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Google Slides for Building Classroom Community

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Google Slides for Building Classroom Community

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My classroom students have been learning about Google Slides. They've learned how to add new slides, make a duplicate slide, add pictures, and add captions. To showcase this, students each created a slide or two for 'This or That'. link Once all of the slides were compiled into the same document, I shared them with the class and the students picked either 'this or that.' It was fun to select students to justify their reasoning or to notice trends in which were the most popular choices. This was a great community building activity that the students loved especially because they created each of the slides. This ties into our social-emotional learning unit as well. The students have already been begging to create another one, so for the next one I'm hoping they'll add more detail into their caption, a sentence or so. I could see this type of activity working for many other subject areas, or even students could create slides with review questions with one being the correct answer, and one being incorrect.

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In my current position as a classroom gen ed teacher, I could use video feedback in many ways. One way I would like to try video feedback out this week is with my students' fictional narratives. As the example in the video showed, I could highlight or point out things that students are doing well in their writing pieces and things that they could work on. It is often hard to meet with all of the students during our writing time, so this way, I could "touch base" with them after school, and they could review the feedback the next day. I will say with the younger grades though that many students will need to see concrete examples of what something should look like, so I would need to consider this when adding comments. I think this would well for advanced learners, and could be used as a great teaching tool. I could even offer suggestions of "go-to" students, like see Brielle for how she added dialogue to a section similar to yours.

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Building Partnerships Between Librarians and Teachers 

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Building Partnerships Between Librarians and Teachers 

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For new librarians, it can be hard to make connections with other teachers right away. To get started with building relationships, it can be helpful to let all staff know that you are happy to support with classroom projects- this could even be through an email so that they know you are on board for collaboration. Also, as you start to form bonds, asking different teachers you feel comfortable with if you can come in and co-teach might be a possibility, or work together to create a webquest. Furthermore, if time allows, trying to attend different planning times and seeing what ways you can assist could be helpful.

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My third grade class has done two STEM projects this year to correlate with our science program. The first unit focused on engineering and engineering processes so STEM projects tie perfectly to it. The students individually built pipelines that had to drain water from one elevated up to another cup (we used the scenario that the one cup was gathering water from the rain and watering plants). The other project they required them to build a one foot wide bridge with partners. Their goal was to build the strongest and most aesthetically pleasing bridge with a partner. Both projects had a clear list of criteria and constraints. Typically each month during the school year, students will complete some sort of monthly challenge (often around a holiday/ break) that challenges them to work together and abide by the criteria and constraints. A past favorite is the valentine zip line. I would like to look further into storybook STEM which connects different books to projects in the future. :) My school library also has a number of robots that I've used in summer classes- creating coding/ robot obstacle courses. I would like to find ways to incorporate them into my school year curriculum.

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There are many benefits to interactive presentations. Student engagement instantly goes up where they become an active participant in the lesson, and know they will be expected to show their knowledge. Kids also have fun, and can express themselves in multiple ways. I've used Kahoot for years, and have just started using Blooket which is very similar. For this assignment, I enjoyed viewing what Nearpod and Pear Deck had to offer in regard to interactive presentations, and went the direction of incorporating the Pear Deck add-on to a Google Slides presentation. I liked this because most of what I share with my students already are Google Slides, so this is an enhancement of something that I'm already doing. I look forward to using this add-on with my students this week.

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The field trip I created for my students was a virtual animal discoveries field trip. I included many different links to playlists for videos from a variety of different rescue centers or zoos. This allowed students to learn more about rescue efforts from the Alaska Sea Life Center for example, and to watch live cam footage from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, among others. These are places that, even in a traditional year, my students would not be able to go to. While this topic is a great compliment to my science animal unit, it also fits into my Zones of Regulation lessons. Watching the live animal/ underwater footage can be very relaxing. When discussing the different zones, especially red, yellow, and blue, my students are learning how to use different strategies to calm down and be at peace. This is one option that may help a number of students and put them in the right headspace. Link to Animal Discoveries.

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QR codes can be used to have students display or share their work. Students can either video record a presentation, or record audio and link it their google slides presentations on a class website, for example. Or the QR code could be printed and glued onto a handmade poster. This helps make text more accessible to all, and the kids not only often enjoy recording their presentations, but it is highly engaging for those listening and learning. Resource

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My Favorite Technology Tool: Go Guardian

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My Favorite Technology Tool: Go Guardian

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Last year I started to use GoGuardian. It has quickly become a staple in my classroom. I am able to see exactly what my students are working on whether they are working in the classroom, or at home. I can close tabs, allow only certain sites to be viewed, and message individual students or the whole class. They can also easily message me with questions, too. My third graders think it is "cool". GoGuardian is very helpful especially when navigating "Blended Learning" (students needing to be at home while I teach them online and my in-class students at the same time). This makes it easy to see what students are doing if they said there is a problem accessing something or if they say they are online, but they clearly are not (it will say student is offline if their chromebook isn't open). I an easily provide specific assistance as needed. It also is just a great reminder to students that what they are doing is being monitored. The program does not record their faces, rather just what is up on their computer screen.