Matthew's Google Workspace, Apple & AI EdTech Blog

  My students (and their parents) are all familiar with using Google Classroom after 18 months of stop-start home study due to the COVID pandemic. Because of this, it is now quite easy to create and send digital worksheets to students for homework whether they are studying at school or at home. They are quite comfortable accessing files through their Google Classroom Stream or Classwork. Of course, one easy way to send a digital worksheet is to make a copy for every student in the Google Classroom Classwork and send it like that. Every student receives an individual copy of the Slide deck, then completes the digital worksheet on the Slide and turns it in for marking. This is fantastic. However, there is another way to send homework and a couple of good reasons for doing so: Simply post one Slide deck with the digital worksheet duplicated as many times as you have students. The video below shows you exactly how to do that and what key points to look out for, including adding task in...

 The voice typing tool within Google Docs can be used for many interesting student-led activities. If you haven't used the voice typing tool before, watch this  YT tutorial video link . For teachers teaching English as a second language, one simple way of making use of this feature is to get students to test their own pronunciation of words they are learning. The following example lesson is based on teaching my own P2 students to self-test themselves with high-frequency words they have been learning. Stages 1. Explain to your students that you want them to test themselves on the HF words they have been learning, using and interacting with in recent lessons. Demonstrate to the whole class how to find and use the voice typing tool. 2. Make sure students have access to an empty Google Doc (post in Classroom Stream or Classwork for easy access OR simply have your students' classroom devices set up prior to the class so that every device has an empty doc opened and ready to use). ...

 This is my first post as a Google Certified Trainer. I will be using this Blog as a space to collect and curate my own and others' ideas for Workspace-based lesson activities / training session ideas. #1  Emoji Puzzles within Google Classrooms    The idea of using emojis as a lesson resource for writing activities was first introduced to me by Jonathan Lee at HK EDB Net Section. Thanks Jon!