Hope to see you at the Tech Book camp tomorrow and Thursday... and the new staff have their tech day on Friday! Wow summer is gone. Hope everyone is ready for an exciting year. (Yes, there will be challenges and new procedures... but what a great opportunity for us to lead as educators.) Don't forget your mask! -A fun little Goggle Mask video.
Draftback - ITS BACK!
This is one of our favorite extensions and it stopped working a few months ago and the developer has updated it and ITS BACK!Adds a button into your Google Docs to playback the history like a movie. Great for seeing how students made that doc/report.
Connect Google Classroom with Applied Digital Skills
Connect it here. Applied Digital Skills is now better integrated with Google Classroom. Connect your Google Classroom account with your Applied Digital Skills dashboard to import your student roster, co-teachers, and assign lessons seamlessly. If you have not checked out Applied Digital Skills now may be the time especially if you incorporate digital skills within your curriculum. More info here.
How to Use Khan Academy for Distance Learning
Learn how to:
| • | Set clear expectations for how students will use Khan Academy and receive feedback |
| • | Use our new Skills report to identify the most challenging topics and work through them live |
| • | Tap into Khan’s collection of five-minute Refresh activities to keep your students energized |
A couple great add-ons and extensions for the Math teachers!
Hypatia is an add-on that allows you to easily insert equations into Google Docs, Slides, and Forms.
Here is another one to try:
EquatIO for google - easily create mathematical equations, formulas, quizzes and more in g suite apps
EquatIO is totally free for teachers. Other individual users can buy direct from our online store above. A single annual subscription costs $100, with discounted pricing for group and unlimited licenses.
Casting your Chromebook to your projector
The Cast EDU extension may be gone - but after looking at their new way of doing it... Jason and myself actually think this may be better. (And more reliable!) Jason has updated our casting doc. Feel free to reach out to us if you need help or have questions.
A few new Google Meet features:
Google will be rolling these out soon:
Only meeting creators and calendar owners can mute or remove other participants. This ensures that instructors can't be removed or muted by student participants.
Only meeting creators and calendar owners can approve requests to join made by external participants. This means that students can’t allow external participants to join via video and that external participants can’t join before the instructor.
We have added a few new tools, tips, and extensions to our Video Conferencing document (Zoom and Meet). A Google Meet extension to record attendance and more... Check them out!
Miscellaneous tech tips & items:
Khan Academy and the Features You Might Have Missed - There are a lot of subjects. It's not just videos.
Kasey Bell's FREE Remote Learning Resources for Teachers
Here’s a fun idea for back to school - A get to know you activity.
Text Message Phishing — or “Smishing” is on the rise. Be Careful!
I am sure some of you have seen these and if not... they will be coming to your phone. Be smart - just like phishing emails they want you to click on a link or maybe call a number. (Notice the example below that was sent to me a while back. It's a shortened URL link to click on. It does not match any of my card numbers and the senders looks kind of strange as well.)
Would you click on this one? NOT!
A great resource and local contact from the National Archives:
Dave is a retired Nebraska teacher who also spent several years with the National Archives teaching and working with K-12 students across the Nation. You can reach out to him for more information at:
Side note - I was in the same school district as Dave (Tri County) for 10 years. Dave was a legendary teacher at TC for many years. Students all knew him as an amazing teacher but when you were in classes you had to work hard and keep your nose to the grindstone. He was often the teacher that kids stopped back to see after graduation. I guess it's all what we strive for as educators. He has a passion for teaching, government and history. (Yes he was a government and history teacher. lol)
Hi Educators,
With hands-on access to primary sources and analysis techniques, students will form a connection to historical evidence and deepen their understanding of the past. Involve your whole class in an activity, or assign students to complete activities individually or in small groups – and turn their work in to you – on DocsTeach.org or the DocsTeach App for iPad. Activities align with Bloom’s Taxonomy and National History Standards.
With a DocsTeach account, you can save and share the primary sources you discover. You can also create, save and share activities. And you gain access to hundreds of additional activities created by fellow educators. You can even copy and modify these activities to fit your needs.
Like anything worthwhile, it takes time to explore and play to get comfortable with all that DocsTeach has to offer. You will see alignment with Bloom's and our National History Standards. Maybe start out using DocsTeach for a favorite unit---- mine is World War II and access primary sources like — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types.
If you find this site and the tools of value- share with colleagues. If you have questions about the National Archives or DocsTeach please contact me. If I cannot answer them I will tap my colleague Stephanie Greenhut who is the administrator of this site. Good luck this year & please send some feedback on your experience with DocsTeach.
Your Colleague & Friend,
Dave Rosenbaum
*As you will discover, there are resources that would fit the comprehension level of K-12...
Favorites- You can type in the id # in the search to pull these documents up
United States check to Russia for Alaska ID 301667
FDR First Inaugural Speech- "Nothing to Fear" 197333
Map of Louisiana Purchase 594889
Patent Light Bulb 595450
Cartoon- Passing the Buck 6012161
Poster- Army Recruiting 513533
Photo Pres Lincoln 527825
Photo Covered Wagon -Nebraska 518267
Apollo 11 Flight Plan 6734365
HAVE FUN!
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