Advanced Training: Unit 5: Organize Your Class and School Materials More Effectively

Imporant take aways from this unit:

• Differentiate in Google Classroom by setting up different levels of students in different classrooms, but all in one as well for collaboration.
• To notify others of a change in a document (who are colaborators) either use File>Email Collaborators, or mention them with a +and their email address in the comment section.
• Use digital portfolios for evidence of learning, sharing with parents, and reflecting on learning.  Blogs or Sites can be private.
• Quick Tip via Google Training Center for Blogs:

• Quick tip: There are three main ways you can control who views your blog.
  • 1. Your blog can be public and searchable by Google.
  • 2. Your blog can be unlisted so that people need the link to view it.
  • 3. Your blog can be private and you can invite specific people to view it.

Advanced Training: Unit 4: Analyze and Interpret Student Data

Important take aways from this unit:

• Customize correct and incorrect responses from a Google Form in Sheets: Format>Conditional Formating- Green and Red
• Add a Sparkline in one cell for a line graph of change over time.
• Motion Chart- animated for large data sets with many students.
• There are many advanced tools for data:Pivot table- under data 
• =filter(D:F,C:C="studentname") when responses "StudentNames” are listed in column C on the Form Responses sheet. Columns D, E, and F have feedback.

Advanced Training-Unit 3: Use Advanced Features to Optimize Workflow

Important take aways from this unit:

• Share a calendar (make it public) so anyone (even without a Google Account) so parents and students can see what events etc. you place on the calendar.
• GAFE accounts can schedule appointment slots (Google Accounts only can add a slot.)
• Check out Labs in Google Calendar and Gmail for new features which are being tested.
• Recall an email up to 30 seconds after you send it.
• Customize shortcuts
• Attach documents to a calendar: great for classroom newsletters or lesson plan sharing.
• Canned responses for emails
• Extensions: help the functionality and expand the use of the Chrome browser
• Apps: like a web-based program- lives in the cloud
• Add-Ons: work with specific Google Tools-Docs or Sheets. etc.
• Share apps by email or even G+
• Admin can push out

Advanced Training-Unit 3: Use Advanced Features to Optimize Workflow

Important take aways from this unit:

• Share a calendar (make it public) so anyone (even without a Google Account) so parents and students can see what events etc. you place on the calendar.
• GAFE accounts can schedule appointment slots (Google Accounts only can add a slot.)
• Check out Labs in Google Calendar and Gmail for new features which are being tested.
• Recall an email up to 30 seconds after you send it.
• Customize shortcuts
• Attach documents to a calendar: great for classroom newsletters or lesson plan sharing.
• Canned responses for emails
• Extensions: help the functionality and expand the use of the Chrome browser
• Apps: like a web-based program- lives in the cloud
• Add-Ons: work with specific Google Tools-Docs or Sheets. etc.
• Share apps by email or even G+
• Admin can push out

Advanced Training-Unit 2: Leverage Learning Models to Personalize Learning

Important take aways from this unit:

• There are 3 different models for differentiation for students: blended learning, problem based learning, and flipped classroom.
• These 3 models allow for small group instruction by the teacher.
• All 3 models are infused with technology.
• Use Forms with videos for a flipped classroom to prepare for the next dayś lesson, or formative assessment.
• Use a Multi Media Text Set for students' learning which could then be distributed through Google Classroom.

INFOhio Resources

Some Awesome Resources from INFOhio: *NOTE most write ups are from INFOhio.

IMatrix- Fundamental Inquiry Thinking

Use IMatrix to help plan higher level thinking lessons.  Common core supported.
http://teacherlibrarian.com/2013/02/04/infohio-imatrix-a-tool-to-enhance-deep-rigorous-learning/ Early World of Learning-http://www.worldbookonline.com/ewol/home

Early World of Learning has the ability to help young readers practice their foundational reading skills.  Take a minute to try the Read section of Early World.  You will find beginning readers under Trek's Travels and Welcome to Reading that emphasize skills such as phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension and vocabulary.  These "little books" can be printed out by clicking on the For Educators button at the bottom of the screen.  Be sure to click on the Frog Prince to find the story corner, nursery rhymes and songs.  

Bookflix-https://www.infohio.org/students/er/item/bookflix/#LOGOUT# 

Bookflix is our most popular resource with engaging and interactive titles, and memorable characters.  Don't forget to check out the games!

Bookflix is a Scholastic product that pairs popular fiction and non-fiction titles.  The fiction titles are shown as videos, but include the words at the bottom of the screen for students to read along with and practice word and letter recognition.  The non-fcition titles are traditional ebooks and feature read aloud that can be turned on or off, as well as vocabulary words.  Each pair has "puzzlers" to accompany them to encourage students' practice of sequencing, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

World Book Kids-http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/Home

World Book Kids is a great resource to help students continue to improve their reading skills and to start off with beginning research.  Teachers can find lexile levels, citation tools as well as text translation and read aloud under the Tools button within an article.  At the bottom of the screen, students have activities and experiments and games to further their learning.  Educators should be sure to click on For Educators at the bottom of the screen.

World Book also has a timeline freature you can use.  Students are even able to create their own timeline. https://youtu.be/pM-9jbmA1K4 

Explora-https://www.infohio.org/students/er/item/explora-prek-5

This brand-new look for EBSCO's Explora for Grades PreK-5 features colorful pictures arranged by topic for browsing.  This resource helps students and teachers find articles based on lexile levels also.  You can either browse search by the topics or put in a specific topic and use the limiters within the topic to narrow your search.  Try searching for Rocks and see what types of articles you find.  You can find a Getting Started Guide and screencastto help you get started. 

Educators Toolbox-https://www.infohio.org/educators/eptools/curriculum-toolbox

The Curriculum Toolbox is a resource for teachers and school staff.   Each toolbox curates a topic of instructional interest in education today. Inside the toolbox you will find INFOhio resources, websites, webinars, articles and more on topics such as Third Grade Reading Guarantee, College and Career Readiness, Instructional Bags, Digital Literacy and many others. (Great STEM for 4-5)

Bags

Find all of INFOhio's instructional "bags" here. The Back to School Bags and Blizzard Bags are meant for teachers to use with their classes. The Beach Bags are tailored for parents to use with their children, but teachers will still find activities appropriate for the classroom.

Close Reading

Common Core Standards call for students to “read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it.”

Informational Text and Literary Non-Fiction

The new standards call for students to read more informational text and literary nonfiction. Many of the resources from INFOhio like EBSCOhost databases and World Book are great sources for informational text.

Resources to Support the Third Grade Reading Guarantee

INFOhio has many resources that are excellent for working on foundational and reading skills to meet the 3rd grade reading guarantee.

Text Complexity

Blended Learning 

As part of the standards, students must analyze the structure of text with increasingly difficult and complex text. Many of the INFOhio resources provide Lexile levels with help on text complexity.

Webinars-https://www.infohio.org/educators/pd/lwi/

The Learn with INFOhio webinar home page is the place to start to find current and archived webinars.  The schedule for 2015-16 will be released in August, but here are three things to always remember about the webinars.

1.  They are always recorded and searchable on the website.  

2.  After the end of the webinar, certificates of attendance are available once you have completed a 5 question quiz.

3.  The webinar powerpoint is always available and is a good resource for helping add information to your own presentations.  Always be sure to credit the webinar author!

*Augmented Reality

*Skills for online testing

*Makerspaces

*Differentiation

Using Success in Six to Support STEM 

*Additional Hours for course

Science Online-http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Browse/Product/8

Science Online from Facts on File contains  science, math, and technology information articles, images, diagrams, interactive experiments videos, current events, experiments, biographies, and more. This resource is really useful for integrating into a science blended learning classroom.  You will learn more about how to use Science Online for blended learning in the Spotlight on Blended Learning module.  For now, just explore Science Online.  

Great PPT: Digital Kids: Empowered and Engaged Readers for the 21st Century http://bit.ly/23w6jfk
Using INFOhio with Google Classroom

Advanced Training-Unit 1: Promote and Model the Effective Use of Digital Tools

Important takeaways from this unit:

• Having a technology coach for teachers can help teachers feel more comforatble integrating technology.
• Start simple: what is one lesson you want to improve?
• When beginning a technology plan, involve the PTO, Admin, teachers, and students.
• Use Hangouts on Air which will be recorded and placed on the author's YouTube channel.
• Use School Site Mentors to help with individalized professional development.

Unit 13: Promote Digital Citizenship and Positive Online Behavior

Important take aways from this unit:

• Use Incognito mode for increased security.
• Be sure passwords have capital letters, lower case letters, numbers, and a special character for best security.
• Kids need to be taught how to be safe online.
• Respect and Protect
• http://www.ikeepsafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Faux-Paw-Pledge.pdf 
• ikeepsafe.org
• Youtube Video safety https://youtu.be/yrln8nyVBLU

Unit 12: Facilitate Group Work

Some important take aways from this unit:

• Use Google Tools for student collaboration, check ins, assessment, progress monitoring.
• Use the revision history in Google Docs to check for participation on all students during group projects.
• Use "restore this revision" if there is a mistake and a student loses all work.
• Use Google Keep to assign to do lists within groups.
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Unit 11: Captivate Your Class with Video

Important take aways from this unit:

• Subscribe to videos for updated content.
• Create playlists and share with teachers and/or students.
• Create your own YouTube channel with content!

Unit 10: Build Interactive Lessons

Important take aways from this unit:

• Be sure to use engaging slides to enhance student learning.
• Create captions and use drawings.
• Share apps with google e-mail groups and addresses
• Check out Google Play for Education apps.  Pay attention to the badges on them.

Unit 9: Teach Students Online Skills

Important take aways from this unit:

• EVERY WORD IN A SEARCH COUNTS!
• Search by colors to find a specific picture.
• Search by free use for pictures
• "The Rule of 3"
• Understand the different domain extensions.
• Chrome Web Store for all apps and extensions in Chrome

Unit 8: Measure, Understand, and Share Student Growth

Imprtant Takeaways from this Unit:

• Use Google Forms to help keep assessment data on students.
• Learn functions to sum, average, and powerful tools to help determine at risk students and those who need challenged.
• Use graphs in Google Sheets to display student data.
• Help students gauge their own understanding by looking at their data displayed in a graph.  Better yet, teach them how to graph it themselves!
• Taken directly from Google Training Cernter Fundamentals: Bar charts are the most common way to graph data for analysis. There are a variety of bar charts including bar, column, and the powerful, stacked bar, which can display a large amount of information in a compact space.
  Pie charts provide an easy way to display the results from an entire class. As a whole, the teacher can analyze which areas the class is strong or weak in. However, the most important aspect of this exercise is not just recording the correct answers, but also determining why students thought other wrong answers were correct. These results are anonymized, so others cannot determine the scores of an individual student when the summary report is shared with the class.
  Throughout each semester, teachers collect information on student performance. If we are able to visualize these results over time we might be able to draw conclusions about each student’s learning. There may be other things that have impacted a student on a particular day. However, it may be more telling to see if there is a general up or down trend over time. If we see a student slipping then we can intervene and get the student back on track before it’s too late. In this case, a line chart is a great tool to help us track performance over time.
  Line charts can also be especially helpful if you are using assessment standards, which are assessed several times over a grading period. By keeping a spreadsheet with the student names in the first column and date columns for each time the standard is assessed you can create a line graph to see how the student is trending. Each column is used to record the student performance on a particular day.
• I feel that using the graph feature in Google Sheets is teachers' most powerful, yet underused tool!
• Be sure to protect a sheet if you are going to share the data with another teacher.

Unit 7: Bring Student Work Online

Important Take Aways from This Unit:

• Use Google Classroom for all classroom assignment needs and communication with students.
• If Classroom isn't an option, simply create shared folders for students.  Each document will be automatically accessible within that shared folder.
• Be able to give valuable student feedback for students within Google Classroom.
• If your school doesn't enable Gmail, simply give students the unique code to join the class.