Google for Education: Top Tips

In this talk as part of the Technology in Language Teaching (TILT) webinar series hosted by independent languages consultant from the UK, Joe Dale, organised by the Association for Language Learning and supported by Linguascope, Samantha Broom tal through the basics of Google Drive, Docs, Slides and Forms and shows how to tie these in seamlessly into your Google Classroom. This session is aimed to support teachers who have been thrown into the world of teaching remotely, to help them make the most of the Google for Education suite of tools.

Samantha Broom is an experienced teacher of Spanish and French with extensive experience as Head of Department. She specialises in teaching Spanish at both GCSE and A Level, is a textbook writer and an experienced presenter, with a passion for using technology to enhance teaching and learning.. Samantha has worked in both state and independent schools and is the webmistress of languagesresources.co.uk.

– Google Chrome & Drive: finding your feet
– Using the Chrome browser
– Organising your drive
– Classroom folder
– Looking after your Google Classroom
– Setting up a Google Classroom
– Managing the Stream
– Managing notifications
– Assigning work
– Creating a Header
– Working with PDFs
– Google Docs & Slides
– Creating worksheets & presentations
– Including text boxes and tables
– Including links to external sources
– Using the Snipping tool to insert images
– Multilingual voice typing
– Using extensions
– Inserting audio into Slides
– Saving, sharing and assigning work to students