Edmonds Digital Learning

For those of you who don't have a three-year-old at home and maybe haven't seen every Disney princess movie 6,000 times, you may not know that Ariel, the young mermaid in The Little Mermaid,  desperately wants to, "be where the people are." She wants this so badly, in fact, that she makes a Faustian bargain and trades her voice with a sea witch in order to transform her tail fin into legs for three days. Yikes! "NO...Don't do it, Ariel!!!" Perhaps coincidentally, every Google Doc automatically has the font set to Arial. While you may consider your fonts and think they're neat and may even think your font collection's complete, you can choose a font and keep it permanently by changing the...What's that word again? Oh...default. You won't even have to make a deal with Ursula! Let's take a journey under the sea to find out how! 1. Open any Google Doc or create a new one 2. Click the font menu, it will say 'Arial'. Se...

Hello, all you Google Classroom users! If you've signed into Classroom in the past few weeks, you'll have noticed a slew of changes. As a matter of fact, the entire interface looks different and, for the most part, these updates improve the overall experience for both teachers and students. As Aladdin would say, Classroom has entered, "A whole new world!" So, let's fly through some of these updates and don't you dare close your eyes! First, what's all the buzz about Topics ? Organizing assignments into Topics will make life way easier for students. You no longer need to have multiple Classrooms for each subject area. Instead, use one Classroom and create a Topic for each subject. Each Topic will have its own heading that you can drop your assignments into. No longer will you have a long stream of assignments dating back to September, now assignments will be broken into sections that will be easy for students to find! Cool, but I can't find t...

Google Classroom Updates for Teachers Topics October 2016 Topics can be added to a classroom, posts can be linked to the topic, and then filter the stream by those topics. Organize your posts by topics (ie. Essays, Discussions, Assignments, Announcements).   1. Add Topics (left side of stream view) 2. Title the Topic 3.  Create or Edit a Post to Identify Topic Select the topics listed on the left side of the stream view in order to see only posts belonging to those topics. Individual Assignments (Differentiation) January 2017 Assign tasks to individual students instead of the entire class. 1. Create an Assignment, Announcement, or Question 2.  Select the Class and Student(s) to Receive the Post  (Default is ALL Students) Individual Assignments (Differentiation) January 2017 Teachers can now receive notifications when work is turned in late or resubmitted.   1. Select the...

What's new in the world of Google Classroom? Google Classroom has changed quite a bit since it was first released in 2014.  What started as a blended learning tool simply aimed at distributing and collecting assignments or links has now added ways to include quick formative assessments through questions and polls, reuse posts, sync due dates to Google Calendar, and more.  Check out the Google Classroom support page to keep up to date on the changes. When Google added the ability to save a post as a draft, it allowed teachers to prepare their assignments or announcements days or weeks ahead without their students seeing the post in their live Classroom stream.  Saving it as a draft allowed the teacher to choose when they would post the assignment to make it live.  Believe it or not, Google has taken this a step further and now allows teachers to actually schedule the date and time for the post.   Schedule your first assignment in Google Classr...