In the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast, Matt Miller (ditchthattextbook.com) and Kasey Bell (shakeuplearning.com) share the latest Google for Education news and updates, with tips and strategies for embeding Google’s tools in the classroom.
To listen to the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, visit https://googleteachertribe.com/
The Suite Talk podcast mission is to give educators around the world best practices and guidance for implementing educational technology in the classroom. This podcast focuses on giving ideas of how to use the features of Google for Education to provide the best digital learning environment for students.
To listen to the The Suite Talk podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify, visit https://sites.google.com/view/thesuitetalk/home
Workbench hosts a huge range of features. Whether you’re looking for some pre-made lessons on a specific topic or want to find some basic tasks for your lesson, you might want to track your student progress visually or learn code yourself there is a wealth of content across the site. Plus, it’s free for education!
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With Google Sites, you can quickly create a website to gather a variety of information in one place – including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text – and easily share it for viewing with your class, course or the entire college.
Creating a web page using Google Sites is as simple as writing a document, and you can easily embed Google Docs, Slides and YouTube videos to develop interactive websites.
You can access the new Google Sites by logging into Google Sites and then select “Create”.
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Kahoot! is a game based classroom response system allowing a full class to play quizzes and take surveys in real time.
Integral Maths host a comprehensive collection of maths resources covering AS/A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics, Core Maths & more.
It is a paid subscription that we have a username and password for, you can use this as long as you are a student at Barton Peveril. You can find the username and password at BPMaths.com
Have a look at their video below giving a quick run-through of the Integral system and how it can benefit you.
Padlet is a collaborative, creative, interactive multimedia bulletin board. You can create a reference board, moodboard or any other type of board.
Padlet allows you to create ‘padlets’ which are online boards, you can then add content to these boards to tie multiple ideas and pieces together.
Maybe you’re creating a reference board for a photography project? You can add your own drawings, example images from your computer or from Google, voice clippings that you’ve created for notes and even a map to save shoot locations. Or maybe you are in a small project group for an English class, you can add on questions and other users can then add voice, text or handwritten notes in response. There are so many possibilities. You can create brainstorm boards, flow charts, infographics.
Take a look at this example of a class Photo Contest, each student has their own column.
And this example pulling content about Roald Dahl from many different sources.
There is a Padlet guide in the video below if you want to explore it a bit more.
Flipgrid is an educational social media that allows students to record and share short videos with you and the class. A brilliant tool for any class, especially language classes.
Flipgrid is a great example of the Social Learning model. It’s easy to create an online discussion between everyone in a class and because the students need to record videos, they speak thoughtfully and plan their responses. Students can also reply to others in the class using videos or images for a full, controlled, educational social media experience.
The best bit? It’s free for education! There is even a comprehensive Flipgrid Educator’s Guide available that starts at creating an account then goes through managing grids, collaborating and other innovative ways to use Flipgrid.
EquatIO lets you easily add equations, formulas, graphs and more to G Suite apps.
EquatIO was made to help mathatmatics and STEM teachers and students at all levels. It’s easy to use, once the extension is installed you just need to start typing and then EquatIO will offer suggestions. If using a Chromebook you can also use the handwriting or dictation feature to make it even easier.
Take a look at the video below:
Google Arts & Culture is an online platform that allows you to view high-resolution images of artworks from around the world.
The Google Arts & Culture app hosts content from over 1200 museums and archives from across the world with tens of thousands of individual pieces of content including 360 degree videos of places and events, street views of locations like the Taj Mahal or Machu Pichu, or even inside views of the Palace of Versailles for example.
You can look for historical street art or narrow down your search by a specific colour or time.
The Chrome Extension shows you a new piece of art each time you create a new tab in Chrome.
Now with VR and AR, you can walk around museums and other amazing buildings from around the world.
The mobile device app allows you to use VR/AR to view art in a new way, some of the features are listed below along with video examples of how to use them: