#BlackHistoryMonth + Templates in G Suite + ISD624 Twitter PLN

Black history month provides a tremendous opportunity to celebrate Black American culture and praise diversity and inclusion. Google Arts and Culture is one great resource available to us. Discover thousands of artworks, artifacts, and stories from cultural organizations across the United States. 

• Discover African American art
• Check out the story of inspiring choreographer and activist, Alvin Ailey, or Edmonia Lewis, the 19th Century African American Sculptor. 
• Take a virtual tour of key locations in civil rights, like Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma or Little Rock Central High School.
• Watch Key moments in civil rights history, like JFKs Adress to the nation on civil rights or a clip on the Tuskegee airmen in WWII.

Want to connect globally with other educators doing the same thing? Follow and Engage with the twitter hashtag #BlackHistoryMonth

(Google Apps For Education has recently been renamed to G Suite.)

G Suite has recently enabled the ability to create templates. A template is a file that serves as a starting point for a new document. When you open a template, it is pre-formatted in a useful way. Here are some examples of why you would want to create templates:

• Use a template in Google Docs, so AVID students could create a copy of a Cornell Notes template in one click. 
• Use a template in Google Forms, to start every Google Form by asking first name, last name, and email. 
• Use a template in Google Slides, so your students can work together to show mastery or create a resource by using a collaborative slide deck.

For step by step directions on G Suite templates click here

Here is how ISD 624 employees can access the templates specific to our domain.

 

Here is how you can add templates specific to our domain.

If you would like to go more in depth, from a comfortable source, check out what the Sync Sisters have to say about G Suite templates. 

To see more from the Sync Sisters youtube channel, click here. 

If you are interested in learning more about getting started with Twitter, check out our blog post from January

For those of you that have recently started your journey towards becoming a connected educator, here is a second chance to join the resource of twitter handles from ISD624 teachers to share across our district. Twitter handles collected from this form will be available to ISD624 employees via this blog and emails from your Digital Learning Specialist. Fill out this form if you are interested in sharing your twitter handle for other ISD 624 teachers to follow:

ISD624 Twitter PLN