And there it is
that came out way
better than I thought it would.
I wasn't sure how it was all going to
That looks cool!
Today, I'm taking you
behind the scenes of our biggest project
yet here at New EdTech Classroom.
We have been working to create a fun
and engaging and meaningful and research based
professional development program
for teachers.
So it's the professional development that they need
when they need it, and we're calling it
21st century teacher.
And today you are joining me
as I build out one of my lessons
for 21st Century Teacher.
This lesson is going to be all about
how teachers can set up their Google calendars.
And let me show you my lesson plans real quick.
So these are my notes for the actual lessons.
This one is going to be
quite a few shorter videos
that I can pull together
with a little bit of screen casting,
and I'm not exactly sure
how I want to organize these yet.
I did use Genially in one of my previous lessons here,
where I organized the Gmail content
that I was putting together, and teachers
could click on it and they would see this video
with some supplemental tutorials linked here.
I'm not going to use this exact one,
but I do need to find something.
So we'll see what I'll be able to come up with.
Hopefully, it looks good.
Also, a true behind the scenes look
Most of the time I'm doing this work is
when my daughter is sleeping
and I just have this little baby monitor
right here so I can watch her.
And I usually have to work a little bit faster
to make sure everything that I need to do gets done
in the time that she is sleeping.
So with this lesson, I have got one video
that I'm going to be doing just the talking head like this.
So my talking head setup is a right here.
You can see I've got this nice light. I've got my iPad.
The camera I'm currently using right now will go
right here, and the microphone
that's on top of my current camera will go right here.
And I'll put it just so it's out of frame
so that the viewer cannot see
that the microphones there and I've set it up there,
so that way, all of this with the lights
and everything will be in the background.
Organizing your Google,
organizing your Google calendar
can feel like a daunting task.
There are many calendars that...
that there are many calendar,
that there are many calendars
that you never actually even signed up for.
That station I use mainly
when I'm just talking to the camera,
I'm not showing anything on the computer
when I need to do a screencast, that's when I move to
my main computer station right here,
and I use that camera right there above that monitor.
So that way I can look at the camera
and look down at the monitor
and look at the camera pretty easily.
So I'm going to be using Screencastify to show all the stuff
that I want to show on Google Calendar
Going to be making real short videos
one to two minutes tops.
And then I want to edit anything out
or if I need to blur something out,
I like that I can do some of the minimal editing
that I need with Screencastify.
Make sure that all of the calendars that you have here
are calendars that you actually want
showing up on your screen.
So now that I have all of my videos
recorded, I need to go find which Genially template
I would like to use. So that way,
this is really organized and digestible,
and the teachers going through
the training will be able to easily find what they are looking for.
And I kind of want it to look cool.
So I'm hoping I could find one that looks cool.
So I'm in Genially and I am looking
through their infographics
and I like this one. I opened it up.
The only issue with that is
I have five videos, and so I was thinking like, OK,
across could be one. video, this is the green one
could be a second video, but I'm going to have to make
this whole canvas a lot longer.
So this first section is going to be about
creating a calendar for each one of your classes.
And so in the red column,
I want the video where I show how to do that.
But there's also a couple other skills in there
that I want to provide tutorials for
on the yellow column,
And those extra tutorial links are going to be by
a company called iorad.
What's really cool, though, is that those tutorials
can actually be on top of that person's
Google calendar that they're doing.
Everyone's at different levels,
and so I'm including a tutorial on
how to create a new Google calendar.
And so when they use the iorad tutorial and go,
the first step is to open Google Calendar and click the Plus sign
next to other calendars on the left.
This is actually telling them where to click on Google Calendars,
which is super cool.
Like, this is my actual calendar. This is not like a screencast
click create new calendar,
so I'm in the process IORAD: in the name field.
IORAD: Type a name for your new calendar,
creating a new calendar for myself.
So super excited
about these iorad tutorials and those are going to go
in this yellow column right here.
So let's get started on trying to make this work.
Okay, so I finished it up.
I've gone ahead and embedded this
in our 21st Century Teacher page.
Now I wanted it to look cool, so let's see what
the animation of its entrance look like.
Let me refresh the page.
And there it is
that came out way better than I thought it would.
I wasn't sure how it was
all going to intertwine and everything
That looks cool!
And here's our first video.
We can watch it right there, and here's our tutorials
and we can click on them there.
And of course, on this page,
I added a share and reflect section because we learn
and we get better when we reflect
and when we have choice,
our reflections are much richer,
so we will often provide several different choices
on what teachers can reflect on
after they go through this lesson.
So that is one lesson down
for our 21st Century Teacher program.
If you are interested in signing up,
we are launching soon.
We are only accepting the first 250 educators
when we launch 21st Century Teacher
to make sure that we have the capacity
to serve the teachers that are in the program.
So if you want to join the early bird waitlist
and be one of the first teachers to get the opportunity
to be a part of 21st Century Teacher, go to
to join the waitlist.
And we are super excited.
I hope you enjoyed this
behind the scenes video
And we will see you
in 21st century teacher.