Self Paced Google Training

If you are looking to get some Google Training, but need to do it on your own time I encourage you to check out the LHRIC MLP catalog.  At the bottom of the list you will see listing for self-paced courses in: Google Doc, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides  as well as Digital Citizenship, Smart Notebook and Wiki.

Just go to www.mylearningplan.com to see what course are offered (plus they are free!)

A playlist of video tech tips

If you aren't reading Richard Byrne's Free Tech for Teachers Blog, be sure to add it to your feed. He recently put together a collection of some of the videos he has made into a YouTube playlist. There are a lot of great videos for a variety of tech tools. Take a look at it and see what new thing you can try. Click on the link below to see a playlist of videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLtx-qUNKJwDwazAWE7UaLATKaV0gcpNYv&v=W4eKfe-fNYs

Make Groups with just a few clicks

Group Maker is a super simple add on you can use in Google Sheets.  Once you have created the template (by copying and pasting your roster into the document given), you can use it as many times as you want to create groups of any size.  To see more details you can visit:
http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/10/19/group-maker-automatically-make-groups-with-google-sheets/

Creating Google Contact Groups for sharing files

Some of you may frequently be sharing Google Drive files with a number of people (such as your department, grade level or group of students).  One option (there are many) is to create a Google Contact Group.  Once you have this created, any time you are in Google you can type in the group's name and it will populate the field with all of the addresses of the people in the group.  Here is a quick video to show you how to do this.

Once again Alice Keeler shares a great post about Unsubmiting work turned in via Google Classroom.

Below is a copy of her post.  You can find the original post at: http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/12/10/google-classroom-unsubmit-work/ 

When students “Turn In” work in Google Classroom the ownership of the document switches from the student to the teacher. The document becomes “View only.”

If a student accidentally submitted or they need editing access back at a later point thestudent can click on the “Unsubmit” button in Google Classroom. If the student has the document already open, they will need to refresh the document to be able to edit the document again.

Submission History

When a student submits work, unsubmits work or resubmits work this is documented for the teacher. In the assignment grading screen, choose “See submission history” beneath the students name in the right-hand panel.

Return Student Work

The teacher is able to return student work. Check the checkbox next to the student’s name and click the “Return” button at the top of the student list on the grading screen. It is my recommendation to not do this for students who accidentally submitted. When students request access to their own documents, I indicate that they can click on “Unsubmit” to regain access to the document.

 Keeler, Alice. "Google Classroom: Unsubmit Work." Teacher Tech. N.p., 10 Dec. 2015. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

Remind now can translate your texts

Remind excited to announce outgoing Translate on the Web and App: You now have the ability to send translated announcements and chats in over 90 languages via the Remind app and on remind.com! We are super excited about this as we know this was a highly requested feature from you. To learn more please read this FAQ.

3 Tricks to Try in Google Slides

Today's Google Tips are about slides.  The website below gives some tips for:

1. Deleting pre-made layouts
2. Inserting clipart
3. Changing the background


You can find the full details at:
http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/10/06/3-tricks-in-google-slides-to-try/