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Google Jamboard

The CoolCatTeacher

Google Jamboard is a fun interactive app. You just download it on Google Play or iTunes and use it with your touch Chromebook or iPad after listening to Tom Mullaney share how it works. Google Jamboard. Now first of all, I have never heard of Google Jamboard. Google Jamboard is a free app. Listen Now. What is it?

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

But what I haven’t seen is kids Googling anything to help them with this project. Cathy Rubin in her Global Search for Education has posed these questions in my inbox for this month’s global search for education column: “ What should we teach young people in an age where Dr. Google has an answer for everything?”

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9 Fine Ways to Do Better 20% Time

The CoolCatTeacher

Twenty percent time from Google. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Students design and make things to meet a social need or good. Maker Movement. Here, students are assembling Google cardboard and picking apps to use with it.

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Supporting self-directed learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

On the flip-side, the freedom to meet targets and objectives in “your own way” is also much appreciated by employees. Google is famous for permitting its employees to spend 20% of their time in the office, working on a passion project. The urban legend is that Gmail and Google News are ideas that came out of this process.

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The New Self Published Book That I Co-Authored That is Trending on Amazon

The CoolCatTeacher

Our monthly zoom meetings after March 2020 have been encouraging. We co-wrote the book in Google Docs over several months. Since Fall 2019, I’ve been part of an encouraging group of woman writers. Little did we know that during the pandemic, we would need each other so much! How We Published the Book.

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Striving to be a Strong Digital Leader

Fractus Learning

Google Apps for Education. On a completely different note, Google Apps for Education are critical to my success as a digital leader, most notably on how we work as a staff on absolutely everything we do. We know that Google Classroom is a great instructional tool within the classroom for managing resources and assignments.

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FETC Future of Educational Technology… Orlando Florida… Please Join Me!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

You will be involved in the opportunity to choose from 600+ learning opportunities that best meet your needs specific to your role in leading the digital transformation — with basic to advanced sessions in 5 program tracks. Most of all I would like to meet you and hope to see you at one of my workshops or session. Administrator.