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We have now completed day four of remote learning and our goal for this week is to continue to provide you with the support you need at home as you adjust to this new style of learning. Essential to its success is adopting new ways to communicate and collaborate. The communication and collaboration tools we will be using and can support in our school district are the G Suite for Education tools.
Students in upper grade levels have used many, but not all, of the G Suite for education applications as part of the one-to-one initiative. The students, and many teachers, at the elementary level have not used these applications in the past for communicating and collaborating because skill development in the lower grades is focused on introducing and cultivating foundational social, emotional, literacy, and numeracy skills.
Using consistent tools effectively will enable us to build the collective capacity of our learning community (staff, students, and parents). Once the capacity to communicate and share information is built, we can focus on exploring ways we can leverage these tools to advance engagement in our new digital, remote learning environment.
Today, the featured G Suite tool is Google Hangout Meet. For an overview of this tool, please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdNxUrXryrA. I am also re-sending the two Google Classroom training resources I sent last week in case you missed them.
1) Google slideshow – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bY4IXxmS8hJFK-VzMtS6LB6FfoR6ugkKn32B9gEF8Ao/edit?usp=sharing
2) YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfgqtCi7hdo
Have a wonderful evening.
Susan K. Givens, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools