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Using Google Tools to Connect with Students
- Encourage connectedness
- Good morning videos
- Office Hours/Check-ins: Keep interactions light-hearted when possible. Try having a joke of the day, funny video of the day, or playing a game.
- Trackers - from Lisa Johnson
- Google Forms Attendance and Check-in: How are you doing? How do you feel?
- Online safety/Digital Citizenship - Applied Digital Skills
- Using Google Classroom posts and comments to support conversations and connection
Google Slides: give students a prompt and have them respond with webcam pics
Have them teach something non-school curriculum through pictures
Google Form (or a non-graded Google Classroom assignment): Asking “how are you doing” and following up with them via email or Google Classroom private comments
Connect outside tools to Google Classroom:
- Flipgrid for student check-ins, for fun prompts, to share their pets, etc.
- Pear Deck has SEL slides … put them in student-paced mode to be accessed any time
Fun Google Meet video call ideas (13-20 in graphic below has some fun stuff)
Google Teacher Podcast Mailbag
Melissa Burns (South Carolina)
Anonymous Voicemail
On The Blogs
- Matt:
- Use Explore Explain Apply to plan remote learning lessons
- 10 online whiteboard options for remote learning
- Ditch That Textbook eLearning Resources
- 70 elearning activities, templates and tutorials
- Kasey:
- FREE Google Templates
- Google Classroom FAQ
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