Welcome back!

Welcome to the 2019-20 school year!
I'd love to chat with any teachers who are thinking about how they might be integrating technology in their classes this year. 
Over the next few days, I'm focusing on setting up Moodle and Google Classroom.  Please come to 118 if you need support with either (or both) of these.
I also wanted to share my resources from the Screencasting bucket session.  Screencasting is a great way to provide video instruction to students and for students to show their learning. Here's a simple document to get you started, with a link to a video on the process, as well. 

Two Google Classroom tips

Thinking ahead to next year, here are two tips I've shared with individual teachers but may be helpful to others, as well.

1. Unlike Moodle, you create your own Classroom.  Here's how:

Of course, I'm happy to help with this and/or get you started with adding materials and assignments.

2. For those already using Classroom, here's a nice tip on how to re-use comments on students work (so you don't have to keep re-typing the same thing over and over).

Using digital tools for learning

Need some inspiration?  Here are two videos showing digital learning at CVU.

First, what some students are doing:

 And some tips from teachers:

Annotating PDFs using Google Read & Write

Are you and your students already using Google Read & Write?  If not, please check it out-- it has tools that all students can benefit from.  In fact, as I posted recently, I sometimes use it just to have text read to me to give my eyes a break.

I just learned that there is now a new feature-- adding both freehand drawings and shapes to annotate PDFs.  Take a look at this intro video:

This makes a great tool even more helpful.  Please let me know if you'd like me to present it to your students.

Google Classroom for RISE (workshop!)

Dear teachers,
As you're planning for RISE, why not give Google Classroom a try?  It's an easy way to organize your resources, enroll students, and collaborate using Google Tools.

I'm building a Classroom for my course.  See that "RISE Journal" assignment in the second image?  Classroom will make a copy of my template for each student and put it in a folder for easy access.

I'll be doing a workshop after school on Thursday, 4/18 to show you how to get started using Classroom and some tips and tricks for using it effectively.  Please consider joining!