Google Slide Features

This week students were reminded to check Google Classroom and School Brains to review their grades. They were reminded that they can always resubmit works to improve on their learning and their grade. Lastly, we reviewed turning work into Google Classroom.

My remote students have started using Code.org for asynchronous activities. These activities are self-paced so students should not feel pressured to keep up with everyone else but are expected to work on these activities on asynchronous days when we do not Zoom together. In addition to these Code.org activities they should always complete the Google form exit ticket EVERY time they finish that days work. Since classes run for 44 minutes, they should work on this activities for about 35-40 minutes so that they have time to complete their exit ticket. The exit ticket is 

1) a chance for them to explain what they think they learned for the day

2) part of their grade and should be completed every asynchronous day.

My hybrid students completed Google Slide Avatars this week. Remote students are just getting started with their avatars and will continue working on them next week. In this exercise students explored Google Slides in a different way, learned many of the unused features that Google apps offers, explored different image file types, practiced adding work to an assignment in Google Classroom and made awesome PNG avatars. If you want to make an avatar of your own, take a peek at my instructional video below.

In fifth grade these avatars will be used to make comics about our FAB Constitution. A project that they will be working on for the next 1-2 weeks. We used Pear Deck to review the tools we will be using in Google Slides, the expectations for their comics, and to review past projects so students could provide compliments and suggestions while considered ways they will make their own comics. I'm really excited to see what they come up with.

In sixth grade students were tasked with thinking about a place that they would like to go if they could with no barriers, e.g. money, school, Covid, etc. We also talked about copyright and the Educational Fair Use Act. Next, they will use their avatars to transport themselves to these destinations after the use search tools to find the perfect picture, cite their source, and add their avatar. Some ideas they share were Japan, Disney, a beach, and more. I'm excited to see where they decide to go!

Here are the avatars that have been shared so far. This is a work in progress so please check back often to see any new additions.