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Are you looking for a way to integrate Social Science curriculum with technology?

Do your students need a fresh and unique project to inspire them and spark their interest?

Is your school using Google Apps?

TechnoTimeline can do the job! TechnoTimeline is the third project in the initial release of TechnoKids' series of technology projects using G Suite for Education, following the previous releases of TechnoQuestionnaire and TechnoMap. For schools using Microsoft Office, both TechnoTimeline and TechnoMap are available in PowerPoint versions.

Use Google Slides to Make a Graphic Organizer

In this project, students create a timeline that summarizes significant events. The graphic organizer will consist of information organized in chronological order. Each event will be analyzed to gain an understanding of its historical importance on people and future events.

To start, students study sample timelines for inspiration. Next, they research a topic and record findings using an organizer. Once the important moments have been pinpointed, Google Slides is used to create a graphic display. Upon completion, the sequence of events is shared with others.

Integrate Technology

How can teachers use TechnoTimeline in the social studies curriculum? The choices are many. Here are some ideas to tailor this project to fit curriculum requirements:

Biography Timeline: Select a significant historical figure such as a politician, explorer, scientist, or humanitarian. What decisions or accomplishments were influential? Form connections between people and events.

Historical Period Timeline: Select a historical period such as the age of imperialism, ancient civilizations, renaissance, or middle ages. What critical developments shaped the future?

Historical Event Timeline: Select a historical event such as a war, revolution, or expedition. What challenges were overcome to produce a particular result? Pinpoint important events.

Historical Topic Timeline: Select a topic such as flight, country, or scientific advances. What stands out as being important? Outline critical moments from the beginning to today to show changes over time.

Historical Moment Timeline: Select a significant moment or situation such as an invention, discovery, human rights issue, vote, or disaster. What led up to it? Analyze the cause and consequences of each event.

Plot Summary Timeline: Select a novel. What happened? Sequence the story events.

Autobiography Timeline: Tell about yourself. What makes you special? Share milestones or achievements in your life. Explain why each event is important to who you are today.

Family Timeline: Record special memories. When did family members marry, have a baby, move, go to college, or get a job? Describe how this influences you today.

Sample Files Included

Inspire your students with the sample timelines included in the project:

1. Alexander Graham Bell - a biography timeline showing significant contributions to technology

2. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition - an historical event timeline showing the challenges overcome by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew

3. Milestones in Flight - an historical topic timeline listing important events in the era of manned flight

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Top 10 Google Classroom Best Practices For eLearning Professionals

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The great thing about Google Classroom is that all of its perks, such as organizing and managing online content and assignments, providing a safe environment for both online facilitators and learners to communicate with each other, etc., are absolutely for free. But there are literally dozens of other things you can do with Google Classroom. In this article, I'll share 10 Google Classroom best practices so that you will be able to make the best out of this superb blended learning platform.

Best Practices Of Google Classroom eLearning Professionals Should Know

Create a class with just a few clicks? This is what Google Classroom allows you to do. This blended learning platform has just started to create its own generation by inviting literally millions of learners to create a Gmail account and familiarize themselves with the Google ecosystem. As everything else in this world, it comes with its pros and cons, but no one can doubt its biggest strength: Simplicity. Using Google Classroom is as easy as it gets; setting it up, communicating with others, saving time, organizing things. You can easily do all these, immediately after you get the suite of tools called Google Apps for Education. Google Classroom's services and its inherent collaborative benefits have already replaced a number of teaching tools, but how can you make the most out of it? In this article, I will share 10 Google Classroom best practices, so that you will be able to take full advantage of this powerful online learning tool and understand why it is pioneer in online education.

1. Go paperless.
How about saving some trees, time, and money? Google Classroom eliminates the need for hard copies, as you can create online documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and so on, and distribute them to your learners digitally. You can also have instant access to the work of your audience, edit it, and return it as soon as you finish. In addition, you can create online assignments that include not only Google Docs attachments, but also web links, and videos!

2. Collect students' homework easily.
Speaking of saving time, the process of collecting homework can be completed in literally no time, as your learners can submit their work digitally. Even if they have completed their work on paper, they can simply take a snapshot of it and submit the picture in Google Classroom.

3. Offer immediate feedback.
Instant access to learners' work allows online facilitators to clarify common misconceptions by providing whenever the audience needs it, that is, after they have submitted their online assignments, or while they are still working on them. Furthermore, ongoing interaction of Google Classroom allows for building on previous answers, after feedback, and resubmitting work. Finally, Google stream is a great way to offer positive feedback publicly so everyone can see it, to reward learners who made an extra effort and motivate the rest of the group.

4. Create a personalized learning environment.
Do you know that in Google Classroom you can create different classes for different subjects, materials, learning levels, and learning needs? This means that you can promote personalized learning by offering a variety of choices, online assignments, and resources to your audience to address different learning preferences. Making your learners feel that their needs are recognized and taken care of is a great way to engage them, isn't it?

5. Access Google Classroom from any device.
Google Classroom is obviously the ideal environment for a (Bring Your Own Device) setting, as well as for mobile learning, simply because you can access it from a web browser on any device, PC, laptop, , smartphone, or phablet. Especially the BYOD method can be very convenient for all learners, as it allows them to have access to online content from the familiar environment of their own devices and get immediate feedback from their online facilitator.

6. Use the Google Classroom for real world applications.
Google Classroom allows learners to easily submit real world material, for instance pictures or they take with their mobile devices, and create online presentations that include real life examples that spark interesting online conversations. This way, learners can bring their real experiences to the class and learn how to implement what they are learning to their real lives.

7. Kick off great discussions.
Starting an online discussion is a piece of cake in Google Classroom; all you need to do is post a topic or a provocative question to the stream in order to initiate an online where community conversation among online learners is encouraged and promoted, problems are discussed and solved, and ideas are shared and expanded.

8. Share announcements.
Google Drive in Google Classroom allows you not only to distribute handouts online, but also to share announcements. Your learners will be able to find your announcements by accessing the stream, and see reminders of upcoming online tests or assignment due dates.

9. Provide a variety of support materials.
By being able to attach any kind of multimedia to Google Drive, such as , files, PDF documents, and so on, you can support your audience's learning and understanding of what is being taught using a variety of resources. You can also encourage your learners to create their own videos and attach them in Google Classroom to demonstrate their creative comprehension skills.

10. Give shy online course participants a voice.
Remember those people who may never raise their hand in class, but usually excel in every written assignment? The Google Classroom stream may not be as scary as the physical class environment for introvert learners given that you find creative ways to encourage every member of your class to express themselves by asking questions and commenting on what is being discussed. Consider even creating game-based learning experiences within the Classroom to promote trust and openness, and encourage teamwork and collaboration.

Now that you know the 10 best practices of Google Classroom, you may be interested in learning how you can use another Google service, Google Hangouts, for the benefit of synchronous learning. Read the article 6 Tips To Use Google Hangouts For Synchronous Learning and find out how by using Google Hangouts you can develop, implement, and enhance your synchronous learning strategies.

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How Google Classroom is Making Interactive Learning More Productive

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Integrating classroom technology in today's schools isn't optional, it's something that needs to be done if you want your students to be prepared for the future. We are in the digital age and students must know how to properly and appropriately speak the language if they want to be successful.

In fact, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 93% of teachers already use some form of classroom technology or digital tool while in class. It also brought to light the need for more innovations in digital educational tools, with 67% saying that they were "not fully satisfied with the effectiveness of the data or the tools for working with data."

For teachers, the biggest challenge is how to effectively implement digital tools when most of you do not fully understand how they work. Familiarizing yourself with the software and equipment, as well as figuring out how to integrate them in lesson plans, are just few of the learning curves you have to go through.

This is where Google Classroom brings a ton of value. Part of Google Apps for Education, this classroom management platform was specifically designed to help teachers easily understand and integrate classroom technology by streamlining the process of going digital.
What is Google Classroom?
Google Classroom will help you create a virtual classroom space. While it is not a full-fledged learning management system, there are similar features to a typical LMS like Blackboard. Google Classroom works best in conjunction with your existing LMS.

Google Classroom in many respects helps you manage Google Drive. If your school is using Google Apps for Education or really is simply using Gmail and Google Drive then this new platform helps you manage those tools much more effectively and efficiently.
How can Google Classroom help?
There's a lot you can do with Google Classroom. Alice Keeler enumerated some of its most prominent benefits in her book "50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom," read some of her points below:

Encourage collaboration between students

Seamlessly use other Google tools, such as Google Docs

Provide timely feedback to keep students engaged in the learning process

Organize assignments and create a paperless classroom

Set up and add students to your Google Classroom

Create a lesson through the app

Share announcements and assignments with multiple classes

Reduce opportunities for cheating

Monitor who's really working on team projects

Offer virtual office hours

Personalize the learning experience

New features
Google Classroom isn't entirely new and has been around since last year. It did however launch some intriguing new features recently.
Student Response System (SRS)
The biggest new feature is the SRS built into the platform. It allows you to insert questions into the classroom stream page and initiate question-driven discussions with students responding to each other's answers.

For instance, you can post a video, photo or article and include a question you want your students to answer about it.

It's a fundamental activity for teachers to want to understand and check-in on their student's progress. With this new feature they can do this very quickly, at any moment from anywhere.
Suggested Reading - "Ready for Interactive Learning? 4 Easy Ways to Guarantee Success"Reusing Assignments & Calendar Integration
Another new feature is the ability to repurpose any old assignments or announcements from your other classes, saving you time in creating similar content. You will also be able to revise it before posting.

"The reuse post feature gives teachers the gift of time. Making changes to something already created is way easier than starting from scratch," said Heather Breedlove, Technology Integration Coordinator at Flagstaff Unified School District in Arizona. "It's working smarter, not harder."

Soon you will also be able to sync Classroom with Google Calendar. This automatically places assignments and events from Classroom to your calendar. You can view your calendar within Classroom or on Google Calendar.

Other improvements include bumping a post to the top of the stream so your students can see it; creating assignments without due dates for long-term projects or student-driven assignments; and attaching a Google Form to a post so you can easily assign quizzes or surveys.
Suggested Reading: "7 Must-Know Classroom Technology Trends that are Changing Education"
Google is continually adding features to Classroom and will soon become more of what teachers want from an LMS, making it easy to run a digital or blended-learning classroom.

Of course, new classroom technologies like Google Classroom are great but they can create a lot of problems if your wireless infrastructure can't support the influx of connected devices and bandwidth demands. This is why we always suggest that you analyze and update your wireless network before any new deployments.
Suggested Reading - "How to Design Your Wireless Network for Coverage and Capacity"
The last thing you want is to spend a lot of time and money on a new system for your students only to find out that your current wireless network isn't sufficient enough to support these new demands.

So make sure you plan twice and implement once!

At we've been helping schools of all sizes and types to deliver robust, secure mobility to their students for almost a decade. If you have any questions about updating your school's wireless network to meet the growing mobile demand, simply contact us here, we'd be glad to help.

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Help Students Get Organized, Track Progress, Take Notes, and more with Google Keep!

Google Keep is a robust Googlr tool that can help teachers and students create and share notes, lists, and reminders. There are so many possibilities that I decided to put together this post and infographic with ideas for how Google Keep can be used in the classroom: 15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep!

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Using Google Keep in the Classroom

I love to think of all of the possibilities that Google Keep creates for the classroom. Google Keep is part of Google Workspace for Education and integrates sweetly with Google Docs.

Google Keep is loaded with fun features that can help students get organized, track progress, take notes, and more. The infographic hits the highlights, but more details are also included below. Use this infographic as a reference and resource.

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15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep

Below are some more specific details for each of the fifteen ways mentioned in the infographic.
1. Time Management and To Do Lists:
This one may seem very obvious, but helping students learn how to manage their time and get things done is a very important skill. Google Keep will help students track their assignment tasks, set up reminders, so they don't forget and manage their time in and out of class.
2. Bookmarking (use the Chrome extension)
The Google Keep Chrome extension makes it easy to bookmark a web page and add it to your Google Keep notepad. This is particularly useful for saving relevant classroom websites, tutorials, and resources that students need for particular assignments and throughout the year.
Related: 25 Ways for Teachers & Students to Use Google Keep

3. Vocabulary and Spelling Lists
Google Keep makes it easy to keep lists, so this is a no-brainer! Students can keep their spelling and vocabulary lists and easily access it from any device to study.
4. Location-Based Reminders
Not only does Google Keep allow you to set up time and date reminders to remember all of your due dates, but it will also help you remember to complete tasks when you arrive at a certain location. For instance, students may need to remember to talk to a certain teacher when they arrive at school in the morning. With a location-based reminder, Google Keep will send a notification to your device when you arrive at that location. To learn how to set up location-based reminders, visit this support page.
5. Class Notes
This may seem like another obvious suggestion but think beyond old school class notes. In Google Keep, students can jot down quick notes to themselves about a particular class or subject. They can then share those notes with other students in their group or class. Notes can even be completely collaborative! (Notes are so much more powerful when you share!) Take that one step further when your notes get too long, you can copy over to a Google Doc. Boom! Google power!
6. Project Management
As we move to more project-based learning initiatives, it is important to help students and teachers track and manage those projects. With Google Keep, students can easily keep track of each project, tasks, notes, and due dates. These notes can be shared with the teacher so he/she can monitor progress and help students learn how to manage big projects.

Genius Hour moves beyond just managing projects. Google Keep can help students through each stage of the process. Students can use Keep for brainstorming ideas, research, drawing a prototype, tracking progress, reminders and due dates, taking notes, reflection and more!
Related: 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment 8. Tracking Learning Goals
No matter what you call them, student objectives, learning targets, or goals, we all know how important it is to help students understand what they are and recognize success when they reach them. Teachers can create notes and lists of learning goals for a particular unit and share with the class. Students can then refer to these throughout the unit, confer with their teacher to ensure they reach them, and celebrate success! Bonus idea: Add badges and images to Keep to gamify the process. (I'm still working on some ideas for this one!)
9. Research Notecards
The research process is not easy, nor is it easy to teach. Number two above suggested using Google Keep for bookmarking, but let's take this a step further. Students can use Google Keep as their digital notecards, not only bookmarking, but adding notes, citations, page numbers, etc. What a great way to help streamline the research process.
10. Reading Logs
Reading logs are great for keeping students accountable and tracking progress. Use Google Keep to log titles, dates and duration, the number of pages, or whatever else you normally have students track on paper.
11. Annotation and Illustration
Google Keep has this super cool feature that allows you to draw, and it will also allow you to draw on top of an image. This means we can annotate and illustrate learning! Think of all the possibilities! Students can demonstrate their learning with a drawing, think through a process by drawing a mind map, or upload an image of a reading passage, life cycle, map, etc. to annotate! Learn more about drawing from the Google Support Center and my Google Keep Cheat Sheet.
12. Daily Habits and Tasks
We have a lot of daily tasks and procedures in our classrooms-the things we do every day, like bellringers and warmups, writing down the agenda, silent sustained reading, journals, etc.. What if we put these into a daily checklist for students to help them create habits? This is also an excellent way to create other types of habits as well, like remembering to take your backpack home, drink water, exercise, etc.
13. Group Projects
Collaboration has always been the number one feature of Google tools. No other product comes close! Google Keep is no different. When it comes to managing group projects, let's give students the tools to succeed. Google Keep can help the group share and create notes, assign tasks, remember due dates, and hold each other accountable!
14. Mobile Voice Notes
Voice Notes is a feature available in the iOS and Android mobile apps (not currently available on the desktop version). This is a great way for students to take notes on the go, on a field trip, record word pronunciations, practice reading aloud for fluency, and more. Plus, voice notes can help some of our students who struggle with writing and typing. Of course, voice recording is also a great way for our little ones to talk about their learning, tell stories, and leave notes.
Related: Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students 15. Journaling
Reflection is such an important piece of the learning process! Students can use Google Keep for daily journaling and writing reflections on daily learning, projects, self-assess their progress, and share what they did well and what they could improve upon.

How are you using Google Keep in the Classroom? Please share in the comments below!

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How to Differentiate Assignments in Google Classroom

I am often asked about differentiation strategies that will work in the Google Classroom application. Google Classroom is a very robust tool that can make differentiating digital assignments a reality. I often present on digital differentiation, and until now, differentiation in Google Classroom has been more of creative thinking than what teachers and students truly need.

(UPDATED January 24, 2017!) The issue some teachers face when giving an assignment in Google Classroom is that the assignment must be given to every student in the class. There is currently is no way to give different assignments to students. Every student receives all of the assignments. So when several groups of students are working collaboratively on different assignments within the same class, management in Google Classroom can get tricky. Differentiating assignments in Google Classroom is possible with a little creative thinking. Below are three ways that will allow you to differentiate assignments in Google Classroom.

NEW Feature! Give Assignments to Individual Students or Groups

Yay! Teachers rejoice! One of the features we have been waiting for is finally available-the ability to give assignments to EXACTLY who you want, meaning an assignment meant for one student, a few, or even groups of students within a Class in Google Classroom. This is a huge update and one that I couldn't wait to get my hands on.

Teachers often need the flexibility to differentiate assignments for students based on ability, learning styles, reading level, etc. In this case, the teacher chooses the assignment for each student/group of students.

To give an assignment to individuals or groups, simply use the new drop-down menu to select the students that you wish to receive the assignment (+>Create Assignment>All Students drop-down list). Here you can select, "all students," or just select the individual or groups of students you want to give the particular assignment to. Voila! Isn't that beautiful?

Of course, this also offers teachers ways to give special assignments inside Google Classroom, like independent study, special types of make-up work, extra credit, and genius hour assignments.

Now differentiation goes far beyond just giving different students different assignments. It should be much more purposeful and meaningful than that! Another common way to differentiate is to offer student choice. This could be the choice of topic, product, or process, depending on your assignment and learning goals. Below are a few more ways to introduce choice inside Google Classroom.

Tips for Creating Differentiated Assignments in Google Classroom

Numbering these types of assignments could get confusing. For your own sanity and organization, consider not just a number, but a group or individual identifier in the assignment title. (Ex: Group 4, Special Assignment, Extra Credit, EC Sarah Jones, or come up with your own consistent naming convention.)

Get specific with your directions! The more information that is available in Google Classroom, the fewer excuses students have for not completing the assignment and the fewer interruptions you are likely to have.

Attach a rubric if you have one.

If these are collaborative/group activities, designate a group leader in the assignment. The group leader is responsible for creating any new files and turning these in through Google Classroom for the entire group. This method will help alleviate some of the file ownership issues in Google Classroom when trying to turn in work. Consider asking students to submit a reflection at the end of group work to help you get the whole picture of the learning process.

Student Choice

Student choice is a great way to differentiate and allow students to take a more flexible learning path while tapping into interests and learning styles. It is possible to use the Google Classroom platform. Luckily, it's very easy to build in choice in Google Classroom assignments. If you create an assignment with multiple Google files where each student gets a copy, you will have a file management mess. You will end up with files that are not used, and students confused on which file they should turn in through Google Classroom. To avoid this mess, try one of the options below. (See my post on Interactive Learning Menus for another interesting way to give students choice.)

Create the assignment with an assignment number and detail the choices in the directions and/or in an attached (view only) document. (Note: This is also great way to use digital learning menus and choice boards.)

You can also attach links to digital tools that may be offered as a choice for completing the assignment. (Example: Using one of the digital tools below, create a digital story retelling, "The Tell-Tale Heart," in your own words. Then add links for the digital tools you would like them to choose from, like Powtoon, WeVideo, etc.)

Students will then choose to attach their own files to complete the assignment (as shown in the animation above).

Long-Term Projects and Modifications

Another solution that some teachers are using to keep track of group work or even modify work for individual students is to create separate classes inside Google Classroom for each group, or even for individual students. (Note: This is really only worth the time if these groups are long-term, or reused. Also a great option for students who require regular modifications.)

How do you differentiate assignments in Google Classroom? Please share in the comments below! I know there are some experts out there that can help us all learn!

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There are 3 new tabs: Stream, Classwork, and People.

Organized by Topics

The Google Classroom team heard your request to be able to organize the assignments. The Stream is no longer where you build assignments. In fact, you can not move or organize the Stream at all. On the Classwork tab, you will click the Plus button in the bottom right (note from the Google Classroom support page that this icon will change to a Create button at the top of the Classwork page) to create a Topic. You can no longer create anouncements from the Plus icon. These are created on the Stream and only show in the Stream.

Done Counts Hidden

Personally, I love the Done/Not Done counts in Google Classroom. This helps me to respond more quickly to students completing work. To view the Done/Not Done count you now need to click on the Classwork page and click on the assignment. Please send feedback in Google Classroom with the comment of CLASSROOM BETA to ask for them to be visible without clicking.

Greyed Out

No longer do students see a green checkmark when they have completed an assignment. Instead, the assignment is greyed out on the Classwork page.

Your Work

Students can view the status of their assignments by clicking on "Your work" from the Classwork page.

Consolidated Settings

Classroom settings are now all in one place. Click on the settings cog at the top right to set a class description, reset the class code, allow for students to post to the Stream, display the class code, enable guardian summaries, and show deleted items.

Loss of About Tab

Instead of an About tab, all resources and assignments will be located on the newly created Classwork page. Create an About/Resources topic as a place to post your syllabus and other materials. There is now an About link in the header that will allow you to quickly display the class code.

Back Arrow Removed

This is a change I'm excited about. The back arrow has been removed and replaced with the class title. This is consistent with every website on the internet that you click on the site logo to return to the home page.

Tip: take advantage of your BROWSER back arrow. It's what you thought the Classroom back arrow did anyway.

Send Feedback

Remember, these changes are in beta right now. Unless you have requested beta access you won't be able to see the new interface until the Fall. Changes are certainly coming and will be influenced by your feedback. Click on the question mark in the bottom left corner of Classroom and choose "Send feedback."

Start your feedback comments with CLASSROOM BETA.

Please only ONE COMMENT per feedback submission. Google Classroom tags each feedback comment and it is a challenge when more than one idea is shared.

Be Specific. Explain WHY you need a feature to be the way it is.

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Taking a Peek at the New Google Classroom - Teacher Tech

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As always G Suite is adding features and updating interfaces. Some pretty big changes are coming to Google Classroom for Fall 2018. The Stream is no longer your one stop. That has been moved over a tab to "Classwork." Instead, the Stream is where notifications and announcements go.