Happy Summer

 

Have a GREAT SUMMER everyone. 

What a year - hopefully we all learned a thing or two along the way.

Best Practices for End of Year Google Classroom

Google Classroom can get quite unruly throughout the school year!  It's a good idea to get everything cleaned up and set up for success in the next school year.

Click here for Best Practices Document

Time Saving Tip in Chrome!

Did you know you can search for Google Drive files right from the Chrome Omnibox(address bar)? Simply type in the name of the file you are looking for then click on the file to Open in Drive!

New Google Meet Features!

Amazing new Google Meet Updates are on the way!!!

Users will see a banner before joining a call that says “Meet has a new look” when this refreshed user interface is enabled for them. Rollout will start May 3rd!

Video feeds

• Hover over your video feed for options between a tile in the grid or a floating picture. You can also resize, reposition, and hide it to concentrate on the call.
• Your self-view appears in the bottom right of the grid to put more video feeds at eye-level as you look into the camera.

Viewing and presenting experience

• See what you are presenting while in Google Meet.
• Unpin the content you or others share to see more and larger video feeds.
• Participant names are always visible regardless of meeting size.

Bottom Bar

• Meeting dial-in codes, attachments, the participants list, chat, and other activities are at the bottom right to create more vertical space for seeing people and content.
• Controls are consolidated in one place with descriptions available upon hover.
• Leave call button is moved away from the microphone and camera buttons to prevent accidental call hang-ups.
• Bottom bar is always visible, while not covering cover captions and bottom video feeds

Other visual updates include

• When someone speaks, their tile is outlined in blue.
• Mute indicators are subdued to reduce visual distraction.
• When there are more participants than can be shown on the grid, a tile is added so you always remember who’s on the call.

More Information

Google Earth New Timelapse Feature

In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time. With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience. Now anyone can watch time unfold and witness nearly four decades of planetary change. 

To explore Timelapse in Google Earth, go to g.co/Timelapse — you can use the handy search bar to choose any place on the planet where you want to see time in motion. Or open Google Earth and click on the ship’s wheel to find Timelapse in the storytelling platform, Voyager, to see interactive guided tours. 

Meet Linkit's New Item Analysis Report

Linkit's Item Analysis reporting feature allows you to quickly analyze and compare item-level responses and performance across all questions, standards, or skills for a particular assessment to identify patterns in student responses and common errors on a class, teacher, school, or district level. Individual student item analysis reports can be customized for various purposes including: student feedback and parent-teacher conferences.

Item Analysis Video (new)

Item Analysis PDF (new)

PBS Learning Media

PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for direct access to thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources aligned to Common Core and national and state standards.

Spur your students' achievement and engagement through the use of:

• audio recordings
• documents
• interactives
• lesson plans
• videos

...and more!

You can browse by standards, grade level, subject area, and special collections. You can also favorite and share resources with your class and colleagues. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia is free for PreK-12 educators and students. Sign in using 'Sign in With Google' to get started!

For a quick overview watch this short video.

For more detailed information visit the Help Page!

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/