Google Classroom PD- Self Directed Resources

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Google Classroom has a very solid online training center. For those of you that prefer this learning method we recommend cross referencing the ZIS Upper School specific training materials for deep context.

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Visualize Your Email

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Sometimes email can seem like a black hole of time and energy.  How much email do you actually send?  How much do you receive? Who emails you the most? Check out immersion, a visualization tool developed at MIT’s media lab to help you reflect on your use of email and perhaps find ways to optimize communication with your top connections.  If as a faculty member you have a lot of student communication within email, brainstorm ways to move these conversations into a more appropriate realm like your digital class space or within the work itself with comments.

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Below is a screenshot that takes you to a demo:

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3 Cool Ways to Visualize Data For Enhanced Understanding

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Below are three examples that are included in the Social Studies Data site that we will play with today and Thursday during Google school (rm 110 12:20-40)

 

3) GAP Minder is an excelled source for motion charts, however your students can create their own with Google spreadsheets.

 
Lots of fantastic ideas about data for learning have come from Warren Apel to dig deeper check out his Super Charting site.