Te Awamutu Int Meet and Jamboard 21 April
Technical how-to on Google Meet with Mark: 1 - 2:30pm
Jamboard is a really great interactive tool that you can use for many purposes in a rang of curriculum areas. TAI Music teacher shared one she created for the members of the school Choir to share their current 'fav' songs. Mark demonstrated a range of different ways to use this platform to encourage participation. There are the usual pen tools, which he showed us can be quite tricky when you want legible writing! Sticky notes were also used to share answers or ideas etc. We are also able to share this in Meet, if we are the presenter, to demonstrate how to use it.
By this stage I was feeling quite overwhelmed by everything we had been shown and trying to think of all the possible ways I could use these platforms to create content applicable to Soft Materials... my thinking cap is still on.
The very last tool that we were briefly shown was Flipgrid. I will have to negotiate my way around this at a later stage as my brain was overloaded whilst Mark was talking about this.
Other useful tools to engage students whilst you are waiting for them to log/sign in to a Meet are:
- Google Forms
- Word puzzles
- Family Fued
- Kahoot
- 99math
- Side kick
- Mind meister
Technical how-to on Google Meet with Mark: 1 - 2:30pm
This was a slight recap over some of the tings that Lara had already taught us about Google Hangouts - Mark explained that they are very similar, but Meet is designed more for enterprise business customers and can have at least 250 participants. Because Google is constantly adding features, it is really good to learn about both. There were a few new things on Meet - sharing links through the chat, inviting others to join the Meet with the specific code (apparently we need to reset these codes as students are using the app and the codes given by teachers to have their own chat rooms etc which can easily get out of hand), pinning or unpinning people so their image can be seen on the presenter's screen, removing participants if they are not meeting expectations, using the calendar to schedule Meets with students, trouble shooting with video/microphone issues and many more!
I have now added Nod, through Google Meet as it was suggested that this is a great way to illicit responses by participants without having to ask for them to put thumbs up etc.
By this stage I was feeling quite overwhelmed by everything we had been shown and trying to think of all the possible ways I could use these platforms to create content applicable to Soft Materials... my thinking cap is still on.
The very last tool that we were briefly shown was Flipgrid. I will have to negotiate my way around this at a later stage as my brain was overloaded whilst Mark was talking about this.
Video Recording Link - click here to rewatch the call.
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