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.