With a number of different questions types, themes, and navigation based on answers, Forms can be customized to fit almost any need for information collection. Here are some examples and useful practices for your class:
YouTube allows billions of people to discover, create, and share originally created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a platform for content creators, teachers and advertisers.
As an educator, whether you are considering using videos in your lesson plans, adding historical videos into your social science class, or conducting a video field trip of ancient Roman ruins, YouTube is a great tool for better teaching and learning.
YouTube allows you to find videos on many topics from around the world. YouTube EDU is Google’s library of 700,000+ high-quality educational videos from partners like Khan Academy, Stanford and TED-Ed. There are a variety of benefits associated with using YouTube in your class:
To find content that suits your needs, start on the YouTube EDU homepage. Search the content to find videos to support lessons. Create playlists to keep track of videos you want to watch later.
Teachers can also create a channel on YouTube to showcase playlists of favorite videos from across YouTube to introduce or reinforce topics. You can also use your channel to upload videos created by you or your students.
If you have created a channel, you can download the YouTube Creator Studio app to manage your uploads on the go. Creator Studio is a tool that allows you to upload and edit your own videos and manage your channels all from one place. Students can create their own videos to demonstrate their learning while explaining a topic or process. You may also track engagement using YouTube Analytics.
YouTube in the classroom has privacy controls available through a feature called Safety Mode. This is a setting that helps screen-out potentially objectionable content that you do not want students to see. Google uses community flagging, age restrictions, and other signals, to identify and filter inappropriate content so your students can learn using videos.
With YouTube, you have the freedom to create and customize just the right amount and type of learning material for students to meet their learning goals.
Historically, the ahupuaʻa of Kahalu‘u and Keauhou in North Kona were centers of political governance and intellect for many celebrated Hawaiian leaders of the past. They were gathering places for influential kāhuna and ali‘i to train in resource management, political strategy, history, genealogies, spiritual expertise and a myriad of other fields of study. In modern history, the lands came to be part of the assets within the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, who’s mission it is to elevate well-being and education of Native Hawaiians. The rich history and sites at Keauhou and Kahaluu have become guiding foundations for an emerging online blended aina-based educational program for the Kamehameha Schools West Hawai’i Region. Currently a website is being created to house information such as the history of the wahi pana in the region, the influential residents, the data collection of 1949 – 50 by Henry Kekahuna, the recent restoration efforts, the ceremonies and chants, and the daily weather and lunar phases. Learners will also be able to track live webcam information from two stations. One station is situated on a ma uka property and another is situated on a ma kai property. Both will track the wind speed, humidity, precipitation, temperature as well as live observations via the webcam. Learners are able to make daily, weekly and monthly weather comparisons. The goal is to offer a dynamic learning platform rooted in Hawaiian place and moolelo that is also tied to academic curriculum and that leverages modern technology. These two sites are our “R&D sites”, and we have a larger vision of dozens of hybrid aina/online-learning stations planned throughout West Hawaii.
With the arrival of the latest 3D Printers, Laser Cutter-Engraver systems
and CNCs machines into the classrooms, students can quickly design
prototypes, mechanisms, devices, and structures that may inspire
them to become our next engineers. This intro class will have participants design (3) projects in various CAD programs using a 3D printer, Laser C-E, and CNC machine.
Session Requirements: Some CAD/STEAM experience recommended but not required.
Google Calendar is a versatile time-management application suitable for the scheduling needs of administrators, teachers, and students. Some of its most important features and benefits include the ability to access it on mobile devices, to share calendars using a variety of options, its integration with other Google Apps, and the ability to customize calendar views.
Google Calendar can be accessed and used with computers, tablets, and other mobile devices using an app or through your mobile web browser. Desktop and mobile notifications notify you of upcoming events. With offline capability, you can access and modify event details which sync automatically when your device is back online.
When creating and managing events, Google Calendar generates a Hangout link so you are prepared for a video meeting, allows you to attach a file, so you can keep your meeting organized, and accepts your invitations with one click, allowing you to quickly respond to others.
Advanced calendar sharing features allow you to control who can discover, view, and modify different calendars. Grant access to any individual or group, even if they do not use Google Calendar.
Whether you in school, at home, or on the go, it is easy to stay connected and on task with Google Calendar.
Create informative, inspiring, and beautiful presentations for the classroom using Google Slides. In Google Slides, you can design slides with a variety of presentation themes, thousands of fonts, embedded video, animations, and more.
Teachers and students can use Google Slides in a number of ways:
Google Slides allows more than one collaborator in a document, so peers can work together to present an interactive story, and teachers can provide ongoing feedback throughout the creation process. When the presentation is ready to present to the world, in just a few clicks, it can be published to the web.
