Tech Ped

1. Teacher Tip: Drive Notifications/ Add Drive to Outlook
2. Engage: Fun Timers
3. Extend: Zoom Guest Speakers
4. Student Tip: Accessing Email or Seesaw message
5. Did You Know: Infinite Campus Addition

Google Drive Setting Options(see image below)

• Auto convert files to google files (e.g. word-> docs ) when uploading to Drive
• Set preferred language for google services (Inclusion)
• Offline Mode
• Density of icons (changes the physical view of files on Drive)
• Set Notifications (newly shared items, requests for access, comments/suggestions/action items)
• Notification Style (In browser, email and/or google chat: add chat to your desktop )
• Manage Apps used in Drive

Google Classroom teachers may want to edit their classroom notifications and/or not have drive notifications set to email as you could get bogged down with notifications. I used the chatbot on my desktop to check for shared files.

1. Star a new message (or reply)
2. Click Attach
3. Browse cloud locations
4. + Add an account
5. Select Google Drive
6. Sign in.
7. Now Drive files will appear in the "Browse" cloud locations (can search Drive here too)

**Google files will be attached as a link only. Microsoft files can also be attached as a copy) **

Youtube video timers can be embedded in your google slides/Powerpoint/Canva presentations so that your directions/instructions and timer are both visible.

Baby Yoda Timers

• Five minute flying Yoda
• 10 minute "appearing" Yoda
• 20 minute Spongebob & Friends (Why would anybody...)

Great website for many different timers (free but some timers are surrounded by ads and clickbait)

• Horse Race with Winners (one of my favorites)

A quick google search can find you a timer that works for you and your lesson.

What: Now that video conferencing (Can you hear me? Can you see my screen) has become a normal part of life, consider how you can leverage Zoom to bring speakers into your classroom whom you may never have been able to before.

Why: Connect students with real people to extend the learning into the real world. Guest speakers can add insight, validate content as well personalize it. Zoom guest speakers could help build global competence and communication G21 skills in students. Plus, students love hearing from other professionals beyond the teacher.

How:
1. Establish a purpose (Think UbD)
2. Find someone to connect with. Start with your own network of former colleagues, family friends, and organizations you/your school has partnered with in the past. Check with local community members or content-area experts (just like how the local news asks UWM/Marquette professors for content to air in their broadcasts). Lean on your PLN (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook are great places to connect).

3. Setting up students for success: expectations, develop questions, etc.

4. Setting your guest up for success: clear directions/expectations & how talking with students may be different than their work Zoom sessions (check background image for example)

5. Provide access for all students (signing on from home and/or recording the session for absent students)

If the Zoom part worries you, I can work with you to set up your meeting, be available to troubleshoot or even drive the sessions like on our PL days. Don't let the tech get in the way. I am here to remove those obstacles!

Detailed Steps/Suggestions for the speaker and students:

How to plan for the session tips and tricks

photo credit: Beth DeGuire

Student Guide: Accessing Outlook and using Inbox

Seesaw Messages: Mini-training & Cheat Sheet

• Whole Class Announcements
• Messages to individual families
• Communicating directly with students via comments on activities
  

More student tutorials are available on every school's website under Learning Resources-> Tutorials for Accessing Online Tools

Did you know that you can not only send emails and SMS (text) messages, but also messages to students' inboxes inside IC?

These message would appear in the student's Message Center. Click on the photos below to see where Message Center is located in the old and new view.

Do you have an innovative tech experience, app or other suggestion to share with colleagues? Click on the link below or send me an email and we'll connect to get it highlighted in an upcoming TECH PED edition.

Chris Wysocki
GSD Instruction Tech Lead

I am here to help. If I don't know, I will find out. Let me do that work. You have enough to handle in the classroom. Challenges arising in the classroom? Tech coaching sessions available

Email: cwysocki@greenfield.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.greenfield.k12.wi.us/staff/instructional-technology.cfm
Location: 4800 S 60th St., Greenfield, WI, 53200
Phone: (414) 855-2409
Twitter: @teachwysocki