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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.

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Libraries Ready to Code Beta Collection Release

NeverEndingSearch

You may want to begin your explorations of the Collection by identifying with one of five personas developed to help library staff connect with resources that reflect their own computational thinking (CT) experiences, communities, goals, and interests. First Time Around. Good to Go. Connecting Interests. Family Focused.

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With 3D Technology, Special Education Students Can Focus on Content—Not Access

Edsurge

That was the confounding question assistive technology specialist Neal McKenzie faced a year and a half ago from one of the 100-plus visually impaired students he helps in the classrooms of Northern California’s Sonoma County. Libraries: 3D Print Models • Thingiverse • My MiniFactory • GrabCAD • pinshape. Libraries: V.I.-Specific

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Flipgrid: The Go-To Remote Learning Tool – SULS080

Shake Up Learning

Before we jump in, I’d like to send a huge shoutout to Paige Sturges for her glowing review of the Google Certified Educator Academy! Quick Tip of the Week (Add a Co-Teacher in Google Classroom). It’s super easy to add a co-teacher to your class in Google Classroom. Two New Google Books COMING SOON!

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Create Narrated Slide or Video Shows with Videolicious

SpeechTechie

Videolicious is a simple video creator- it allows you select photos or videos from your photo library/camera roll and talk over them, effectively creating a narrated video. b) If you saved images from Google Images, they were likely copyrighted. What a great language tool- and did I say it''s free?

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More on mapping expository texts through tech, Part 3

SpeechTechie

Inspiration in all its versions is particularly appropriate for upper elementary through adult learners, and is often recommended as an Assistive Technology (AT) tool. a word processor such as Pages, Word, or Google Docs).

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A day in the life with Student Dashboard Digital Backpack

Hapara

Perkins, a fifth-grade teacher, browses the district’s library of content in H?para This solution works on any device using a web browser, and each student can log in using their existing Google Workspace for Education account username and password. para for a text she can teach in her science class.

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