Welcome to a Bonus Episode of Somethin’ to Tech About! As a global community, we are hearing of K-12 schools, universities, and businesses, experiencing the impact of the Corona-virus. Many are staying connected with students and employees through virtual communication. With this in mind, we are sharing our top three suggestions for connecting home, school, and work during extended absences. If you are a business, school, or university planning for extended absences, here are some things to consider.
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In the world of education, data is huge. Using Google Sheets to collect and manage that data can be a real benefit for educators. Beyond that students can collect Science data, track their grades, and more. Today's challenge will have you manipulating some data to practice just some of the features of Google Sheets.
Google Slides have features that can turn your presentation into more than just a presentation! Creating interactive slide presentations immerses the learner into the learning. Challenge 4 offers a template for getting started. Are you up to the challenge? Scroll and click "Challenge Accepted" image.
Google Docs is probably one of the most used Google apps in the classroom. Although popular, many of the built-in features are unknown or overlooked. In this challenge, we discover some of those features that will increase productivity for educators and students alike.
How does it look when you have students conduct research using the web? Often times, students type in an entire question and assume the first result from that search is the one they need to use. The sheer number of results can be overwhelming and choosing the best result is difficult. Let’s take some time to learn how to narrow down the number of results to make searching more effective.
'We want to wish everyone a Happy New Year as we gear up for another season of Somethin’ to Tech About! Have you made your resolutions yet? Whether you have or not, we would love for you to add listening to our podcast to your list and we think this new season will give you Somethin to Tech About.
It is 2020 and we are offering Digital Evidence of Active Learning or D.E.A.L. with IT challenges. The more D.E.A.L. with IT challenges you accept, the more tools you will have to support your students as they think critically, work collaboratively, stimulate creativity, and practice communicating - all 21st century learning skills. Are you ready to accept our first DEAL with IT challenge?
As we wrap up Season 2 of Somethin' to Tech About, we are publishing our episode that was recorded live from GaETC 2019. We shared our story of how we went from broom closet to publication of our Somethin' to Tech About podcast and blog and are now sharing it with our listeners.
Our journey has been interesting and it is our hope that we inspire others to dream big and go for it! One of the most overlooked Google apps could possibly be Google Drawings. Google Drawings is a versatile tool that allows users to create, collaborate, and share images. This jewel is one of those apps that can be accessed by selecting the "More" option from your Google Drive, typing drawings.google.com, or by selecting "Insert>Drawing from your Google Docs menu. Google recently added the option to add a drawing from your Google Drive instead of manually creating while in the Doc. |
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