Remote Learning: May the Fourth Be With You

Star Wars HyperDoc Game Board Template

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Civil Rights HyperDoc Game Board Template

Click here for another template that a social studies teacher created to share a 3-week unit on the Civil Rights Movement with her students.

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Private Comments

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to have conversations with students using the Private Comment tool in Google Classroom.

Two Minute Drill: Private Comments

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Comment Bank

In this Two Minute Drill, you will earn how to give feedback to students using Google Classroom's comment bank to quickly copy and paste frequently used comments.

Two Minute Drill: Comment Bank

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Submission History

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to view a student's submission history for an assignment. When a student turns in work, they will no longer be able to edit a document or view comments. They can, however, unsubmit an assignment to recover their ability to edit. Submission history will show when an assignment has been turned in, unsubmitted, or returned to the student. It will also show if the assignment was turned in on time if the teacher designated a due date.

Two Minute Drill: Submission History

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Assignment Due Dates

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to set due dates for Classwork Assignments in Google Classroom and how students will see upcoming deadlines.

Two Minute Drill: Assignment Due Dates

Remote Learning: Covid-19 Homeschool Song

Don't be fooled by this teacher's pleasant disposition. Her lyrics speak for all of us!

Covid-19 Homeschool Song

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Move to Top

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to move a notification to the top of the Classroom Stream.

Two Minute Drill: Move to Top

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Mute Student

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to "mute" selected students, which will prevent them posting and commenting on the Classroom Stream. They will still be able to complete Assignments and send private comments.

Two Minute Drill: Mute Student

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--To-Do

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how you can see an overview of assignments and questions across all your classes in Google Classroom. You can filter by class to view only the work for a class.

Two Minute Drill: To-Do

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill Overtime--Provide Audio Feedback with Mote

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to provide voice comments in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Classroom using the Mote Chrome Extension.

Two Minute Drill Overtime: Provide Audio Feedback with Mote

Remote Learning: Permission to Feel

I'm hooked on Brené Brown's Unlocking Us podcast. I listen to it as I walk my dog throughout my neighborhood. I'm sure my dog appreciates the exercise, but I'm finding myself logging several miles as I listen before realizing that I need to return home.

In her most recent episode, Brené welcomes Dr. Marc Brackett to discuss his book, Permission to Feel, and the significance of emotional literacy in learning, decision making, health, and more. This episode resonated with me as my eyes were opened to the importance of social-emotional learning after briefly serving as Interim Principal at Split Rock last year. I hope it resonates with you as well.  Listen Here

Dr. Marc Brackett has dedicated his life to studying emotions and to teaching us what he’s learning. In this episode, we talk about how emotional literacy – being able to recognize, name, and understand our feelings – affects everything from learning, decision making, and creativity, to relationships, health, and performance.

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Show Deleted Items

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to adjust your Google Classroom settings to allow you to see posts and comments that have been deleted.

Two Minute Drill: Show Deleted Items

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Organize Classwork with Topics

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to organize Classwork by assigning Topics that can be filtered and re-ordered.

Two Minute Drill: Organize Classwork with Topics

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Post and Comment on the Classroom Stream

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to communicate with students on the Google Classroom Stream and modify your settings for student posts and comments.

Two Minute Drill: Post and Comment on the Classroom Stream

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Link to Google Meet Within Google Classroom

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to set up a synchronous video chat within Google Classroom by generating a link to Google Meet.

Two Minute Drill: Link to Google Meet Within Google Classroom

Remote Learning: One Day More

My apologies to those that have already seen this, but if you haven't, enjoy the Marsh family's rendition of One Day More from Les Miserable.

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Create a Custom Banner for Google Classroom

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to use Google Drawings to create a custom banner image for your Google Classroom.

Two Minute Drill: Create a Custom Banner for Google Classroom

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Mange People in Google Classroom

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to disable or reset the class code in your Google Classroom settings, remove parents who have enrolled with a personal Gmail account, and invite guardians to receive automatic email summaries of your class activity.

Two Minute Drill: Manage People in Google Classroom

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Google Classroom Notification Settings

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to manage your Google Classroom Notification Settings to have better control over the email notifications you receive for activity in your virtual classes.

Two Minute Drill: Google Classroom Notification Settings

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Classwork Notifications on the Google Classroom Stream

Welcome to the Two Minute Drill, a video series that will help you learn an instructional technology tool or strategy in two minutes or less. In this premiere episode, you will learn how to change the default setting in Google Classroom for Classwork Notifications on the Google Classroom Stream.

Two Minute Drill: Classwork Notifications on the Google Classroom Stream

Remote Learning: Ten Tips for Remote Teaching

Full disclosure, I'm a sucker for a list. The list below includes some strategies you can implement to make remote teaching and learning a success for EVERYONE. Feel free to download a copy for yourself or print it out and put it prominently near your work station in your "home office."

Remote Teaching: FFT

When I took the Positivity Project's character survey, the trait that was assigned to me was "Perspective." Truth be told, I took the survey a few times just to test its validity--Perspective every time! As most of us are going through something new for the first time, I thought I'd share something I saw on 60 Minutes last Sunday as it offers a bit of perspective given our current situation. One of the featured stories was about an author and academic named Brené Brown (you can watch the full segment here). I had never heard of her, but apparently, she has a pretty popular TED Talk about the power of vulnerability with nearly 47 million views! I decided to subscribe to her podcast, which she discussed in the interview. It's called Unlocking Us. I just listened to the first episode and in it, she shares her thoughts about FFTs--"Fu@#$%^ First Times" ("Terrible First Times" if you are having conversations with kids). She acknowledges that doing something new is hard, but the first step in opening ourselves up to growth is to name the "FFT" to normalize it, put it in perspective, and reality check out expectations. I'm sure many of you are growing frustrated with the dramatic changes to our routines over the past few weeks. If you can tolerate some good-natured cussing, I would encourage you to give the first episode of Unlocking Us (linked above) a listen.

"In this episode I talk about my strategy for staying in tough first times versus tapping out and shutting down. When we get to the point that we only do things that we’re already good at doing, we stop growing. And truly living."

--Brené  Brown