Clean Up Your Desktop & Google DriveJust a reminder, our district ghosts all our laptops at the end of each year. Anything that is not saved in Google Drive or in your H-Drive will be erased! You can click here to see my post from last year on Google File Stream, an easy way to transfer things to your Drive! Also, summer is a good time to get your Google Drive organized. I suggest designating an hour or so to go in and make folders and then drag and drop files into folders to make them more easily accessible. Also, deleting out files you don't need is helpful, just don't mess with files in Shared Folders! Doing so will delete it for everyone it is shared with. Folders that have a person icon on them are Shared Folders. Clean Up Google ClassroomAt the end of the year, the best way to clean up Google Classroom is to archive your classes. Archiving a class doesn't delete it, but it takes it off your Google Classroom Homepage and makes it so no one can make any changes (you or the students in the class). It basically makes it a view only class. You can still reuse posts and assignments from archived classes in your classes for next year! To archive, go to the Google Classroom Homepage, click the three dot menu on the class and select Archive. To retrieve or view it, click on the three line menu at the top left and select Archived Classes. While in Archived Classes, you can select the three dot menu on a class and click Restore to bring it back to your Homepage. Eric Curts from Control Alt Achieve has some more helpful tips on cleaning up Google Classroom. See them by clicking here! Happy summer, everyone!
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I have a confession to make. As a former ELA teacher, self-proclaimed "reader" and lover of a good novel, I struggle to get into most nonfiction books. I've been this way my whole life. Give me a piece of fiction, and I can read it in a few days. Give me a piece of nonfiction, and I have to annotate, read, and re-read in order to make sense out of it. This makes it difficult for me to read books on the philosophy of education, which is kind of important in my job as an instructional coach. Enter Dave and Shelley Burgess, co-founders of Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. Dave is the best-selling author of Teach Like a Pirate, and Shelley is co-author of Lead like a Pirate. Together, they are a powerhouse of professional development and book publishing. They have published TONS of books on various topics in education. The great thing about their books is that they don't read like a college textbook on education - they are fun, engaging, and relevant (no offense, college textbooks).
If you head over to daveburgessconsulting.com/dbcibooks, you can see all of the books under their publishing company. There truly is something for everyone. Keep any eye out for former USD437 Elementary Curriculum Coordinator Tara Martin's book Be REAL! Now, admittedly, I've only read a couple of the books, but I'm working on that! I have, however, seen several of these people speak at conferences, and they are amazing educators with so much to offer. I hope you can find something that sparks your interest, and you can sit by the pool this summer (if it ever stops raining) and do a little reading!! |
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