 OTAM, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. And welcome everyone and good morning. Thanks for coming out so early, 8.30, it seems early sometimes these days. Oh, there's Alicia, hi, Alicia. Nice to see some familiar faces and names and welcome. So I'm gonna share my screen so we can get started. All right, hopefully you can see the first slide of my presentation and hopefully you're in the right spot, making Google App projects to help ESL students online to get acquainted. So I am Cindy Wyslowski and I'm a retired teacher from San Diego Community College District and ESL instructor and mainly I taught beginning levels but also intermediate and a variety of other classes like the lab or pronunciation, et cetera. But now I'm an OTAM trainer, one of the many OTAM trainers. So I'm happy to be here at the conference. I'll be sharing these slides with you towards the end. So maybe Patricia will remind me when I get the five minute warning. So here's what was going on, what I was hearing from my colleagues in that here was kind of a dilemma, building relationships and community remotely. Now that everyone went online, there seemed to be some challenges, not that you don't have challenges in the face to face, but for example, trying to just teach your subject content while managing suddenly being online and just trying to focus the students, getting them engaged to just participate, feeling frustration, constantly trying new tools, what's gonna work, trying them out, don't work, learn something else, et cetera. And a feeling that the students aren't really getting to know each other. I mean, when we met face to face, of course we had more opportunities to do that, but it seemed to be an extra challenge being online all the time. So for today, I wanted to give you four opportunities to try some get to know activities and we'll be using Google apps. We'll be doing a Google doc, Google slide presentation, Google photos and then Google Jamboard. I don't know if you're familiar with those, but hopefully you'll get some new ideas. So we're gonna experience them synchronously. They don't have to be that way, but I think that's kind of more exciting to have things to develop live and then you can work off some follow-up activities after that. So that's the idea. We're gonna gather some information together onto a single document or slideshow or a photo album. And then you're gonna make some follow-up activities that your students could do with that information. And we'd also like to share ideas because all of you have great ideas as well. So there'll be an opportunities for that. Hopefully you'll improve a little know-how with Google if you're not familiar with all those apps and how I will share them. And you might think about how they might work in your situation or something similar. So like I said, we're gonna go live four times to collaborate on some projects. So I'm gonna demonstrate them first and then I'll put the link in the chat so that you can go to that site and participate. After each of the demos, we'd like to get your feedback either in the chat or our reaction. And then we'll all be sharing about ideas for projects and follow-up activities, et cetera. So hopefully you're familiar with using reactions in Zoom, but if you're not, make sure you find the reaction button at the toolbar at the bottom and choose one if you wanted to do that. And don't forget that the top row, at those timeout after a while, but the middle and the bottom row, you have to deselect those to remove them from your screen, just an FYI. So for the first two activities in order to participate, I'm gonna have you go to a little Google form because you need to have a number in order to participate. So all we're gonna do is ask you to put your name. Let me show you what the form looks like. Can you see the form? Yes. Yes, okay, great. So all you're gonna do is type your first name and last initial. And, oops, sorry. And then we'll get a little form developed so that you can, oops, you can participate. So let me put that in the chat right now. Okay, I can see that 19 people have responded. So can you see my screen now? So if you see your name, like Jodi B is number two. So if you look at the list, find your name. Cindy, Ruth is asking if it's something, if this is something you do with students also before participation. If you know your students, you can pre-number them on the form. But if you don't know your students and you're not sure how many are gonna participate, yes, this is a good way to do it. If you're face to face, I used to give out numbers randomly to students so that they knew their number. But this is one way to do it remotely. So Alicia, I see you're on here twice. So you can pick 19 or 20. All right. That was an accident. Okay. Okay, that's all right. No problem. That was... All right, so it looks like we have 21 people that would like to participate and jot down your number. We'll be using it for two activities. Okay. So one thing you have to do with this is refresh. If you think more people are adding to it, so it's good to refresh once in a while. Okay, so we're gonna stop with that. All right, so this is the form we're gonna use for our purposes. It would be different with students, but let's get to know each other. So basically, you know, you're just gonna type your name. Now, the form that you filled out, it automatically starts numbering with number two. So you as the teacher can, you know, give your example on line number one. It's always good to give a model. So I'm representing ESL. What's the best thing about your agency? I would say my fabulous colleagues, since I'm not working with students right now. All right, can everybody see where I entered? Maybe Patricia, can you give me a heads up? Yes, sorry, can't see. Okay, perfect, sorry. I'm calling on you. All right, and I see a thumbs up from Alicia. Thank you. All right, so now I'm gonna share this in the chat. So remember when you share, you go up to the top right, right? And just to review how you share a document or another Google one. If you know all your students' emails and you wanted to keep it private that way, that's one way you can copy and paste their names in there. But I usually just use the link. And when you want to use the link, I want people to be able to edit, of course, because they're gonna add their information. So your other choices are just to view or comment, but I'm gonna keep it on edit. I'm gonna copy the link for you guys, done. And then I'm gonna share that in the chat again. So here's a new place for you to go to. And so please open it up and start typing on your line. And wow, we can see it happening live. That's so exciting. And the reason why you wanna give out numbers is because if you don't, and the students don't know what line to type on, then they start typing on top of each other. So you wanna avoid that by giving them a number or by pre-filling in their names if you have that opportunity. Cindy, Carolyn's asking, how do you prevent students from altering the form? I don't. I have never had that problem, although that's always been a concern of mine. In Google, you can always go back to previous versions. So, how much are they gonna alter it really? If they take away someone's information, you just have them input it again or if they mess up the header rows, I just would type them that in again. To me, it has not been a problem, but again, modeling a lot of times and maybe telling them what the expectations are and modeling exactly what they're gonna do and only do that, for example. Okay, and so if I scroll down, you can see a lot of great information coming up. You notice when somebody's typing, it just says anonymous. And that's because I just shared the link. I didn't share it through email. If you shared it through email, then you would see exactly who's typing. All right, so then from this, we instantly have a lot of information. And so what are you gonna do with that information? Well, first of all, a typical thing with ESL students is, well, let's talk about it. And let's say, oh, well, let's find Sharon. What number is Sharon? Oh, she's number three. Now, what city is she from, et cetera? And who's from Castro Valley? Oh, that's Ruth. And who thinks the best thing about their agency is collaboration. That might be a few different people. So you can start to talk about the information that's there. You could ask specific questions. Oh, Vanessa, I see you're from Fausto. Now, where is that? And what agency do you work for there? You know, things like that from the information we have here. Okay, any questions so far? Okay, I see. Marisol had a question. Why not use just this form and not assign numbers? They just take a number from the sheet. Well, I want them to have a number first and be prepared to so that when they open this up, they're immediately going to that line. If it's, you know, not a huge group, you could say, you know, you could go down your list of students and say, oh, Mark, you're number one today and Alicia, you're number two. And you know, you could verbalize the numbers they're supposed to use as well. But this is just another way to do it. All right. So thank you all for your participation with that. And so let's go back to our slides. So this is, oh, we already did this. So we learned the basics about each other when, and so what are you going to do with this? So normally we would do a followup activity, but before that, how was your experience doing that as a participant or a viewer? Some people just like to view. You can comment in the chat or give a reaction button. Cindy, Ruka's asking if this works if students are on a phone. Yes. Remember, students can access the Google products on their phones. In fact, they can even download the docs, the slides, the Google photos and Jamboard, all the ones we're doing. They can actually download the apps on their phone, which makes it a little easier to use. But yes, definitely it would work on the phone. Okay. So hopefully that was a quick little experience. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Elizabeth. That's great. It is low key. And it's a very simple way to get them to learn about Google Docs. So how are you going to make tables? Well, an easy thing is just to make them, the teacher makes them based on the current topic. It could be life skill or grammar or vocabulary lessons that you're working on. It could be questions. It could just be statements like I used today. You could have them do a dictation from you. And then they ask a partner. And then they add their partner's information in the table. You can have, you know, depending on your level, the students could create them. Maybe they're in a breakout room. And then they share them with another group or the whole class, et cetera. There's a lot of opportunities. Yes, Caitlin, you can use it to determine their goals exactly. There are, you know, so many options. And a table is so easy to insert. And yes, Mary Sol, I see you mentioned about using the same number. Yeah, that's something that I used to do with my face-to-face students. You know, they use the same number for, say, a week. The student population would change, but at least for a week they would have the same number. Now, here's an example of a project that I did with students. So here's some questions that you might ask them. And you can see that right away, you would have some information that you could ask questions orally. You know, oh, I see Melu has a dog. You know, tell us about your dog or show us a picture of your dog or, you know, something like that. Carmen, oh, you've got two birds. Tell us about your birds. What are their names? Blah, blah, blah, blah. So a lot of things you can do with that. What I've done before with students is that each student wrote about the next student on the table. So number one wrote about number two. Number two wrote about number three, et cetera. And so here's an example. They did some writing and then they, you know, put it on a different Google Doc and then we put them in a shared folder. That's one way to do it. You can also get lots of ideas of areas that your students need reinforcement on. So it's very revealing in that respect as well. Now I'd like to have you guys do some annotation in a little bit. So the way I'd like you to do is, you know, click the annotate button in the toolbar of Zoom. And then select the text box and then we'll be sharing ideas. That's the way we'll share ideas today is with the annotate and the text box besides the chat. But I'd like you to do that as well. All right, so what project ideas would you have for your students? So if you wanna use the annotate in your toolbar and then just pick the text and then, you know, click in the body and type your idea. And then we'll see what ideas you have that you might use it for your students. Cindy, Ruth is asking if they need a Google account to do activities. No, they do not need a Google account. And Caitlin, if you go look at the top of your screen next to the green bar, there's a button that says view options. If you click the little down arrow, the third one down should be annotated. Great, sorting, categorizing, creating a Venn diagram, great. Oh, yeah, this works great with a small class. It's kind of on top of each other, responding to a topic in a breakout room. Yeah, great. Dictation, short answer discussion, games. Great, thanks for the ideas. Yale Civics, using the pointer to highlight. Oh, and using a photo. Yeah, photos are really good to insert into tables too. That's another option. All right, thank you for all your ideas. Okay, oh, great. Thank you for sharing, everybody. One thing that happens with the annotation is people kind of get on top of each other, but we appreciate your ideas. All right, so far so good. Are you ready to move on? Cindy, Megan, I apologize if I mispronounced your name, had a question in the chat. She was asking if tables are all a part of Google Forms. You mean making Google Forms? Well, Google Forms is just for asking questions and gathering information. The table you would want to use in Google Docs. Hey, thank you, everybody, for your ideas. I'm going to clear everything now. We have one more question from the chat. What if you want students to work on a document in breakout rooms? Do you have each room work on a different part of the document or course copy? I think I would have them have their own copy, but it's up to you. You could have a shared one and each one is using the same document in their individual breakout rooms. But it might be easier just to each have their own and then share them with each group separately. All right, so what would you do? Here's some follow-up assignment ideas for writing and reading. You might want to summarize like I told you before, or they could compare in contrast, make sentences. If you haven't used interactive graphic organizers, here's an example of a Venn diagram where the students could just type in their information into the Venn diagram and submit that to you that way. If you're not familiar with the whole interactive, there are lots of free interactive resources. So that might be a resource for you for mind mapping different graphic organizers. You could have a scavenger hunt. Who has two birds? How long has Lenny lived in San Diego, et cetera? Or you could create an interactive worksheet. For example, liveworksheets.com. You can explore that later if you'd like. You could make an online gradable assessment, maybe through your LMS or through Google Classroom. But if you're not familiar with that, there's something called TestMos, which is very, very simple. I'd like to show you a sample. Let me clear the annotations, though, first. Keep losing it. Here we are. Let's clear all those. Once you're finished annotating, if you want to close out the box, then you won't be adding to the screen. All right, so here's a sample of TestMos. So just type your name. I'll use a different name. OK. The passcode for this is review one. So you can make a basically a basic multiple choice to a false matching. And the students submit their responses and they would get the immediate feedback. And then as the teacher, you can get a little report showing you who took the test and how they scored. For example, you can sort by score. Cindy was really bad. Anyway, and you can see exactly which questions they got right or wrong and how long they took. Anyway, TestMos, if you don't have another you know, gradable assessment set up, that's one you could explore. TestMos.com. All right, so now remember your number and then we'll try one with Google Slides. So we're going to reflect and report. That would be the goal. Thank you, Barry. We'll see you next time. Yes, Caroline. I see in the chat you're asking about this. Did the students access the test from a link? Yes. And when you create a quiz or review, it's going to give you an exact number. And so you're going to share that, you know, URL with that number and it with your students. And then they will have a code to get in. And they'll all use the same code or you name it like I named that one review one. You know, you can give it a word name as well. So it's pretty easy. The only thing is that everything is by a code. So if you forget the code, then you're in trouble. You can sign up to have a paid account but with a free account, it's more quiz by quiz. And you've got to remember that exact link in your passcode to get in. All right, so let's move on to a slide presentation. So I'm going to show you first what it's going to look like. It's called our favorite place to visit in your city. And I've used this with students too. So for today, you're going to use that same number you had and find your slide in the left column here. Find your slide number. Remember, nobody was number one. So that's our example slide. So let me show you how we're going to do it. So you're going to click on your slide. And then if you click at the top of the slide, this box will open and then move your mouse kind of to the right at the bottom where it says explore. It kind of looks like a weird plus down there. You see that and then that's explore. So click on that. And then first, you've got to think of a place you want to explore in your city, a place you like to visit. So click in the search box. So maybe I'm going to pick, you know, Bellevue Park in San Diego and you can see it kind of filling in here. I'm going to click that. And then I need to click on images, right, because I want to get a picture. So whatever picture you like, click on the little plus next to it. And that's going to insert your picture. So grab the corner to resize it, move it. And then at the bottom, please put, you know, this is the place that you like to visit. Don't forget to include the city. And also your name. All right, so everybody knows that whose slide that is. You want to make sure your students use their name in some way. All right, so that's all you need to do. Some people might want to put a couple pictures, but one is just fine. So I'm going to delete number two because somebody else is number two. OK, so basically that's it. I'll share it again and I'll put it in the chat. I did share the link. This is actually the link you you shared. Oh, oh, thank you. Thank you so much. OK, so go ahead and get started. Thank you, Patricia. If this is good for students, too, if they forget what to do, then they can look at the first slide to have the directions right there again. So again, if you're if you're not participating, but you're just viewing, you can see how the presentation is getting populated. Live in real time, and that's kind of exciting to watch. And so, of course, one of the ideas is to gather so much information and content that your students have generated. It's something that's, you know, important to them. And then we're getting to know them a little better. As you're watching it develop, you can actually scroll through the slides and see what's going on. Yes, I missed the part about how you search online for a picture. Oh, in the top box and that move your mouse towards the bottom of the screen. And you'll see the explore button. It looks like a plus hold on. Ah, you see it. Now, hold on, I've got to go back to the slideshow. How do I get back to there from your shared screen? I'm looking at chat and you can click on that link again. Okay, okay, go back to my number. All right, the little, okay, explore, got it. Okay, perfect. And image. Do I just type in here? Okay, yeah, in the search box, go ahead and type and you can either click on the visual and then insert or click on the little plus by the image symbol, right from the list. Insert. Insert. Jody is getting fancy with her heart shape. That's great. And you can see it gives the students a little more creativity and freedom to design their side the way they want, share, and that looks beautiful. Shoreline Park. Caitlin likes the La Grisima mission. That's where she got married. See, so we're learning a lot of information about people. Diana, great. Tori Pine State Beach. Okay, you guys are doing great. Now, if you notice, Alisha is very advanced. She knew how to change the background color of her slide. So you might teach your students about that. There's Mary Sacramento. So we have a lot of information that we're gathering. There's Megan downtown Pleasanton. Okay, you guys are doing great. Oh, there's Alicia mission trails. I'm not sure who's the city of trees. I'm not sure who's that is. So often we have to remind students to put their name on their slide. Just so we know who's is who. Miranda. Okay. So now you notice when we make a slide presentation, you might have some blank slides. No, no problem. When everybody's finished, you just delete those slides. Which is very easy. You click on it on the left and hit the delete button. So then your, your slideshow, it becomes, you know, a typical slideshow with no blank slides. Yes, there's a lot of talented people. Okay, I can see that you guys could spend hours doing this. Good job, everybody. And it's the same with your students. I mean, you could do this together or it could be homework. So that they could spend a little more time putting more information or pictures. Let's see. Marianne or Marianne, you had a question. Okay, so now the slides. Do you mean my slides or do you mean this slide show that we're doing I'm not sure which one you mean. While I think about it, I'll just go ahead and put my slideshow. In the chat. If anyone wants to grab that now I can do that later too but I'll upload that file. I'll put my slideshow for today. And I'll put it in later too, but in case you want to grab that now. All right, so thank you everybody for participating in the Google slide. Now what are you going to do with this once you've made a slideshow. So I'm sure you have ideas, but let's talk about your experience first. You can comment in the chat or put your microphone on or give us a reaction. Did you feel comfortable doing that you think your students would enjoy doing that. Any feelings. So Alyssa hi Alyssa. So she said as a level one ESL teacher I would do this a breakout rooms it would be too much for most students to manage independently. Both I and an aid would elicit the answers and edit from the students yeah perfect. Everybody has a different situation. So great that you can figure out how it might be useful. Also, great activity, though I like the idea of high tech student to help others. Yes. Absolutely. You always will have some students that are more advanced than others. Great. I think it's still Yana you'll try it with your intermediate high students great. I'm going to do this tonight Lola said topic favorite recipe Oh perfect. Oh you guys have some great ideas. I'm going to start by setting it up that's right Carol. So, but once you do one then you get the hang of it and gets easier every time of course. All right so let's move on. Now here's a sample that I did with my students. And, like I said I worked with beginners so this is just a screenshot of their slides and I was able to do one in a face to face setting so I was able to, you know, demo for them on the big screen. But you could certainly do that remotely as well. So they each made one side of the place they like to visit in San Diego. And what we had them do then is narrate or read all the slides to practice speaking. And just one thing you could do is to have them practice their speaking. So what are some ideas to collaborate on presentations well it could be something about their native countries or cities what they miss how to do or make something. Sometimes I've worked with individual groups you group up your students and you know, say six slides of how to do something, you know, how to cook rice. How to plant something in the garden, something like that. Maybe surprises about living in the US. Something about a new friend a weekend activities what did they do. What makes you happy or sad. Two differences in the school systems between their country in the US you know depending on the level of your students you can get as basic or as complex as you like. And that you're comfortable with. Carolyn has another question I see for students to create their own slides do they start from a shared class Google account. Well, I used to have a class Google account that we all share, but then Google kind of made it a little more difficult for that to happen anymore. So it works out better if each student has their own account and if they have Gmail. And that's their Google account so they can certainly start a slide show. And that would be something you would have to demonstrate and model make directions for etc. So yes they would all need to have Gmail. So some of you might teach in a situation where you're using Google classroom. But if not, it makes things much much easier if they all have their own Gmail account, if you're going to have them start their own slide show for my beginners. They did not need to have their own account because I always started the slide show for them and they just participated. Alright so if you want to use the annotate again maybe you have some ideas that weren't mentioned. I don't want to add anything here. Slide project ideas, besides the ones that I mentioned, maybe you have something a topic that might be good. Somebody mentioned the recipe one, maybe have some other ideas. I see Laurel's question if they go in with the link they don't need to have an account. That's correct. You can do it today when you did it. When you don't have an account. It just looks like anonymous, you know when people are adding to their slide. So Google just assigns an anonymous, you know, name for them. Alright so here's some ideas showing up do a find someone who activity. Good interview a partner. You know about that partner. Perfect. Students can work collaborative breakout rooms. Yes, the teacher could provide that that's true. Family members. Yeah share issues with tech while kids are also on zoom yeah perfect. Everybody you know you just think about your situation. And how you would like to, you know, make it work for them. This is not working. The most important thing is to, you know, experiment and try something simple first and go from there. Let's see here's another question from Mary Ann. How about copyrights for copy and pasting the pics from the website. Well the the images that you use right in Google slides those are allowed because they're coming from Google themselves. So those are all safe to use. If you're going to the website, or just the general, you know, Google dot com to search for images you want to be careful make sure they're allowed for use, you know, beyond. You know, the copyright laws are, you know, more stricter these days so you, you might want to go to sites like pixel Bay or unsplash. Yeah, thank you, Elizabeth. I like that to pick some a I use those in my slide presentation. No attribution is required. You can find links of a dot com. For example, some people like unsplash, or you can actually sort in Google under images and find, find resources that are allowed for modification or use without recognition. And maybe you could change your chat because your comments are only going to me maybe you could change it to everyone so everyone could see your, your nice comments and questions. Lola. Maybe you can explain that meaning of your name origin origin. Sorry. I have my students. I have them like pull up the meaning of their name. Where did their name come from. I have them have like a link to Google maps so people can open up the link, the characteristics of the name and do you live up to those characteristics. So that's very interesting because your name, you know, kind of represents you, but do you actually know the meaning of your name do you know where it came from. So it's very interesting for the students to find out this information that they do love to share it. Okay, great. That's a good idea. All right, so let's move on. We have a couple more activities to try and do. Now the next one is with Google photos or Google albums. And with that one, you do need a Google account to participate in that one. We don't need the numbers anymore. I forgot to share some follow up assignment ideas maybe for speaking or listening that last one oral questioning. You know, I've already, we've already talked about that you share your screen and you ask some comprehension check questions, or you ask for further information. You can also have the students narrate you know they could use their phone recorder. Google voice if you have a Google voice phone with your class, you could use vocal room, which you can instantly make a recording and upload it. You can have students interview each other. You can also share information, you know I see your slide what are two things you like about Bowell Bowell Park. Do you go alone or with other people, you know you might have a list of questions or they develop their own questions. And then they report back in some way. There are, of course, many things to do. But maybe the easiest one is the, you know, recording on their phone. So easy. It will have time for this but if you use the auto recorder on your phone to read a few slides you could summarize and share with me if you wanted but I don't think we'll have time for that. I did one just a sample one. This is to visit in San Diego. How likes to visit Bowell Park. Kai likes to visit SeaWorld and Fabrizio likes to visit the USS Midway. Okay, so there's just an example of how students could share with you. That was me doing a sample but very easy, they can just record on their phone they could read all of the slides, just their own slide, five slides, whatever you want them to do, and then send it to you or if you have an LMS they could, you know, there's probably a way that they could post their audio so that you could give them feedback on their speaking you can, you know, again develop some ideas for further lessons that need to be created to help them with their speaking abilities. But that's, you know, an easy one to do for a follow up. So, I already showed you this before but this is in the slideshow about sharing as an editor for docs and slides so that everyone can add their information. You can also do the viewer or commenter. If you wanted to use those options. Google photos we're going to do right now. You need to have a Google account. So we're going to, I'm going to share an album with you. And you're going to select this little image with the plus on it which means you want to add a photo. So, you can do that. And then a follow up would be to comment on someone else's picture so you to do that you click on the picture of your choice and then type in the comment box. And you could have your students just comment or you could have them ask a question. Oh, where is this and what plan is that or, you know, whatever it is. Have them use their questioning to add. So here it is. Here's the album that I'm going to share with you. And there's just one picture right now that I posted. And you can see at the top. There's the plus photo up there to add a photo. Now, for this activity. Grab this and put it in the chat but it could be that, you know, most of your students have their photos. Where are they. Well, a lot of them it's on their phone. So I did make a QR code if you wanted to grab that with your phone if your phone is handy. So you could try it that way by adding a photo in that way. Again, you'll probably have to sign in with your Google account. So if you don't recall that information. It would be harder to participate. So either grab the QR code with your phone or, you know, add a picture from your computer. So the topic is, you know, something you like to do in your free time. And you can see on the top you have like here's a picture of our pineapples that we were growing a couple months ago. So good. We're already getting some photos coming in. And you can see also in the photo the name of the person that posted and that's because you had to use your Google account. So if I see Elizabeth and I click on hers I can know maybe I'm not sure. Great. Here's some more coming in. Mary, Jody, great. Great. There's Miranda. She likes to take a walk. Looks like Jody does some mosaic or of some sort. Mary also likes hiking. Now with the photos it helps to keep refreshing and then more will come up. Okay. There's Diana's. Tomatoes maybe? I'm not sure. Let's look good. There's Megan at the beach. Clara is making a special bumblebee craft. Ruth traveling somewhere. Okay. I'm not sure if I'm seeing a picture. Oh, Elizabeth said that's Marjoram. The comment wasn't showing up. Let's see. Don't see the comment either. Let me check on my phone. Carolyn said it's on the bottom right hand corner. Oh, okay. There it is. Also, if you have it on your phone, you could probably see it differently on your phone. Okay. Yes, I can see the comments now. Oh, there's a butterfly. Oh, here's a department meeting from Lolita. Oh, great. Okay. So you can see, you can. Gather lots of pictures. And then, you know, you can have your students ask questions of each other. If you share this with your class. If you want to talk more about their picture. And, you know, generate some more conversation. And the idea, of course, is just to get to know someone. Get to know everybody a little more about their life. All right. So thank you. Participants. With that one. Right. So let's move on to the last activity. Oh, first of all, how was your experience? Like the photos one is so wonderful to see photos, you know, instead of just text all the time. So I really liked that one. Did you feel comfortable doing that one? You can see that for the students to fully participate, they would need a Google account. So that could be a drawback. If they don't all have that. Okay, engaging. So with that, some question about explaining using the QR code. Well, the QR code just allows you to use a mobile device. To read it, you know, through the camera on your phone. So because so many people have. You know, You know, I think that's where we would find the photos. So I like to use the QR code so that. You know, it's easier for the students. To add their photos. If you have the QR code and then they can get right to the album from their phone and easily add. The QR code. So that's where the photos are located. So there are QR code generators. That you can download onto your phone. They're free. I just have a free one. I downloaded. And I use that, or you can actually do it on your computer as well. So great. I'm seeing lots of good comments. Thank you for the comments, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. John. In the slide show. Make sure you review this for. How to share. You want to make sure in the album that. You have all the collaborate. And link sharing activated. So that. People can see and add to the album. So those are just the directions for that. Some ideas for albums. For example, if you have a favorite room in the house. You know, two or three items with a favorite color in the same photo, you know, you can have your students take photos. Nature. You know, a favorite pair of shoes or. Some treasured item, maybe from their country. A family member's hand. I didn't guess what it is. You know, so they comment on each of the items. I see. So Yana says, can you please show us how to generate the QR code? Well, I downloaded a QR code generator. They're called. Onto my phone. And then I. I use that, you know, basically you have your photo album. And you have the URL of the photo album. So you just insert that in the QR generator. And then it makes a code for you. And since I did it on my phone, then I uploaded the code to Google drive. You know, you can share it in some way. So I uploaded it to Google drive and then I could put it into. My slide presentation. Okay, so hopefully that answers your question. So let's do the last one. Well, we have a few minutes left and that's the Jamboard project. So we're going to share about a favorite holiday. So again, I'll put it in the chat. I'll show you first. I'll show you what it looks like this. Now, I wasn't sure where the participants would be from. So in Jamboard, you can make different frames. It's just like a digital bulletin board of some sort, but at the top here, you see where it says one of eight. So if you click the arrow, you can see where it says one of the frames that I set up. So this would be good for your students. You want to maybe have a few frames so that not all of the students are on the same frame because it'll get pretty crowded. You could have it by groups, group one, group, two, group three, et cetera. Or I've divided this for you guys by area. So I'm going to put it in the chat. Then central California, then Southern California, maybe Western US, not in California. I'm not sure if anybody's not from California, Central US, Eastern US, you know, outside the US. When I set this up, we weren't sure where everybody would be from. But I think probably most of you are from California. So I'm going to go to Southern California. So basically a favorite holiday and why. So I'll go to Southern California since that's where I'm right now. And on the left, you see some tools. The pen is very difficult to use. It's just like writing. So I recommend the sticky note. So the fourth one down is a sticky note. Now you can choose your color, color choice. So, okay, maybe I'll pick the green. And what's your favorite holiday? So maybe New Year's. And why? Oh, I love the hats. Okay. Whatever you want to put. And then you click save and cancel it. And you can move it around where you like. So they're not on top of each other. Okay. All right. Does that make sense? So that's all you have to do. And I will share this with you. You do not need an account. You'll just be able to get to the Jamboard and start typing. Okay, go to the frame. Of your choice. And then you can move the boxes around. Some information. And you can also notice that anybody can move any of the boxes around. So like I could move this one. You know, if they're on top of each other, you know, you might want to move them around. Cindy. Yes. I keep clicking on the link. And then when I go to add something, I can't get back to my, my version that I can enter something in. How do I do that? I click on the link. And it pops up. And then when I go to enter something. Did you click on a sticky note? Okay. All right. Now it's working. I'm sorry. Four times. And it didn't. Okay. Okay. Practice makes perfect. Okay. Now you can see, depending on the. Level of your students, like here's an example, central California. With. Very lengthy. Explanation, which is great. You know, all your, your level of students are different. So. I'm sorry. Sorry, that's me, Clara. Oh, where are you? Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Oh, welcome. Welcome. Nice to have you. Nice to be here. Thank you. Hi, Pittsburgh. I used to live in Pittsburgh. Okay. So again, instant population. Oh, look, we even got a pictures. You guys are really nice pictures. You guys are so good. Much better than I am. Oh, somebody likes president's day. So one thing you could do with your students then with this activity. Is. Because it's anonymous, have them guess. Oh, who do you think. Likes Halloween. And who do you think likes. Christmas. Or, you know, if you want to, you have them put their name on it. And then you can ask them more questions. Or, you know, you could compile the information in some way. Oh, how many students said they liked Christmas. How many students said they liked Thanksgiving. Or if each frame was for a different group. It could be, you know, some other activity that you want them. Right about. Right about or explain in some way. You can also have them add a picture. An image of themselves. Here's an example here. You can have them take a picture of themselves right from their. You know, camera on their. Device. And add it to the. The jam board. Anyway, there's a ton of possibilities, of course. All right, so thank you all. For participating. We had one student from. Central California. Who is that from Central California. Can you identify yourself. I'm not sure who that is, but that's okay. All right. Thank you guys. Look, you're coloring. We're adding images. All right. So great. You can see how this is kind of fun. To make a jam board. And it's nice how they can just post and you move them around. It's a different way to display information. All right. So we've got to move on and finish up here. Okay. How was your experience? Do you think that you might want to try that with your students? You know, any of these activities besides the photos, the docs, the slides and the jam board, you can access through your Google drive account. Which I recommend just using the Google drive. Cindy, we have five minutes left. Okay. I'm going to take the file back up. In case anybody didn't grab it. All right. So let's just finish up. I do have some general pointers. You can look at this later too, but make sure you're modeling, modeling, modeling, you know, you could do the live demo. You could make directions. You could do a video. Try and create meaningful follow-up activities. If you have any questions, remember you can share files by student email, rather than the links if you're more comfortable with that. If you're going synchronous, you want to refresh. After you make your document or slide presentation, you might want to change that so that no one else can edit. If you're going back to use the form again, or you can make it into a PDF and download it for your students. Like I said, I like to use the Google drive account. Photos, you go to photos.google.com. Also in the albums, you could have students share video. It doesn't have to be pictures. Students can download any photo. The free apps you can download. Think about other Google programs like sheets or maps. And of course, how fun learning about each other. So things for you to think about. Would you plan a project for your class? You know, think about which apps. Would you try it synchronously or asynchronously? Maybe you want to try it for homework to start with. Or, you know, try it live like we did. It's kind of fun to do it that way because you get instant information and you can talk to your students about it. They can talk to each other. So thank you all for coming. Are there any final questions or comments?