Recipes for Success: Put Your Lesson on the Map

Food for Thought: Creating personalized Google MyMaps is one way to "plant" content where it took place on a map and then post corresponding text, images, videos, and links.

Recipe for Success: Put Your Lesson on the Map

Recipe for Success: Make Any Video Your Lesson

Food for Thought: Strategically sharing instructional video gives your students access to an "explanation" when they need it, supporting their learning process. Students can instantly "replay" the day's lesson at their own pace and on their own schedule. 

Recipe for Success: Make Any Video Your Lesson

Recipe for Success: Make Them Show You How It's Done

Food for Thought: Pass the screencasting task to students to provide directions, narrate a presentation, or make an "explainer" video...No Chrome extensions required!

Recipe for Success: Make Them Show You How It's Done

Recipe for Success: Show Them How It's Done

Food for Thought: Use Screencastify to provide directions, narrate a presentation, make an "explainer" video, or give targeted feedback.

Recipes for Success: Show Them How It's Done

Recipe for Success: Share YouTube Playlists

Food for Thought: When you invite students to explore a topic through videos, it helps to pre-curate the content by creating a YouTube playlist which you can link in a HyperDoc or via Google Classroom, allowing them to quickly access and explore the content.

Recipe for Success: Share YouTube Playlists

Recipe for Success: Spice Up Your Classroom Topics With Emojis

Food for Thought: Pair Emojipedia with Google Slides and get ready to 😂.

Recipes for Success: Spice Up Your Classroom Topics With Emojis

Recipe for Success: Create Your Own Virtual Classroom

Food for Thought: There is no substitute for being at school with our students, but you can replicate your classroom virtually! Start with Google Slides and fold in backgrounds, bitmoji, images, text boxes, and links to create your own virtual learning space.

Recipes for Success: Create Your Own Virtual Classroom

Recipe for Success: Spice Up Your Slides with GIFs

Food for Thought: Pair your Google Slides with GIPHY for a taste of fun. However you pronounce it, a GIF is a "Graphics Interchange Format" file...think of it asa looping animated image. GIPHY is a source for sharing GIFs.

Recipes for Success: Spice Up Your Slides with GIFs

Recipe for Success: Kick Your Bitmoji Up A Notch

Food for Thought: Start with Snapchat and add a pinch of magic to bring your bitmoji to life. Your students will beg you to know how you did that!

Recipe of Success: Kick Your Bitmoji Up A Notch

Recipe for Success: Spice Up Your Slides with Bitmoji

Food for Thought: Pair your Google Slides with Bitmoji to add a dash of personality to your lessons. If you don't have a Bitmoji, you can make one the Bitmoji app for iOS or Android. Use your Snapchat or personal email account to sign up and design your Bitmoji on your mobile device.

Recipe for Success: Spice Up Your Slides with Bitmoji

Recipe for Success: Design Master Slides

Food for Thought: Google Slides are great for presenting information, but you can also use Slides to create interactive "drag-and-drop" learning activities for students. 

Recipes for Success: Design Master Slides

Recipe for Success: Restore an Earlier Version

Food for Thought: Let's say a student accidentally deleted a table or a text box on their Google Doc or Slides assignment and no longer has a space to answer your prompts. Not to worry...You can see any changes that have been made in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. You can also restore a previous version.

Recipe for Success: Restore an Earlier Version

Recipes for Success--Insert Text Boxes

Food for Thought: Similar to replacing traditional lines on a worksheet with a table in Google Docs, have you considered using Google Slides to create spaces for students to demonstrate learning? Slides give you more freedom to place images wherever you want to create a more engaging assignment. Try inserting a text box to solicit student responses to a prompt!

Recipes of Success: Insert Text Boxes

Recipes for Success--Insert Tables

Food for Thought: Traditional worksheets typically have lines for students to write their names and respond to prompts with pen & paper. With Google Docs, you can insert a table and not only share links to curated resources, but also provide spaces for students to demonstrate learning. This simple technique will yield transformative results as your traditional assignment can quickly become interactive and collaborative.

Recipes for Success: Insert Tables

Now We're Cookin'--Recipes for Success

I am so impressed with how quickly the ENTIRE district has hopped on board the instructional technology train during the course of this unprecedented emergency school closure. You are an inspiration to our students as you have modeled "lifelong learning" by amping up your instructional delivery will all sorts of new skills! Thank you for all you have done!

There isn't much more I can show you in Google Classroom so I am officially retiring my "Two Minute Drill" series. You can reference the Two Minute Drill tutorials on my YouTube channel or on Ensemble (special thanks to Barb Ritch and Jenn MacArthur for helping to put this together). I am hopeful that this series of short tips and tricks has been enough to help you understand what Google Classroom can (and can't) do.

Starting Monday, I'll be sharing something new called "Now We're Cookin'--Recipes for Success." I'll be sharing a strategy each day to help you spice up your instructional delivery with all sorts of flavors and special pairings. Stay tuned...

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Download Grades

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to download grades from Google Classroom. Options include opening all grades in a Google Sheet, downloading all grades to a .csv file that will open with Microsoft Excel, or downloading a specific assignment's grades to a .csv file.

Two Minute Drill: Download Grades

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Grading

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to set up a gradebook within Google Classroom.

Two Minute Drill: Grading

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill Overtime--Rubrics

In this Two Minute Drill Overtime, you will learn how to create and apply grading rubrics to assignments within Google Classroom.

Two Minute Drill Overtime: Rubrics

Remote Learning: Two Minute Drill--Reuse Post

In this Two Minute Drill, you will learn how to Reuse a Post and Assignment from any of the Google Classrooms you have created, including archived ones, to share on the Classroom Stream and Classwork pages, respectively.

Two Minute Drill: Reuse Post