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Tech Coach Newsletter

March Edition

Tech CoachNewsletterMarch Edition

Check Out Google Tour Builder Check Out Google Tour Builder

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"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 Builders allows users to create tours using Google Earth online, and it’s quite simple yet super powerful. Simply login with your Google account, choose the locations for your interactive tour, and then add pictures, video and text to tell your digital story. Here are a few examples:
Tour Builder - Put your story on the map.

Tour Builder - Put your story on the map.

launch tourbuilder.withgoogle.com

Google Tour Builder for Every Subject Google Tour Builder for Every Subject

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English- Lit Trips with Google Tour Builder

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Social Studies- Virtual Tours in Social Studies

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Art- Explore the Life of an Artist

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Science - Explore the Galapagos
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Geography/Culture -Guided By Stars
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Humanities -A Storytelling Odyssey

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 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!

Listenwise – Listening that sparks learning.

Listenwise – Listening that sparks learning.

Teach and assess listening using the award-winning Listenwise program. Collections for English. social studies, science, and current events. Free lessons and educational podcasts available!

launch listenwise.com
https://youtu.be/kwbgiZfJkag
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REMEMBER SHUTTING DOWN THE COMPUTERS AT NIGHT HELPS THEM TO RUN AT THEIR BEST!

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Have you ever wanted to save a tweet so you could come back to it later?

Well, now you can!

Twitter has added a "Bookmarks" feature so you can come back to it when you want. Want to learn more? Click HERE
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#UmatteratSK Twitter List

Our hashtag is GROWING! Remember to tweet out the amazing things happening in our district! Don't forget to add the hashtag #UmatteratSK

Here's a link to a Twitter list that we are curating of individuals in the district who are tweeting. Feel free to subscribe. Don't see your name on the list and want it added? Fill out this form.


#UmatteratSK Twitter List

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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

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