Our schools started using Google Classroom this year. I am learning more about Google apps and way to use them in my classroom. I use technology every day. I am fortunate enough to be 1:1 with laptops in my room. I am the teacher who tells everyone "Yes, Kindergarteners can do that!" Google Docs now have the microphone as a tool. YAY!!! Story dictation for my kinders. This week we have been doing a Close Read of Tooth Trouble . I created a simple document with pictures to represent the major events of the story.             Getting into our Google Classroom is the easy part. I worked with a few kids today. I had to help them enable the microphone since this was the first time using it. I showed them how to click next to the picture so it didn't get deleted and how to start and stop the recording. No problem, we have been practicing using the microphone in ActivInspire. A few were able to get right to work. This is where it got interesting. * Because the pict...