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ECSD Technology Newsletter

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New Feature in Google Classroom

Last week I highlighted some of the new changes that will be coming to Google Drive (If you missed that you can read about it HERE). This week I wanted to pick up and discuss some new changes that will be coming to Google Classroom. These changes will be rolling out in the near future.


Better Integration with Edtech tools- - With our current Google Enterprise subscription teachers will be able to utilize Add-Ons for Google Classroom. This means, no separate logins for apps that we use most (For Example it could be that WeVideo and Peardeck could be accessed and assigned straight from Google Classroom)

Student engagement reports


Track Student Engagement - Teachers will soon be able to see a visual representation of which students are engaged and participating in Google Classroom and those who are not.


Rich Text Formatting - Students and teachers will soon be able to customize classroom assignments by using Bold, Italics, Bullets, and Underlining words


There will also be some changes to the Administrative side of Google Classrooom.


You can read about all the changes HERE

Discovery Education Corner Discovery Education Corner

Discover Education has updated their search features. Within Discovery Education you can search by subject, standard, topic, etc. . . See below the announcement from Discovery Education.

  1. We’ve updated our search matching logic so that your search terms lead to more targeted search results. What does that mean for you? Search terms with more specificity will yield more tailored results – for example, searching magic school bus will lead to accurate results from the Magic School Bus series, whereas searching magic school bus arctic will result in the Magic School Bus: In the Arctic episode. Spend less time searching and scrolling and more time diving into the content with your students.
  2. You can now search from the global navigation with one less click. The search bar is now visible by default so that you can easily jump in and find what you’re looking for.

Instagraming

Instagraming - This is a great strategy that I found in the Discovery for Education Strategy series. Instagramming is a strategy where students focus on imagery and prompts summarization and generalization through short comments and hashtags. I could see this being used with Google Docs or Google Drawing or even as a discussion prompt in Google Classroom. If you would like to try this out and talk further let me know!

ECSD Instructional Technology Site

The Elbert County Instructional Technology Site was designed with Virtual Online Learning in mind! Here you can find tutorials and links for many of the tools and strategies that are being promoted in our district. To access this site please bookmark the link below:

https://www.elbert.k12.ga.us/domain/1039. You can also go to the main district site www.elbert.k12.ga.us and hover over departments and click on instructional technology.

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Elbert County School District Technology Department

Joe Dawson - Elbert County Elementary School

Matt Johnson - Elbert County Middle School

Sherri Rampey -Elbert County Primary School

Hector Santiago - Elbert County Comprehensive High School

Bruce Stewart - Technology Director Elbert County School District

Clint Winter - Instructional Technology Coordinator Elbert County School District

Website: elbert.k12.ga.us
Phone: 706.213.4000
Twitter: @elbertcoschools

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