3 Ways to Use Physical Teaching Materials ONLINE

[@03ReDbOnE2010]

As I was watching this video, I just kept saying “man I’m so glad I found your channel!” YOUR ARE AMAZING!

[@azucenabedoya2268]

learninG so much from you. God bless u more.

[@KashmirtoKsa]

Same here learn a lot

[@veronicaramirez5686]

I love this! ❤ Is there a way to have them type an answer?

[@jamiebennetts6374]

Just want to say how much fun it is to watch how you adapt materials, considering what will help your students learn, what will be fun, and what will keep the work off their parents' shoulders. I learn so much from what you do. You are so AMAZING and generous with your ideas and time. This California teacher watches and learns from you! XO

[@kristinfumarola1256]

Thank you, Michelle. I thought I was pretty Google Slides savvy, but didn't know how you could link to other slides in the presentation to create a self-checking assignment. I love that idea!

[@lipsofcolorj4963]

Check out her detailed vedio teaching with google slides..you would love it

[@Rayme917]

This is better than any PD I’ve ever taken! Thank you!!

[@kayladelvalley5236]

My schools teachers are using several of your videos to help us with online learning! We are a small private school that is not 1:1 distance learning was our first experience with any type of online learning. Your amazing!

[@Emma-iy5qo]

Brilliant! I needed this, your so organised to of had the time to learn these skills, create videos and teach! I admire your dedication and knowledge and you choosing to share all this at such a surreal time, is GREATLY appreciated by us teachers who have been left to figure out how to online teach! Your students are very lucky to have a teacher like yourself. You make me want to do a UK version of what you do! Keep it up, love from a fellow teacher of 16-65 year old learners of English and math in England.

[@mirelacatarama8688]

Hi there. I love your videos. they made my life as a teacher so much easier. I just discovered you can scan documents from your google drive on your smartphone. You go to goodle drive app and then press + in the bottom right corner and select scan option. Then, you can crop etc and save directly on your drive.

[@lilmissrom]

For the non-fiction comprehension skill questions, you could also make a Google Form for the students, where you put the image at the top and then create the multiple choice questions for the students to answer. And the software will automatically generate the data for you as to which students got which questions right. Takes a bit more time to set up but would save you lots of time later, too!

[@jenwakefield3458]

OMG you just saved my year! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I teach SPED-ED Middle School.

[@nancyvallely9585]

As always, you have just blown my mind 😱 Thank you so much for blessing all of us with your videos, especially during these crazy times! Sending you love and sunshine from Arizona 🌞

[@maydamendoza6770]

Thanks so much for making this process of "virtual" teaching preparation friendly and easier to prepare for!!!

[@bethaugustine457]

Oh my goodness you save my life each time I watch one of your videos! I will be practicing today! Thank you so much!

[@misspty1]

I adore all of your videos, but by far creating assignments and cool power points are my favorite. Thanks so much!!!!

[@Exona00]

Thank you SO much. You pack in so much info into your videos. I have been wanting to know how to do all of these things but have not had the instructions. Thanks for taking the time to do this, especially for us non-digital natives.

[@peggyjakopak5373]

These are so helpful for those of us who are trying to do their best by their students on this weird distance learning path. Thank you!

[@taramccurry5320]

This was a great explanation of how to make instructional materials digital. I am teaching virtually this year, and this helps in so many ways! Thank you so much!

[@spokenwordwriter]

I had no idea that you could scan in notes and save it as a PDF! thank you so much for that tip! I feel like I learn something new from you every day!

[@abigaildaigle2051]

As a second year teacher that’s starting a new grade this year... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@teemar3425]

I love and appreciate your videos! I don't love background music over your voice. Keep up the great work. You've saved my school year.

[@lorindavanmaanen6961]

We aren't going back virtual but have been told to make things digital as much as possible using Google Classroom due to kids being out, limiting the passing around of physical work, or possibly going digital if there are more cases in our community. Finding your channel has made me SO EXCITED to get in the classroom and just try these things out!!!!!!! Thank you so much for this resource! Keep em coming!!! :o)

[@staceyaskew5337]

Michelle, I've been watching your videos for years now. As a matter of fact, you are the first teacher I started following on KZbin and Instagram. You are an awesome educator and you always have great resources! Keep doing what you do! God bless!

[@lorelei1774]

I’m a 7th grade teacher in Honolulu. I found your videos at the start of Quarantine. Thank you kindly for providing user-friendly Google Classroom teacher videos! You’re a life saver!! 🌺

[@shelbynapier7826]

MY REACTION THROUGH THIS WHOLE VIDEO WAS LIKE 😱 thank you for sharing this!!!!

[@egreaves79]

Thank you, Michelle! The thing that I love most about your videos is that they can apply to so many grade levels! In the upcoming school year I will be teaching Middle School Math and your videos have already inspired my Google Classroom organization, website design, Google Slides design, and so much more! Thank you!!

[@maryanndoyle6821]

I have watched many of your videos and I have learned so much! Thank you for helping with great ideas.

[@monicacarey4874]

I really love the self-checking! I teach high school so maybe to make sure they are accountable, the last slide would be a word they have to email me to make sure they actually did the work. It was a challenge to make sure students were doing practices that were not graded when they are working through distance learning. I have been using Nearpod which tells me how actively a student participated.

[@sportzqt512]

Thank you so much for this video!! Would love to see more like this. We go back face to face, virtually, and a hybrid model in August. The school year is fast approaching and I’m trying to be as prepared for this crazy year as possible.

[@carimartinez6779]

Michelle this is FANTASTIC! I'm familiar with the Google Suite, but we are moving to Google as a school this next year. I've added this to a playlist for my coworkers! Thank you again for the FANTASTIC information!

[@jenniferbradley9994]

Mind is blown! Thank you so much! I actually teach high school, but wow! I really appreciate you and your hard work! Thank you!

[@cteacher4080]

🤯 Mind blown!! Thank you so much for the great tips! 💛 Very helpful. I was just thinking about some of my classroom resources and how I could use them digitally without retyping everything. THANK YOU!!

[@cristinacueva3451]

You are so amazing and quick with setting these up! So cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@isquarei2911]

You are saving me so much stress and time. I can and have been teaching for years face to face. Your videos are absolutely helpful and easy. Thank you! !!!

[@tatiabeal3128]

You never cease to amaze me ! Thank you for your awesome insight on how to make it happen in this virtual world of remote learning!

[@lauraimhoof859]

Thank you so much. I have all of these Lakeshore kits already. I've been wanting to learn how to create PDF that are interactive for them at home without the support of their parents 100%. Yes, it will take time, but I can see that the more I create, the easier it will become. You were easy to follow and understand. My stress level has dropped a bit. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@juliaritterbusch5542]

I cannot thank you enough for this VERY PRACTICAL advice! The tech tips on Google Slides were so very helpful. I now feel I can prepare for the upcoming school year with more confidence, & more variety in my lessons. Thank you very much!!

[@tammimason8205]

Thank you soo much for sharing those 3 teaching materials to use online. Its something I can implement immediately into my instructional day. Awesome!

[@ashchar91]

I love this! I also suggest putting in audio with the directions and/or questions and/or answer choices for students to click and have everything read for them if they need that support. That's more tedious but maybe higher-reading students could submit that as a homework assignment first to help out and differentiate with less effort. They could just enter Vocaroo links or record and upload audio with their computers.

[@cherrillroth6912]

Imagine my excitement as I'm watching this -- I already own all three of the products!!! So excited to learn how to use them digitally. Thanks for sharing your cleverness with others.

[@brittanyo3087]

Thank you SO much for posting this! My district in VA is starting digitally this fall and this tutorial was really helpful. I am not tech savvy and I just learned so much in your video! 🙌🏽 amazing.

[@piscesplanner]

You can also put the direction box (or any solid box) on top of the questions that you DON'T want kids to answer, so they aren't distracted by the other questions.

[@timothylipscomb7223]

Thank again for a wonderful way to use materials online. It makes providing work for students much easier to do for practice and to learn.

[@chloe_3787]

I’m only a high school senior, but it’s so interesting to me how different school districts are handling this. My district is exploring an A-Day B-Day model where half the kids would go Monday and Wednesday, the other half would go Tuesday and Thursday, and each group would go every other Friday, respectively. If we’re “green” (from our governor and we are right now) the plan is to all go back full time. I’ve also heard rumors of half days where half the kids would go in the morning, the other half in the afternoon, and everyone would be home for lunch, but that’s all hearsay right now. As for online learning, we’ve had 1:1 iPads in 3-12 for a long time, but we’re getting them for K-2 this year. They’re going to try to make sure every kid has internet access. We've used Schoology in 5-12 for five years now and I love it, and this year apparently the district is implementing SeeSaw(?) for K-4. For reference, this is in Pennsylvania, and I don’t want to give away our county, but it’s not in a city.

[@joecharrette9335]

As a parent of an incoming high school junior here in Wisconsin, we'll have a general idea next week on how the incoming school year might look (there was a Board of Ed meeting last night (Monday). In an e-mail I received last week from the school administrator (superintendent) to touch base with the parents and staff members on school start date, options for the school year, and 4K-8 summer school (doesn't apply to mine). Although the school district did apply for and receive a waiver from the state to start the school year earlier, they decided to keep the original September 1 start date. Options being discussed for the upcoming 2020-21 school year are having students return to school or have full time distance learning. With regards to them coming back to school, ideas that have been swirling about the last month or so from previous e-mails would be limiting classes to 10 kids per class and have one class come on Monday and Thursday, and another coming on Tuesday and Friday, with Wednesday being distance learning. With regards to the option of full time distance learning, it was stated in a previous e-mail that it would be far more rigorous than how it was being implemented in the final quarter of the school year that just ended (where they were pretty much flying by the seat of their pants). Mine wants to do the distance learning. But with 3 AP classes this coming school year (AP Calculus AB, AP English Language and Composition, and AP European History), any inclination he might have that he's going to spend a lot of time playing frisbee golf or regular golf (while the course is still open, probably early-mid October) with his friends, or a lot of time at the bowling alley (once they revert to their non-summer hours) practicing his game (he's on a Jr/Sr League), he's in for a very rude awakening from Dad, because I will be constantly monitoring Skyward (I'm also trying to arrange my work schedule where I can be home more in the middle of the week, but it would also involve having to work every weekend (which I pretty much do anyways). I also (tried) to stress to him this is the year colleges look at when he starts applying next year.

[@miche4000]

Once again you make everything look so easy:) I am back to the elem classroom after 18 years and am nervous bc of technology. Really praying we stay in the classroom on campus. Thank you for everything you do:)

[@piyamperumal6929]

Excellent way to inform the content. If anyone want to develop the concept ,it is very easy to do.

[@Sandraadee1]

Michelle- a super helpful trick for you! My husband teaches at the college level and he and his students use the Adobe Scan app. It will automatically crop the scanned document (it gives you a chance to edit it too if necessary before cropping). Then you save it as a pdf as in Note. Super easy and super helpful. Thanks for all you do!

[@lauriestilin1102]

Thank you. I don't have an iPhone, so I'm happy to know about this app. 😊

[@lisaw2525]

Genius Scan is a free app with similar features.

[@gillianakinyode3577]

Thank you very much was very helpful because I have alot of material and was wondering how I could use them with teaching online.

[@lethacarter-clark197]

You are my favorite go to youtube teacher when I need guidance. Keep blessing us with your knowledge, patience, and resources YOU ARE A TRUE BLESSING!!!!! :)

[@kimberlylawhon8202]

I just added a large text box over the rest of the slide and even outside the margins quite a bit and linked it to itself (the same slide) and when I copied and pasted it to all the other slides...it automatically changed the link to that particular slide number. Awesome! Now if they click on the slide, nothing happens. They have to click on an answer for it to take them to the "correct" or "incorrect" slide and then they have to click on the button to move forward or go back to try again. Yay!!

[@kimberlylawhon8202]

I didn't want them to just click somewhere in PRESENT mode and have it progress to the next slide and mess the purpose up! Also, it you copy the link to your slideshow and remove everything back to the forward slash and type in instead /preview?rm=minimal ....it will show the the PRESENT mode but all the links still work. It is just larger and without all the extraneous master slides and rift raft to distract.

[@pinaymathteacher1288]

Thank you Teacher for sharing your knowledge and expertise in teaching online. Watching since April from Cagayan de Oro Philippines!

[@sandibeeinja]

I'm just starting to teach online and this is super helpful for addressing my #1 challenge.

[@ObsessedxTisdale]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! I'm an English teacher as a Foreign Language (I work with kids, teens and adults) and I've been learning A LOT FROM YOU AND YOUR VIDEOS LATELY!!! You've helped me to think out of "my box" when it comes about using different digital resources/techniques. I WISH I COULD MEET YOU SOME DAY AND TELL YOU IN PERSON HOW MUCH I ADMIRE YOU! Greetings from Mexico! 🇲🇽📚🤓💡

[@andreagazaway3996]

I really needed to see this. I loved how you showed step by step how to do all of these things. It is one thing to give tgreat ideas, but to actually show HOW to do them is what makes a big difference. Thank you so much!!!

[@genevacorley6069]

You are so AWESOME. Grateful for your time. This will help me soooo much!!!

[@emilyobrien8021]

Command + D for duplicating slides is a great time saver! Thanks for all these tips!

[@jennifermeier7710]

Every time I watch one of your videos, I end up jumping up and cheering in celebration because I can do it too! Thank you again for your fantastic videos!

[@kristenchristiansen9439]

You are an extraordinary teacher's teacher! Thank you! Even though I am a high school Spanish teacher, I have gained so much from your ideas with technology, procedures, organization, etc.! Today's take-aways: you can scan docs with Notes and you can click on hyperlinks in presentation mode!

[@russellpalatiere8852]

Such great information!! I’m definitely sharing with my teacher friends!! Having items at home that you can scan with a phone and upload to google will make it easier to get things uploaded. It will be a pain at first, but after you do it once, you will have it forever!! I wish I had a lakeshore learning near me (teacher stores around me in Richmond VA don’t cut it)!!

[@winchester7920]

My mind is BLOWN! These tips are a game-changer. Thank you!

[@Barmotley]

Excellent especially for scanning and using the drive.

[@leahs3730]

To crop, you can just double click on the image. The 4 black corners appear and you can crop easily. You can adjust the image (brightness, B/W) by right clicking >> Format Options >> Adjustments etc

[@itsheartwork7287]

The self-checking option is awesome. ❤️

[@erinalmeida1562]

Awesome job Ms. Ferre! This was a great video. Thank you for showing how to do the hyperlinks with slides and how students can self-correct. I can’t wait to show my kids this year. Hope you’re having a great weekend!

[@anaydiy]

Thank you for this info. You can also try Kahoot, Quizizz, and Quizlet. They are free, and you can restrict them to a certain time students can complete them by as well. Also, these all have different ways of tracking student progress. They have stacks to choose from, or you can do your own questions. But this can come in handy with short group work assignments and even homework activities.

[@anissabartley6010]

This was so helpful! I really really love how it’s interactive and self-checking. Thanks for sharing!

[@afollowersfight5266]

You can also have your students fill out google forms to answer the questions if you want it to be self grading for a grade.

[@mbuck327]

This was so helpful!! And made me realize I can use all of my task cards that aren’t digital if we go virtual again! Thank you!!

[@AndreaBrown-pd5vg]

I am so so happy I found you. You are the best teacher.

[@sarahenning2721]

Wow! This was AMAZING!! I'm a speech path and have so many physical resources that I wasn't able to use. I am blown away! Thank you so much for this video!

[@HeatherMoxieDIYed]

Hi Michelle, I'm a 4th grade teacher in CA and I love this video! I'm grateful to have online platforms for most of my curriculum, but I'll be using your ideas to make some of my paper tools available online. Thank you! I also had no idea my Notes app would do that! I normally use a separate scanning app, but now I can just use what I already have :D

[@catherinegarber4541]

This was the first time I understood super linking. It was like an aha moment. I always learn so many practical tools when I watch and listen to Pocketful of Primary. Thanks!

[@tatiabeal3128]

This is truly your calling!

[@danielledelisi1067]

Since you saved the cards as pictures you can set them as the background so students cannot move or accidentally delete them

[@Heyu7her3]

Yeah, you can also make the instructions part of the background image. That way, even middle school students can't delete them and claim there weren't any instructions! (I learned from that mistake lol)

[@kqelynnx5729]

@@Heyu7her3 LOL

[@tutorwin13]

Amazing Michelle! This was a very nice and helpful video! Very informative and precise! Surely aspiring online ESL Teachers will be successful if they follow the tips you mentioned in this video. I find it really fun, especially when you teach kids! Thank you in advance!

[@audreywatso863]

You are just amazing. Thank you so much 💓 Excellent content as usual.

[@seandavy9465]

I am delighted to learn that I can scan with notes! Thank you

[@mcrisscastano4912]

You are amazing. I love teaching but you make things so exited and easy. Thank you for all those wonderful videos.

[@joandicicco1617]

Thank you for all of your great videos! They are so helpful! You are wonderful!

[@melesatini9873]

You may also use Pear Deck for Google Slides so that way instead of doing your red circles on slide #2 as shown above, you can use Pear Deck for your kids to answer your 4 multiple choice questions so maybe have 4 copies of the same diagram with a different multiple question per slide.

[@hanna.9650.]

OMG! I never knew how to hyperlink slides to each other so students can actually click the slide to select their answers. That's awesome! Thank you!!!

[@hanna.9650.]

Is there a way in Google Classroom to see which students have done the activity?/ How much time they spent on it?

[@susanaacosta6146]

Thank you! Thank goodness for your videos.

[@mindfuleducation-g9h]

I will definitely try this amazing idea to my assessment materials for online class. Thank you so much Michelle. You always pull out great ideas..

[@DannyHauger]

She’s the best!!

[@Factsforkids]

Just like you I love google slide but I recently started using Canva and I think I love it more. 😃😃😃 Definitely worth giving it a look. Love your channel.

[@riebourdon6449]

I like the thing you do with Google slides and making students do the self-checking. That's awesome, thank you!

[@lisamack942]

Wow, Michelle! Every time I watch your videos, I walk away with loads of useful information that I can immediately put into practice! You are sensational!

[@sanros6811]

Glad you caught that yellow box on the side issue! Love how you fixed it. Thanks for another USEFUL video!! This may be my favorite so far!

[@MrRutledgesClass]

You are killin it! Thanks for all the videos!

[@alexismorehead8391]

Once again----THANK YOU!!!! Your ideas, your tips and your precise directions are clear and sooo valuable thank you!

[@cupquakequeen9690]

I've followed you off and on for a year or two. I cant remember. I really love your content. I want to be a teacher or a nurse. Teaching have been a idea for me since I was 8. Thank you for sharing your story.

[@juliemarshall5147]

You are saving my bacon- and my sanity!!! My anxiety level drops quite a few notches when I watch and learn from you!

[@karenlaskowskicahlanes7129]

I learned so much from this video!!!! Thank you!! Our district has decided to go with total distance learning and it may be through December. I am sharing with my colleagues. Here we go into a strange school year!!!

[@stephnjimenez]

love the self checking slides! definitely going to be using that this year!

[@daniellericheson6966]

Thank you this is awesome! I just have to say I love your channel and have learned so much from you. My technology skills are super lacking, but you have really helped me level up!

[@bobp1016]

Thank you! This was wonderful. If you have time. Can you please make more videos about how to use Google Docs and Google Drive? I have watched the videos you have already created, and they have helped me a lot. I will re-watch this video over-and-over so I can see where you are clicking. I know you have a lot of information to cover, but if you can go a little slower when you are changing the settings, adding text boxes, boarders, how to copy and past or re-sizing it would really help the non-tech people, like me, learn how to work these programs. Maybe you can make short 3 minute video on how to do a skill. You are a blessing to many teachers who have to learn how to work these programs. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@gabriellemader6264]

Awesome... I just ordered those exact boxes (we got to spend some $$$ from our District) before covid-19 and now I am so excited to use them digitally!

[@angelaszczublewski4386]

I’ve never commented on a KZbin video before but I couldn’t resist. You are WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge!

[@shelleygeisreiter9786]

I’m am captivated by your tutorials! I’ve learned so much from you...thank you for making technology less daunting:)

[@anarabago7795]

Always thankful for your videos.

[@SLC429]

This is an awesome video, Michelle! Thank you so much!!!

[@stephanieray5886]

Thank you Michelle!! These are awesome!!! Love learning new ways to use materials online!!

[@kamalamartin1981]

Your videos are such a life saver. Thank you so much

[@dmctgrlly]

Thank you!! These ideas are going to be a game-changer for me this year!! I especially loved the self-checking option that you showed. That is going to be so amazing and I can't wait to start incorporating that into my teaching this year!!