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Upcoming Webinars:

• ​Technology Questions and Ideas - Click here to post questions related to technology and setting up technology.  I am also including ideas on how to organize and implement Digital Learning that I thought up or that others have thought of.




I'd like to offer these live webinars to help teachers as we transition over to Distant Learning.
• Creating a Google Classroom - learn how to create a classroom, learn the layout, attach students, create assignments, learn some shortcuts.  It will be interactive with you able to ask questions. 
  
  • Tuesday 3/24 starting at 3:30pm. ​
• Creating Interactive Lessons - We will explore how to create interactive lessons online using SMART Learning Suite.  We may also discuss ClassFlow and Pear Deck as other platforms for making interactive lessons.   (This will be recorded for those who can't make it).
  
  • Tuesday 3/24 starting at 8:00pm.
• ​Office Hour - I have had requests for an office hour to just have time to ask questions and share ideas.  Please also consider using the Padlet!  If you have the question, so does someone else somewhere!  
  
  • Wednesday 3/25 from 4:00pm-5:00pm
• How to Access These Webinars
  
  • Click here to join these webinars via Google Meet: 
     https://meet.google.com/bmd-gxyd-ydm 
    
    Or Call in:
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• Past Webinars - Past webinars can be found here - http://grotonpvtechnology.blogspot.com/search/label/Webinars
• Tech Blog - You can also visit my Tech Blog for other resources and information - http://grotonpvtechnology.blogspot.com/
• Recorded / Past Webinars

• Getting Setup with Google Classroom
• March 18, 2020 - Provides an intro to Zoom at the beginning and uses Google Drawing for an interactive lesson.
• March 20, 2020 - Support Staff - Geared towards Special Education, ELL, Speech and Language, Math + Reading Interventionists, Specials, etc.  Focused on creating posts in one class and reusing it in other classes.  Includes creating lesson that uses all features of posting an assignment.
• March 20, 2020 - General Teachers - Geared towards regular classroom teachers.  Includes creating lesson that uses all features of posting an assignment.
• Implementing Interactive Lessons
• March 18, 2020 - Using ClassFlow - overview of the interface, general overview of how to create and share either lessons or activities with students.  Shows what it looks like from the student's perspective.  (May have to download the video to view it.)

Here's what I've been covering in the"Getting Setup with Google Classroom" webinars:

• Creating a Google Classroom
• Navigating the interface
• Adding Students
• Looking at the different types of activities you can assign
• Creating an activity
  • The 5-6 choices - Assignment, Kami Assignment, Quiz Assessment, Question, Material (Lesson Post), Reuse Post
  • Attaching resources - links, Google Drive, document, YouTube, etc.
  
  
  
  Attaching an activity for students to complete - Doc, Sheet, Slide, Drawing, Form



Organizing your assignments using the Topics Feature
Using the 'reuse post' feature
How to add parents
How to minimize emails about posts :).
Looking at it from the student perspective and complete an activity as a student
Looking at it from the teacher's perspective (providing feedback).
Other possible discussions - sharing across the district, creating interactive lessons, video taping