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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

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The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. One such creative project that has blown me away is his Shapegrams projects (grades 2-8), an image challenge for students to recreate images using Google drawings. These grab-and-go Google drawing lessons are so much fun!

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

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Google in June announced an. education grant offering free credits for its cloud platform, with no credit card required, unlimited access to its suite of tools and training resources. Google Cloud launched in 2011, but has caught up to competitors to. Google breaking in? . Google Cloud’s grant will allow U.S.

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TPACK model: Strategies for effective educational technology integration

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In 2006, Punya Mishra and Matthew J. For example, if your learners have Chromebooks but only use them to type answers to questions in Google Docs, that’s not inherently wrong. Hint, these Google Docs activities are a good starting point. Explore how to vet edtech tools to ensure they promote access for every kind of learner.

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

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I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I cannot count the number of times I was stuck with a lesson, and another teacher teaching the same content would post a Google presentation or file for any teacher to utilize. Over the past two decades, Twitter has been a mainstay in my instruction. .

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

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We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. Now, if my child asks me a question about anything, we can Google it on my phone from wherever we happen to be. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm.

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Now a Google Certified Educator

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When I learned that EdTechTeam was educating teachers to harness the power of tools that most of us already have access to, I started to get more interested. I learned that it is possible to become a Certified Google Educator and thought, “I love to use Google tools for Education. Now, I totally have it in the bag!

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

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Currently, one very popular strategy is the creation of classroom scenes using Google Slides populated with their flexible Bitmojis. 2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” We need strategies for personalizing and enriching the remote learning experience. And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. Valenza, J.K.

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