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Green: Tips and Tricks
Pink: Beginner's guide to Chromebooks
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Introductory Article about using Chromebooks in the classroom

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Introductory Article about using Chromebooks in the classroom

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http://www.edudemic.com/chromebooks-in-the-classroom/

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Internet-connected devices have become an indispensable part of the modern classroom, and an ever-growing number of educators are turning to Chromebooks as their go-to education device.

Chromebooks, which are small, web-connected laptops running Google's Chrome operating system, have recently outpaced Apple iPads and Microsoft devices as the most popular classroom mobile technology. Although only accounting for 1% of devices sold to schools in 2012, Chromebooks have quickly become a teacher favorite. In 2015, more than 4.4 million Chromebooks were sold for K-12 education, accounting for more than half of all devices purchased by schools, CNBC reported. Estimates are only higher for 2016.

The low cost, small size, and mobility of Chromebooks makes them more practical and attractive for many educators than other mobile devices. Chromebooks provide teachers with the technology - such as individualized learning paces, online teaching aids, and unparalleled research tools - they need for their classrooms at a reasonable price.

How Chromebooks Work

Chromebooks look like a laptops, function like mobile devices, and have the advantages of both without many of the costs or problems. The Google software devices are made by a variety of manufacturers which allows for costs as low as $199 and a plethora of hardware designs.

All Chromebooks run Chrome OS, an operating system that uses an Internet connection for almost all functions. This means that Chromebooks don't have slow processing time when booting up or need the costly hardrive and hardware of traditional laptops and desktop computers, EdTechTeacher notes. This saves teachers valuable classroom minutes.

Chromebooks are most often compared to iPads for classroom use. Although iPads have the benefit of touchscreen interaction, which is not present with most Chromebook devices, they are inferior in most other ways. Chromebooks vary in design due to the number of hardware manufacturers, but typically have larger screens than tablets and always include a keyboard, which allows students to practice typing.

While iPads cost $400 or more depending on the model, per unit, teachers can find dozens of Chromebook options for less than $300. Chromebooks can boast more that 10 hours of battery life, feature options for WiFi or 4G LTE connection, feature a variety of apps, and can use Adobe Flash player unlike Apple devices.

One of the biggest benefits to the Chromebook is that all documents are stored in the cloud. Students will be able to access their work regardless of which device they used the day before.

Although many educators may be more familiar with Microsoft operating systems and Apple devices, the adjustment to Chrome will not be difficult. The device's quick function and the operating system's similarity to the Chrome browser make adoption swift and pleasant.

There are only three steps to using a Chromebook.

1. Power up the device as you would with any technology.

2. Connect to the Internet by signing into the school's WiFi. Typically this only needs to be done the first time. Some devices include ethernet ports.

3. Sign in to your Google account just like you would on a desktop.

Tip and Tricks for Classroom Chromebooks

There are a number of tricks, tips, and shortcuts that can help educators save time in the classroom and spend more time focusing on education. Try some of these tips in your class.

Use that Keyboard

There are dozens of keyboard shortcuts, so make sure you use them and teach your students, too. You can also design your own shortcuts and hotkey them for convenience. Shortcuts keep class time efficient.

Learn About Privacy and Controls

You can control what students access, how they access your computer, and what privacy options are enabled. Schools and districts often have policies in place, but it can help for teachers to learn the technology too.

Pin Your Students Important Sites and Apps

Spend a little extra time during a prep period to pin the sites and apps you need to the home screen. This can save you precious classroom time while you execute a lesson plan.

Share your Screen, Enable Collaboration, and Have Fun

Chromebooks are great for the classroom because they rely on web apps. The web-connectivity allows for collaboration on everything from a document to more creative work in real time. Additionally you can cast your screen, upload a lesson to YouTube, and use tons of handy extensions. Spend some time playing with the unique and fun features of your Chromebook so that you can best use it in the classroom.

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Internet-connected devices have become an indispensable part of the modern classroom, and an ever-growing number of educators are turning to Chromebooks as their go-to education device. Chromebooks, which are small, web-connected laptops running Google's Chrome operating system, have recently outpaced Apple iPads and Microsoft devices as the most popular classroom mobile technology.

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Help students search and explore the world using Chromebooks

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Digital tools to engage students in learning | Google for Education

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Explore tools that help educators inspire digital citizens, scientists, and world explorers. Tools include Expeditions, Chromebook apps, and Google Earth.

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Google Forms are free to make, easy to use, and completely customizable. Join Monica Burns as she shares some of her favorite ways to use Google Forms for formative assessment. This easy-to-use tool is perfect for teachers looking for a simple way to gather formative assessment data.

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6 Tips for Making the Most of Your Chromebook

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6 Tips for Making the Most of Your Chromebook

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6 tips for making the most of your Chromebooks

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Before my second year of teaching, my principal suggested that I pilot a class set of 35 Chromebooks in my ninth- and 11th-grade English classes. In exchange for exclusive use of this Chromebook ca...

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This page will provide links to online information about the use of Google Chromebooks in the PreK-12 classroom. There have been many successful pilots of these devices and 1:1 adoptions, and this...

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Interesting blog post by an educator with helpful apps, links, and sites.

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Happy Monday, friends! Today, I had a training where we talked to other teachers about our 1:1 Chromebook classrooms and shared sites that worked for us. I thought it might be beneficial to share with y'all that have a class set of Chromebooks, too!
Last year, the entire 5th grade in our district received Chromebooks for every student. Each student was given their own Chromebook and bag. The Chromebook went with them to each class, but it did not go home. The 5th grade teachers went to monthly trainings and were required to come back and teach lessons. This year, our 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th grades went through the same thing and those teachers came to the 5th grade teachers to see our model lessons. This process worked really well and I learned SO MUCH!
Now that I've been using Chromebooks in my daily instruction, I've learned about some neat sites that I wanted to share with y'all today. I know there's so much more out there, but this is just what worked for me. If you use a site, please share! :)
Smore

This is an online flyer generator. It's great for teaching vocabulary, pre reading strategies, grammar, etc. I blogged about how I used it for vocabulary here. You can see some of my smores that I've created and used this year below.
Previewing Tuck Everlasting

A grammar lesson on adjectives and articles

A vocabulary lesson

Nearpod is a site that allows you to show the kids teacher led presentations. The kids join via a session code that you can write on the board. Their screen only moves to the next slide when YOU move it, so it's great for making kids stay with you and not jump ahead. You can read about how I used this site during a figurative language lesson here.
Powtoon

Animated video presentations. I created a few for introducing idioms at the beginning of the year. The kids have also created their own for grammar skills and other examples of figurative language elements. The 4th grade teacher showed an example of one of her kids creating one for prepositional phrases and it was really neat! You can check out my examples here.
Movenote

My favorite! And my kids! Allows students to upload a Google presentation and record themselves reading and discussing the presentation. The students create their own account using their Google account and they will email you the video when they are finished. We will use this at the end of a lesson when all the groups have completed their presentation.
Google Classroom

Perfect for organizing documents, presentations, spreadsheets from Google Drive and for creating assignments for students. We use it at the beginning of every classroom for warm ups.
Google Drive (This only works if your students have a google account)

Docs- like Microsoft Word. We are using this for our Reading Response journals next year. If you assign it through Google Classroom, it will make a copy for each student. Presentations- my favorite! This is what I used for the lesson today Forms- LOVE THIS! I create quizzes with this all the time. It will generate a spreadsheet once students start submitting so you can see the responses. If you use the add on flubaroo, it will grade them for you :)
I create language arts and spelling tests through Google Drive and share them with the kids each week. Saves so much copying!
Email

Since each student has their own Google account, we use email all the time. Sometimes, as a warm up, students will email me their Status of the Class. On Fridays, they email me their Weekly Reflection, telling me one thing they learned in our class that week and one thing they enjoyed. I email them assignments when I'm out sick and have a sub. I also email the links to certain sites that we are doing so they don't have to type long, complicated URLs. ***When all the kids email you, it will flood your inbox! I create a folder for each of my classes and move the emails to the appropriate folder.
Kahoot!

Another fav! Great for quick assessments to see what the kids know (or don't know!). They are always engaged with this because of the game aspect. Plus, the music is catchy!
GoNoodle

I thought this was too young for 5th grade, but I was wrong! If the kids earn it, we watch one video from Go Noodle. Each class gets to pick a mascot and your mascot grows with each video you watch. My kids LOVE Koo Koo Kangaroo!
Animoto

A video creator. Students upload pictures to it and it creates a video out of them. We used this for characterizations profiles from a novel study. They had to find 5 images that related to their character and create a video from it. The watermark won't go away unless you upgrade, so that's a downside. Here's an example of the characterization profiles from our novel study last year on The Westing Game.

Poll Everywhere
This is what we used at the beginning of a lesson to provide a quick review or generate a discussion. Great to use as a beginning or after strategy. You create the poll and email the link to it to your students. They answer the poll question and you display the results on the board. Great for opening discussions or end of the lesson reflections.

Tips!
* Create a set of rules for using Chromebooks and go over them when you begin using Chromebooks

* Let the kids know that you CAN and WILL check their search history. I haven't had a lot of problems with kids getting on sites that they weren't suppose to, but unfortunately I can't say it's never happened. Checking the history is easy too...just click in the top right hand corner.

* Invest in carrying bags. Our technology head ordered bags for each student so they could carry them from class to class. This prevents dropping the Chromebooks!

*Put names on the Chromebooks, not numbers. Last year when we first got them, we numbered the Chromebooks instead of putting their names on them. Then when it got time to give them to the 6th grade teachers, the numbers didn't match with the new homerooms. This year we realized it would work better to put their name on the Chromebook and the bags so the transition to new grades over the summer will be easier!

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1:1 Chromebook Classroom- Helpful Tips and Sites (Life in Fifth Grade)

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Happy Monday, friends! Today, I had a training where we talked to other teachers about our 1:1 Chromebook classrooms and shared sites that worked for us. I thought it might be beneficial to share with y'all that have a class set of Chromebooks, too!

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Here is a handy poster which you can print out and use with your students in class. The post features eight of what we think are important tips every teacher (and student) using Chromebook should be aware of. This visual is actually based on a post we published a few months ago. All of the tips mentioned here are taken from Chromebook Help centre where you can access more details and tutorials on how to make the best of Chromebook in your teaching.

1- Add apps and extensions to your Chromebook

Click on the Web Store icon in your Chromebook

In the left column, click on Apps or Extensions

Browse through the selections

Click Install on the app you want to add

2- Uninstall apps and extensions

To remove apps right click on them

Select Remove from Chrome

To remover extensions click on Chrome menu

Choose More tools and Extensions

Click the trash can icon next to the extension you want to delete

Or right click on extension icon in browser toolbar and select Remove from Chrome

3- Save files to your Google Drive

Login to your Chromebook

Click the status area where you account picture appears

Click Settings & Show advanced settings

In the Download section, click the Change button

Select Google Drive

To save to an existing folder, double-click it.

To save to a new folder, click the New folder button.

4- Customize your Chromebook's privacy settings

Click on Chrome menu icon in top right corner of your browser

Click Settings

Click Show advanced settings

Under Privacy, uncheck any privacy settings you no longer want.

5- Share your Chromebook with others

Sign in to your Chromebook.

Click the status area, where your account picture appears.

Click Settings > Manage other users.

In the "Users" window that opens, check or uncheck the box for "Enable Guest browsing."

6- Save and view webpage bookmarks

On the right side of your address bar, click the star icon

You can also do one of the following:

Go to the Chrome menu > Bookmarks > Bookmark this page.

Go to the web address bar at the top of the page and find the lock icon or the page icon. Drag either one into the bookmarks bar.

Press Ctrl+D or ⌘+D.

7- Add people to your Chromebook

On the sign-in screen, click Add person.

Enter the Google Account email address and password, then click Next.

If you don't have a Google Account to add, you can create one by clicking More options > Create new account.

8- Control who can use your Chromebook

Sign in to your Chromebook as the owner

Click the status area, where your account picture appears

Select Settings and find the "People" section.

Click Manage other users and choose one of the options there

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8 Important Chromebook Tips for Teachers and Students (Poster)

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June 2, 2016 Here is a handy poster which you can print out and use with your students in class. The post features eight of what we think are important tips every teacher (and student) using Chromebook should be aware of. This visual is actually based on a post we published a few months ago.

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20 Chromebook Apps for Education in 10 Minutes

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We use Google Drive and Classroom in our school. Here is how they work

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I have fallen in love with Google Drive. But it was not love at first sight.

Our relationship was slow to get started. First, Google Drive was like the guy you know for a while as a friend. You think he's okay looking, but you don't really pay much attention to him. Then one day he says something funny, and you realize he's kind of cute. You get to know him a little more, and then suddenly you want to know everything about him, where he grew up, how he likes his coffee, how he got that scar over his eyebrow...

That's me and Google Drive. I ignored it for so long, and now I'm all Tom-Cruise-jumping-on-a-couch crazy about it.

I'm guessing there are more of you out there, people who have this vague sense of what Google Drive is, but who have largely dismissed it as not worth your time. I am here to tell you that Drive is so, so worth it.

My mission today is to show you Drive's awesomeness, and to convince you that you need to be using Google Drive and its tools not just for yourself, but with your students as well.

I'm going to start simple here, because I have heard people get Google terminology all mixed up. The most basic way to describe Google Drive is that it's an online file cabinet where you can store documents and other digital files. Think of the word "Drive" the same way you'd think of the hard drive on your computer, except it's cloud-based, meaning it exists online. So you can upload a file into Google Drive from your home computer, then open your Drive on your work computer and get into that same file. It's accessible from wherever you have Internet. If you're familiar with Dropbox, think of Google Drive as doing the same basic thing.

But here's where Google Drive starts to completely kick Dropbox's butt: Once you're inside Google Drive, you also have access to a collection of tools you can use to create things. Many of these perform the same functions as tools you're already familiar with:

Google Docs is a word processing tool (like Microsoft Word).

Google Slides is a presentation tool (like PowerPoint).

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet tool (like Excel).

Google Forms is a survey creation tool (like SurveyMonkey).

So Drive is not just a place to store things; it's also a place to make things. This means you and your students can use these tools to do any kind of writing assignment, take tests and quizzes, and create slideshow presentations all inside the same platform.

By the way...you have probably also heard of Google Classroom. This is another incredible tool that allows teachers to create classes of students, collect and grade assignments, share documents, and communicate within a closed environment. Schools using Google Classroom still do much of their work inside Google Drive, but Classroom adds another layer of organization for teachers.

This chart might help you understand how some of the most well-known components of Google tools relate to one another:

1: It's free. This one is a no-brainer. It's no secret that schools are always short on cash. Google Drive and its built-in tools are free. So instead of buying a whole-school license for Microsoft Office tools, and paying for that year after year, you could just use the tools in Google Drive for free.

2: It works on all platforms. Because Drive is web-based, you can use it on a Mac, a PC, an iPad, a Chromebook, whatever. This means your student can start a new Google Doc on Monday using a classroom iPad, then go home that night and continue working on the same document on his mom's laptop. On Tuesday, when you take your class to the computer lab, he can pick up right where he left off. And on Wednesday, when he needs to make a few more changes, he can jump on one of the two Chromebooks you have in your classroom and do what he needs to do. No flash drives. No emailing files to yourself. It's all in the cloud, an ideal solution for schools that have a mish-mash of tech devices, some kind of hybrid BYOD plan, or any other limitations on resources.

3: It's perfect for collaboration. Every tool in Drive has built-in collaboration tools that allow multiple users to work on the same document, insert comments in the margins, or just let others take a peek at what they are working on. And collaborators can be in completely different locations...different states, different countries even. This means students can not only work together with their own classmates, but they could also collaborate with students across the world. The possibilities are mind-boggling.

4: It's paperless. Projects can be completed, shared, and commented on without ever printing a single page. Yes, you can print, but you don't have to. This means you no longer have to worry about ink cartridges, limits on paper, lines at the printer, or even "my dog ate it."

5: It saves automatically. Google saves your work as you go. As long as you are working in Google Drive, you don't ever have to worry about forgetting to save your work and losing everything when your computer freezes up or the power goes out. Any change you made within the last half-second has already been saved. When it comes to working with kids, this feature is nothing short of a miracle.

6. It builds college and career readiness. Google Drive and its associated apps are becoming much more common in workplaces and college settings, so knowing how to use them fluently means your students will have one less thing to learn when they enter those worlds. Even if their institutions don't happen to use Google products, students can easily transfer their experience working in a cloud-based environment to other platforms.

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What's so great about Google Drive? And why should my students be using it?

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Google Drive is much more than an online file cabinet. It's loaded with free tools students can use for serious academic work. Let's look at what it can do.