Google Awesome, Hour of Code, GPS & PBL, and Flipgrid - Wk 11

Here are a few highlights from this week:

Week 11 (October 29 – November 2, 2018)

Thursday Giggles:            Where do cows go on the weekend?

To the moooovies.

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

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 those grants?  LET ME KNOW HERE.

Image credits: Screen capture from Hour of Code.

Google Drive.  Did you know that your Google Drive isn’t just a storage and sharing space?  You can add more awesome tools with the click of a button.  Click on the NEW button on the top on the left.  Then click the MORE button at the bottom.  Now, scroll down to the bottom of that menu and find the + symbol.  Here you can search through a list of awesome resources to pile on the awesomeness.  Free.  Awesome.  Wow!

Google just got more awesome!! Want a new Google Doc, Form, Sheet, Site, or Slide?  Open a new web tab and type in any of these to get a new one of those. Isn’t that awesome?! Wow! Life just got easier.

Image credits: collage from Twitter gif.

Flipgrid is awesome!!! Watch THIS VIDEO to find out more. I actually have one teacher from Mountain View who will connect with a class from Texas. We will compare environmental impact in unique regions. Students teaching students. #StudentVoice #KidsCanTeach

PBL. This is another buzz word in learning these days.  Project Based Learning.  So, how do you find material that doesn’t take all weekend/month to design?  Who has time for that?  So, at GPS The Series, you can find a tool that may assist you in one type of PBL.  Children can work collaboratively.  Use multiple forms of technology.  Have the children report back in video form or written form.  Solve complex problems through communication, problem-solving, investigation, discovery, and communication.  LINK HERE.

Image credits: screen capture from website above.

Kindly,