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Creative Ways to Assess Student Learning in

Google Classroom

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Presenter: Vicki Anderson

Moderator:

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Introduce yourself in the chat and answer this question: What is one of your favorite tech tips for teachers?

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Expectations & Norms

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  • Practice switching tabs
  • Find your mute/unmute button
  • Turn off/on your camera
  • Use the chat to ask a questions or find links to resources
  • Change the layout if you prefer another view
  • Play along with examples, it’s ok if you get stuck

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G Suite & Chrome Login

  • Sign into your Chrome profile to sync across devices
  • Be sure to turn on sync

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Tip for Managing Multiple Accounts: If you have another Google account, use the “Manage People” feature so you can keep accounts separate but still switch easily between them.

“Apps Launcher” (waffle button or Rubik’s cube) - lets you access all of the Google apps services.

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Tips on Viewing the Session

Jump between tabs:

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Or try the Dualless extension for Chrome to split your screen for you!

Split your screen:

Add a new tab

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Lesson Design for Google Classroom!

#edtechteam

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Vicki Anderson

Instructional Technology Coach | Scottsdale, AZ

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Vicki@ReconTECHtualize.com

@MsVickiAnderson

bit.ly/ReconAZ

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Disclaimer

You Don’t Need To Be Good At Many Things, You Need To Be Great At One

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Making the Most of Your Lessons

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Google Forms

  • Basics of Creating Forms for Assessment
  • Quizzes
  • Add-ons
    • Automastery
    • Certify’em
    • Choice Eliminator
    • Form Notifications
    • Form to Calendar
    • formLimiter

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Pear Deck

  • The Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.

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Google Drawings

  • In Google Apps, there’s a highly powerful yet highly overlooked app called Drawings.It gives users a blank canvas where they can add text, shapes, lines, etc. When done, they can save their work as image files or PDF files and can add those images to documents, slides and spreadsheets.
  • Drawings can be the virtual page where students can gather and process their ideas.
  • Collection of Graphic Organizer Templates
  • Ditch that Textbook
  • My Drawing Sessions

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Google Sites

  • With the new Google Sites, building websites is easy. Just drag content where you need it.
  • When you create a new site, it’s automatically added to Drive, like your other files stored in Drive. You can edit a Google Site together with someone else in real time, and see each other’s changes live.
  • Vicki’s Sites presentation
  • Use for:
    • Resource hub
    • Projects
    • Student Portfolios
    • Parent Info & much more!

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Jamboard

  • Jamboard is G Suite’s digital whiteboard that offers a rich collaborative experience for teams and classrooms. Watch your creativity unfold: you can create a Jam, edit it from your device, and share it with others. Everybody can collaborate on the Jam anytime, anywhere.

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  • Example
  • Tutorial

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My Maps

  • In G Suite, there’s an amazing but overlooked app called My Maps.
  • Create maps right from Drive and use them for lit trips, historical tracking (think Oregon Trail), and many other fun projects.
  • Check out these additional tips from a fellow trainer!

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HyperDocs

  • HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc (or presentation) replaces the worksheet method of delivering instruction, and is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom.

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Choose Your Own Adventure

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Choose Your Own Adventure

GOOGLE FORMS:

  • Based on answer selection, students can be sent to different sections
  • Good for differentiated tests, reinforcement, and choice board projects
  • More info:

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GOOGLE SLIDES:

  • Use buttons to advance to a specific slide
  • Example Project from Google’s Applied Digital Skills (students can create their own)
  • How to set up

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REASONS TO USE:

  • Differentiation
  • Engagement
  • Specific Purposes

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Choose Your Own Adventure

  • Students can learn to create their own if-then stories through the free lessons in Google’s Applied Digital Skills

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Publish to the Web

File > Publish to the Web > Publish

Try it with Flippity.net

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Video Tools

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Screencastify

  • The #1 screen recorder for Chrome. Capture, edit and share videos in seconds.
  • Screencastify is the world’s most trusted screen recorder. The Lite version is free forever, while our Premium version unlocks all features.

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Loom

@ChrisYoungEDU

  • Easy Screencasting for asynchronous learning and instruction.

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  • Share immediately via a link or download the file for Google Drive.

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  • Premium version is free for education-- ALWAYS

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WeVideo

  • Edit online faster & easier than ever. Use stock footage, animated titles & green screening. No software to download/install.

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  • High quality storytelling through design, infographics, & videos

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  • Incredibly simple with high quality templates

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Flipgrid

  • Flipgrid is a video discussion community for your classroom that supercharges your students’ voices.
  • You add the topics, your students respond with short videos, and everyone engages!

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Check out EdTechTeam’s Flipgrid!

Wislocki’s Got Talent

Musical Duets

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Interactive Tools

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EdPuzzle

  • EDpuzzle empowers teachers to make any video your lesson. Crop a video, explain it with your own voice and embed quizzes at any time.
  • Take any video from YouTube, Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, etc. make it perfect for your classroom and more engaging for your students. Make any video a true lesson by making it to the point, personal and effective, plus get all the data about your students so you know if they truly understand the lesson.

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Insert Learning

  • InsertLearning saves teachers and students time while keeping students engaged.
  • Teachers can insert questions, discussions, and insight directly into any website.
  • When students go to that website, they can respond to those questions and discussions, see that insight, and take their own notes.
  • Use InsertLearning to turn any website into an interactive learning experience!�

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Also try KAMI!!!!

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Kami (interactive PDFs)

  • Insert questions, highlighting, drawing, video comments, and more directly into otherwise static PDFs.
  • Check out this presentation to start! Both images below are also linked.�

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The Possibilities

Are Endless

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Seasaw

  • Seesaw empowers students to independently document their learning with built-in creative tools, and provides an authentic audience for their work.
  • Seesaw gives families an immediate and personalized window into their child’s school day, and makes communication with teachers seamless.
  • Seesaw saves time on organization and parent communication, makes formative assessment easy, and provides a safe place to teach 21st Century skills.

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StoryboardThat

  • StoryboardThat is the world’s best storyboard creator and brings digital storytelling to a new level.
  • StoryboardThat makes it incredibly easy for students to create amazing storyboards on their computer or tablet.
    • Intuitive Drag and Drop Interface
    • Posable & Colorable Characters
    • Rich Content Library
    • Presentation & Audio Tools

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Formative

  • Create new assignments or simply upload & transform a pre-existing pdf or doc, then tag with any standards & assign to anyone.
  • Live responses provide the alerts needed to intervene. Give feedback and easily score or auto-grade student work.
  • See where your students are struggling. Now you can easily visualize student performance across every assignment or assessment your students complete.

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Coding Options

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Quizzing & Other Options

Quiz Options:

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Applied Digital Skills lessons from Google!!!

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Templates for Teachers

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Resources that integrate with Google Classroom

From Becky Shorey

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Vicki’s Toolbox

(including one on graphic design)

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Vicki Anderson

Instructional Technology Coach | Scottsdale, AZ

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Vicki@ReconTECHtualize.com

@MsVickiAnderson

bit.ly/ReconAZ

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Evaluation

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@jaysal7

@edtechteam

#edtechteam

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Learn More! Stay Connected!

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Get

Certified!

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Visit the Certification Website

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John (Jay) Salerno

Director of Educational Technology | Newington (CT) Public Schools

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jaysalerno07@gmail.com

Huge thanks to Jay for sharing his slides!

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Distance Learning

Assessing with Classroom

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Vicki Anderson, M.Ed.

Google for Education Certified Trainer

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Session Description

Assessments are not just about grades; they are about demonstrating learning. In this session, we’ll dig into some different ways you can do formative assessment with tools like Forms, Flipgrid, and Peardeck. We’ll highlight several creative and traditional ways to formatively assess students and get hands-on with a couple of options you can use tomorrow.

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