Instructional Technology | Innovation Specialist | Retired June 2022
Google Jamboard is a great tool that can be used as a digital whiteboard. Using your screen share feature in Big Blue Button, you can work with students in real-time, work within Google Drive, and collaborate with any device. For example, you want to work out a math problem to show the order of operations or you’re in a session to brainstorm ideas or complete an activity together.
This video shows how to use Jamboard for remote teaching and includes the Equati0! extension for math problems.
Do you miss not having the capability of being able to split screens on your chromebook? Well, check out Chrome’s Dualless extension. This feature lets you choose a ratio for how you want your screen split. Once installed from the Chrome Web Store, you click on the Chrome extension in the top right corner of your Chrome browser, select your display setting, and you’ve got a dual-like monitor display. Love it! Got to have it!
Google Jamboard is a great tool that can be used as a digital whiteboard in a Google Meet session for teaching and collaborating with your students. For example, you want to work out a math problem to show the order of operations or you’re in a meeting to brainstorm or complete an activity together.
Jamboard has been approved by the technology department and opened for elementary use as part of the Google for Education Suite. With Jamboard, you can work together in real time, work within Google Drive, collaborate with any device, and host video meetings. For the short how-to-use video by Eric Curts, follow this link. https://youtu.be/RvH8KDrzy-w?t=180
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to give remote control of your computer and mouse to another person in a Google Meet meeting?
This could be useful if you wanted your student to do an activity on your computer. Introducing, Chrome Remote Desktop, a Google extension that can be used with Google Meet to accomplish just that.
Eric Curts, Google expert explains how to install the extension and shows two different ways to give remote control of your computer and mouse to someone else. His 11-minute video is worth a look. How great is this for teaching math remotely?
Please note: the extension works well off site, however, if you should experience any problems on the ccps domain, then it will have to go through technology for approval. At the time of this posting, I had no means off testing the extension on the domain.
Are your kids studying animals and need a project to reinforce what they are learning? Then consider this: Augmented Reality for the animal and a Diorama for the animal’s habitat.
Visualize learning with Google’s new Augmented Reality (AR) mobile / tablet feature that allows you to project a 3D animal on your screen in a setting of your choosing or as an object you can manipulate. It’s easy, no app required.
How To Use
ANIMAL LISTING – Alligator, Angler fish, Brown bear, Cat, Cheetah, Dog, Duck, Eagle, Emperor penguin, Goat, Hedgehog, Horse, Leopard, Lion, Macaw, Octopus, Pug, Giant panda, Rottweiler, Shark, Shetland pony, Snake, Tiger, Turtle, Wolf.
New animals are added periodically.
Look what I found in my backyard!
