We learnt about Google Hangouts or Google Meets, this could be very useful moving into possible school closure with Covid-19 Virus. I will need to have a trial with my class so I can potentially use this if schools close. This is also how we could hold meetings during school closures.
In our session about Manaiakalani Pedagogy, the importance of authentic texts - (not created by the teacher), and students having discussions were highlighted. Question to self? Are the texts I am providing students with authentic? Lenva talked to us about teachers Amplifying and Turbo Charging their practice.
I can see the benefits of using Google Keep. It is like post-its which I used to use, but these will be be saved across all devices which will be much better.
I managed to sort out my gmail and deleted over 1200 old emails. I have changed the theme of my gmails so I can identify my personal one from my school one. I also learnt how to invite people to my calendar, so I can have both my personal and work calendar on one. This didn't appear to work very well so will continue to work on this.
We learnt about Google Hangouts, how to create one, join one and record it. We had a lot of laughs and learnt that it is best not to pin our face to the bar, or we can see no-one else. Our group recorded our Hangout beautifully, but realised had our headphones plugged in and therefore could not hear anything on the recording. We use Quicktime on an Apple computer. We can use Quicktime on a Chromebook, or alternatively Screencastify.
I also downloaded an extension called One Tab which will allow me to close all tabs in one go, but to keep them in the One Tab extension to refer to later.
A takehome for me was being able to take a photo of text on Google Keep, touch the photo, click the three buttons and tap "grab image text" It copies the text and rewrites it and saves it to Google Keep. I can see this being useful to take a photo of a reading text and using it as a Cloze exercise for reading groups.
I can see the benefits of using Google Keep. It is like post-its which I used to use, but these will be be saved across all devices which will be much better.
I managed to sort out my gmail and deleted over 1200 old emails. I have changed the theme of my gmails so I can identify my personal one from my school one. I also learnt how to invite people to my calendar, so I can have both my personal and work calendar on one. This didn't appear to work very well so will continue to work on this.
We learnt about Google Hangouts, how to create one, join one and record it. We had a lot of laughs and learnt that it is best not to pin our face to the bar, or we can see no-one else. Our group recorded our Hangout beautifully, but realised had our headphones plugged in and therefore could not hear anything on the recording. We use Quicktime on an Apple computer. We can use Quicktime on a Chromebook, or alternatively Screencastify.
I also downloaded an extension called One Tab which will allow me to close all tabs in one go, but to keep them in the One Tab extension to refer to later.
A takehome for me was being able to take a photo of text on Google Keep, touch the photo, click the three buttons and tap "grab image text" It copies the text and rewrites it and saves it to Google Keep. I can see this being useful to take a photo of a reading text and using it as a Cloze exercise for reading groups.
Evening Sue, thank you for being so engaged today. I am wondering if the internal mic in quick time was left off as this can prevent recording sound. But as you mention the more we try the easy things get. Great way to use grab text image in reading.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful blog post to share your learning today. You have certainly taken on some great new ideas to work smarter. How true that Hangouts are becoming more important in our digital delivery. The more we use them the better we will get, so it is important to use the many opportunities you have with your students to familiarise them with this tool. Thanks for sharing your ideas of ways to use Google Keep especially for Cloze writing - a great idea.
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