The Gsuite for Education offers a variety of tools and applications that are tailored to the needs of teachers. These productivity tools can be used to integrate into the teaching and learning delivery that fosters creativity, collaboration, and efficiency.
With the COVID19 global pandemic, the Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines offered various distance learning modalities including online distance learning. To cater to this learning delivery, teachers engaged in professional development opportunities found online. Webinars and youtube videos are the teacher's new best friend! Here is a list of google apps for your online teaching.
1. Google Meet- enables a large number of individuals to meet in one virtual conference! google offered unlimited hours of conferences due to the pandemic and later lifted the trial last September. While, schools that qualified as partners of Google may still enjoy the Gsuite education apps. There are various chrome extensions that you can use with Google Meet that can enhance your virtual conference experience. To enhance collaboration, google meet now offers break out rooms through chrome extensions.
2. Google Drive- for basic accounts, enjoy as much as 25GB of cloud space to share and collaborate with colleagues and students. Accounts under school domains such as .deped.gov.ph can use the perks of having unlimited cloud space to store and secure your files and students output all year long.
3. Google Calendar- organizing your schedule becomes easier with Google Calendar. Customized your calendar view and create your events and have the option to generate your google meet link and send notifications to your guests and pupils.
4. GMail- receive and reply to important emails and use the label features to organize your inbox. Gmail also have chat button to keep in touch with a colleague in the same dashboard.
5. Google Classroom - is a virtual classroom that caters to creating assignments, posting announcements, store student outputs, and allows student interaction in one place. Google Classroom is widely used by teachers because of its user-friendly interface and controls. Also, what's great about classroom is the integration of the other tools and applications.
6. Google Jamboard - enhances student collaboration online with various tools to use like sticky notes, shapes, text, pen, and also allows uploading images that you can annotate.
7. Google Forms- teachers can use forms to take surveys, exit slips, and quizzes. Configure settings to your preferences who can answer or who can collaborate with your form. Pupils who use Chromebooks may not be allowed to open other tabs while answering the form if the teacher turns the setting on. Additional features include: uploading images, posting customized feedbacks, validation of answers, different types of questions, and customized layout and design.
8. Google Docs , Google Sheets and Google Slides has similar features with Microsoft tools (Microsoft word, Powerpoint and Excel) You do not have to worry about forgetting to save a document, all changes are automatically saved in the cloud. Teachers can also collaborate with colleagues and teachers or make a copy for each student. The explore tool also has great features that help teachers organize data with integrated search bar for links, images, and suggestions on your current work.
8. Google Docs , Google Sheets and Google Slides has similar features with Microsoft tools (Microsoft word, Powerpoint and Excel) You do not have to worry about forgetting to save a document, all changes are automatically saved in the cloud. Teachers can also collaborate with colleagues and teachers or make a copy for each student. The explore tool also has great features that help teachers organize data with integrated search bar for links, images, and suggestions on your current work.
9. Google Sites- publish your own sites through customized templates of Google Sites. It allows you to communicate and post announcements, showcase outputs, news, and contact information on a posted event or activity. Plus, you can also post docs, slides, forms and sheets to display and ask for data.
10. Google Drawing- offers tools to create projects with graphics.
11. Google Maps and Google Earth - take your class into a virtual tour using these navigation apps. Explore the world and create your own journey with famous places. Let your students use features that enable them see the world in 2D or 3D perspectives!
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