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Dear Dedicated Professionals, At some point, we will be “getting back to normal” in our daily teaching. As we approach a year since disruption, it is hard to remember what that day to day routine looked like. The gradual and transitional return to hybrid and eventual full in-person teaching is an opportunity to “think different” about our routines for teaching. I hope we are all able to contribute ideas and create a more equitable, healthy, and engaging public education system. One thing for sure is that the technology tools you are experimenting with and gaining expertise in will remain a part of face to face teaching. Nearpod Updates: Three new features: Live Teacher Annotation Tool; Draw, write, or highlight on any content slide (one you’ve created within Nearpod, or brought in from PPT or Google Slides), and students will see your annotation in real-time on their device. Live teacher whiteboard; Pull up a blank whiteboard on your teacher view. You can write and draw, and students will see on their device in real-time. Activity Library: Download pre-made Matching Pairs, Draw It, and Time to Climb Activities and Interactive Videos to use on their own, or embed them directly into your lesson to create Nearpods even faster. IOS App on IPads lag behind these updates, but should be coming soon. Read more here. Tech Tool of the Week: Poll Everywhere is a Chrome extension that allows you to add interactive activities to a Google Slides presentation. Poll Everywhere is similar to Nearpod but different in that it was originally created for business, not education, settings, and has more (20+) activities. One of the best tools to generate a “Word Cloud” from student responses. It also features activities such as: “Clickable images”, “Leaderboard”, and “Where on a map”. Tech resource of the week: Looking for a list of what is available for a certain task? Check out this impressive Spreadsheet from Ed Tech Coach Jordan Cotten. It is a comprehensive list of available applications for specific tasks, emphasizing no or low-cost options. Using fillable pdf documents in Google Classroom: Last week’s newsletter had information on editing a pdf using Adobe Acrobat. Unfortunately, it is still not seamless to use fillable pdfs with Google Classroom. If you are attempting to use them you will have to teach your students how to download and reattach them to GC to turn in. These are good skills to teach: When a student clicks on the pdf in google classroom (you attach in the assignment just as any other non-google document), they will need to click on the three dots in the right-hand corner and “open in a new window”. Once they have it open in a new window they can download the pdf. It will then be fillable. Students would fill it in, save and then attach it back to the assignment in GC. It is cumbersome but does work. Have a wonderful week!
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AuthorRobert Frye is a retired 33 year veteran Of Holyoke Public Schools Archives
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