Hour of Code, Google Home, Google Classroom Notifications - Wk 10

Here are some highlights from this week:

Week 10 (October 22 – October 26, 2018)

Thursday Giggles:    How do you fix a cracked pumpkin?

With a pumpkin patch.

PD Dates to save on your calendar:

       Tuesday, January 15 – Infographics @ The PLC from 4:30 – 6:30

       Wednesday, January 23 – Flipgrid @ Mountain View from 2:30 – 3:30

       Wednesday, February 13 – Google Forms and Sheets @ Mountain View from 2:30 – 3:30
       **There are fewer PD’s this year as I am working with sites on Digital Citizenship requirements (additional trainings/sessions).

Hour of Code. Please consider participating in this global event. If your class participates in this event, let me know HERE. There’s a FREE gift card giveaway. See link for more details.  I’d love to have 75 elementary teachers from the CN area participate this year in Hour of Code.  Need a video to encourage your team to participate?  Try this one: LINK HERE.

Would you be interested in having a FREE coding license if I qualify for grants?  LET ME KNOW HERE.

Image credits: Screen capture from Hour of Code.

Google Home as an interactive story tool.  What if you could write stories that are interactive?  And, your Google Home could read it aloud and be a part of that interactive experience?  You can!  Check out this video to find out more on how to make that happen (LINK HERE).  And, no; you don’t need to write any computer code to make it happen.  Your kids can do this too!!  See where their imaginations take them.  And, you can find the actual tool in the Google Chrome store (for free) HERE.

Please note that our network does not connect with devices like this just yet.  However, if you have a personal hotspot, you can use your own data to connect with a device like this.  Additionally, be sure you have a classroom policy in place to manage questions that are questionable or unsolicited.  Discuss this with your site administrator when in doubt.

Emails from Google Classroom. “Whoooooaaa! So, I keep getting all these emails from Google Classroom every time my students turn something in. That doesn’t work for me. How can I turn those off?”

Here’s a really simple way to turn those off. Head to Google Classroom. Stay at that main menu. Click on the “pancakes.”  That’s what I call the Menu icon. After you click that, you’ll see your list of classes. At the bottom of that list you will find the word Settings.

Click on the word Settings.

Once you are in that next menu, you will notice that the very first option is email notifications. You can either turn off all email notifications. Or, you can specifically choose under which conditions you will receive an email.

Thanks for reading.  Have a great day!

Kindly,