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students that are talking about
tools to help with planning,

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organization, taking notes.
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those tools from different
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perspective and is using it as a
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All right, let's take it away.
Hey guys, I'm Ali.

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I'm Lila.
And today we're going to talk

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about how to be a noteworthy
note taker with notability, and

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we're going to have a great
time.

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So excited.
So we're going to go a few

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things is what we're going to be
talking about today.

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Some things that it does, who
it's for, tool features,

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suggestions on maybe what to do
or what not to do, some

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challenges you might have with
it, Accessibility features are

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always awesome and the why you
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Yeah.
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So notability, what it is, it's
a digital note taking app for

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only Apple products.
So you can use that with your

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iPad, your iPhone or your Mac.
And it lets students, teachers,

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users, whoever is using it.
They can write, they can draw,

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they can type, they can record
audio, and they can also

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annotate PDFs, which is super
cool.

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So this is a really great tool
that you can use inside and

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outside of the classroom.
It's for teachers and students

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or really anybody who needs
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yeah.
I personally, I love notability

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as a student and as a future
teacher, as a college student, I

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use it for every single one of
my math classes, any class where

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I have to take notes.
It's just so great and awesome.

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And then you can also use it for
personal use too.

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I don't know, coloring like
picture templates online and

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other stuff like that too.
So these are some of the

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features.
You can auto audio record and it

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can sync to your notes.
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someone's talking to you or as
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you can hit that little record
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And what it does is it can play
back at what time you talked

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correlated to when you're
writing the note, which is

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really cool, especially for math
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something, you're looking at
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You're like, wait, like I don't
really understand this.

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You can re watch when you took
the notes and then the dialogue

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that went along with it.
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this makes sense.
You can annotate PDFs and you

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can also mark up PDFs too, which
is really nice for bigger

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documents taking like little
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You can also have two like
notability things up or you can

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have you can do a little split
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your content up on one side and
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the other side.
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one device to use notability.
You can also use it for you can

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do stickers shapes and you can
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But it's also really nice
because you can handwrite your

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notes or you can use the
handwriting tool and you can

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make it into like text, which is
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So maybe if your handwriting
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to read back, they can like
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You can also use the templates
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paper, and the checklist.
Personally, I love the planner

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tool because I can write out my
week, keep it on my notability,

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and then I can't ever lose my
paper for it.

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So some some suggestions that we
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Obviously we said it's only for
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So we need like an Apple Pencil
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write and do things with instead
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Obviously we need Apple product
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you organize your notes.
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So some considerations.
Again, you do need an Apple

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product to use it.
We're going to reiterate this a

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ton.
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sorry, this isn't the product,
this isn't the app for you.

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But if you're an Apple user,
it's absolutely wonderful.

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Again, it doesn't cross
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you can also pay for a
subscription.

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So if you want to access like
all the tools and stuff, you

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would have to pay for that
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But it's also really nice
because you can try it out for

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the first time and you don't
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still use it for accessibility.
This is really great for

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students who struggle
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a little extra assistance
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recording, you can play it back
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content without having to go
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anything like that.
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zoom.
You can magnify all the things.

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So say if you're reading a PDF,
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words a little bit bigger.
Or even with your writing, you

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can write really big on the
screen, but then you're still

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not taking up the whole page
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which is really nice.
You can use that highlighter

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tool and kind of color
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the really important stuff

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you're going to be writing in
green and the not so important

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stuff you're going to be writing
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So you can figure out like how
you want to best organize your

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notes without having to like
physically switch.

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I'm writing with the blue pen or
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And then you also have a typing
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If you have bad handwriting,
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you can actually read back your
you're not just lost and

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confused.
So we're both future math

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teachers, so it's really big
tool that we want to implement

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in our classrooms.
So here's a few examples of how

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we're going to implement in our
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especially in math.
It helps you work through your

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problems digitally.
Basically what that means is you

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can use it to write your
problems and then you can use

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your pencil and go through your
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And then if you need help or
like your teacher can get on

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there and help you and then you
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watch your notes, watch it being
done out on your notes like as

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your teacher does it.
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doing it on your notability.
So just works like hand in hand.

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So you like can get help like
right then and there without

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waiting for your teacher.
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visualize.
So it's really good at making

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shapes, graphs, things like that
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freehand.
So that helps like just with any

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like geometry problems or
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Graphing is very hard to do,
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100 graph.
You could just have it do it for

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you so you don't have to write
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down on the axises, yeah.
Yeah, really great tools.

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I definitely think notability
really helps keeps your notes

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like really organized,
structured, And then again, like

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you can move stuff around, you
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So you don't have to spend all
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all by yourself because you can
use that technology and it can

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just help make things more
efficient when you're writing

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your notes, which is really
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Another boat.
Why is notability like valuable?

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Again, we're just gonna
reiterate it.

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It helps you organize your notes
better.

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You can record people talking
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your notes.
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store everything in one place.
I know this is really helpful as

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a student and then also as a
teacher because everyone's going

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to be taking more than one
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And so if you're a student,
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anywhere between 4:00 to 8:00 or
nine classes in a school day.

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And so keeping all your notes
like together is like really

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challenging.
But it can be really helpful

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that it's just all in one place
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personally, I'm always losing my
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And so it's in one solid place,
which is really great.

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OK.
So basically from all of this,

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our key take away is that
notability turns math, which is

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like our specific focus and to
math learning.

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It's a more organized visual and
expressive process.

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It's just a very helpful tool in
general and you could use it for

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other subjects, but we're like
math focus.

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So that's what we want to use.
It for yeah, guys, thank you so

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much for tuning in.
I hope you learned a lot about

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notability.
I know that we did when we were

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making this presentation.
And yeah, I hope.

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Check it out, check it out,
check it out.

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It's definitely worth your
while.

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Have a great day.
Thanks for tuning in.

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Hi, I'm Ryan and this is my
presentation on Google Calendar.

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What is Google Calendar?
Google Calendar is a great time

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management and scheduling tool,
and it allows you to create,

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manage, and share events.
It functions as a digital

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planner that syncs across all of
your devices, ensuring that you

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have your schedule accessible
whether you're at your desk or

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on the go.
What is Google?

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Calendar.
It provides event creation,

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easily scheduling meetings,
classes or deadlines with

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specific times, locations and
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You can have multiple calendars
which you can separate in color

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code for different areas of your
life, for example, work, school,

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and professional, and toggle
them on or off to declutter your

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view.
Google Calendar has smart

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integration, which means it'll
automatically pool events and

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details from Gmail like upcoming
meetings or due dates, and it

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integrates with Google Classroom
also, where assignment due dates

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will automatically appear for
both teachers and students on

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the calendar.
Google Calendar is great for

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classroom management and
teaching students how to manage

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their work and managing your own
workload and schedule as an

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educator.
Google Classroom has layered

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classroom views which create
different calendars for homework

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and tests that students can
toggle on and off.

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It provides smart attachments.
You can link Google Drive

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rubrics and templates directly
to the day they are due or

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needed.
It provides predictability for

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students with Ieps or classroom
anxiety by providing actually

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blocked times for when things
are due or important upcoming

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events, which is important for
modeling to digital citizenship.

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You can just click on a day or a
time to create an event.

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You decide the name, the time,
add notes, loop in others.

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By adding guests.
You can add a Google meet or a

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video conferencing link.
You can also choose what

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calendar you want to visible on.
For example, you could make a

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class calendar where all the
information that your students

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need is accessible like due
dates and important school

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events.
A calendar for your own

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professional management, parent
meetings when grades are due,

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reminders set for yourself.
And you can make a calendar for

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personal reminders, loved ones,
birthdays, reminders,

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appointments.
When you create an event, you

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can choose which calendar you
want to add it to and who gets

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to see it.
Each calendar will display as

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different color for you to keep
things organized, sharing with

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the class, or for your own
organization.

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You can check or uncheck the
calendars to make sure they are

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displayed or hidden.
For example, if you're sharing

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with your U.S.
History class, you can uncheck

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all of the irrelevant calendars
that your students only see

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upcoming due dates for your U.S.
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You can invite people to share
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For example, if you had a world
History class, you could share

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that calendar with all of your
world history students.

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And if you had AUS History
calendar, you could share that

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with all of your U.S. history.
Students.

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And Google Calendar connects to
the Danielson framework in that

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it follows domain 4B, which is
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Your calendar serves as a time
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Every parent contact and
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domain 4C.
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A shared calendar is showing you
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they even have to ask.
Domain 1 E Designing coherent

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instruction.
Mapping out a unit on a calendar

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And Domain 3C student
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When students know what's next,
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their learning base.
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Thank you.
Hello, I'm Monica Gibson.

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I'm Sarah Dummell.
And for our podcast segment, we

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chose to talk briefly about
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Google Docs is a super easy to
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acquainted with, and super
versatile technology tool that's

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great for both teachers and
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Which is why we chose it,
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looking at something that was
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student perspective would be a
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purposes of this project and in
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From the teacher perspective,
Google Docs is really good with

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taking.
It's.

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It records the student
keystrokes and edits on any

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document, making it super easy
to be able to see what a student

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did on their own, how long it
took them to make something, if

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they copy and pasted what,
things like that.

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So it helps keep students honest
and teachers aware of what's

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going on in their classrooms and
the assignments getting turned

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in and then.
Yeah, it's, that's one of my

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favorite features about it, is
that as an educator, especially

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as someone going into English
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students are writing and if I'm
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like, oh, that seems like a big
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Oh, that seems like a
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This the.
Grammar is a.

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Little too good here.
I can look and see if they

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actually typed it out themselves
when they backspaced, what their

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edits look like, what their
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Which makes it really easy to
make sure that your students are

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being honest and acting with
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For our historical writings, I'm
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In my perspective, it really
helps to see when students quote

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primary sources, they're
including other resources, what

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they did truly summarize or
cite, or to what extent their

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academic honesty is apparent
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their work.
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Yeah, it is just like the best
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students.
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That's something we put on both
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From the student perspective,
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It tracks your keystrokes, which
as a student who's doing a lot

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of writing, is excellent because
if a teacher thinks you're using

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AI or you're copying from
someone else, you can really

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easily disprove it.
I make sure that any assignment

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I turn in, I also turn in a docx
just because then my educator

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can see exactly what I wrote
when I wrote it, how I edit it,

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etcetera.
It also auto saves, which is

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excellent for the forgetful
student, which is another thing

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that I really benefit from.
If I had a dollar for every time

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I've closed a Microsoft Word
without saving it, I think I'd

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be a millionaire.
And so auto save on Google Docs

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just saves me consistently.
And it's free.

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Like it's free.
You just can't beat free,

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especially as an educator where
like a lot of the time you're

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picking up the slack in places
where your district can't,

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especially financially.
Meeting students where you are

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is so important in the software.
All you need is a computer and a

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free Google account.
So it's super accessible.

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And then also I feel like with
that auto save and that track

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feature, it's super awesome to
track your progress as a

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student.
You can see when I made an edit,

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you know to what extent I made
an edit and you're having that

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auto save feature as well.
So you don't have to worry about

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saving it.
That software is going to do it

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for you and take it or take note
of what you recorded when you

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recorded it.
And that's really good, valuable

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information if you're looking to
track your growth or progress in

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certain assignments.
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And to be able to have that all
in the cloud is also excellent,

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because then if something
happens to your device, you can

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log into Google on anything else
and still have the work that

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you've done.
So that's all for our

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presentation.
Thank you for your time.

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Thank you for listening
listening to us talk about

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Google Docs.
Enjoying the sunshine out here

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today.
It's so nice.

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It's going to rain soon, but the
weather has been really

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excellent.
So we were like, let's sit

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outside, you know?
Let's enjoy Google Docs from

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anywhere because lucky for us
that cloud you can use Google

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Docs anywhere with Internet
access love.

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It Yeah.
Bye.

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