Tech Welcome Back 2018!

Welcome back to another amazing school year where technology integration continues to get easier and more classroom-focused. Keep reading to see all of the updates for the 2018-2019 school year.

Google Classroom has added some updates that make it easier than ever to run a digital classroom.

Read about the updates here on an affiliate blog feature from Exploring the TECH in TEaCHer.

Watch a video here showing the updates from Google.

Classroom Orchestrator has updated to a more user-friendly experience for the teacher.  Updated 2018 Orchestrator tutorial.

All TK-2nd-grade students will need to update their Clever Badges for the new school year. These are the little QR code pendants that allow students to log in with their cameras, bypassing the need to type the long usernames and passwords. Here are a reminder video and How-To.

Approving Videos in YouTube: A guide to listing videos as approved for students

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No longer do we need to log into the lightspeed filter or save YouTube videos for our students into Drive.  With the new Google and YouTube feature, every Central Unified teacher has the option to “approve” a YouTube video for their class.  Once approved, it is instantly viewable by your students.  You select the video, and then students can access it on their tablet, phone, or computer.

Step 1

For YouTube to know who you are, you MUST log into your Central Google Account.  Go to www.google.com and click sign in.  (If it already shows your username (teacher@centralusd.k12.ca.us) you go to step three.)

Step 2

Type in your Central username and password

Step 3

Once on www.youtube.com confirm that you are logged in up at the top left.

Step 4

Now find your video, via search.  On the video screen (above) you will see a new blue band just below the video that gives you as the teacher an option to “APPROVE.”  Once selected, students will instantly be able to view the video district wide.  If you need to un-approve a video you will do it in the same spot.  This allows us to get around the saving of all videos and the need to log into Lightspeed to view YouTube.