Our class presentation this week included School and COVID. Amy Paige and Paige Martin had a lot of great information to present, so I am including it here. If anything it is history!
Effects during pandemic
○ Meals
○ Access to education (Not everyone has access to the same
Technology or help at home)
● Show me the Money?
○ Educational budget cuts
○ Economy
○ Financial strains on families
● Reopening
○ Platform, access to tech, precautions/procedures in place
Mental Health Response
○ Staff, students, parents
○ Resources
Welcome to my blog! Recently, I have a few presentations on Breakout EDU and Creating your own blog. The resources have been posted here.
One of the most frequent questions however was how I changed the slides while moving around the room. I used my cell phone! If anyone figures out how to do this on Smart Notebook – let me know because that would be awesome!
Here is how to turn your cell phone into a remote control for Google Slides:
In the upper right corner, you should see a “Present with remote” button. Click on that.
Once your slideshow is running, the bottom bar will be different. It will have SHOW ID at the bottom. That is your 6 digit code!
Open s.limhenry.xyz on another device and enter the code on the page. Voila – you now have a cell phone or Ipad or tablet or any device that can be used as a remote for your slideshow. It is a few steps, but after I did this a few times it really only took less than 30 seconds.
I have the limhenry website saved as a shortcut on my phone. I believe I found that in the Play Store a few weeks ago. But, it is no longer there. That’s okay! As long as you have that link you are good to go!
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming in December!!! Why not give the students instructions on a Star Wars crawl instead of a Powerpoint presentation? Or embed this into Google Classroom!
Last week, I set up a Breakout game for the students where they had to use mathematics to solve puzzles in order to open the box. Now the game included a Powerpoint with a cheesy little story about the Dentist. I didn’t want to do the dentist story. It seemed far fetched. Okay okay, Star Wars is far fetched, too…..
I have a Princess Leia wig… and costume…
and why can’t I have a video give the students instructions?
(photo credit: Star Words on Google Play)
So here is one example! You could use this to give an exit ticket at the end of class. You could use the video to give instructions for a lesson. You can add whatever text you want! Need a fun way to give announcements? Write them in Star Words!
Here is how I created the video:
Downloaded the “Star Words” app onto my phone.
Used the editor to write the text.
Played the video until it was just the way I wanted it.
The app has a record option. Warning!! Everything gets recorded!!! You sneeze, you hiccup, birds tweet, everything. So make sure it is quiet.
Once recorded, it was stored in my Internal Storage under “Videos”. From there I shared it with my Google Drive.
Once on my drive, I downloaded the mp4 file to my laptop at school. The drive doesn’t like mp4 files and was not playing them right until I downloaded the original file.
I embedded this file into my Powerpoint presentation and had to make two movies because I teach at two different schools. You wouldn’t have to do this extra step. It just makes the flow easier. I don’t like stopping class to pull something up when I can embed it once and use the presentation year after year.
