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Lee Ann Yonker helped alpha the #MiniGoogleMasters movement in her academy in K-3rd grade, demonstrating littles can be tech-savvy too! Now accepting confused to 5th grade, Mrs. Yonker is continuing her tech advance with the #MakingGoogleMasters. We allocution about what acceptance of all ages can do. She additionally shares her micro-credential badging admission that has her fifth graders aflame to learn.
Below is an added transcript, adapted for your account pleasure. All comments in the black blooming box are my own. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, annal down.
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Shownotes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e168From Audio File: 168 Lee Ann Yonker @leeannyonker
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Vicki: Today we’re talking with Lee Ann Yonker @leeannyonker. Now, she has accomplished Google from aboriginal brand up through fifth grade, and has a absolutely absurd affairs that she created. On Twitter it’s #MiniGoogleMasters for the adolescent kids and #MakingGoogleMasters for the earlier kids.
And we’re absolutely activity to allocution about what is astute to apprehend that kids can do in Google, by age.
So, Lee Ann, let’s alpha with your #MiniGoogleMasters. What are the things that kids can adept in G-suite, let’s say from kindergarten through additional grade?
Lee Ann: Well, aback we started this aftermost year, it was started out of a abode of necessity. I had a appropriate apprenticeship classroom, and I was the Gen Ed teacher. My co-teacher and I absolutely bare article to advice barrier some of the behaviors that we were seeing.
We knew that assurance had to increase, and so in came our G-suite tools. We were aggressive by Christine Pinto and the assignment that she had done with the #GAfEforLittles. We aloof started actual boring introducing our aboriginal graders to the G-suite apps. We started with Google Sheets, and it was appropriate about this time of year.
We created a pixel art in Google Sheets and gave them an outline of a pumpkin. We showed them how to use the acrylic can apparatus to put blush in the cells, and we told them to actualize a jack-o’-lantern. We aloof capital them to get accustomed with application those accoutrement because we knew that we capital to apparatus those into our algebraic apprenticeship and things like that later. And they took off! The things that they did aloof with that simple attic was so amazing and impressive.
So, from there, we had our pixel art. For algebraic we had affectionate of translated over into our hundreds blueprint pictures. You apperceive the air-conditioned hundreds archive that you can blush in and actualize those abstruse pictures. We transferred those over into Google Sheets as well.
So already we had our anxiety wet a little bit, and we got a aftertaste of how that was annoyance some of the behaviors in our classroom, we aloof started aberration out and giving them added tastes of the G-suite apps.
Working in Google Docs, the kids anticipation it was amazing to be able to see how they could blazon with their voice, application the Articulation Accounting tool. They could say what they capital to type, and they would accept a archetypal so they could blazon it themselves. The adeptness akin went through the roof.
We did the aforementioned affair in Google Slides. We were alive in admixture words, and one accelerate would accept two pictures that would actualize a admixture word. But they didn’t apperceive how to spell the admixture word. We showed them how to use the Articulation Notes in the Speaker Notes to blazon the word. So, they could actualize their acknowledgment because it provided them that archetypal for them.
The akin of independence, and the kids actuality able to dig about and acquisition tools. We had our little keywords, “Use your ‘mountain’ to admit pictures,” and “Use your ‘T’ if you appetite to type,” and things like that. Aloof adopting that adeptness and absolution them go with it.
Telling them, “There’s annihilation that you can break. You can’t do annihilation that we can’t go aback and fix for you application our abracadabra Undo button and our versioning histories of course.”
And the kids aloof blossomed with it, and we noticed that our behavior problems started to abatement because assurance was so abundant college with them aback they were application the G-Suite tools.
Vicki: So you’ve accustomed us some words that you use because sometimes the claiming aback we’re teaching –especially with adolescent kids – is the word. I like the abracadabra Undo button.
Lee Ann: (laughs)
Vicki: And the “mountain” picture, and the “T” for typing. Are there any added words that you can accord us for the adolescent kids afore we move on?
Lee Ann: Of advance all of those were keystones in our classroom. Of course, we talked about our band tool, how you can use that to actualize shapes and things like that. Aloof accepting those icons up there at the top of the toolbar as places for them to reference. They apperceive that they can go there and affectionate of dig around, alike if they weren’t absolutely abiding what they were attractive for, they could go coursing in those places.
The day that they abstruse to archetype and adhesive (laughs) was a bewitched day because they were able to use that Ctrl-C and the Ctrl-V. Alike now, alike in my fifth-grade class, I accept that as an ballast blueprint in my classroom. It’s such a accessible apparatus that alike some adults don’t advance to its abounding potential. Aloof accepting those shortcuts for them was air-conditioned helpful.
Vicki: OK, so let’s attending at third through sixth grades, #MakingGoogleMasters.
What are the things that this brand akin can alpha accomplishing that maybe the adolescent kids couldn’t?
Lee Ann: Moving from aboriginal brand aftermost year to fifth brand this year, I knew that Google was activity to be a cornerstone in my classroom. I was aggressive this summer. I was at a conference, absolutely with my husband, and he is in the auberge business. Article sparked me. There were these accoutrements that we had been given, and I thought, “Wouldn’t it be so air-conditioned for the kids to acquire pins or badges?” And I thought, you apperceive I could buy pins, and accord them little pins if they accomplish a assertive assignment or whatever in a G-suite tool. And again I thought, “No! How air-conditioned would it be for kids to accept agenda badges, the aforementioned way that we accept (some) that are absorbed to our e-mails and things like that, for aback we accomplish our Google Certified Educators and things like that.
I went on the hunt, and I created – aloof application Google Drawings and Canva – these #MakingGoogleMaster badges. They’re actual simple. They aloof accept the G-suite icon, and it says “Sheets” and it has our hashtag at the bottom.
I was so inspired! “I accept these abundant agenda badges. Now what do I do with them?”
Well, I appetite my kids to become masters of these G-suite accoutrement because we’re activity to be application them in our classroom. The added accustomed they are with them, the (more) college adjustment cerebration we’re activity to be able to do in class.
So what I absitively was that I bare a way to clue these. I begin that Flippity.net plays beautifully with Sheets. I saw that they accept a Brand Tracker, and I thought, “This is great!”
Then I additionally noticed that in their Brand Tracker they had this abnegation that you can alone use images from the internet. And I was like, “No! I accept these abundant badges.”
So – simple fix? I went into my Google Drive. I filed and appear it to the web so it was instantly a account on the web, and again I was able add those into my Flippity.
So I created one for anniversary of my fifth brand classrooms, and they apperceive that in the About area of our Google Classroom, I accept acquaint for them — in a area – links to all these altered tasks.
So for aboriginal finishers, and I’ve alike had kids assignment on this from home that’s how aflame they are about it – they can go into the About area of our Google Classroom. They can admission these altered assessments (tasks for them to do) in anniversary G-suite, and they can complete that.
They accelerate me a notification (tag me in a animadversion or whatever aural that certificate or accelerate or whatever it may be), and I can go accept that they’ve done the assignment or not. If they have, again I aloof go aback to my Flippity area and I analysis them off that they accept becoming that badge.
And then, of course, we booty a picture, and we Tweet it out, and they’re accustomed in their Morning Meeting, and things like that.
So absolutely aloof actuality able to advance acquaintance with all of the G-suite tools, and again acquirements altered tips and tricks… and the adorableness of this is that they accept the task, but no directions. They may accept to go into a doc and actualize a table and architecture it a assertive way, but I don’t acquaint them how to do it.
And so, so abounding altered kids accept completed this task, but there’s added than one access to get to something. Especially in the G-suite tools, they adeptness apperceive keyboard shortcuts, or they adeptness acquisition it in their toolbars.
Just them acquirements how to use all these G-suite apps has opened the aperture for us to do so abounding added things in our classroom because they accept that adeptness of the apps and how they assignment and shortcuts and things that they can do aural them.
Vicki: This is absolutely about micro-credentials in some ways.
So, Lee Ann, is there any aberration that you accept fabricated that you would adulation to acquaint everybody about so that they don’t accomplish it?
Lee Ann: In our classroom, we allocution a lot about advance mindset, and how you’re not there yet.
And alike some of my fifth graders now, some of them don’t appear from technology-rich environments, so they adeptness become balked or overwhelmed, and so I anticipate alms the adeptness to accept a associate (is a acceptable idea). I apperceive that was huge with our aboriginal graders as well.
And amuse do not average your kids as, “You are a aerial bookish assuming child. You’re apparently activity to be actual tech-savvy.” The accomplished technology-savvy kid we had was one of our everyman bookish assuming students. So don’t accept that delusion that aloof because it’s one of the kids who adeptness be absolutely aerial in academics, they may attempt with technology. But accommodate them with the abutment system, a associate in chic that they can await on.
Vicki: So abundant abundant advice!
So you’ll absolutely appetite to analysis the Shownotes for this, and we’ll additionally accord you links to Lee Ann’s assignment so you can apprentice added about it.
Take a attending at #MiniGoogleMasters and #MakingGoogleMasters. Attending at all the assets and things they’re doing.
These are some absurd ideas. I adulation this abstraction of micro-credentials and accepting kids analyze and apprentice on their own, so that you can focus on the agreeable teaching as well, as they analyze and apprentice added about the tools.
So, absurd ideas, Lee Ann. Actual remarkable!
Lee Ann: Thank you!
Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford
As an elementary teacher, Lee Ann has a affection for teaching kids not alone about content, but activity acquaint as well. Previously Mrs. Yonker has spent the accomplished 5 years in aboriginal brand area she and her co-teacher began the #MiniGoogleMasters movement, demonstrating littles can be tech adeptness too! Now accepting confused to 5th grade, Mrs. Yonker is continuing her tech advance with the #MakingGoogleMasters to empower her earlier acceptance to adept G Suite tools, abundant like the Google Certified Educator Assignment for Akin 1 & 2 certification. Mrs. Yonker teaches in South Central Kentucky, and is a 2016 KY Abecedary of the year nominee.
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