Teacher Tip: Taskade

written by Kristen Harms// posted by Elegan

 Team Building?  Virtual CLT?  Curriculum Writing?

Taskade is the all-in-one collaboration platform for remote teams. Unleash your team productivity with task lists, mindmaps, and video chat.

Start by creating a workspace and add your team members. From there, you can work together, assign tasks to team members, and chat live alongside your projects.  You can assign tasks to someone else and set due dates.

The free version of Taskade includes unlimited tasks, projects, teams, workspace members, and all the essential features unlocked.  You can use Taskade for weekly agendas, team meetings, project outlines, product roadmaps, and much more. For inspirations, please visit our templates gallery and try out over 300 free templates.

There is also an app for Android or IOS.

Parent Pointer: Applied Digital Skills courses

What will you do this summer? Play this Mad Libs to find out!

Keep you and your family's digital skills sharp with Google’s Applied Digital Skills courses. The Applied Digital Skills curriculum consists of free resources designed to build digital literacy in education and for jobs. For example, you can have fun with digital arts and games by making Mad Libs such as the one above and making pixel art with Google Sheets. Or take virtual field trips and explore art from home by going on a scavenger hunt through Italy or exploring the History of Humankind in Kenya. Model positive digital citizenship by evaluating the credibility of online sources or understanding your digital footprint.

What digital skills will you learn this summer?

Goal settings and Formatives

The new 2 Tips From Teachers has tips for goal setting and formatives. The first tip is about helping students self-assess by tracking goals using Kami. The second tip is about using Google Forms for daily checks. Check them out!

Tip #1 -Tracking student goals using Kami (submitted by Christine Keating at Bellerive)

Tip #2- Daily checks using Google Forms (submitted by Jenny Proffitt in TLA)

Goosechase

written by Kristen Harms// posted by Elegan Kramer

Want to go on an adventure with your child?  Want to have a fun and educational experience that is different than everyday learning on the Chromebook?

Goosechase is an interesting scavenger hunt app that is interactive.

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Create The Game

Build your game on the website, giving it a name, picture and description to mark it as yours.   Set how long the game will run and whether there’s a password to join.

Choose Missions

Each GooseChase game has a list of missions for participants to complete. You can create your mission list using the bank of 100+ tested missions or by designing your own from scratch.

Missions have a name, description, point value and an optional link or photo to provide extra information. For text & gps missions, the answer and target destination must also be provided.

AEIOU

Many of us are familiar with and use the 3-2-1 instructional strategy. Mix it up with A-E-I-O-U! This AEIOU slide gets students to summarize big ideas, think about how they feel, decide what was interesting and be curious about the reading or media. If you’re interested in using this template, please go to File and Make a Copy.

Spice it up with the videoconferencing waterfall chat strategy. Have one group of students type in their AEI (adjective, emoticon, and interesting fact) and the other group type in their OU (Oh!’s and Umm…?’s) Remind students to wait before sending their answer so that all students can participate and not feel pressured to follow-up with the latest comment in the Zoom Chat.