Tech Coach Newsletter
March Edition
Check Out Google Tour Builder
"Storytelling creates an interactive, and emotional, connection to learning. Engaging such skills as curiosity, critical thinking, empathy, and in some instances, a call to action. Originally created for veterans to record all the places their military service has taken them, and to preserve their stories and memories as a legacy for their families, Tour Builder is an interactive storytelling tool that connects people to places using Google Maps and multimedia content."
Google Tour Builder for Every Subject
Social Studies- Virtual Tours in Social Studies
Some Tour Builder Project Ideas
- Documenting and writing personal narratives
- Constructing an interactive biography of a relative
- Interviewing a war veteran and telling his/her story (bonus points for pulling in actual pictures of the person – imagine how amazing it would be to show a virtual tour of a war veteran’s time overseas to that person)
- Creating a character study from a fiction/non-fiction book (these can be written in first-person with the student pretending to be the character)
- Historical narratives
- Creating a tour of a foreign country (with the ability to record videos directly into Tour Builder, the students can document the journey while practicing speaking the language)
- Delivering traditional notes and lectures more dynamically
The Power of Listening
Explore real work events and practice listening comprehension with Listenwise! Collections for English. social studies, science, and current events. Free lessons and educational podcasts available!
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Archived Newsletters
2017-2018 School Year
Edition 2/12- Websites for Writing, Smarty Pins Game, TextHelp PDF Reader etc...
Edition 1/8 - Ambient Sound, Ways to Use Google for Feedback
Edition 12/15- Clip it Good, Notification Alerts for GClassroom, New GCalendar
Edition 11/26- Google Draw for Infographics
Edition 10/30- Read and Write for Google & Equatio
Edition 10/09 - Info about the New Google Sites
Edition 9/18 - Buncee account set up and information, digital replacements
Welcome Back Newsletter - Google Classroom, Google Forms, Recap and Flipgrid
2016-2017 School Year
Week of 6/5- Review Games
Week of 5/15- Flippity, Sutori, Google Takeout
Week of 5/8 - Google's Team Drive, Google Auto Draw, Keyboarding Shortcuts
Week of 5/1 - Tech Challenge Padlet, Sketch Notes, My Simple Show
Week of 4/10- Tech Challenge Update, Common Lit
Week of 4/3- Interactive Notebooks, Allsides Website for Bias
Week of 3/20 - "I Wish My Teacher Knew"
Week of 3/13- Infographics
Week of 2/13- Screencasting
Week of 1/23- Awesome Chrome Extensions
Week of 1/9- Media Literacy and Flipgrid FREE update
Week of 1/2 - APPY New Year, Managing a Classroom with Tech,
Week of 12/19- Google Classroom Tips
Week of 12/11- HyperDocs, Twitter Challenge, G Suite Updates
Week of 12/5- #Booksnaps, #Mathsnaps & Twitter Challenge
Week of 11/28 -Hour of Code, Google Keep
Week of 11/14- Google Arts & Culture and QUIZIZZ
Week of 10/31- Quizlet Live and #DeviceFreeDinner
Week of 10/24- Formative and Socrative
Week of 10/17- Google Form As A Quiz and Formative
Week of 10/10- Google Guardian Summary and Buncee
Week of 10/3- Dig. Citizenship and FlipGrid
Week of 9/25- Google Classroom and Mentimeter

