Head back to school with new features in Google Classroom. Posted by Will Phan, Google Classroom Software Engineer As you gear up for the new school year, try the newest features in Google Classroom for more ways to save time, engage your students and keep everyone organized. Most of these features are rolling out this week; stay tuned in the next few weeks for more back-to-school goodies in Google Classroom, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, all designed to help you make this school year yours. Keep students engaged with question-driven discussions Since Classroom launched last year, teachers have been using their class stream to host student debates, Q&A and discussions. “Often, teachers want to do a quick check-in on what their students are learning. Reuse posts You know those lessons that worked so well last year that you want to use them again? “The reuse post feature gives teachers the gift of time. Calendar Integration In the next month, Classroom will automatically create a calendar for each of your classes in Google Calendar.
Day 159 On Monday, I went with... Education on Air: Keynote. Day 156 The first grade... Google sur Twitter : "Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates the achievements of women everywhere. Happy International Women’s Day! Day 153 I brought Glass on a... Day 152 Using Glass, I was... Day 151 Our first grade... Day 150 I invited a class... Day 149 Students in our... Celebrating the Holidays at EA. Since so many of our classes have global partners spread around the world, I thought it would be interesting for our students to document some of our school holiday traditions to share with them. Students in Pre-K, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade all used Google Glass to help capture the magic of the season at Episcopal Academy to help show our global partners how we celebrate the holidays in December.
Check out this video compilation of all of their recordings: What holidays do you celebrate in December and how do you celebrate them at your school? Tagged with: christmas, global collaboration, global glass exchange, Google Glass, Hanukkah, holidays, kwanza, st. lucia, st. nick, traditions Posted in Blog, Technology Projects. Google Glass: Documenting learning for a global audience. People have been aware of Google Glass for a while now, but how can it work with education? Philadelphia-based school technology coordinator Margaret Powers walks us through her experiences and successes with the device. When I look at Google Glass, I’m not trying to assess whether it’s the hottest tech toy of the year or if the latest press releases about it are accurate. Instead, I am interested in discovering if and how it can be used as a meaningful tool in the classroom. On a daily basis, I work with students ranging from four to eight years old, students who look at the world through a different lens than I do.
I have discovered that Google Glass can provide insight into that world. When I first picked up Google Glass over a year ago at the Google office in New York City, I really was not sure how effective it would be in education. Students have used Glass to capture their work painting, writing, exploring pumpkins and much more!
Have you used Google Glass in your work? Day 146 We have been using... Day 144 After having a visit... Day 140 I had the privilege... Day 136 I had a chance to... Day 133 I wore Glass during... Day 132 Recently, the Pre-K... Day 130 Soon after the... Day 125 Soon after school... At the start of the summer, I thought to myself,... Custom themes in Google Forms. Applying themes to forms is a great way to personalize and tailor them to their intended audience. With this launch, people working with Google Forms will now be able to apply custom themes to their forms. This includes adding custom images or logos to the header and page background, specifying the font details (type, size, color) and paragraph alignment for the form text, and choosing the color for the form and page backgrounds.
We’ve also refreshed the overall Forms UI and added a brand new gallery of modern default themes. In addition, if a form using a custom theme is shared within a domain, others can copy that theme in order to use it themselves. This helps to ensure a consistent look and feel across forms used in that domain. Release track: Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming in three weeks For more information: Help CenterNote: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted. Google's Free LMS 'Classroom' Goes Live -- THE Journal. Learning Apps & Tools | News Google's Free LMS 'Classroom' Goes Live Google's free learning management system, Google Classroom, is now in full release and is being made available today to all Apps for Education customers.
The service had been in limited preview since May. During that time, according to Google Apps for Education Product Manager Zach Yeskel, more than 100,000 educators applied to be a part of the preview, and "tens of thousands" of those educations — from K-12 schools, colleges and universities — actually participated. Classroom is an LMS that's integrated with Google's Apps for Education productivity suite. Once turned in, assignments are no longer editable by students; however, students can cancel the submission to make any necessary changes, and teachers can also return assignments to students when additional work is required. Other features of Google Classroom that had been previously announced include: About the Author He can be reached at dnagel@1105media.com.
Drive – Google+ - You use Google Docs and Sheets to get lots of stuff done.… New Fluencies. International Women's Day 2014. When will Google Glass go to class? A young student uses Google Glass to record his work in art class at the Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Margaret Powers, who coordinates technology for the private school's youngest students, was selected for Google's Glass Explorer program, which allows people to test the wearable computer. After a recent run of winter weather, kindergarten students at the Episcopal Academy used Google Glass to explain what they know about snowflakes. Powers created a blog, 365 Days of Glass, to record how students and educators at the school are using the product. Three students, including one wearing Google Glass, work together after school to decorate the DIY Maker Club flag.
A pre-kindergarten student wears Google Glass while painting with watercolors for a community service project. A second-grade student shot this photo with Glass while he worked on a class e-book about the Lenape people and culture. What kids see through Google Glass Among its greatest benefits so far? Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 12/4/2013. Sunshade: world's first Google (sun)Glass add-on comes from South Jersey. This is a guest post from Chris Barrett, the founder of startup marketing firm PRserve.com and a frequent writer on Google Glass. I conceived the idea behind Sunshade, the first hardware add-on for better visibility with Google Glass, during my first summer with the buzzy wearable technology.
I realized pretty quickly that the Glass prism allows you to interact with its software by projecting transparent graphics, which are heavily and easily diluted against sunlight. Outdoors, I found myself frequently using my thumb to cover the back of the prism, to provide the necessary contrast I needed to see Glass clearly. Indoors, I caught myself turning away from windows and staring at walls, just to see what I was doing. Print your own Sunshade through Shapeways (at cost) here. I knew there had to be a better way, so I started brainstorming solutions with tech-savvy friends. The more I used my own Sunshade, the more I realized its hidden potential. How To Save Gmail Messages To Google Drive. Aug August 24, 2013 | 1 Comment When it comes to communicate with people you can find many tools in internet. My favorite tool is Google Drive. With Google Drive it is very easy to manage files and avoid e-mails going back and forth (like the ones you see in the above picture).
But in a broad sense e-mailing is still the most preferred method. 1) Click on an e-mail. Please note that this process won’t print or save your attachments to Google Drive. Mpowers3 : Heading in to get my #googleglass... Google Glass Gets Social With Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Other Apps. Soon you’ll be able to look your friends in the eye (sort of) when you log into your favorite social network with Google Glass. Google+ With motors, batteries, and Glass, women make stuff at Google I/O. They came to build. At the Women Techmakers event at Google I/O, over 100 women developers gathered for some great Google food--and the chance to turn a littleBits kit into a working design. But first, a casual Glass census: Melissa Riofrio “I’ve had mine for nine months,” said this Google developer relations staffer. “We’re both Google developers.” “I’ve had mine for about a month.
Then, onto the work at hand: Groups of four to six women had an hour to build a device from the provided littleBits extended kits and present it to the other groups. The littleBits extended kits contain 14 small modules that attach via magnets to provide electrical or mechanical capabilities. In addition to the kits, groups could raid tables piled high with craft and building supplies: Lego bricks, pipe cleaners, ping pong balls, construction paper, marker pens. The goal: Make something. Full disclosure: A few people gave up on the modules and just had fun with the craft materials. I asked the children how they thought the Glass... Bringing people together in Drive. More often than not, you need to work with others to get things done. Today, working together in Drive is getting even easier with new profile pictures and one-click group chat.
Now when you open a file in Drive, you’ll see the profile pictures of other viewers at the top instead of just their names, making it easy for you to do a quick scan of who else is in the file. You can hover over a photo to see details about the viewer and add them to your circles on Google+ — all without ever leaving Drive. In addition, you can now start a group chat with just one click. Simply select the new chat button at the top right and a chat box will appear, making it easy for you to quickly message everyone in the file. These new features will roll out over the next day or two, and we’ll be adding support for more file types (like Google Sheets) soon, so stay tuned.
Google Glass is finally here: Tech specs released, first units shipped. Google has begun shipping the first of its Glass networked spectacles to developers, and released basic technical specifications for the head-mounted device and the Android app used to configure them. What can you do with Google Glass? Check here (images) According to the spec sheet, Google Glass will offer one full day of battery life for normal usage, but features like Hangouts and video recording will expend the battery faster. Google recommends recharging the kit with with the Micro USB cable and charger it supplies with Glass.
The display resolution is the "equivalent of a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away", but Google is being no more specific than that. The head mountable device comes with 16GB Flash onboard storage of which 12GB of is useable and is synced with Google cloud storage. Glass connectivity options include the wi-fi standard 802.11b/g and Bluetooth. Glass has an adjustable nosepad and extra nosepads in two sizes. Glass is not for everyone either. Google Glass Explorer Edition to Ship This Month! Needlogin?type=login&redirecturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indystar. 365 Days of Glass - Inspired by #IfKidsHadGlass. About this Project.
Google Forms, Refreshed. With Google Drive, you can do more than just create, store, and share stuff. A variety of apps can help with everything from editing spreadsheets to signing documents electronically. Forms let you easily create questionnaires and automatically collect responses in a spreadsheet. Today a new version launches, rebuilt to bring you a faster, cleaner, and more collaborative experience.
Now with collaboration Create a form faster than ever. Just as with Docs, Sheets and Slides, you can now collaborate with others in real-time. If you need to work with two colleagues on a survey, all three of you can work on the same form simultaneously and even have a group chat on the side, without leaving the form. Better editing Even if you’re working solo, some new changes will make creating and editing forms easier. This update to Forms will roll out over the next few days. Google Maps Streetview Player.
Google Takes Street View Into the Oceans - Rebecca J. Rosen. Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! Catlin Seaview Survey In the five years since Google Street View launched in 2007, the feature has been a strictly above-ground experience. Sure, it has occasionally left the comfort of the open road for a river (as when it visited the Amazon) or an icy expanse (as when it documented the remote sites of Antarctica), but never has it taken us down below, into the waters that cover 70 percent of our planet. Today, Google has announced a new addition to Street View that does just that, providing "street" view access to six of the world's most beautiful underwater landscapes.
A video from Google gives a quick taste of the experience of diving in via your computer: The project -- made possible through a partnership with the Catlin Seaview Survey -- will give Google users a chance to swim around the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii's Molokini Crater, its Hanauma Bay, and Apo Islands in the Philippines. Apo Islands, Philippines Hanauma Bay, Hawaii. 10 Great Free Google Forms Every Teacher Should Be Using. Today's post is about a great work that has been done by our colleague Tom Barret. He has created awesome example forms for different topics. He has also made all these forms available for us to download and use with our students. To download any of the forms below, make sure to visit Tom's original post. 1- Get to Know your Class Use this form to collect information about your students such as their likes, dislikes, club affiliations, and many more. 2- Emotion Graph This is a form ideal for use by students when studying linear narrative both written or visual. 3- Spelling Test As its name suggests , this form is great for use inside the classroom to test students spelling. 4- Comprehension Questions This is a form that test students understanding of a text or anything thing else you want to test. 5- Weekly Reading Record This is a form where students can provide data about their reading. 6- Maths Data Handling 7- Guided Reading Record 8- Prior Learning Assessment 9- Library Book Review.
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