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Create Google Slides comics to add some elements of fun to your lessons and enhance student engagement

Hapara

One easy way to implement comics into your classroom is through the Google Slides app. Read on to learn more about some ways you can incorporate comics into your lessons to help boost student engagement and comprehension and how to create Google Slides comics. How teachers can implement comics in classroom lessons and H?para

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Google Slides Has Easy Peasy Accessible Closed Captions

The Innovative Educator

Closed captioning in Google Slides is easy peasy? Read this "how to" from Google or watch the demo below. Closed captioning is helpful for many students when listening to presentations, but it wasn't always easy to provide. Just select "Present" and select "captions." Have questions?

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Online YC Demo Day Includes A Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App, Parenting Advice Platform

Edsurge

COVID-19 led to a more demure, online-only version of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s demo day event this week for its winter cohort. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions. Before Trustle, CEO and co-founder Tom Sayer headed impact and adoption programs at Google for Education.

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5 Chrome Extensions that Make Google Classroom Even More Awesome!

The Shake Up Learning Blog

The post 5 Chrome Extensions that Make Google Classroom Even More Awesome! In this post and podcast episode, I’m going to share 5 Chrome Extensions that Make Google Classroom Even More Awesome! Google Classroom + Chrome = Match Made in Heaven! As many of you know, I love me some Google Chrome, and I love Google Classroom.

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Create a digital classroom with Google Classroom and BookWidgets

EdTech4Beginners

Furthermore, students love to have access to iPads and fun apps. In this post, I’ll show you how you can create a digital classroom, using Google Classroom and BookWidgets. First… a quick explanation… Google Classroom is kind of a classroom manager on your computer. Using Google Classroom has some pretty great advantages.

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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

Edsurge

Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. households didn't have broadband access.

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How I Plan My Lessons Digitally with Planboard

The CoolCatTeacher

As we investigated, tested, and demoed with several products, we were looking at a few things. It’s so easy to have a digital app that gives me instant access to my schedule. We are a Google school and I was pleased to see that I could share lessons with my students in Google Classroom, so at that point, Chalk became an easy choice.

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