Understaning Google Drive Stream

Understanding Drive Stream

This is the solution to your U-Drive and network drives going away.

Created by Scott Aten, October 16, 2019

This was mentioned during opening day and I wanted to give you some time to get the year going
before I brought it back to your attention. Several of you have asked me about moving content from
U-drive and network shared drives and so what I have done is created a video that will show you...

• How to use Google Drive Share
• Move files from your U-Drive to Google Drive with Drive Share
• How to use non-Google files with Drive Share (i.e. Publisher, Smart Notebook, Photoshop, etc.)

There are exactly 44 school days left until your U-Drive/network share drive will not allow you to save
new files into them. You will still be able to open the files in both locations, just not save anything into
them. Saving to the desktop or hard drive of your computer is not wise, so this demonstration will be
the answer to all your questions on how to move forward saving files beginning in January and into the future.

[Understanding Google File Stream] (7:57 long)

If for some reason you don't see "Drive Stream" listed as a program, please put in a help desk ticket
and it will be pushed to your laptop/desktop computer. Special thanks goes out to Marc Clendaniel
for setting Drive Stream up for us making it easy to work between Google and our computers.


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The Chromebook Classroom

Looking for ways to use the Chromebook in your classroom?

Created by Scott Aten, October 9, 2019

Many times I listen to podcasts as I fall asleep at night. Most of them are for personal enjoyment, but one that I occasionally listen to is by Josh Sowash called "The Chromebook Classroom". In this podcast he offers ideas on how teachers can use the Chromebook to help students learn. In the first
podcast this month he featured several links to provide ideas for teachers. I wanted to pass along
some of them to you...

1) Halloween Hyperdoc (grades 6-8) - If you are unfamiliar with Hyperdocs, this would be a good intro. Hyperdocs is a digital document—such as a Google Doc—where all components of a learning cycle have been pulled together into one central hub. Within a single document, students are provided with hyperlinks to all of the resources they need to complete that learning cycle. They usually incorporate student as a part of the lesson.

2) Six Chrombook shortcuts to save time (grades 3-12) - Learning a few Chromebook shortcuts can be a real time saver for students and teachers. This blog post offers shortcuts to: Dock the browser windows, switch between browser tabs, recover closed tabs, use the cap lock, and launching apps
that are in the "shelf" or task bar.

3) Google Slides Journal Template (Any grade where writing is important - hint ALL) - Do your students journal? This template done in Slide and is expandable and flexible. If you set this up in conjunction with your Google Classroom it can be used all year long. Great way to get your students writing, simply add a new prompt as an announcemen in your Google classroom and students just add a new slide and continue to journal.

4) Carve-a-pumpkin in Google Slides - (grades K-2) - Skills reinforced here are drag and drop as well as an opportunity to do some writing.

5) SAMR Student Choice Matrix - (grades K-12) - I have given a presentation in many staff meetings about the tech integration model known as SAMR. The purpose of the model is to have teachers evaluate their activities to see how they are integrating technology into their lessons. This Choice Matrix can help provide you with some ideas and tools to evaluate some of your lessons through the SAMR lens.

6) Is your Chromebook broken? - (grades 3-12) - If you are looking to become a little more knowledgeable on how to do some basic trouble shooting for your students, then this site is a great place to start. The site offers a few things teachers can do to help their students before you send them to the library. Help reduce the loss of instructional time by educating yourself on these tips.

7) Four Ideas for any Classroom - (K-12) - Josh is holding a FREE webinar TONIGHT. This webinar will explore 4 simple ways you can use Chromebooks in any classroom. The webinar is Wednesday
October 9th from 8:00-9:30. You can also request a replay of the session if you are unable to view
the live session tonight.

Hopefully one of these links will be of interest to you. I know sometimes the biggest hurdle with having
Chromebooks is finding good ways to use them, so I will continue to look for resources and provide
tips like this post to help you help your students.

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Google Cast for Education

Allow students to "Broadcast" their Chromebook for the class to see.

Created by Scott Aten, October 4, 2019

I have actually talked about this extension in an earlier post, but Marc came across someone at a meeting at NEOnet that created these step-by-step directions that walk you through exactly what
needs to happen both on the teacher side and the student side.

So let's review what the Google Cast for Education extension will do. It allows the teacher to broadcast any student device. Since we are essentially 1-1 in the district, all students have a Chromebook or
access to a Chromebook while in your class. You can now have them show their screen to the entire
class (projected) by "casting" to the teacher computer. This is a great tool for presentations, demonstrating a skill to the class, or asking a question in which the entire class may benefit.

Here is what we found [link to the document itself]

Teacher PC Setup

1. Download the “Google Cast for Education extension from the Chrome Web Store
   
   
   
   
2. In the Chrome browser, go to the URL Chrome://flags/#enable-native-notifications
   Disable “Enable native notifications”, then close Chrome and restart it.
3. In the top right corner of the Chrome browser click on the Google Cast for Education extension icon
   
   
   
4. Add A “Receiver Name” I would suggest using your 2 digit building abbreviation and your room number.  Ex:High School room 1106 would use “HS1106”.
   *It is recommended that you check only the top 2 settings options and then click save. 
   
   
5. Set sharing permissions for users who will be able to Cast to your teacher computers “Cast receiver”.
   *It is recommended to share only “Can Request” permissions to students, specifically students in your class.  The easiest way to do this is by sharing to the whole Google classroom.
   
6. In a few seconds your teacher PC will get a popup in the bottom left corner.  It will list the students name (in this case:HS Student) and say what they are trying to present (in this case: a New Tab) you will have the ability to Accept if you want that student to display that source on your desktop computer screen.
   *For most, it would also display on your projector
   

Student Setup

1. Click the 3 dots “options” button in the top right of the Chrome browser, then select the “Cast…” option.
   
   
2. If it says “No devices found” the students will need to perform step 3, otherwise go to step 4.
   
   
3. Two-finger click (right-click) on the cast icon that appears in the extension bar, then go down and check “Enable cloud services”.  When step 1 is completed again, it should now show all available Cast receivers (that the student has permissions to).
   
   
4. Before connecting to the Available Cast receiver first drop-down “Sources” and select what you want to cast to the teacher display: just the active tab, your desktop (all windows), or just a file.  Once you select the proper source then you may click on the cast receiver you want to cast to.
   

And that is all you need to do to have your students "broadcast" their Chromebooks to your device.

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