 The bottom of there we go. Yeah. Well, hi, everybody. Thank you for joining us today. We're going to talk about Google tools and we have JC Palmer here to help with that. And also some reminders and tips for professionalism and it's a lucky day when we get to see those awesome pairs of issue eight so thanks for tuning in, even if you can't be here live. Oh gosh, I put the pictures right over my own. So I am Steph Lundgren here at ESU eight part of the PD team. And here's my email. As always, if you ever need anything during the year you can reach out and I'm here for you. I just love every day I get to work with the Paris you guys do such an important job in our schools. Okay, so I'm we have Christie on with us and Christie, you can kind of think about how you feel today and JC and I maybe you'll think to how do we feel today. I remember this is a good thing to do with your students to I guess that I'm the bottom three don't exactly have names so you could name your own feeling there. Okay, I lost you girls. Oh, are you back. Are you back Christie, I guess these are over and over they're happy sad and mad. You could say, oh, oh no, we have some others we have silly like that. I can hear you talking to me, but I lost the pictures and everything. Hmm. I find the icon that stands for zoom on your computer. It's a it's a blue box that has a little white camera in it. It just went white for me. I can hear. Okay, JC, how are you feeling today. Yes, thanks for having me. Yes, I'm definitely one of the happy boxes. So maybe the five or the nine there. Okay, I'm excited to be be on the zoom with everyone. If you are having tech trouble, hopefully you can pull it back. If you pull zoom back up. There's a speaker viewers gallery view that might be the issue. Okay, I'm back on. Okay, great. And I see and everything's back to where it was. Well, Christy, how are you feeling today. What what's your pump pumpkin face look like. I'm not mad and I'm not sad. I'm not silly. I'd say somewhere between happy and a rush day. A rush today are most of your days like that. Yeah, things are just kind of, you know, just kind of a little hectic today, but on the general I'd say I'd have probably a go with the number one. All right, I think I'm pretty happy today too. I have finally found my office after two weeks away. And so just to be here in my office for a day and getting caught up feels good. But also, like I said, I don't mean to gush, but I do love my paradise and being with you Paris makes me happy so All right, so let's get into it here is JC's picture and she'll tell you a little bit about herself. Yes, well hi again and thank you Steph for having me be part of this special para day. I enjoyed getting to know some of you this summer and look forward to sharing some tech tips here. I, yeah, if we want to jump right into it, I'll share my screen and that way I can. Oh, it says host is you know what I'm going to do that for you just right now I'm going to make you a co host so thanks. Sorry about that. That's right while she's pulling that up I could share this my second year as instructional tech facilitator for as you ate so I get to bop around to several schools and help teachers and pairs admin with the different tech tools that we use in the classroom so if you happen to see me in your building in the future, feel free to stop me and we can talk through tech things. If I'm there in person at your school in the future. So, okay, Steph am I now. Yep, I think so, or do I have to stop this will stop other screen sharing. Okay, perfect. And sharing. Okay. Are you all seeing my screen now. Yep. Okay. So, let's get jumped right into there's lots of different pieces of educational technology that we use or could use and but in particular today we want to hone in on some of the Google tools that a lot of schools use because of the way that the ability for teachers and students to work they can then use Google to create things to keep themselves organized to engage their students and to continue learning. So we'll highlight a few things specifically within Google and I like to use this shoe analogy so there's lots of different shoes but we're going to just like today you have on a pair of shoes they were perfect for today maybe it's rainy or went with your outfit or just happened to be the pair that you wanted to wear today. That's kind of like these educational technology tools there might be something that's useful and the one you want to use right away and implement and try out with students or yourself. And then there might be another pair another idea that is valuable for down the road or another day so let's keep that in mind that not all of these are going to be something that you'll try immediately maybe but they could be helpful down the road. So we when we look at Google and Google options, there's a lot of different options out there but specifically we'll talk a little bit about Google Drive and then we'll get into like these four main creation options that come with that doc sheet slides and forms and then also get into calendar and a couple other Google related tips. So starting and I'm going to jump back and forth between this presentation and my actual computer showing you it in motion so we'll go back and forth but to start Google Drive. If if we're new to Google or new to thinking about the big picture Google Drive is really just like the hub where everything lives. So it can be where you start making documents. So I'm going to come over here and just show an example where on when you're on your drive. When we are in I'm going to go to a folder here where I've got cameras. So when you are in Google Drive up at the top left hand corner under new. There is the option then to create these types of things so you can think of Google Drive as a spot and hello we have a few more joining the spot where everything's going to live or so you can go there and create from there or if you have other resources and you want to put them there as the housed spot for your documents and information then that is your beginning point is understanding what your Google Drive is now Google Drive is also like a cloud it's a cloud version so anything that we save in Google Drive is going to be there whether a computer gets ran over by a truck or you drop your phone in the mud. Those things that were on Google Drive are still going to be there when you log into your Google account on a different device. So that's kind of the benefit of using Google versus some of the older ways that tech has been operated. So I really love it for me so if I'm a home doing something on one device I can get to school and it's on that on my new device to my other device so can't ever forget anything right. Yes, that's a great point yep right. It's always right across platforms and Google Drive will work with any type of device so whether you're using Chromebooks or Apple laptop or Dell laptop or cell phone different type of phone it's across the board so Okay so it's also a good one for us to talk to Paris about because all of you use different devices in your school so. Yes, yes, there's, I think it's a school within Google within our ESU 8 area that doesn't really operate out of Google Drive. I was actually just talking to some people about that this morning but I think for the, for the mass general crowd of ESU 8 area everybody and most schools for education use this Google Drive so you might have your announcements coming through here or you might be helping students get their files organized or you might have the opportunity to type a paper or something and you would go to Google Drive to do so. So Google Drive is kind of like your file cabinet right. Yeah, that's a good analogy yep. Yes, instead of having a file cabinet with all your papers stacked into it, you know have a Google Drive where all your documents live. And create new ones to. Yes, yes. So to get yourself organized when you are in your drive and you create a new doc, which will get into some document specific tips here. But the, the thing that can be overlooked easily is naming the document so just best practice for students or ourselves to name the document as soon as you come into the file so that otherwise they're all just going to be called a document and then it's hard to find your future resources. So if I was going to name this report for reading class or whatever whatever you're working on. Then if you type start typing here or this is going to be my letter to parents or whoever you're making something for, maybe you're typing up something. You can click that box and it will automatically put the title in there with what those first few words of your document were. And then this now is the name of the document over here so we have letter to parents. You can see that goes across so best practice to keep your Google Drive organized is make sure you're naming your files right when you come into them. Paratraining. Oh shoot. I just muted someone so thank you for joining but if you would like to, I'm guessing you didn't realize you're on speaker so you're welcome to unmute if you have questions. Okay, so then when you're in your drive. So naming the files as you create them as the best practice to keep yourself organized. You can also create folders. So I might go in here and click new and then new folder, and perhaps I want to name this para October for 2022 so then all of the information or resources things that I'm building and showing today. So you can drop all of these files into that folder. So you can have folders within folders, and you can cover code them so I have my drive with three main folders and then within those folders, lots of other sub folders that you can then drill down even further. Utilizing folders and here's a screenshot on this slide show that kind of shows some other options you can cover code the folders, which is helpful for students so he clicked control and click on the folder and then you can play with those options you could also add emojis or like the little pictures ahead of it to give a visual reference representation in there as well. It's kind of like in your file folders in your filing cabinet as Steph was describing. This is just your manner of getting yourself situated so that you can find your resources. The other note that I had on here to remind everyone about Google Drive, especially if we're new to working with Google, coming from other platforms. Google lets us collaborate very easily so we can share a folder and that would be like multiple people having access to the same filing cabinet from anywhere they're at so we can all have access to that file. And that's different than having to email files back and forth that just automatically collaborative so if I want to thing is I can be on a document with JC at the same exact time. And we can be typing our ideas into it. And at the same time without having a file or save and then send a file to her. Yes. Perfect. And to, to show you an example of that I will just share this example doc here so I clicked share in the top right. And then if I this is one method of how it could be shared, you can use email addresses. You can also just share the link. There are two different ways to share but for right now I'll just do it via email so I typed in Steph's email and clicked send so that's sending her an email. And then if when she goes into her driver accesses it then she should be able to open this and say hello so I will say something and she can come in here and type at the same time. Go ahead. Hey JC would you go up to share one more time just to show him the editor part. Yes. Thank you. And I had this marked for later I kind of getting ahead. Oh I'm sorry. No I'm glad you mentioned that because yes appropriate time to explain it so once we have shared it. Then there's three main options that you will typically see which are going to be viewer commenter or editor. So if I want her to be able to come in here and type and erase and delete and add and fully collaborate with me we'd want her as an editor. Or I could just mark her as a viewer so perhaps I have something I'll organize and ready but I just want her to be able to see it but not be able to tweak it then I could change that to viewer and when she opens that link that I sent her via the email. She would be have full access to look at it but not be able to edit it. So, so I'm kind of trying to think about a time that Paris work with kids that that might be appropriate so maybe you're sending a letter out to parents right something like that, or I don't know, or to other teachers, then you don't want them to edit it you just want them to see it. So then they're just a viewer or like maybe assignment details for a kid and they just need to see the assignment but not change anything on that page. Yeah, like a set of directions or some of you information you don't need them to add to it or change it just. Yeah. Yeah, perfect. So then they could just be a viewer. You, depending on your school and how they like the workflow that you're the teachers that you work with use, and they might be using a platform like Google classroom or canvas or something where they're sharing links and another layer of understanding with what all the Google Docs can do but just know that there's lots of options on how you want to share those so cool. Okay, so let's look and explore a little bit further into Google Docs. So, I would mention that if you have previously been a fan of like using Microsoft based things or just if you use an Apple computer and or an iPad and have all the Apple things I just wanted to explain. So Google Docs is very similar to Google or to Microsoft Word and it would be similar to pages on an Apple device. Google Sheets is the comparative to Excel and Google Slides is going to be like a PowerPoint. Those are the words for Microsoft PowerPoint, but Google Slides is very similar. So schools are generally operating out of this Google world but if you haven't seen that before, then now you see the correlation. Or keynote is another one that's on Apple devices instead of slides. So, looking then at Google Docs. I want to show these features other than just the basic word processing will look at some checkboxes emojis, how I can type with your voice and how to do hyperlinks. So I'm going to come over here to this Google Doc example. And what I mean by interactive checkboxes instead of just bullet points bullet points can be handy for certain things as well, but perhaps you're helping a student create a list of the homework they need to do, or you're making reminders for yourself or just developing a working document where you want to be able to see a visual check off. If you insert these checklists there, it's a little checkbox instead of the bullet points. Then when you click on the checkbox it will actually let you get it. As you can see it's crossing them off as you go versus, like if you make them a bullet point you couldn't do that so it's kind of a newer feature of Google Docs would just kind of handy to insert checkboxes so to do that if you're just typing away it's just insert. And insert and checkboxes if I can't talk and think at the same time so if somebody else sees where tools insert fun if I can't show you what I just did a few minutes ago. And the thing about Google is oftentimes they switch things up on you so you have to be ready for that. You might have to look in a different place a different day. Yes, that is true things do get shifted around I just double checked myself on this just before we started here but to make sure I could accurately portray I was but I guess I thought I was up here as well but maybe it's just over here in the toolbar. Did you have to have your cursor somewhere. I don't know if your cursor was. I mean there's always this box up here so you can always just I was thinking there was two spots. That's right. So. Okay, the other one is emoji reaction so there's two different things about emojis one is right here where you can just go in and click and add like as if you're typing like just putting it on the paper so adding visual things but now there's actually reactions to the document so when you hover over the document over here on the right hand side. You can add a reaction to a specific thing and it bumps it out over to the side so people can react to certain parts of the document and give feedback in that way so it's a quick way. Maybe you just are checking in on students progress and you don't necessarily want to leave them a comment or lots of elaborate feedback but you can go in and give them a thumbs up or a happy smiley face or something like the cheering emoji something that would celebrate here's a clapping hands would celebrate the work that they've done so far. Awesome and kids could even do that with each other if they were editing each other's work or wanted to share each other's work and get some feedback of how effective it is so. Yes, yes, cool. Okay, voice typing I think we talked about that this summer as well but I'll just show you that one again so this is under tools and voice typing and the microphone pops up on the right and when you click on it. Then the microphone is engaged and it will listen and convert your words to text period you'll need to add punctuation but this is a pretty quick way to get words on paper period. The microphone and it's not perfect, but it does put words on to the document if you will need to help students. And this is handy, since you can, you can pull up this Google Doc on your phone and talking to your phone and it's going to quote quote type your paper. So, kind of a modification that would be valuable for more of a verbal learner. And lastly hyperlinks sometimes we see these hyperlinks in agendas or shared resources and just understanding the hyperlink concept is sometimes valuable. So, a hyperlink is just going to be, it's typically going to be in blue and it's going to bounce you out to somewhere else link to another resource. So, I'm going to show you a couple cat video let's just say we want everybody to watch this cat video that we're going to pull up on YouTube, YouTube cat video. You're going to get thousands of thousands of. Okay, I'm just going to go with whatever this first one is. I hadn't preview defined a great cat video stuff would be the animal expert here. I think my grammar really out here but so then this link up at the top so where it says YouTube. This is your URL so I'm going to copy that so that command C or edit copy. Okay that link then if I didn't want to have to go Google up that that video I just want a link on this document and so they can just click it and it'll go right to where I want them to go. So that and click your hyperlink button and paste where you wanted to go which was that video I just copied it paste it apply it and so now that that those words are hyperlinked. So instead of it just saying cat video now you can see it turn blue and it's got to underlines and now when I click that it will jump to a new tab and take me out to the spot so hyperlink. I click on the video then once you click on cat video then you have to click the link. True. Yes. Yes, you hover on the word or click it and then click it again yes you're right it's two clicks, but sometimes on that's useful or you'll see that a lot with you have a presentation and then you link to another spot within the presentation or another. So knowing that you can create your own hyperlinks pretty easily just with this hyperlink button is like and this is the same link to look for like in emails or across all the Google like Gmail and all the Google platforms hyperlinks are an option to create. So go through if there's questions feel free to jump in with questions will save some time at the end for general questions to but open to just unmute and or pop in or put them in the chat if you like. Okay we're going to look at Google Sheets briefly so Google Sheets is kind of like Excel, and here's an example. You can open up Google Sheets, there's a brand new one. There are lots of things you can do with Google Sheets but. For example, you can add the formulas like an Excel where you would be adding together things you know like okay so you have three and two I'm going to do extremely basic math here and then the sum of these. You can add them together and it will automatically tell you okay so that is obviously very simplified but to explain that Excel has that capability with the formulas. So does sheets. So you might be in charge of like organizing some supplies or counting up how many kids are going to go on the field trip or something like that. And I do the cheat over the the furthest right tool. That's probably a Greek letter that I just don't know what it is. Okay, I just go under some there once I highlight things and I put it there. Nice. Yes, I was just talking to someone. Go ahead. I love seeing that JC you just typed it in because I always do it the hard way by having to find that so. Well, no, that's good to know both ways there's a ton of formulas that are available as you can see here I don't know what all of these mean or what they do you can Google what they mean if you get into being a spreadsheet pro or. Nerd like me I like all this stuff that I don't know all of the different ones so that is a good example of like database keeping though. You can also add checklists here so if you have a list of student names or something and you just need to check them off. This has check boxes as well as. You can find them again. Tools. Where's my checkbox. I just had them earlier. There it is okay yes insert and checkbox. So, then you can interact with these as well so if you have a list of names, and you just need to daily check them off for whatever category you're doing it for I know some people use this for lunch counts. So they're just going to put in Monday and they go through and check which students they out so this is one way to manipulate Google sheets, you can also kind of a fun one that is kind of overlooked looked in this pretty simple is to just format the colors so format and alternate the colors so you can. I think for it to do like a one through the 100 that's basically a huge range of cells then and you want it to be pink. And apply it. Oops. Okay I'm going to go up here. Apply to all areas. Nope, I tried this earlier. It's a quicker way to alternate all of your options I just did it. I use this one often. You're saying all these cells want there we go. Don't know just took a second. So you're saying all of the cells and then it automatically will alternate colors so you can just tell it's easier to read or if you're wanting to help make less. It's just a quick way to differentiate those lines. Okay, so I'd love to go into further Google sheets but I know that Excel and sheets are depending on your role and what line of work you're helping with. It may or may not be used a ton so we're going to go into Google slides. And this is like your PowerPoint or your keynote this is a lot of time presentations this is a lot of times where teachers might be developing the lessons that they're than showing students so if you have the opportunity to reteach they might be sending you Google slides. Or if you have the chance to make Google slides to reteach something. Here's two little tidbits within Google slides so when you want to put in a video. Like here we have another cat video so I will show you the steps for that and the value of embedding it instead of going out to it so if you search a video. And we let's do dogs this time, we search a dog video and select it and insert it the formatting options come up on the right hand side and this is a 10 minute video but let's say I just want students to see like 30 seconds of it because that was like the potatoes or the main message or the cool part of the video, you can have it set to automatically start at minute five and a half and only play until minute 602 that way. When they then get to this slide and you click play on it it automatically you see that jumped to minute five minute and 30 seconds so kind of a quicker way to show videos without having to watch the whole video and without having to fumble through it. Google slideshow templates are sometimes a lifesaver if you're building slide shows so slides mania.com is one option to find free templates. So these are just resources that are already made. I mean come in and we'll just scroll through some of these top ones here so let's say you like this slide show slide show template. When you click on that to pre well, not bad. It's going to let you look and see like what some of the slides will look like. And if you would like to then add it you just say open in Google slides, and it will make you a copy of this entire template. You can use template up the top right corner and all of these slides and that are all pretty and have graphics and matching fonts and all the things are now part of your Google Drive and from there you can just go in and edit the words to say what you want it to say. If you're creating a lot on Google slides that these two that I've linked in here on slides carnival is another one these are some resources that are just pre made templates because the, the templates are backgrounds the themes that are already available on Google slides are kind of limited So if you want to go into finding some other ones there's like holiday themed ones and whatnot as well so. Today we're using one that was created on slides carnival so awesome okay cool yeah this like with the orange and we practice what we preach. Yep. No need to worry about all that background things when we can just go in and borrow a pre made one. Google forms, we could spend a lot of time learning just about Google forms but high fly overview of Google forms is that it's a way to collect information. So, instead of having them write their name on a piece of paper, or instead of having them email in responses, or if you're trying to gather data from lots of different people for any sort of purpose. Google forms can be the way to do that. You could also create quizzes or help teachers digitalize a quiz so that they can students receive instant feedback, and it can speed up grading that process. So, just like we were talking about in Google forms, or in Google Drive earlier this is one of the options to create a new Google form. So then I've come out here to Google forms and when you're in editing mode. This kind of what it looks like you could come in here and create questions so when it's blank you just go click the top right hand corner to add a new question. So this might be question for on this example, and I'm going to give the options of ABC and D. Okay. And I've already prior to us zooming I built a couple examples on here so I have three questions that I didn't name correctly. Oh, there we go. Number three. Okay, so Google forms, you name it. This is an example you add the questions there are a ton of question options. I've just got multiple choice ones showing here for example right now but you can create a variety of different types of ways to gather information. And then you click on the little eyeball in the top right hand corner that will take you over to preview what it looks like as far as like what you would send out to members of the sports team members of the class to the parents to whoever you're helping gather information from you send them this link and this is what it would look like on there and if you're going to digitalize a quiz. Okay, there's 10 questions multiple choice. Just make pretty simple back in form and under settings you just change this toggle to called make a quiz. And when you change that toggle to on to make a quiz, then that lets you go back to the questions and apply how many points is each question worth and what is the correct answer. So you, you signify which ones are the correct answer how many points are worth and then to show you an example if I go through and fill out this as a student. So now I'm looking at it from a student side. After I click submit, it lets me see right instantly how I did on that quiz. So, on this example looks like I missed all of them, but I can, I thought I had it set up where there we go here's another example I did earlier, where some of them are going to be correct and some are incorrect but you can also elaborate and tell me why is that correct or if I selected a and I was supposed to be see it could pop up little message there and gives me more information. So, this is just a pair is want to take a written test of a teacher's and say hey let's make it digital and I'll help you it'll help them grade and get their responses really quickly. This is possible through Google forms and I'd love to help further if you want to dive into that further because Google forms is pretty handy. Google calendar. This is a pretty well used option but there's some little tweaks within Google calendar that are time savers. So, I'm going to jump into Google calendar. And if this is October, we might want to set up a reoccurring event, meaning if you know every week, a certain thing happens, like trash day or payday or library day, you can. You can have it organized. So, those events will automatically pop up and you don't have to go in and type it you don't have to write hand write it in your planner every single day that things happen so click on it, create an event. So, maybe what Steph might know a reoccurring event for pairs might be the or a start training pair training. Oh, there you go. Okay, if it. You know, a pair training will occur on the same time every week but we're going to click this or every month but on this does not repeat button we click that and we're going to say it repeats. Maybe weekly on the first or something actually it's every other month but we'll just use it as an example. That's perfect. So, if you have something that's on a designated day you can customize and go a little further but for the sake of a quick example. Let's say you had para training monthly on the first Wednesday once I click save, then see when I scroll now into November there it is on the first Wednesday, December, first Wednesday it's automatically going to put that in. And therefore saves you time entering or typing or, and you can always go in and delete or remove that but the repeating events is pretty handy also I would point out on this is that you can have multiple calendars for yourself. So, you might have one calendar that's all like the family member stuff, you might make another calendar for yourself that's all of your appointments or your deadlines or reminders or you could help students make a calendar per class period if they are seeing a lot of due dates for for math or something they could make a math calendar and then put all their deadlines for big projects on their calendar, for example, sometimes their learning management platforms will already have calendar features built in but just understanding the repeating event concept is kind of handy for using Google Calendar for all that it's worth besides just a digital planner like make it work for you, save you time. Oh, and sharing calendar so I think Steph alluded to this this summer when we're talking about this but if I have a family member calendar and I want everybody in the family or whoever, maybe you and a student or all the paras need to be on the same calendar and puts it in and then everybody gets to see that information. You can you can edit the access to the calendar so I click the three dots and go into settings and down here I can add people to this calendar so they might not be able to see all of my calendars but this particular calendar I want to share with everybody so anything I put on that one is available so that I would just add their names and share it just like you do with a Google Doc. And do you want to show them how to change the color right there too. Sure. If you go to those three dots when you hover over one of the calendars. You can change a color to. Yes, per. Yeah, what that. I mean trash day should be green like Oscar the Grouch right. Okay, there you go. Yep, you can see, you can see everybody like associates different colors with different things and so. Yes, you might want to put the color that's most appropriate for you and for that type of event. So, um, okay, you can when you create events to you can also change the color right there it doesn't change it for the entire calendar but that's sometimes helpful if you want just a certain one to be different. Okay, let's go back to our Google slide where we were talking about all of the tips here. On Google calendar just know that if you do if you're a Google user to you can subscribe to your school's calendar so that you can get those events on your phone and then it's just a checkbox to uncheck or check and see what's on the school calendar to. Okay, Google Chrome. These tips are just real quick but up at the top, let's say you are a person that opens a ton of tabs and or needs to help students organize all the different things that they have open throughout the day. I recommend that they consider the tabs as more short term quicker ways to organize themselves and then turning on the bookmark tab bar so that they can reference the bookmarks so the bookmark bar is your three dots. If you're on Google Chrome and bookmarks and show bookmark bar. And if you don't have that checked then see that little bar up across the top of my screen went away. So now I'm going to go back and turn that on. And just by having that bookmark bar on then when you bookmark something it can be really easy and one click to get to your resources. So, if you know you need to access your weekly announcements that an administrator sends every week. You're always in the same document just bookmark that, and you can always just click that bookmark then I'll show you the tab organization across the top. If you hover over it and click control and add to new group. Excuse me I'm going to sneeze I hope I don't sneeze okay. Excuse me. There's different colors and then you can name them so this is going to be para para info info. And drag and drop the tab into that, into that tab group so then you can just condense them. And so I want to go about my day but later I want to come back to this para info. I can just expand those tabs but they don't have to take up all room across the top. So, JC I had no idea I'm learning things to. Yes, the. There's options to use multiple ones too so you can have several like where my screenshot go here. Yes, this is a screenshot of tabs. So you might have all you have to open a bunch of reading tabs or all the tabs for when you go into the fourth grade room or all the things you want to leave open read later tonight, you can make several like this color thing shows, and then just expand them when you use the thing about tabs why I say it's short term organization is because once you close these tabs, then it will it'll just delete the tab color thing. So bookmarks are more long term if you want it to always always be there. Okay, couple engagement ideas with Google. So these are options that are digital ways to pull in some quick tech, something quick and engaging that you don't have a physical thing or want to just try something different so right on Google. Google.com, or if you're just on your home screen of your Chrome browser. If you type in flip a coin. There is a flip a coin option built right there you don't have to go to a different website or anything it's just heads or tails built right in there now there's something to be said about students literally learning to flip the coin and all that so I definitely understand you but sometimes you just want a quick way to do something and you don't have a coin or whatnot then this is a timer a timer could be right there too. Yes. Yeah. Yes roll dice, and you can manipulate the dice here a little bit more and there's a few options here but what did you just say stuff was on your thing. Yes, so three minutes timer for example, you've got three minutes it will pull up some videos but sometimes it'll just pull up right on. Okay, I think it's very short videos will just timers will pull right up here and it'll it starts automatically. These are the random number as I was doing, I'm going to go back. And that's what I used at the parrot training this summer I use the random number generator to get our number for our prizes that we gave out. Perfect. That is fun. There's okay I didn't there's a fidget spinner some of these are new even since the last time I looked at that so like wheel of names is another site that I'll have to put in the names of students to draw from as well. Okay, and Google translate if you're working with someone that you need to translate translate to this is just an FYI that is totally free and totally right on the top of Google so you just type in Google translate and you can even say it so there's got the microphone here. But where where is the bathroom. And then you want that to convert to let's pick a language like Spanish. Okay, here is our answer and you can read it, you could copy paste it, or you can listen. So, then it helps literally on the spot if you're in person with someone and needing to translate something quickly. I don't know that it's perfect I don't have a Spanish or any foreign language degree or anything but if in a pinch this is a quick way to go back and forth and if they want to say something to you in their language, and just click the microphone and let them say it and then have it convert to English, so that you can kind of use that as a quick way to communicate. Okay, we would be curious to hear takeaway or maybe Steph could share I don't know who's all live or still live with us but, and if you're watching this later we appreciate that you went through it, I would maybe encourage you to take a moment to turn to me if you're watching this with someone later and think through how might you use Google, one of these options to be more effective or efficient with your line of work. Yeah so Christie or Jennifer do you want to share out anything that you think you might be able to use from Google with your kids. I really don't know right off hand, but I do like the fact that you are taping this correct. Yes, because some of that stuff I need to read over one more time. So I can understand it better but absolutely or you call us and we'll help you go through it again in your individual context right so we could zoom with you. Bless you JC. We could zoom with you and help walk you through something that's really applicable, you know, to your work at that time that you need it so. Yes, thanks. And yes I muted there for a second because it wasn't anything but I. I realize that sometimes it's more useful to hear some of this while you're in front of your device trying something or wanting to do with something specific so that's where I said if you see me out about I'm happy to help when I'm there. Jennifer do you have anything that you might be able to use. I mean we use a lot of like the timers and stuff. I'm a preschool pair right now. Oh sure. I'm actually working on my teaching degree right now so a lot of it in the future when I have my own classroom to. Absolutely. That's awesome thinking ahead and going into it cool. So for anyone curious to learn more about any digital skills within the Google world, it's called applied digital skills, and I mentioned it this summer but there are a ton of opportunities for free out there to teach ourselves at the pace that's appropriate at the time that we prefer. So for example I'll just show you this one in particular you have a Google Drive and it's out of control and you can't find your files and there's things everywhere and you wouldn't mind putting some organization to it for example. Here is a little mini lesson that is just how to organize your files and when you click start. It shows you over on the right hand side here. It will go through directions with a written description and videos and it would give you time to pause, and you can work through this little lesson that has like a little four minute videos to show that so this is just a lesson on organizing your files. But there's a ton of other applied digital skills out there. So depending on where you're wanting to learn. These are some of your options like we've just talked about Google Docs and Drive and forms maybe you want to learn more about using Gmail so you can go in and click and specifically work through a lesson about Gmail or more so maybe it's a topic that you're wanting to learn about not necessarily just the tool but the general topic. So, depending on what you're teaching or helping with the like here's career and college readiness so how about you would want to help students create a resume. So, how might that look what could we do to do that to create a resume this little 45 minute lesson can walk you through some tips on that. So, so I would highly recommend checking out Google applied digital skills because of the free learning that can occur for any age and if it's not for us it might be something we pass along to students to work through as well. Okay. I appreciate the opportunity to share some Google things. There's a lot like I'm going to go back up here. There's, there's a lot of different things, not just in Google but just in ed tech in general that can help us just to create and organize and you know engage students and learn better so I appreciate you looking for something that would work for you now or maybe in the future and be curious if you have questions. Otherwise, I look forward to hopefully seeing more of you in person in the future. Okay. We gave me a lot of things to think about. Well, thanks because I you know I want to learn these new things also so. Thank you. Yes. Well thank you for taking time to be on. I have a couple more slides that will talk through here. Of course. And all there we go. Thank you JC so much for joining us I think it's on technologies one of those areas where we always have something to learn and so it's very exciting. Let's see here. I'm going to click through it's not letting me escape out of there I can get down to my portion here. So we just want to highlight some para skills each time that we meet this year. And so, and we'll talk about professionalism a little bit and remembering just some of those things that we talk about a lot in the summer but maybe we can bring a little bit of light here too. So one is to be a positive role model right always exhibiting the behavior that we want to see from kids. And if we don't want them on phones, we shouldn't be on our phones if we don't want them talking in a negative way, we shouldn't either. So the more that we can be that positive role model the better. Also, we want to remember to protect student confidentiality that can be kind of a hard thing sometimes in our small towns especially when we know everyone but and that's why it's even more important that we don't share any student information once we're out of school. So that's everything on whether a student got in trouble at school or maybe a student in a class and found some lice and was treated for lice or something like that. We wouldn't want to share that we never want to share things about ips. And we always want to refer people back to the principal and teachers, if they have questions. And also follow dress code. I know our workplace there's no rips or tears in our jeans when we wear them on Friday I never want to be at risk of losing my jeans Friday because I love that so much. But you know really thinking about the summer I think people mentioned shirts that are a little bit low cut, but also your safety so are there no parts and pieces people can tug on and tear and that kind of thing. And just always looking at what your school says is okay to wear. Also be on time, right. So we want to be on time in the morning we want to stay our full time in the afternoon. But that's also be on time to each class as the teachers are counting on you to be there. So if something's not working in your schedule like you're just having to stay five minutes later in a different class before you rush to across the hall. You're probably going to need to do some problem solving with whoever makes your schedule and talk to them about that. We want to maintain that student centered supportive environment so I'm, you know, look for kids emotional well being just like we checked in on each other this morning and said how are you feeling today. We want to be there to be their advocate to help them out. So if you're struggling and struggling might look like a behavior that's really driving you nuts, and I'm really, it's hard to deal with, but they need your support in that moment. So how can we do that with dignity and show them some grace, but also maintain a good environment for all the other students. We want to establish positive relationships with staff members and students. So research shows us that if there is no significant relationship, there is no significant learning. So we need to become, you know, good supportive adults for our kids around us they need to know that they can rely on us and trust us, and feel like hey this is a person who's looking out for me, and cares about me. We also want to use appropriate language right so I think you know about some old school ways of teaching. Now, they were pretty harsh, even in those moments of correcting behaviors and things like that. So we always want to use a positive kind of language, of course, no swearing, I think that's probably pretty obvious, but also I, you know I remember my students saying that a sub told them to shut up once. And of course we would never use that language anymore with kids, you know, they're graders like I taught think that that's swearing so I'm always maintain that really professional language. We want to build a maintain effective communication with our teachers, I would say there's no such thing as over communication. Talk to them about the things that you're seeing an intervention groups you're working with or if you're with kids on a bus or the playground, tell them what's going on. Sometimes the biggest challenge is just finding the time to do that. We also want to exhibit good attendance, you are so needed in your schools Paris. I, you know, I know in my classroom I relied on Paris so much that they need you there and right now we have such a subbing shortage that your good attendance is great so keep yourself healthy, and try to minimize those times that you have to leave school. Also we want you to use time wisely, look for things to do, look to keep busy, ask people if you can help them out. Again, stay off phones and things like that that might, you know, just not be the best use of your time at school. And then model teaching and behavior management of the teacher. So if the teacher's using certain words to teach a skill. That's something for you to use. If they teach it in a certain way that's again a great way for you to be teaching the kids and behavior management to that keeps it less confusing for kids when it's really consistent from person to person. We know that you are all such wonderful professionals that you'll remember that but one thing I do want to remind you remind you of two is to take care of yourself. And our job is not an easy one, right, being educators and so take time to calm down to do something quiet do something that is fun. And just remind yourself every day of why you love your job and what brings you there, sometimes focusing on that positive helps get you through it. And I want to invite you to each of our monthly zooms are by monthly zoom sorry every other month it's even months first Tuesday at two. So we'll see you again in December where we'll talk about behavior supports, those positive supports for kids. That's something that you all said that you wanted more of just like you did you said you wanted more of Google tools. This summer so we're glad for your feedback and that's what we brought you and so we'll also learn some para skills at the end of the day when we're talking about behavior supports. So we hope to see one zoom but if you can't tune in live. We always record these and we record them here at the website listed. And that's where you can find the link to the zooms and that's where you can find all the recordings and the different resources that we've shared out through the years. So, we just want to say thank you so much for joining us. It's been a pleasure to see two of you in person, and hopefully will. Many more of you will join in via visit or via the recording. Our email addresses are here so if you need anything really our job is to serve you so let us know we'd love to help you. Great tips that you shared stuff it's a good reminder for everyone and it's neat that the Paris get refreshers on just good life practices so thanks for sharing all that you do and thanks again for having me with tech. Thank you thanks JC for joining us. Any questions from participants before we head out. No, but I enjoyed the afternoon with you. We always enjoy seeing you guys too so hey you guys take care and we'll see you in December. Okay, bye. Okay bye bye.