Clever, Default Font, JPG Hack, and Learning Tools – Week 32

CN Elementary Teaching Team:

Here are more tools to enhance your Distance Learning experience:

Week 32 (April 20 – April 24)

Weekly Giggles:                     Why didn’t the orange win the race?

It ran out of juice.

As you serve families during this transition and help your students navigate online learning, here are a few more ideas to help with your/their journey.

Student User on Staff Laptop. This protocol was rolled back.  This is no longer an option.  Sorry.

Wide Open School. Shout out to Gianna Zappettini who passed this gem onto her team.  Way to go, Miner!  This is a one-stop location for quality resource, teaching ideas, and strategies for our present situation.
https://wideopenschool.org/.

Screen capture from website - link above.

Clever. Your site admin may have notified you already, but there is an Analytics button in Clever.  If you need to see how often your students are logging in, stop by here to see their usage data.  Now, students can access Google Classroom by bypassing Clever altogether.  They can go straight to Google.com and login via their CUSD email.  So, this data will be accurate to a point.

Screen capture from Clever user.

Default Email Font. Some of you have had concerns over the size of your default font in Microsoft Outlook.  Here is a quick tutorial that will walk you through the steps to fix that. LINK HERE.

Melissa, how do you make all these image files? Like the one above and below? I use Microsoft Word (or Microsoft PowerPoint) to create these pictures.  I know how to use Photoshop, but sometimes that just takes too much time. Here’s the tutorial on how to make that happen: VIDEO LINK HERE.

YouTube. If you’re looking for good instructional content to up your Google Classroom skills, I recommend a few of the videos you will find in Pocketful of Primary. Check out her work to find some good resources that will help you navigate digital learning/teaching strategies.

Screen capture from YouTube channel - LINK HERE.

Here’s HER VIDEO on designing content for Google Classroom.  When you’re done, she gives you the template for free.  Watch to find out more.

Screen capture from video - LINK HERE.

Stay curious,
Melissa Culver