• Replace your background in Google Meet
• Citations in Google Docs
• Adobe add lessons to Flipgrid Discover library
• Wakelet notifications

Round 1: Docs

• Find and Replace
• Bookmarks
• Translate a document or write in a different language
• Mention users in a doc

Round 2: Sheets

• Conditional formatting
• Alternating colors: Format > Alternating colors
• Use drop-downs
• Explore Smart Charts

Round 3: Forms

• Use the templates
• Import questions from other Forms
• Add a confirmation message
• Change the theme or font of your form

Round 4: Keep

• Add a Keep note to your Doc
• Google Keep Chrome Extension and App
• Bulleted lists (asterisk, space, item, enter)
• Double click on an image to annotate it
• Indent checklists for hierarchy

Round 5: YouTube

• YouTube Video Editor
• Adblocker extensions for YouTube ads - uBlock Origin, AdGuard, and more
  • ​Or sites like safeshare.tv and viewpure.com
• YouTube Dark Mode
• Playlists

• https://www.quill.org/
• Fall Virtual Field trips
• edit.screencastify.com
• Grant Wood AEA Instructional Materials

• The new integrated Gmail
• Add/manage citations
• Loom Education
• ​Text Comments in Flipgrid

Round 1: Gmail

• Create calendar event from an email
• Experiment with Inbox types
  
• Snooze
  
• The right-click button
  

Round 2: Calendar

• Speedy Meetings
• Desktop notifications
  
• Virtual Assistants
  

Round 3: Drive

• Google Drive shortcuts
  
• Priority Drive
  
• Don’t add everything that’s shared with you--star it.
  
• Annotate PDFs Collaboratively Using Google Drive
  

Round 4: Slides

• Using Guides to Align Content in Google Slides
  
• Create a table of contents
  
• Change edit to present in url
  

Round 5: Classroom

• 3 easy strategies to organize your Google Classroom
  
• HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM NOW!
  
• Online Discussions in Google Classroom (Video)
  

• What is CNN10?
• Nadine Gilkinson’s Hyperdocs
  
• Closegap.org
  
• Boclips
  

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

Special thanks to Timbre for the boxing bell sound file found on freesound.org.

• Google Workspace - Everything changes, only not really...
• Animotica for Education - All schools get Animotica PRO for free!
  
• Live captions in Zoom
  
• Rearrange and pin multiple Zoom windows and host controlled multi spotlight
  
• Web App Weekly Planner template for slides or PPT via Beth Swantz
  
• ​Another example from Greg Kulowiec with video walkthrough
  

• Pear Deck power up Chrome Extension
• Template Gallery and online templates
  
• Publish take aways
  
• Flashcard Factory
  
• This or That PE lesson
  
• More templates for the arts & also for School counsellors
  
• Newsela & Pear Deck integration
  
• The DLGWAEA Pear Deck Handbook
  
• Pear Deck Orchard
  

• Zoho Annotator Chrome Extension
• Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox
  
• Using PDFs in Slides by Devin Shoening
  
• Register for FETC for free
  
• ​Don't Let COVID Kill Creativity Season 6: Episode 1
  

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

• Google Meet Background Blur Restrictions
• Removing students from a Meet call
• Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days starting on October 13, 2020
• Folder sharing in shared Drives is here
• Zoom updates!
• New iPads are here!

• Executive Functioning Resources
• Ruby Payne’s book: Research-Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under-Resources Students
• NewBoCo Agile - Contacts: Nate Adams & Jennifer Murphy
• https://www.agileclassrooms.com/
• Jen Manly’s CSTA Presentation Slidedeck & Agile Toolkit
• Pomodora technique
• Pomodora timer
• ​Sample Email Auto-Reply with FAQ and links to get synch help

• Modifications for Common Teaching Practices
• Active Learning While Physically Distanced
• Ice Breakers from Philadelphia Outward Bound School
• Iriun...because webcams suck...also see DroidCam
• A PSA for tad addicts - Tab Hare
• ​Computational Thinking Puzzles
  
• Amber Bridge’s Google Classroom Workbook
• ​Breakout Room Graphics: Have you guys seen these? Example

You can follow Corey (@corey_rogers), Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

• How to Stop cheating on Google Forms
• Students should be required to have their webcams turned on for video calls

• Beth Swantz - @betswan
• Hyperdocs
• Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
• Smore: choice board examples
• Playlists: A Path to Personalization

• IPEVO’s Mirror Cam Via Kathy Schrock
  
• Free NY Times to High School Teachers and their students
  
• ClassHook
  
• Web Paint Extension
  

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

• More details on what's coming to Meet and Classroom
• What's New in Seesaw?

• The Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
• The Wildlife of Your Home Podcourse

• Chemix.org
• Pear Deck: free for Iowa Schools!
• Khan Academy Kids
• ​Chromebook Simulator

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!

Google Meet Updates:

• Present high-quality video and audio in Google Meet
• See up to 16 Google Meet participants at once with tiled layout
• (Google Meet Grid View extension)
• Meet low-light mode enhancements
• Google Meet noise cancellation
• Start or join a Google Meet video meeting directly from Gmail
• Google Meet Advanced Features (paid features)  extended until Sept 30
• Google Meet will soon be free for anyone with a Gmail account

Other Google Updates:

• Google Sites Template Gallery is back
  
• New sharing dialog for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms
  

Meet Security Features:

• Google Meet meetings can only be joined by people in your domain (by default)
• Students cannot join before the teacher or rejoin after the teacher has left...with a disclaimer
• You can disable a student’s ability to create Meet meetings in the admin console
• Teacher can mute or kick out participants as needed

Zoom Security Features:

• Waiting room
• Meeting Passwords
• Lock meeting after it has started
• Require registration
• Disable screen sharing
• Disable private chats
• Manage Participants
• Zoom FAQ for Educators

More ideas to consider:

• Be considerate of Zoom fatigue
• Zoom has breakout rooms
• Start your zoom with a welcome slide in Google Slides via Krissy Venosdale
  
• Turn on captions in Google Meet
• Autism Level UP in a social narrative format

• QuickTime Movie Recording + Screen Recording = Picture in Picture screencast
• Mac keyboard shortcuts
  • Cmd + Space = Spotlight Search
  • Ctrl + Cmd + Space = Emoji Keyboard
  • Cmd + Tab = App Switcher
  • Cmd + Shift + 5 = super duper capture tool
  • Click on a file + space bar = Quick Look
    
    
• Follow us on Facebook for our online outreach: One pager for Zoom, One pager for Meet
• Voicepods
• Google Classroom Tutorials
• Bitmoji Pose via Lindsay Toub

• COVID-19 Guidance: Procedures for Continuous Learning (Iowa Dept. of Education)
  
• Frequently Asked Questions for Parents and Families about Continuous Learning

• The DLGWAEA Continuous Learning Plan (work in progress)
  
• Template for Continuous Learning (Iowa Department of Education)
  
• Learning Continuity Resources from Michigan Virtual
  
• Remote Learning Recommendations (Illinois State Board of Education)
  
• Teach from Home, by Google

• Flipgrid now has screencasting
  
• Seesaw Remote Learning

You can follow Jonathan (@jonathanwylie) and Mindy (@TeamCairney) on Twitter, and see all the tweets from the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team at @DLGWAEA. You can also email us with questions or ideas, podcast@gwaea.org. If you enjoy the show please share it with your friends and colleagues and/or leave us a review on your podcast app of choice.

I know we say this every time, but we truly mean it. THANK YOU for listening. We really couldn't (or wouldn't) do this without the support of listeners like you!