1. SpEd Can Go Google Too!

2. Kim Dolson, Karen Hanisch & Laurie Olson
Cross Categorical
LD/ED Self Contained
Resource

3. Get Organized! Setting Up Your Chromebook Classroom Log-ins Passwords
Bookmarks
B. Setting Up the Chromebook
Getting Organized
-Log-ins & Passwords
-Bookmarks

4. Getting Started with Google Classroom
2. Google Classroom- based on how to get any information out to the students
Setting Up A Class (set up a class for this session and have teachers join)
Setting up Co-teachers (About, look on left side of screen, invite teachers)
Difference between announcement, assignment, question
Announcement- Kim (youtube changer)
Assignment- Laurie (topics)
resource sheet of grades and kids come up with a plan (Kim)
Question- Karen
Getting Started with Google Classroom
Your go-to place for your special education students!!!!
Posts assignments, quizzes, questions, videos links, or anything in your drive, with some students, all of your students, to work on collaboratively or individually.
Create a Class or join a class
-add co-teachers or collaborators
Easy to read list of all your classes

5. Getting Started with Google Classroom
2. Google Classroom- based on how to get any information out to the students
Setting Up A Class (set up a class for this session and have teachers join)
Setting up Co-teachers (About, look on left side of screen, invite teachers)
Difference between announcement, assignment, question
Announcement- Kim (youtube changer)
Assignment- Laurie (topics)
resource sheet of grades and kids come up with a plan (Kim)
Question- Karen
Getting Started with Google Classroom
Your go-to place for your special education students!!!!
Create a Question: Teachers can post short answer or multiple question. After you post a question, you can track the number of students who’ve responded in the class stream
Create an Assignment: a post when a class will need to submit work. Also, new documents, spreadsheet, presentations, and posts can be created for student individually or as a group to submit. *label Topics to aid in organization*
Create an Announcement: An announcement is a post that will let student know about a topic, idea or discussion, or something to know about in their course. Teachers can add files, Google Drive files, videos, and web links
Link to Keep Vivid: a website that will convert a YouTube video to a MP4 file so that students can watch from their chromebook

6. You and your students storage!
Learning the Drive
You and your students storage!
Classroom Folder- anything created in Google Classroom
2. Trash- stays in the trash bin
3. Shared Documents- right click, *Add to Drive

7. Tips for working with Google Docs
Docs/Tools (revisions, creating text boxes for answers, comments) (Karen)
Keyboard Shortcuts (Karen)
Tips for working with Google Docs
New Docs- create in the folder you want it saved
Revisions- you can see when and who revised the document
Comments- add valuable feedback or have a conversation with the students
Text Tables- If you want the kids to answer questions in a doc- create a box so they know exactly where to type.

8. Keyboard Shortcuts Docs and Tools
Docs/Tools (revisions, creating text boxes for answers, comments) (Karen)
Keyboard Shortcuts (Karen)
Explore
Define
Voice Typing
Personal Dictionary
Add-ons
Keyboard Shortcuts Poster
Keyboard Shortcuts
Docs and Tools

9. Formal and informal assessments!
Filling out FORMS
Formal and informal assessments!
Create in Folder of Class
Settings (make a quiz, survey)
Adding Picture/Video
Responses
Sending It Out (via link or Google Classroom)

10. Google Slides
Slides is Google’s version of Powerpoint. Slides is great for interactive notebooks
Tons of already made interactive notebooks made on Teachers Pay Teachers. Here’s a link to some Google interactive notebooks available on Teacherspayteachers.com Be sure to look for the ones that you can edit/ customize to fit the needs and learning objectives in your classroom
Here’s an example of 1 slide from an interactive notebook I use with my Civil Rights unit.

11. Google Apps We Love
Here is a nice list of apps These apps and more are available on Google Chrome store
Icon
App
Description
Quizlet
Students and teachers can create vocabulary or other flashcards with pictures.
Google Keep
Organizational app good for teachers and students, create lists, photos, links, ect
Math Games
Teachers can create custom math assignments to help support classroom instruction, very compatible with Google Classroom
Doc Hub
Allows you to import and edit PDFs, highlight, stamp, draw, ect
Scholastic Magazines
A digital version of Action, Scope and other Scholastic magazines includes ext to voice feature, short videos and more
Learning Ally
1,000’s of novels and textbooks read aloud for students
Raz-kids
Online guided reading program with interactive ebooks, downloadable book and quizzes
Apps- programs (run by self)
Quizlet-
Google Keep
MathGames-
DocHub-
Scholastic-
Learning Ally-
Raz-Kids

12. Google Extensions We Love
Extensions- add to programs (dependent)
Scissors/Glue
Magic Scroll
BeeLine
Google Classroom- kim
Google Keep-kim
Announcify- reads websites to you-Laurie
PicMonkey- pulls all the pictures on a page
Google Translate- will translate entire web pages-Kim
Icon
Extension
Description
Scissors/Glue
Allows you to split the screen between 2 websites and then put it back together
Magic Scroll
Takes a website and makes it look like a book you can flip through.
BeeLine
Changes color gradients. Backgrounds and contrasts.
Add to Google Classroom
If you are on a website, you can click this and it was instantly share the link to Google Classroom.
Google Keep
You can use the Google Keep extension to quickly add a link to your notes in Google keep

13. Google Extensions We Love Cont……….
Icon
Extension
Description
Announcify
Will read websites to the student
PicMonkey
Pulls all the pictures on a page
Google Translate
Will translate entire web pages into different languages
Cabulary
Create vocabulary flashcards of words you encounter while reading or surfing the web.
Extensions- add to programs (dependent)
Scissors/Glue
Magic Scroll
BeeLine
Google Classroom- kim
Google Keep-kim
Announcify- reads websites to you-Laurie
PicMonkey- pulls all the pictures on a page
Google Translate- will translate entire web pages-Kim