Google Classroom: What We've Learned

UCET 2015 Conference Presentation
Herriman High School / Herriman, Utah
Presenters: Michael Hakkarinen (UEN) and Katie Dewey-Hill (Canyons School District)
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Description: (From our ISTE Presentation Page)
Google Classroom's Learning Management System (LMS) will be explored and best classroom practices based on our action research through employing its use in Elementary Classrooms. We will be spending time setting up a class and exploring some of the features with students.
We will explore the Blended Learning implications and the communication advantage this tool provides to promote student success through organization and a potentially paperless classroom.

Objectives:  
This session will address how Google Classroom has worked with students and what practices have been successful or challenging in using the Google Classroom. The resources used will be available on the website listed with this workshop. Click here to see Katie Dewey-Hill's website.

At the end of this session you will have learned how to set up a Google Classroom to use with your students in order to make announcements, share online resources, and connect your Google Apps activities through Assignments.  

What Can Google Classroom Do For You?
Google Classroom will make your life easier by making it easy to...
1. Organize your learning materials
2. Coordinate Google Apps and Google Drive content with your teaching
3. Manage students and student work without complex sharing properties
4. Share online resources and content with students in one place
5. Make announcements for your entire class
6. Send direct messages to individual students
7. Use the Google Classroom App for iOS/Android devices to share pictures, assignments, and posts
8. Start working towards a paperless classroom
9. Improve communication with parents by sharing work
10.  Give your students immediate feedback while they work

Resources:
The Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide + Tips and Tricks!
8 Tips and Tricks for Using Google Classroom
15 More Things You Can Do With Google Classroom
60 Ways Math Teachers Can Use Google Classroom (Alice Keeler)
60 Smarter Ways to Use Google Classroom (te@chthought)

Google Classroom on Pinterest
Google for Education Blog