Google slide assignments were completely inappropriate for lower elementary but alas that is what they had. They would have been better off mailing home workbooks. 6/7 year olds were stuck trying to learn how to navigate powerpoint at the same time as learning actual academic content. A disgrace.

Anonymous wrote:Parent here. For next year, I would prefer live or recorded actual lessons teaching the new lesson and some examples. Then packet/workbook/textbook problems to reinforce the material. Then, I’d actually like you to go over the completed work as a group (or select problems at least) to see if students are actually getting it.

And I would like actual lessons (recorded or live by YOU, not some rando you found) on each subject being taught.

Hahaha, I love that you think we care what you want.

Anonymous wrote:Many of the upper ES assignments are on google slides and it takes us a lot of time trying to manipulate the text boxes or the arrows or the protractors or the rulers or whatever shapes they tell us to use. I step in when I see my kid wasting a lot of time on the slides trying to move stuff or change the size to fit in the text or rotate a shape to the correct degree etc and it makes me mad that I am wasting my time doing this stupid stuff. Sometimes it takes me a lot of time and I am an IT professional.The actual Math/LA/SS/Science work is easy for my kid. Its all the other stuff that eats up a lot of time. Why can't the teachers just have the kids write down their answers using paper and pencil and have them take photos and send that?

i could have written this post. my child is in second. sooooo much effort on the technology, so little on the thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent here. For next year, I would prefer live or recorded actual lessons teaching the new lesson and some examples. Then packet/workbook/textbook problems to reinforce the material. Then, I’d actually like you to go over the completed work as a group (or select problems at least) to see if students are actually getting it.

And I would like actual lessons (recorded or live by YOU, not some rando you found) on each subject being taught.

No one said anything about live or recorded lessons. This is just about assignments. No one said that it was INSTEAD of a recorded or live lesson. If the school wants to send out textbooks or workbooks, they can do so. I would never consider spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket to purchase or ship those materials to student homes. We were just informed yesterday that we won’t be reimbursed for the postage for the materials we’ve shipped from March through June (after we were explicitly told that we would be).

I wasn’t suggesting YOU pay for it personally. I’m also happy to do a drive by pickup of materials for next year.

And FWIW our lessons are taught on the google slides, what we get during “live time” is chit chat and instructions only. I’m not in FCPS.

My first grader is assigned a "choice board" via Google slides each week, and her assignments (that would probably be worksheets in the classroom) are on Google slides. It's very hard for her to use on her own.

I'd prefer that the teachers linked to Google docs or Google sheets for the actual assignments because typing in a document meant for that or in a spreadsheet cell would be much easier than having to manipulate text boxes on a slide.

Also, if they're going to use slides for drawing assignments, they need to teach the teachers about the best way to arrange boxes, etc., half the time my DD draws something, it disappears to the back of the slide and she has to call me to help her find it.

Personally, I'd like the option (OPTION) to print and scan in assignments like worksheets. They can do both - a lot of the assignments are scanned in worksheets, I can tell.

I like Google Classroom and Google Docs - hate Slides. I am a special education teacher and a lot of kids’ accommodations (like voice to text, which works pretty well in google) doesn’t work for text boxes on slides. You can use it for the notes at the bottom but then you’re just adding another step for kids. Using a hyperdoc - basically putting the same info that is in a slide deck on a Doc - makes it so much easier to use the built in accommodations- and no annoying text boxes!!!! (Note: my own child has really struggled with Slides so now I feel this really firsthand as well!).

Anonymous wrote:Parent here. For next year, I would prefer live or recorded actual lessons teaching the new lesson and some examples. Then packet/workbook/textbook problems to reinforce the material. Then, I’d actually like you to go over the completed work as a group (or select problems at least) to see if students are actually getting it.

And I would like actual lessons (recorded or live by YOU, not some rando you found) on each subject being taught.

No one said anything about live or recorded lessons. This is just about assignments. No one said that it was INSTEAD of a recorded or live lesson. If the school wants to send out textbooks or workbooks, they can do so. I would never consider spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket to purchase or ship those materials to student homes. We were just informed yesterday that we won’t be reimbursed for the postage for the materials we’ve shipped from March through June (after we were explicitly told that we would be).

Parent here. For next year, I would prefer live or recorded actual lessons teaching the new lesson and some examples. Then packet/workbook/textbook problems to reinforce the material. Then, I’d actually like you to go over the completed work as a group (or select problems at least) to see if students are actually getting it.

And I would like actual lessons (recorded or live by YOU, not some rando you found) on each subject being taught.

Anonymous wrote:My DD just turned in a hand written answer to her assignment today. She took a picture, put it on her machine, then inserted the picture into the Google Doc. It’s perfectly acceptable.

We’ve done this, too.

Teacher here. I use google slides because only two of my students have access to a printer. My kids don’t write (special ed) but they can circle multiple choice (picture) answers on google slides. Parents keep telling me they don’t want any more programs, platforms, or logins. Google slides is also compatible with google drive and classroom, which makes organizing our materials much easier. It’s not perfect but you need to be flexible.

I hate the “editable” PDFs. Everything takes my kid three times as long to fill out because of all the creation/alignment of text boxes, the toolbar doesn’t stay still, you can’t scroll when the toolbar is up, etc. And Google Slides sucks - I have no love for PowerPoint, but it’s a million times better.

Three more days of new schoolwork.

What irritates me is the google slides where they add lines under a question. So when you start typing, the kids have to erase the lines or the formatting is messed up and the subsequent questions get pushed off the page.

Just leave off the lines. They don’t serve any purpose.

Anonymous wrote:Why are you helping with this? Have your child do whatever they can do and submit. Mine like google classroom because they can easily keep track of what is assigned. Neither have asked for assistance and I have no idea if they format correctly. I’m not looking at their assignments. They are in elementary school. They haven’t taken more than 2 hours per day and I haven’t gotten any emails saying they aren’t participating.

We also use google classroom. I like this 'cause we can do the tasks in word or using google drive templates and after that insert them there. We have never had problems with it. I even used once a new template that I used at work. This is the template powerslides.com. At work, I make my business analysis but at home, my girl made a conclusion of what she had learned during the year. There were no problems to post the presentation in the classroom. You know this period showed me that I really have knowledge in using office and I can learn very easy to work with new templates. By the way, have you seen the new 365 templates? Can you share your experience?

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Mine too.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher and I hate, hate, hate Google Slides. Actually I hate all the Google doc stuff. Our school system insists we use those products.

I think a big part of the reliance on Google stuff is that none of the leadership know how to use anything else. They also like that they can control all our folders and look at them when they want. Unfortunately they screw it up and accidentally modify documents or move them instead of just making a copy. And God only knows that the people in charge of PD don't know how to use any of it. It doesn't help that they aren't very smart, have never taught and don't have any ability to understand what teachers need.

We're stuck all the way around and it sucks big time.

I wonder who teachers can go to to try to change this. Would it be a school board topic? It seems as though now is the time to really get a good DL plan going over the next 3 months in preparation for the possibility DL will need to be implemented in the fall or sometime in fall and winter.

What would you prefer they use for assignments? Paper packets?
Remember, this county hates textbooks, so no we can’t have kids do assignments with texts or workbooks.

I am sure my kid would much prefer paper packets than Google Slides.