Digital Citizenship Week Resources - October 16 - 22 #Digitalcitizenship

Take The Pledge

Check out some new resources from Google's "Be Internet Awesome" and The California Department of Education

Elementary                                         Secondary

                 

For More Lesson Plans, Games and Resources

The nuts and bolts to getting set up in Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a great way to manage your digital classroom. Students can enroll themselves and it's easy to assign work, e-mail classes and collect digital projects. Google Classroom now integrates with Google Calendar by creating class calendars with all assignments and questions. The Question feature also easily allows for digital class discussions. The calendar can be posted on a teacher webpage that parents can access and should dynamically update all posts.

Only students can enroll in a class and they must use the school provided Google Account!

A Google Classroom App is also available on Android and IOS. It provides the same functionality as the web version and will also notify students to updates to their classes.

How to get started...

For more information, check out these amazing resources from Alice Keeler

Digital Citizenship Curriculum with Everfi's Ignition

EverFi is a leading education technology company focused on teaching, assessing, badging, and certifying students in critical skills. They combine cutting-edge personalized technology, deep education research and data and a dedicated implementation team that allows each teacher to feel as though they have a blended learning assistant in their classroom. Most importantly EverFi partners with the private sector and foundations that sponsor this innovation across the country. The Digital Citizenship curriculum is self paced and gamefied for students. It takes about 3.5 - 4 hours to complete. 

The Modules

Buying a Computer

Wireless Communication

The Viral World

Internet Resources and Credibility

Creating Multimedia Products

Digital Relationships and Respect

Future of Technology and You

This video is a good preview of what the interface and content look like. Within the modules is a story about how the student is attempting to bring a band to your school for a concert. ​

Individual teachers can create a class for their students, or one class can be created for the entire school. Once students complete the course and pass the exams, students will earn a certificate. Everfi also has curriculum that deal with Financial Education, STEM Education, Civic Engagement, Health and Wellness, and Career Success. 

A Day At The UN - With Google Hangout's On Air

Google Hangouts On Air is a great way to bring real world experts into your classroom. On 9/15 students at Foothill High School were able to have a conversation about the Syrain Refugee crisis with Melissa Fleming, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commision For Refugees. Google Hangouts is a video conferencing tool built into Gmail and Google+. The "On Air" feature (Only in Google+) allows the video call to be broadcast to any audience in another classroom or around the world. At the conclusion of an On Air Hangout, a video will be created and sent to the creators YouTube Channel. That may be shared On Demand. 

How To Create and Brodcast a Google Hangout On-Air

Video

How To - Slide Deck

Use Maps To Create A Visual Collection Of Student Work

Interactive Map With Student Created Content

Google My Maps is a fantastic tool to create collaborative maps with your students. With so many amazing things that can be done with My Maps, it is easy to get lost in the "Rabbit Hole".  This post is going to help you get started using My Maps to create a space for students to link projects to. Everything takes place somewhere, so this map can be a visual and geographic compilation of any digital project your students are working on. The Map will serve as an access point for students to visit projects created by their peers.

How To Create Your First Map For Student Use

Example of Student Instructions

Back to School HyperDoc Form

Back to School HyperDoc Form

a writing activity to get to know your students

Welcome back to school! I'm looking forward to a year of creating and sharing new ideas and applications for integrating technology into pieces of your curricumum. As you start back with your students, I wanted to share a lesson that you can use with just a little bit of work on your part. 

Link to the finished HyperDoc Form

Engage your students to share a little about themselves without to many teacher led instructions using this amazing video by John Spencer and a Google Form to package student responses. 

Unfortunately, you can not share the form I created with your students or you won't receive their replies. You also can not make a copy of the form I created, but below are some instructions on how to recreate it yourself. 

1. 

   Start by creating a new form. Not sure how? Click HERE for a video tutorial to help. I did not make all questions mandatory in case students didn’t want to share 5 things.

2. To add the image, take a screenshot of it or right click to copy. (Or create your own!) Tutorial video on how to take a screenshot using Snagit                                                

3. To insert an image or a video in a form, click on add item and select either image or video. Once you put the item in, click on it to resize. You can also center it. Add a section header for more instructions if you want. 
4. HERE is a link to John Spencer’s awesome video.
5. To change the look of the form, select Change Theme then Customize. Play around with it to get the look you want.
6. To see your final form, click View Live Form and share that link with you students. You will find the responses in your drive.

Get started with Digital Portfolios For Middle School Students

The digital portfolio template that has been created is designed to work across content areas and levels. It is set up as an announcement page to allow students to post their work they wish to publish mimicking a blog post. The most current posts will be at the top and the most recent post for each subject will be showcased on the students homepage. 

Teachers should collect a direct link to the students content area page, not the home page. For example Science Teachers will collect a link to the Science Tab. 

You can collect these links using Google Classroom or Google Forms.

Link For Students To Create Their Portfolio From Template

bit.ly/MSPortfolios

A How To Tutorial Video

Back To School Tech - 101 #PUSDedu

WIFI - amadordonsnet
Hyperdoc Lessons - Elementary Projects - Middle School 
bit.ly/btstech101

	How to shorten a URL to share your form

Tech For Instruction	Tech For Making Your Life Better
*There’s A Map 4 That	*7 Things to know - Google Forms
*Digital Formative Assessments	*Google Sites
Hour Of Code	Media Literacy
*Edpuzzle	*Workflow and Extensions
Digital Discussions	*Flipped Learning
Digital Citizenship Week	*Digital Portfolios
*Show What You Know	*YouTube
*HyperDocs and Multimedia text sets	*Twitter

Chrome Apps/Extensions to Improve Workflow and Make Your Life Better

Have you ever found yourself completing a task on your computer thinking 

"There has got to be a better way!"

Well...There Probably Is
This list of Chrome Extensions and Apps have made my life better and I hope they can help improve yours. If you know of something that is missing from this list, post it in the comments.

Extensions: Shortcuts that perform a function, located at the top right of your browser. Application: Stored in your Apps, shortcuts for programs with more developed user interfaces. Add-Ons: Scripts designed to complete some function in Google Docs, Sheets, Forms All will help you bit.ly/Workbetter
Shortened URLS	Bitly Customize and shorten your URL - bit.ly/Workbetter	Shorten Me Shorten URLs and create QR Codes to Scan
Tab Management	Too Many Tabs Open a window listing tabs when you have too many open	Tab Cloud Create sets of tabs to open together
Images	Nimbus Screen Shot Take Screenshots and Annotate on them	Pixlar Editor Edit Photos and Images
Makes Life Better	Clearly   Remove Ads and junk on text	Adblock Block ads on web pages
Makes Life Even Better	Google Docs Quick Create Create Docs in one click!	Save as PDF Save an entire webpage as a PDF
Video’s	Snagit Screencasting Made Easy	MoveNote Import Slides and create a video presentation
Text To Speech & Speech To Text	Speakit! Convert Text To Speech	Voice Note II This App opens a notepad that will transcribe your voice. The notes can be copied and pasted over on a google doc
Literacy Tools	Cite This For Me Create a citation for a site	Diigo / Diigo Webcollector Annotate Text, annotations can be copied to a notepad
Literacy Tools	Scrible Annotate Text, and Save notes and links.	Lucid Chart Students can create graphic organizers, and Charts in Google Docs.
Form Add-Ons	Autocrat Mail Merge Form Responses to a Doc	Form Mule Create Automated E-mails from a spreadsheet list.
Not Chrome But Super Useful	Create recipes that work for you