project finding new cultural videos or you know music videos giving them different reading and listening to do and that just to make sure that they're engaged and you know doing some work we talked earlier when we talked about topics about having like an extended learning topic um so some things that you could put in there youtube playlists some songs uh shows funny videos cooking videos those kinds of things concerts are a great one spotify playlist celeb celebrity social media accounts current events blogs maybe you've got some maybe a new movie in the target language came out on netflix that you're really excited about you can put the link there um to the description or whatever um and just sort of give students that opportunity to explore the language outside the the time of the class and you know give them something to to extend that learning here are some extensions that really help you with um you know taking the learning further in google classroom so i'm just gonna kind of mention them and then if you think that it sounds interesting then go check out the youtube tutorial or the intro tutorial on the playlist that's shared in this uh in this presentation and see if it's right for you so fluency tutor is an app that allows students to record themselves reading out loud for the teacher so you could see how that would be really helpful um in in class read and write for google chrome so you've got like text to speech speech to text word prediction glossaries visual dictionaries and all kinds of things tons of languages they're great insert learning is one that i thought was a pretty neat um a pretty neat uh extension and what it does is you can turn any web page into like an interactive lesson so you can answer questions or links or notes or things like that and just make it like make that web page and a lesson and uh and all of these connect with google classroom so these are extensions that connect with google classroom cami for google chrome so if you uh really love you know marking by hand and you know typing up the comments and that that's just not doing it for you or maybe the kind of assignments you're doing you'd like to be able to circle and draw on something the students are you know sharing with you cami for google chrome is going to allow you to do that and then these last two mote and kaizena are for adding voice feedback so instead of written comments maybe you're going to add some voice comments so again when you're doing teaching the second language that can be super super helpful and then these are all the apps that connect with google classroom so these are the apps that if you for example make an ed puzzle so if you make a youtube video quiz and puzzle is an app that will take a youtube video and you can insert you know questions into it it makes it interactive you can then assign it from edpuzzle onto your google classroom um same with padlet and flipgrid and so all of these are you know some some apps and websites that connect with google classroom kid blog is you know sort of a lockdown way for kids to to blog without it you know going out everywhere in the world uh lucid press for for online publishing um and yeah so just some some apps that connect directly to google classroom and you'll see in the notes section um in this slideshow if you're um wanting some more ideas there's actually a link to shakeup learning and she's got an article there with 70 plus apps that connect to google classroom so these are some of the ones that i found were more you know for a language classroom but um there's tons of options look at that red belts already we've got about five minutes to get you your black belt by having a little fun in google classroom and it really is the little things that can make a huge difference i know it's cliche um but when you're working with kids and when you're working with adolescents the little things that you can do to really engage them and make it kind of fun can just make a world of difference this is a banner that i made in exactly one and a half minutes on canva so canva is a website um where you can make your own um designs um and they've got a lot of free ones you can also there it's a freemium with so it's like free and then if you get the pro version or if there's ones you know certain logos or images that you'd like that are um more than you know the the free ones that you can just pay them for one at a time now if you want to create a custom banner for your google classroom so what i'm talking about is when i am on my stream this banner right here so this was just one that came up you know randomly but let's imagine that i wanted to do something a little more i don't know a little more interesting well i'm going to go to canva or google slides and i'm going to create a custom slide so you can custom size and it could be 1000 by 250 pixels so that's the google classroom size and this is literally how i made the one earlier today to show you as an example is i just put in that and then on the left it just had a bunch of free ones that you could use and so i just went down here and i was like oh that one looks good um and so i took one oh look beyonce oh we already chose okay good enough and then what's cool is i can go animate and i can actually make this uh a little gift so let's just oh that one see that's a premium one it had the little thing i'm all about the free so let's just get a nice free one there we go and then i'm gonna go up here to share and when i logged in an hour ago it was in english and now my thing is in french story of my life and i'm gonna go to download and i'm gonna download this as a gif and that's it done and then i'm gonna go to my google classroom and i actually had this downloaded earlier so i'm just gonna the other one that let's get learning my computer is super slow and i'm just gonna go into my downloads and choose that image so you could do this not only just to have like a nice personal image on your on your um on your google classroom but i think it could also be a nice way to oh sorry this was saving the new one whatever i thought i was uploading and i was saving there we go um so i'm going to go choose that banner and you could also do it for seasons you know if you kind of get a you know change it with the seasons or if you've got some uh that's just my computer being super small but yeah normally you can upload this in a student's birthday maybe you've got like a happy birthday so and so for um that you want to put on there that would be you know kind of neat and [Music] there we go just takes it a second to open up i'm just going to size this and then that becomes my new banner and it's even animated which is kind of neat it's a little bit you know just kind of engaging and stuff kids like that so embellish your assignments add some humor um and so the emojis uh there's the keyboard extension there or with some gifs so like we did on that first slide and i mean napoleon dynamite when is he not when is he not a good idea right now bitmoji so that's a neat little extension and so randomly my bitmoji on my computer is in french and i don't know how to change the language so that's how i found out it's available in different languages just don't ask me how to change the language but on my phone it's in english so i want when i want an english bitmoji i just insert it from my phone and when i want a french one i insert it from my computer so it's actually worked out pretty great for me but there's the link here to install install the chrome extension and you're going to customize your bitmoji um and you know add that as you know just to have some fun with your your students now bitmoji classroom this is all the raves since the pandemic uh it's a thing that you do in google slides and it's kind of like a window like it looks like a classroom and you're gonna insert images when you're searching for the images you're to try and get pngs because that means they have a transparent background and then you're going to link activities onto those images and so since this is our last uh this is going to be our last little thing of the night so if you can open up the slideshow i've actually got a classroom here that i got from a teacher online and the link is in the notes and she uh i just added some different stuff so i took out i can't remember what was here but i put in books i made the shelf longer and i had coffee because i need coffee i put in my own bitmoji um and you just kind of go around and see what things could be and some things their links and so you would for example open this and the kids would go and they would listen to this song um or you know they might uh listen to this cat has a little audio message if they go on the right um they go to the window i think it was window swap i changed it to so i took the this lady has this slide and you make a copy of the slide um but the only thing i want to mention is that they're from a catholic school and so some of the things had some religious um things not like there's a cross on the on the wall and stuff and so in my public school i would have to take that out um but there's some neat little activities here that she's added and then it took me about half an hour to like kind of like change a lot of the links some of them i kept some of when i changed i added some different objects and and just kind of you know made it a little bit fun and so you could use this to have kind of like a beginning of the year intro to you and you could have all the artifacts linking to things that you really like or to give them an idea what the the class is going to look like you could use this as like a unit intro so maybe instead of a bitmoji classroom maybe it's a bitmoji gym or whatever you know you're teaching at that time um or maybe that's something that you have up as your extended learning is you know go to the bitmoji classroom and click on these fun activities that you can do or how about having students make their own like bitmoji bedroom or making their own um like little happy place and they've got to you know link things and i thought that would be a neat little activity so yeah go ahead and and that's your black belt right there if you do all of this and get the bitmoji classroom you'll be a google classroom boss again i'm sure you're getting sick of me um plugging slides carnival but they do have beautiful slides and so i thank them for this uh for this fly