I recently 'attended' a Virtual Paint Party hosted by the Global Google Educator Group. Emma Cottier led a step-by-step session allowing participants the opportunity to create digital portraits. It's addicting. Once she shared the basic tools needed, I didn't want to stop 'painting!' I've found myself going back to my portrait days later to add more details. In addition to giving in-depth instruction for using the Curve Tool, Emma shared tips and tricks for creating the lines and the shading along the way. Emma states that "Google Draw portraits are great for classroom community building, expressing ideas from a piece of text, reflecting, or building digital design skills for future projects & assignments. Students can create portraits of themselves, novel characters, inspirational heroes, or bring a creative writing character to life!" Check out the Virtual Paint Nite recording below! The Google Drawings skills I learned at Virtual Paint Nite have already come in handy. Check out this lesson where I used Google Drawings to create a Hydro Flask that students will be using to share their understanding of the Texas and U.S. Constitutions.
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I'm so excited to finally deliver the first round of Coaching in a Box to some awesome teachers who decided to take me up on this fun twist on professional development. I originally got the idea for PD in a Box from this TeachBoost blog post. With our DLC goals focusing on coaching and with a few conversations, it has evolved into Coaching in a Box. This round, I gave teachers a choice of focusing on an edtech tool, a future ready instructional strategy, or a restorative practice structure. This round, all participants chose to focus on an edtech tool, so we're diving into our access to Discovery Education’s vast library of engaging and relevant content and instructional supports. Inside, teachers will find:
My goal with Coaching in a Box is to engage teachers in coaching cycles around future ready skills and meaningful technology integration. I'm looking forward to supporting teachers with implementing their learning from this month's "Coaching in a Box!"
For the next box, I plan to pick a topic like collaboration, then let the teachers to set goals for how they want to improve collaboration in their classroom....but I'm getting ahead of myself. Ever pose a question during a virtual meeting and all you hear in response are crickets? I'm sure I'm not the only one. So then, because we think it's less pressure, we ask for a response in the chat. And that potentially solicits a few more responses. In the article, How to Spruce Up Your Zoom Chat Game, Melissa Dinwiddie suggests that we are overloading students, asking them to think, read, process, and write in a short amount of time. Not to mention that we're asking for this to all happen with the onlooking eyes and listening ears of their peers. The waterfall chat structure is an easy way to engage more students in the discussion and relieve some of that pressure. Four Corners is a great strategy to get kids moving and communicating. While, our students are physically moving around the room, we can use Jamboard to mimic this learning structure. The teacher poses a question and rather than pick a cerner of the room, students can put their sticky note in the appropriate corner of a shared jam! Check out today's Minute Monday to find out how! Take this strategy a step further and move students into breakout rooms based on the corner they chose and allow them to discuss their reasons for their answer. Have them create an elevator pitch to convince others to move to their corner. Bring students back to the main room where one person presents the groups elevator pitch and allow students one more time to move their sticky notes.
Want more Jamboard templates, check out this Ditch That Textbook blog post. |
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