Google Tools For Your Mastery-Based Classroom - E077

The EduGals Podcast

This week, we are diving into the Google Workspace to discuss how you can leverage Google tools for your mastery-based classroom. We've got a lot of great ideas and examples for ways that you can start using Google apps to support mastery learning in your classroom.
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Google Workspace Tools:

• Docs
  • Hyperdocs
  • Creating assignments, practice etc
  • Smart Chips - Type @ for lots of options
  • New Google Smart Chips To Level Up Your Hyperdocs (Blog Post)
  • Planning - Unit Planner Template Doc
• Slides/Drawings
  • Student-facing resources
  • Great to embed media such as videos, audio
  • Provides a way to chunk learning over docs
  • Individual pacing trackers - consider using the theme builder (master) to lock background images/text in place
  • Gameboard style pacing tracker
  • Shapegrams
• Jamboard
  • Whiteboarding app for annotations during video recording
  • Collaboration activities for your students
  • How To Add a Custom Background in Jamboard (Blog Post)
  • Consider using it as a pacing tracker
• Sheets
  • Teacher tool for tracking
  • Auto updating tracker from Modern Classrooms Project
  • Grid Method tracker from Stephanie Howell
  • Great for planning (more smart chips needed!)
  • Start by trusting your students - consider giving students ownership of tracking
• Calendar
  • Planning and hyperlinking your resources to calendar events
  • Use it for creating a pacing guide
• Forms
  • Good for SOME of your mastery checks - definitions, knowledge recognition, etc. to leverage self-grading
  • Use as a dropbox with file upload option
  • Consider pulling in all responses into one spreadsheet
  • Reflection and feedback
• Sites/Classroom
  • Organize your lessons/resources for your students
  • Use individually OR use them both together
• YouTube
  • Video curation
  • Frees up storage in your Google Drive
  • Not a tool for under 13
  • Embed videos into slides or use Safe Tube
• Gmail/Chat
  • Backchannel for your classroom
  • Integrate with mail merge add ons for weekly communication with families

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