Advanced Training: Unit 9: Give Students a Voice

Important take aways from this unit:

• Ways for students to have discussions online: (Asynchronus and Syncrhonus)
• Google Classroom
• Google Groups- Q&A Forum, or Web Forum
• Google Hangouts (text chat)
• Google Hangouts (video chat) (GAFE account =15 people at the greatest)
• Blogger
• YouTube (upload as public, unlisted, or private) Schools are asking students to upload as "unlisted" (age 13 and up). A link can then be shared. Videos can be set to private, but channels cannot. Even if students do not have a channel, they can arrange playlists to share.
• Hangouts on Air (need Q+account- posts directly to YouTube)
• Personal Website (Google Site)
• "When students produce for the world, they want it to be good.  When students produce for their teacher, they want it to be good enough."
• Create a Google Form for students to be able to help teachers-
• Hackathons- coding oppourtunities
• Addons:
• Yetanothermailmerge
• Autocrat
• Doctopus (distribute documents)
• 50 editors MAX for a Doc
• Google Groups are not bound by time.You can reply to a post via email.
• G+ communities can be restricted to your domain.