 Hello, and thank you for joining me today for today's Wednesday webinar. My name is Tina Souser from ESU-8. I'm a technology integrationist there. And today what we're going to talk about is what is new in Google and some other cool stuff in Google. So I would be remiss if I didn't mention that a lot of the information that I get about Google is from the Google Teacher Try podcast. I like to listen to the podcast and stay up to date on different ways in which to use Google in the classroom and some different fun and exciting things that Google puts out. And the Google Teacher Try podcast is with Matt Miller and Casey Bell. And they are both educators. Matt Miller, if you were at the summer's STI, he presented there and did a great job of presenting different Google tools and how to use some fun technology in your classroom. And Casey Bell is also a teacher. She has a blog called Shake Up Learning, which I also follow and get some really awesome tools and resources and ideas on using Google in the classroom. And Matt Miller's blog is called Ditch That Textbooks that you can also subscribe to. So please check those out, especially this Google Teacher Try podcast. And you can sign up for those podcasts via Google. You can sign up on an Android device. You can sign up on an Apple device. But it's a great podcast to listen to. Okay, so let's begin with the new Google Calendar. So most of you should have noticed that your calendar looks quite a bit different. It's a little more streamlined and a little bit easier to view and to add things to. So for instance, again, I usually keep mine on a weekly basis so that I can see what's happening within my week. You have all of your additional calendars over here that you can turn on and off. But what I really like is when you go in to add something in Google Calendar, you have all these options right there on that little pop-up menu. And so you can change the calendar, you can change the event, add a reminder, and even see open appointment slots right there from that little pop-up. And so basically Google Calendar has a brand new interface and the way that it looks and it's so much easier and user-friendly. So now another thing that you might have noticed is just that within Google Docs itself, this toolbar has kind of got a facelift. It looks just a little bit different, a little more friendly icons, I guess you would say, just a different look. So within Google Classroom, there is also some fun new features. And one of them that I really like, a couple of them are just very simple features that actually are pretty important. So first of all, what I like about this is you can take a class and you can click and drag it to reorder it right on your dashboard. So you can put your classes that you use the most up top, however you want to use, or however you want to move those. And so that's a great feature. Then for those of you who use the code to get your students in your class, which I prefer that way rather than email, what Google has done is if you go into students and you go next to the class code, instead of having to write it on the board, you can now click on Display and it'll bring that class code up nice and big for you to project for your kids to log into your class. And so that makes it so much easier and you don't have to write it again on the board. OK, so now another really awesome tool that Google has is within the Training Center. So within the Educational Training Center for Google, you now have the opportunity to do digital citizenship training for yourselves. And so basically what you can do is you can go through Google's courses that will teach you skills and give you resources on being a good digital citizenship, good digital citizen that you can then take and incorporate into your lessons and also to teach your students. So I really, really love that they've added this to the training platform. Then down below that in that training center, you can also take training on specific tools, if you wish. For instance, you can go in here to classroom and train on the latest and greatest in all the tools and resources within specifically within classroom. And so you can click in those and take those courses in there as well. And that again, that's in the Educational Training Center within Google. And this is also where you find the advanced training and being become Google certified and those types of things. So some great resources. Now, Google, I mentioned, offered the training for teachers to be good digital citizens, but they have also added the Be Internet Awesome training for kids and for students. And so what this is, and if you look at the URL here, it's beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com. And if you go there, this little video will kind of help outline what it's all about. But basically what this does is it will take your students in a game like structure through different digital citizenship training courses. For example, share with care. This is where they learn what they should and should not be sharing and why. And then don't fall for the fake. This is talking about different situations where things on the Internet may not be for real and may be a hoax. Secure your secrets. It's cool to be kind again. That's addressing bullying and when in doubt, talk it out. So these are some great training and for your students as well as making it fun because it's all kind of within a gaming platform. Also for the teachers on that, there's this beinternetawesome curriculum. So you can download that and see what it's all about and see the teacher resources that go along with that. So check out that again. It's beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com. All right, moving right along. Okay, so there is another site that is titled whohasaccess.com. And if you just type that into a URL, what it's going to do is it's going to ask to have access to your Google Drive and it will evaluate who all has access within your Google Drive. It also gives you information about how many folders, how many files you have in there, how many different people have access, how many different domains have access. It just gives you a great layout of all of your information. You can filter the information then and to see what you want to see from that. But I train a lot, so I have a lot of different people and things in here that I don't necessarily recognize. But I could scroll through here and see all of that. And then in my email, it actually sent me a message. I got to get to my email here and kind of gave me an overview of the information that it accessed right in my email. So that is whohasaccess.com. So now this tool, this tool is called Flipgrid. And this is not exactly a Google tool, but it integrates very well with Google Classroom. And I really like this tool because it is a reflective tool that you can send out to your kids and it's free. So basically your kids get a, I think it's a 15 second video where they can respond to a posting. For example, you could use this as an exit ticket for your classrooms where your kids explain what they learned for the day or you could ask them to explain or give you more information on vocabulary words, things like that. But it's very easily to integrate that again into Google Classroom. So when you click on share, you can share it right through Google Classroom and that becomes your assignment. So if you've never been on Flipgrid, go in there and check it out. It's kind of fun. All right. So within Google Mail now, you have the opportunity to get add-ons right in Google Mail. So if you use add-ons for your Google Mail, you can actually go right here and get add-ons for Gmail itself and it'll list different add-ons that you could get for your email that works specifically with Google, with Google Mail. Now, one other thing is you can now filter your student, certain emails to come into a different tab. See how I have all these tabs at the top? So if I come up here and I fill out this information on a search, once I fill that information out, for instance, if I want all my seesaw ambassador information to come within a filter, I can type up the information in here and I can create a filter with that, which gives me the opportunity then to filter, create that filter to match this and add a different label or a tab to it. So then why would I want to do that? Because then I can kind of separate my email so I know when and where to go look for some of the different things. Now, one other thing that I absolutely love and I'm not sure when this came out, but I think it's a great feature for Google Maps. And Google Maps now allow you to go in and search planets and moons. The path to get here is a little bit more difficult. So I'm going to go into Google Maps and show you how to do that. So if I type in maps.google.com, it brings me to this screen. What I want to do is I want to switch to the satellite view. And then I'm going to take my zoom out and zoom out as far as I can until the planet feature pops up over here. So you just keep zooming out in that satellite view until you get to this. And so I can click on these different ones to see what the surface of those look like. And so I can zoom in on that and I can see that from a satellite view once the picture completely loads. And I can see what that looks like. And as you can see, they have the International Space Station on here. So if I click to go into that, I can see the view from the International Space Station. And I can zoom in and out of that feature as well. So very cool to share with your kids and especially if you're doing a science unit or a planet unit. But you can go into that right within Google Maps itself. OK, and that is all I have for you today. I touched very briefly on some of these things. So if you have more questions on anything that I mentioned today, please feel free to contact me. And I'd love to give you more details. You can contact me at Tina dot Souser at ESU8NE.org. Thanks for listening and have a fantastic day.