Above the Line in Elementary

I learned about this tool at the Google Geo Teachers Institute in Mountain View, CA My instructor was Kim Randal,  @ scubagirl812 I just led a PD session on how to use Tour Builder - presentation resources are HERE Tour Builder is a fantastic digital storytelling tool that is easy for students to use. They can add locations to a map. Along with each location, they can add photos, captions, and change the icon. I can imagine so many ways to use this tool with my students.  Tours can be private or shared, and multiple tours can be linked together in one master tour. Great for collaborative work! I explored the tool by creating a quick tour of a  summer weekend getaway trip . Within Tour Builder, you can pin an unlimited number of locations to your map and add a total of 25 images or video per project. When you are done creating your tour, the tour can be shared and the viewer can view the tour by clicking through the locations which ...

My students seem to be obsessed with emojis and avatars these days, so I decided to indulge them and allow them to create a custom bitmoji to use as their Google student account profile picture.  Bitmoji  is a free app and Google Chrome extension that is fun and easy to use. The students were able to quickly customize a Bitmoji and save the image as a .png file. We uploaded the .png file and changed their Google profile picture.  Now their customized Bitmojis are attached to their presence in our Google Classroom and Seesaw learning journals. I did not want to use the students' actual photos for safety/privacy reasons, but I wanted their icon personalized. How cute are these student feeds now?!?!