Google- for Teachers

This week was a busy one in my classroom! We had Parent, Teacher, Student Conferences Monday and Wednesday night, I had a surprise wisdom tooth extraction and caught strep throat all in a few days! I am still recovering from all the excitement but hoping to get back in the swing of things this coming week. With all the craziness,  I did not try any new technologies in my classroom this week. I did spend some extra time exploring epic! and setting up reading assignments and quizzes for my students to complete in the coming weeks. I am very thankful for the other classmates who introduced me to this app. I am loving it!

While I didn't try any new technologies with my studnets, I wanted to share about how I use Google Drive with my teammates and administration and how it it came in handy when I was out of the classroom sick this week.

Each week I plan with my two other teammates. I type up all of our weekly plans into a Google Document and share it through Google Drive. From Google Drive, all of my teammates can make edits to the plans, add links to resources or videos we may use and view the plans for the week. We also share our plans each week with our admin team. Our assistant principal views our plans each week and can make comments about them. These comments can also be viewed by the other teammates. When I was out sick, my plans for the day were already shared with my team members and the assistant principal. They were able to quickly access my plans and share them with my sub for the day. I also share our weekly plans with our technology teacher. She can quickly glance at our plans, see what we are working on that week and make her technology lessons relevant to what we are doing in the classroom. I didn't bring my laptop home one night this week and then was unexpectedly sick. If i needed to, I could still access my google documents and all from my cell phone at home. Google is user friendly and free so I love using this at school.