#ctedu Archive
#ctedu is a great way for Connecticut educators to share teaching strategies, educational resources, and more.
Tuesday February 16, 2016
8:00 PM EST
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Welcome to ! Please introduce yourself and tell us about your role in education.
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Welcome to ! Please introduce yourself and tell us about your role in education.
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Hi everyone! I'm Alexa, an Elementary Tech Leader in Danbury, a Google for Education Certified Trainer, and apps & ext lover!
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He Rob from Norwalk. Excited to talk about Extensions.
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Barbara from Colchester, Librarian
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Hi Barbara! Glad to see you tonight!
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Hi, ! Maura from New Fairfield Middle School. 6th grade ELA/sped teacher!
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Q1 coming up in a minute!
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Hello everyone, Sean 4th grade teacher from Stamford. Glad to be part of his evening’s chat. How are you doing Rob and Alexa?
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Hi...Karen from Chicago. 8th ELA and GAFE enthusiast.
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Good Evening and Hope all is well.
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Hi Karen! So glad you can join us! Be prepared for my that's about to happen :)
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Jimmy from Stamford. Excited to learn more about and extentions and apps.
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Hey there ! I'm Amy, elem art T in Easton.
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You bet...back to school tomorrow. Wish we had a week off!
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Glad to see you again Barbara How are you doing?
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thanks for joining us tonight!
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Joining tonight. Michele, CT resident & parent NY 8th ELA teacher
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Q1: What is your favorite app or extension for classroom use? Tell us a little about it and how you're using it!
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Erin, K teacher, not from CT, but always interested in more apps and extensions!
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I love Easybib Extension, guides Ss through the process of creating MLA citations and exports to Gdoc
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A1: So, I am going to cheat a little with this answer. I can't pick one, so I'll just share my app website https://t.co/9ZhWvS7dKn
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Hi! Ruth, English T in Canton. I use the share to classroom extension. Makes it really easy to share resources I find with classes
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A1: So simple, but I'm really loving Google Slides. My colleague and I create art Slides for Ss in a shared folder!
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(Please note that is def work in progress and only has apps available in the Play for Edu Store, since we block Chrome Web Store
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we go beyond CT. Don't worry!
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A1. My favorite extension has to be Flubaroo- allows me to quickly assess Ss knowledge.
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Thanks! Many hours of work (and love) went into that.
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A1: or to record and share tutorials, screen casts, etc
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We use on the Chromebooks this year. Ss can look at each other's work and add video now too!
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A1: We are moving to 1-1 chrome book next year so looking for all the ideas I can get to kick off w/awesome tech extensions
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A1: I love evernote, drive and clipular
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A1: I have found google drawings to be powerful when it comes to differentiation of projects.
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come join talking PD right now!
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used Fluency Tutor for a bit, but didn't think it was worth the 100 investment.
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A1 I love, love, love Doctopus/Goobric to receive S work and grade it without paper. Instantly emails score and feedback.
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Also I use Sites to add videos from YouTube and then the ads and extras are gone. Either bookmark or use QR codes to get there
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I love GDrawings for LOTS of things! So powerful for the little ones. Love, love WeVideo too. Drive integration is awesome.
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A1 Classroom is also perfect for kindergartners so I can easily send out links or templates.
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A1: I say this every time...but Read&Write for Google is awesome! Allows grade level text to be read by all levels!
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A1 Also love customizing Google Slides to set up as 8.5/11 publishing format. Great for electronic journaling.
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If you haven't checked out The Foos for coding at the elem level, please do! Such a great one.
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A1: Love when Ss use Google slides to app smash!
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Also, CarrotSticks-multi-player math pratice for elem students
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Thank you, ! Made our day :) ^JK
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I'll take a look after the chat. I have it installed on my account and a Ss account.
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Kids sign in to our class account and can easily look at each other's work. No tying up our iPads
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Teachers can get it for free.
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cool. Great site, BTW. Thansk for sharing.
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elem math practice. Super easy to use and kids can play against kids online (safely)
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Former New Havener -now in MD. Crashing the party. School Media Specialist. - works with chrome books to project Sw.
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have to look into that. Thx.
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Ss can also add pics with voice, type, and now video too!
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All features free for 30 days, but TTS is free after that. That's the best feature!
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Q2 coming up in 1 minutes
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Really want to check that one out!
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I'll make sure to sign up.
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Q2: How do you keep your students organized and productive? What is your favorite apps or extension for student productivity
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Q2: I really had to narrow this list down. It is a long one! Ready? Grammarly (Ext)-Spell and grammar check.AMAZING and must have.
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I will 2nd that it is amazing and so easy. Free for parts of it. Image dictionary costs.
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A2: Google Similar Pages.
Lightshot-easy screenshot and annotate. Save to Drive-takes web capture and saves it to Drive.
Save as PDF
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A2: has made delivery and collection of resources so easy
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A2: Agree with is a game changer!
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A2: as a whole for me. The ease of sharing, viewing, commenting on docs, slides, etc, makes my workflow easier.
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A2: Evernote-clips webpages. StayFocusd-content blocker while you’re studying. Great for HS kids. RemindMe-gives alerts
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Agreed. Classroom all day long for this. Organized and can give feedback from word 1.
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Yep! It's truly changing the face of education...in a good way!
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A2: Save to Google Drive, extension is a must have for Ss
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A2 Google Classroom made me and Ss more productive and organized. Can't imagine teaching without it.
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A2. Stay focused is a great ext. for older students. Save to Google Drive is great for Ss.
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I'm also trying not to overlap my ext that I'm saving for Q3 :-)
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I recently read about this...does it help with Ss who are off on sites they should not be on?
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A2 Classroom has made using CHromebooks in K easier. We only have 4 and use as a center. They are more independent this way.
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I'd love to hear more about your Classroom use w/K! I have Ts who want to try it but are nervous to dive in
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How does stay focused work?
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A2? I can't wait for the new IOS. Ind. Ss logins. Drive app doesn't log out now. All Ss can access others' work.
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A2: GCalendar has made ME more organized with my staff. Tracking meetings, events, Hangouts...etc
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Ss (or Ts!) can "turn it on" when ready so it blocks distracting content, like social media
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when is that iOS update coming?
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I am still just getting started. We have a set of 4 and they take up less space than desktops!
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IOS update sometime in March or April, supposedly.
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Q3: What are your favorite apps/ext for teacher use? What are you using for yourself that you absolutely love?
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Have upper grade Ss come help enter codes to sign up younger Ss. Done in minutes.
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They use them to access our listening center (GoogleSite) and then respond in Seesaw
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I am not an admin, but you need to have a group set up in the console. Or push out through Play for Edu.
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I am getting a scan app for all, so they can use QR codes to get where I want them to be. Able to be so independent!
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At this point in the year some of my K's can do without sign in cards. Rest need cards but can do it!
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If you aren't using OneTab, you don't know what you are missing. It is my best friend.
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A3. My favorite is OneTab. I'm a Tab person. This allows me to save all my tabs. Awesome.
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And I would have asked to be in my wedding, had we been friends back then. . Such an amazing ext!
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A3: I like the url shortener, symbaloo, and edpuzzle.
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A3 I LOVE goo.gl shortener for QR codes. Made my life so much easier!
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I don't use symbaloo! I'll have to check it out.
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A must have for extensions!!
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A3 TechSMith snagit is great for screenshots or parts of the screen and annotating. I use for blog posts and tutorials
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A3 Trying to love EDpuzzle...found all the videos I use, but having some tech issues. Gonna keep trying.
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Symbaloo saves a lot of time if you create your homepage.
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Re: Google Classroom; I can’t say I love it. Ran my own gClassFolders / Doctopus version and kinda liked that better.
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I do like Google Classroom’s auto-create a copy for Ss, & the “See New Changes” feature. But was kinda meh about the rest.
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I am obsessed with all products.I use the SnagIt ext to make gifs that I pop in Slides, & use Camtasia daily
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Hello all! I'm enjoying all your tweets about awesome extensions. Thank you!
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A2: Late to the chat, but is my favorite way to organize for Ss.
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Always keeping pad and paper next 2me during twitter chats cause I get so many ideas and resources. I cannot write fast enough during
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I think I could talk about apps & extensions for hours,but sadly, is only 30 minutes.Thank you SO much to everyone who participated!
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This was a fast thanks for leading the discussion.
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I don't know camtasia. Getting on that right now...
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How do you use SymbalooEDU? I'm always looking for more ideas.
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Thank you all! Great ideas.
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Thanks! Quickest 30 min ever!
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Thank you, ! A great chat...perhaps we can continue with on Saturday, March 12th in Norwalk, CT!
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Quite late to chat - but greetings to all. Looking forward to DL Day tomorrow.
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our librarian posts staff resources using awesome!!
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Favorite extensions - goo.gl URL shortener, readability, easybib, Diigo, screencastify,save to G-drive - all save time
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try having Ss make tutorials for teachers, watch them take ownership of THAT project!
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OT but if you use the iPad - NYS/NYC has a great app on immigration. Best I've seen.
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Do you have a link for that app? Would love to share it with some colleagues.
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We LOVE - it is the homepage for our Ss K-4. So much easier for everyone. Also love it for curating everything.
