Getting To Know Your Chromebook
If you are like most teachers around the globe – you have been given a Chromebook to use in your classroom with the hopes it will be used it to help students be more connected, collaborative, creative and develop into more critical thinkers with open minds.
You might not know it yet, but this is GREAT news because you are going to be able to change the focus of your classroom with this transformational information device.
Going Student-Focused with Chromebooks
Soon, your entire classroom will be student-focused and those Aha moments will be flowing like water. Get ready because you will be able to amplify teaching and learning in your classroom in ways that will blow your mind, but first things first, time to get to know the Chromebook.
But before you can do your teaching magic with the Chromebook you need to get to know the device and then understand the differences it might has from your other devices.
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Here are a few things you should know about the Chromebook:
- It has an incredibly fast start-up time – it takes less than 8 seconds to boot up.
- Super long battery life – between 8-11 hours or an entire school day!
- All work is saved to the cloud so don’t have to worry about students losing their work! Don’t believe them if they say they did 😉
- You can work offline on the device and when you get online it automagically syncs all the information.
- Work seamlessly with Google Apps for Education or GSuite – and if you love Microsoft you can use that too!
Interesting fact: It seems Chromebooks are now even outselling Macbooks and they have long surpassed the iPad for use in classrooms – with many iPad schools switching to this more affordable device.
Tour the Chromebook
Let’s take a simple tour of your new Chromebook and checkout the keyboard and trackpad functions:
Getting Started:
- To sign-into a Chromebook you do need a Google account or Gmail – this is mandatory.
The Chromebook Keyboard
It is a little bit different so here is what you need to be in the know!
How do you turn it on? The power button is on the upper right-hand corner (mine is a lock button). But the entire line of top keys is different and if you think of it as a searching toolbar you will understand it better.
Common Chromebook Keyboard Questions
Here is what most teachers and students need to know about some of the keyboard functions:
What is different about the Trackpad?
Open the Apps Launcher
That is it for the keyboard and trackpad – stay tuned to learn more this summer about how to use the Chromebook to amplify teaching and learning.
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