As remote teaching and learning continues, creating breakout rooms and other activities where small groups can work is an important part of today's "classrooms." This not only allows students to see their classmates in a small group setting, but it allows them to work through problems and projects together as they would have in a regular classroom. To better understand what each group is doing in their breakout room, Holly Clark discusses 3 technology tools that give groups a chance to see and hear what other groups did and what ideas came out of their collaborations.
Friday, January 22, 2021
Friday Matinee: Effective Breakout Rooms and Group Work: 3 Tools to Take Collaboration Further
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Did You Know? You Can Add Multiple Page Orientations to Google Docs
Have you ever needed to turn a page in a document so that it is landscape versus portrait? Now you can in Google Docs! Google recently announced that you can now easily work with multiple page orientations in Docs. You can change the orientation on a per section basis. This allows you to add content that requires a wider format.
Image source: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/12/mixed-page-orientations-in-google-docs.html
Friday, January 15, 2021
Friday Matinee: 8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students in Active Learning Online
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Did You Know? Publish Your Slide Presentation to the Web Before Sharing in Zoom
According to Kasey Bell from Shake Up Learning, you should share your Google Slides lessons in Google Meet or Zoom by publishing them to the web first. This gives you a unique link that anyone can view. It is a full window player, so you only see the slides one at a time. Use this unique link when sharing your screen in Zoom or Meet instead of clicking on “present.” The present button goes full screen on your monitor. This allows you to see more than one window at once, which allows you to see other tabs during your presentation.