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Kahoot released a new mobile app this morning. The new app, available for Android and iOS, contains all of the features that were promised back in June at the ISTE Conference. The new mobile app will let students participate in Kahoot games both in the classroom and at home.

The Kahoot mobile app offers a "single player mode" which will let students see questions and answer choices on the same screen. This removes the need to have a second screen in order to participate in a Kahoot game. The single player mode is the mode that students will want to choose when they are playing Kahoot games outside of your classroom. Being able to play games outside of your classroom is another new feature of the Kahoot mobile app.

You can now send "challenges" to students to complete in Kahoot. Challenges are quizzes that you assign to students to complete outside of your classroom. You can give challenges to students by sharing a link via email, sharing in Google Classroom, or by just sharing a game PIN assigned to the challenge.

You can download the new Kahoot Android and iPhone apps today. If you previously installed the apps, you should see the new features when you update the app.

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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.

If you are a teacher using Google Classroom or other Google tools with your students, you should be using the Google Chrome browser.

Consider Google Chrome the learning environment for all things Google.

Not only is it a safe and secure browser, but it will enhance your experience with Google Classroom.
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Did you know that you do not have to give every student the exact same assignment at the exact same time in Google Classroom?

It's super easy to differentiate, distribute modifications, assign group work, and more.

1. Click the drop-down arrow next to students on your Google Classroom assignment.

2. Uncheck "all students."

3. Select the student or group of students you wish to give the assignment.

Watch this 2-minute video to learn how!
5 Chrome Extensions that Make Google Classroom Even More Awesome!

Below are five Chrome extensions that can make Google Classroom even more awesome for teachers and students.

Looking for more apps that work with Google Classroom? Check out this HUGE list: 70+ Apps That Integrate with Google Classroom.

Please note: Chrome extensions ONLY work on the desktop version. You cannot install Chrome extensions on your phone or tablet.

Note: The Share to Classroom Chrome extension is being deprecated. If you installed the extension, it will automatically uninstall on August 15, 2020.

The Share to Classroom Chrome Extension, made by Google, is designed to save time in the classroom. (Totally FREE!)

"The extension allows you to push web pages to any of your Classroom classes, so they open instantly on your students' computers. With this extension, you can get your students on the right page, quickly and reliably every time. You can also post announcements, create assignments, or save web pages to post to Classroom later." (Also see the previous post: The Share to Google Classroom Chrome Extension.)

You Can Share a Web Page in 1 of 2 Ways:

1. Share it with all students in a class, so it instantly appears in the browsers of all active students and co-teachers. (Please note: Both teachers and students must have the extension installed.) Students can also share or push websites and links back to the teacher.

2. Attach the web page to an assignment, question, or announcement

Share to Classroom Tips

This extension will interrupt students when you "push" a link, so please be sure to "push" during intended times.

Students can only share to the teacher, not the entire class. Teachers will need to model appropriate use. Nothing replaces good classroom management!

Mute notifications of web pages shared by students in the settings of the extension to keep from seeing the pop-ups on your screen. You can still access the pages that you have received in the extension.

Visit the Share to Classroom support page to learn even more about this tool.

2. Kami (Freemium)

I have recommended Kami a lot over the years. It's my go-to for annotating on documents and PDF files.

The Kami Chrome extension and Drive App is probably the number one recommended PDF editor in the education space. I know many schools that use it. It is freemium, meaning you can use some features for free, and it integrates beautifully with Google Classroom.

If you are looking for ways to use worksheets in Google Classroom, this is a MUST-READ: How to Put a Worksheet in Google Classroom.

Mote is a voice commenting Chrome extension that is compatible with Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets, as well as Google Classroom. (This extension is still in beta at the time of publishing this post.)

Mote will record your voice and transcribe your comment! Mote supports transcription in more than 15 world languages, including English, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and German.

Teachers can use Mote to ask students questions and provide feedback. Add voice comments within Google Classroom's Stream and Private Comments views. More Classroom support is coming soon.

This is a great way to add a personal touch to your comments, especially during remote learning.

(Note: This Chrome extension has NOTHING to do with the Zoom video conferencing software.)

Have you ever wanted to know how much time a student spends on an assignment? Have you ever been frustrated with the time-consuming effort of going through the revision history of a Google Doc?

Classwork Zoom takes the data from the revision history and visualizes it into a timeline, making it faster and easier to analyze.

Just select the assignment(s) you want to add, and you can see all of the work visualized, including a hover preview of comments, suggestions, and text that may have been pasted.

Note: Classwork Zoom visualizes information about (1) student work in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings that is assigned (2) through Google Classroom, including (3) assignment deadlines from the class calendar.

InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets you turn websites into interactive lessons, and it is the perfect companion to your blended learning lesson plans.

InsertLearning will let you turn any webpage into an interactive lesson. Formerly known as Docent EDU and developed by two high school teachers who wanted to create a richer learning experience for their students, this webtool has made some amazing progress. InsertLearning has this fantastic toolbar that will allow you to highlight text, add sticky notes, insert questions, videos, or even a discussion all inside the webpage! How cool is that? Oh yeah, and you can then assign it to your students. WHOA!!!

To get started with your first lesson, find the online content you would like to use-an article, video, etc. If you don't want to start from scratch, check out their lesson plan library. Once you have chosen your content, decide what you want to add from the Insert Learning toolbar options.

There are five different types of interactivity you can add to spice up that content, make it more engaging, and help students retain relevant information.

Learn more about his super cool extension here: 4 Ways to Blend Learning with Insert Learning.

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Great photos can really make a website pop. They catch the eye, yes, but can also help you get your point across.

If you're building a site, you could learn how to take good photos, but sometimes that's not an option. Happily, there are all sorts of sites out there full of free images you can use for any purpose: commercial or otherwise.

Photos on these sites are usually contributed by volunteer photographers looking to get their name out there, or simply looking to contribute something useful to the world. Using these sites help make building beautiful websites a lot easier, so here's a few we think are worth checking out.

Unsplash: Beautiful Photos Organized Well

Unsplash offers over 200,000 beautiful photos that you can use for whatever you want. The search functionality works quite well in our experience, and you also can browse by category. The images themselves range from landscapes to portraits of people and animals. There's not a lot of filler on this site: most of the photos are really high quality.

Unsplash's license is quite permissive, allowing you to use the photos for any purpose you want other than creating a competing stock photo service. You don't even need to attribute the photographers, though doing so is always appreciated.

Create an account to upload your own photos, or curate your own collection of photos already on the site. You can even follow photographers you like on the service.

Kaboom Pics: Browse by Color Palette

At first glance, Kaboom Pics seems pretty similar to other sites, offering a wide range of searchable images that you can browse by category. But they provide one standout feature: a focus on color. If you want photos that fit your project's palette, Kaboom lets you browse by color. And this focus on color goes both ways: every photo offers a color palette, allowing you to match your design to the photo if you like.

Kaboom also lets you see the entirety of a particular photo shoot, so if an image you find isn't quite perfect, you might find a similar one from another angle.

Images are free to use for personal or commercial usage, including blogs and social media. Redistributing or selling photos isn't allowed without permission.

Morguefile: Free to Use Forever and Ever

With over 350,000 completely free to use photos, Morguefile is another solid option. Just be aware: you'll sometimes see links to iStock and other paid image sites when your searches don't yeild results.

Still, Morguefile has lots of images that are free for commercial usage and remixing, though you cannot sell or redistribute the images exactly as they are without alteration. So, don't use this site to build your own photo repository.

Pixabay: One Million Photos and Counting, Plus Videos

Pixabay offers over one million images-all free to use on your website-and, unlike other services, makes free videos available as well. The site boasts a pretty good search engine, and also offers Android and iOS apps, which is nice if you're a mobile-first kind of person.

All images on Pixabay have the CC0 License, meaning you can copy, modify, and distribute them without permission. But Pixabay does place a few of their own caveats on top of this license. You can't sell or redistribute the contents on a competing service without permission, and you can't use "any content from Pixabay for pornographic, unlawful, defamatory, or immoral purposes" without permission.

Stocksnap: Curated Collection With a Lot of Choice

Stocksnap adds hundreds of new photos every week, all free from copyright restrictions. Photographers are only allowed to submit five photos at a time, the idea being that everyone only uploads their best work. The result is a neatly curated selection of photos.

As with other sites listed here, attribution is not required, though as their FAQ page says, "it's always appreciated when you can provide attribution."

Negative Space: High Resolution Images of Just About Everything

Negative Space is another collection of high-resolution images you can use however you like, thanks to the CC0 license. Search for images or browse the collection by category-you'll find plenty to choose from. The site is cluttered with ads for and links to Adobe's stock images service, but that's only a minor complaint about a pretty good collection of free to use photos.

Shot Stash: Landscapes and So Much More

With a beautiful layout and a variety of categories, Shot Stash is well worth bookmarking if you want more options for photos. The collection isn't massive, but everything looks great and is categorized in a way that's easy to browse.

As with other sites listed here, attribution, while not required, is appreciated.
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You can now leave personalized feedback on quizzes or assignments done in Google Forms.

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Earlier this week Google released a bunch of updates to Google Classroom and Google Forms. One of the updates to Google Forms is the option to give individualized feedback on each question that a student answers on a quiz given through Google Forms. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to use this new feedback feature.

Applications for Education
This new feedback option could be great to use on quizzes that have short answer questions as you can give students an explanation of why their answers were or were not given full points.

Learn more about Google Forms in the Practical Ed Tech webinar Google Forms & Sheets for Beginners.

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Earlier this week a follower of the Practical Ed Tech Facebook page asked if a screen reader could be used for Google Classroom. You can use a screen reader with Google Classroom.

If you use a Chromebook, you can use Chromevox with Google Classroom.

Users of the Android app for Google Classroom can use TalkBack. iOS users who have the Google Classroom app installed can use VoiceOver for iOS.

On a Windows computer you can use the screen reader options built into Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome.

On a Mac you can use VoiceOver or the screen reader options built into Firefox or Chrome.

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Learn All About Google Keep with this Google Keep Cheat Sheet!

Hooray! I have a brand new Google Keep Cheat Sheet for Teachers and Students! Use this cheat sheet to find all of the awesome features of this amazing digital tool. (Now, say it three times fast: Google Keep Cheat Sheet!)

What is Google Keep?

Google Keep is a web-based application that allows you to create and share notes, lists, and reminders. You can also add images, voice notes, drawings and more! Each note resembles an online sticky note that can be customized and shared. This robust tool can be used by teachers and students to manage projects, set goals, communicate and collaborate.

I love to think of all of the possibilities that Google Keep creates for the classroom. Google Keep is now officially a part of G Suite for Education and integrates sweetly with Google Docs. I have even started a Google Keep Pinterest Board to curate all of the awesome resources.

What's in the Google Keep Cheat Sheet?

Inside this 9-page PDF download, I break down all of the menu items and features with screenshots, including how to:

Create notes and lists

Create reminders

Create and add labels

Archive notes

Delete notes

Send feedback

Get help

Access keyboard shortcuts

Add collaborators

Change color

Add images

Add drawings

Copy to a Google Doc

Search and filter notes

Pin notes

AND MORE!!!

Get the FREE Google Keep Cheat Sheet

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Google Keep CHEAT SHEET

More Google Keep Resources

I'm going a little Google Keep crazy! Look for more resources coming soon on the blog and the Google Keep Resource page.

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10 ways we're making Classroom and Forms easier for teachers this school year

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On Wednesday I published suggestions for places to find public domain images. Then yesterday I received an email from a reader who was wondering about public domain video options. These are the three resources that I suggested to her.

The Internet Archive is the first place that comes to mind when I am asked for a source of Public Domain media. The Moving Image Archive within the Internet Archive is an index of more than 1.7 million video clips. Most of what you will find in the Moving Image Archive can be downloaded in a variety of file formats. You can search the archive by keyword or browse through the many categories and thematic collections in the archive. One important thing to note about the Internet Archive is that you probably don't want students to search it without supervision. In fact, I'd probably just create a folder of footage from archive that I share with my students.

The Public Domain Review is a website that features collections of images, books, essays, audio recordings, and films that are in the public domain. Choose any of the collections to search for materials according to date, style, genre, and rights. Directions for downloading and saving media is included along with each collection of media.

The National Parks Service offers more than 4,000 videos that are in the public domain. You can search for videos according to National Park or National Forest. All of the public domain videos can be downloaded. Some of the files are quite large so keep that in mind if your school has bandwidth limitations and you plan to have all of your students searching for videos at the same time.

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Last Thursday I presented at a Early Childhood Technology Conference here in Michigan. After my presentation was over there were a few attendees who came forward to ask what app I was using to control my Google Slides™ presentation with my iPhone. Therefore, I thought this topic would make a great blog post because there are many options for turning your phone into a presentation remote.

Here are a few I have tried in the past as well as the one I chose to use last Thursday.

My Pick☝

I ended up using Unified Remote last week. My presentation was in Google Slides™ and I needed to go back and forth between slides to refer to images in my presentation. Also, I needed to be able to click on links that would take me to outside web tools.

I did not pay for any upgrades. Since I needed the basic functionality of advancing and returning to slides, I ended up just using the slideshow remote feature:

The tool does allow for you to control the mouse, keyboard and other items:

Download the free app on your phone ( iTunes/ Google Play/ Windows Phone) and the free software to your computer HERE. Once you connect to the server, launch your presentation & app and start controlling your presentation right from your phone. It was that easy and worked beautifully!

Unified Remote will control all types of presentations and is not limited to Google Slides™. I do wish it had the option to view your slides and speaker notes right from your phone.

Other Options:

Splashtop (Free for Personal Use, $29.99 per year Educator Subscription)

This tool has been around for awhile but is pretty awesome. You can control your entire computer (not just presentations) straight from your phone, tablet or even another computer. Download the app on your device HERE. Then download the Streamer onto your Mac or PC device. Create an account, login in both places and then GO!

Download the phone app: Apple or Android.

This presentation remote will allow to you to control Google Slides, Prezi, Slideshare, Speakerdeck, Scribd and Issuu. Visit demobo.com/slides and enter the code that you are given when you launch the app on your phone. I LOVE how this tool allows the presenter to view the slides and speaker notes right from their phone. You even have an option of using a timer. The reason I did not go with this presentation remote was that I needed to click on links embedded into my presentation and this will not allow you to launch those links within the De Mobo site.

Here is a video tutorial:

This Chrome extension™ is super easy to use to control a Google Slides™ presentation! First, install the Chrome extension. Launch your presentation and change the end of the url where it says edit and several random characters to present.

The extension will populate a message that looks something like this:

Type in the url using a web browser on your phone. The slide number will launch and you tap your screen to advance your slide. You cannot go back to previous slides with this tool, just advance forward. If you tap your phone by accident, you can go back to the previous slide by pressing the back arrow on the computer.

Those are just a few I have used in the past. I think any of these options would be great for teachers and students to use during presentations. It allows for the presenter to walk around the room and keep close proximity to those who need a little reinforcement😉
Check out my Facebook Live about this topic:

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On Thursday afternoon I hosted a webinar about using comics in the classroom. The recording of the webinar is only available to those who registered, but the slides that I used can be seen as embedded below.

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This morning at the NCTIES 2016 conference I facilitated a short workshop on using Google Maps and Google Earth in the classroom. Both tools are so robust that it is hard to cover everything you can or could do with them in just 90 minutes. To support the workshop I have a bunch of additional resources available on this Practical Ed Tech page.

One of things that I introduced in the workshop was the idea of having students collaborate and create multiple layers on a map. Directions for doing that included in the slides embedded below.

Here are some good uses of creating maps with multiple layers.

Multiple layers could be used for showing data differences on a year over year or month over month basis.

You could display the same data with different base layers for comparison.

Students working collaboratively on a map can be responsible for editing their own layers on the same map.

If you're using Google My Maps to have students create literature trips, they can create a different layer for each chapter of a book.

Students mapping the history of an event like the U.S. Civil War could create a different layer for each year of the war.

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How to Use Google's My Maps in Your Classroom

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My newest Chrome extension, Alice Keeler Webcam Record, is now live in the Chrome Webstore. This allows Chrome (and Chromebook) users to record 30 seconds of themselves using the webcam. The video is automatically saved to Google Drive and the link to the video is copied to the clipboard for easy sharing.

Extension

Available in the Chrome Webstore: Click Here

You can find all of my Chrome extensions at alicekeeler.com/webstore

Start the Extension

To engage your webcam simply click on the extension in the extension shelf and choose "Start."

Popup Window

A popup window will appear showing what your webcam is recording. You will need to authorize use of the webcam and mic before it will work. The recording will automatically stop at 30 seconds or you can click on Finish to end the recording early.

30 Seconds

By default, the webcam only records for 30 seconds. Less is more. Just like on Twitter where you're limited to 140 characters, limiting the time of recording forces you to get to the point and be clever. You can change the record options by right clicking on the extension and choosing "Options." You can set the default to be between 10 and 90 seconds.

Change Sharing Permissions in Drive

The video automatically is saved to a folder in Google Drive. By default, your folder (and videos) is not viewable to others. In Google Drive, change the sharing permissions to "Anyone with the link can view." This ensures anyone you share the link to the webcam recording with is able to view the video.

Clipboard Link

To make it quick to share your webcam recording the link to the video is automatically copied to Google Drive. Paste the link into a Private Comment in Google Classroom to share feedback with students. Students can record reflections and paste the video links into the Private Comments of their assignment as well.

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Collaboration and team work are at the centre of meaningful learning experiences both inside and outside classroom walls. Luckily technology provides us with various tools and applications that support and enhance collaborative realtime work. In today's post, we are sharing with you 6 good web-based whiteboard platforms you can use with your students and peers to collaborate and coordinate your work in realtime.

'This Google's latest collaborative tool. Jamboard is designed specifically to enhance realtime collaboration and brainstorming among teams across the globe. It is basically 'a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas in real-time and create without boundaries'.'
2- Web Whiteboard

'A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world.'

3- Mural

Mural is another great collaborative tool that allows users to: 'Use sticky notes to jot down ideas as fast as you can, either by drawing or typing. Use images, links and videos to support your ideas.Be up to date with what your team is doing. You'll always know who did what and when.'
4- Realtime Board

'Use the infinite online whiteboard, a design thinking toolkit and real time collaboration
features created with teams in mind. Organize your teamwork in a simple and visual way -
from research and brainstorming to visualization and review.'

DEEKIT is a collaborative whiteboard that enables you to ' work faster and better by collaborating in real-time. Seamlessly collaborate in meetings and discuss ideas with stakeholders. You can draw, write or add notes and images or any other content to your whiteboards to collaborate...'

6- Twiddla

'Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.'

7- GroupBoard

'Groupboard is a free online whiteboard app that can be easily embedded into your website. It works on any web browser including iPhone, iPad and Android with no downloads or plugins required. Used by online tutors, schools and universities worldwide. More than 600,000 Groupboards created!'
8- ZiteBoard

'Ziteboard is a zoomable online whiteboard with realtime collaboration and simple teamworking to visualize your ideas, enhance your meetings, improve your tutoring sessions and design together.'

9- ConceptBoard

'A flexible canvas that expands as you add content. Create and share as many boards as you need. Capture ideas, brainstorm, create moodboards, plan initiatives, and map out strategies.'

'Limnu is a collaborative online whiteboard made to be fast and simple enough to use for online meetings and video conferences. With Limnu, you can draw, plan, and think at the same time with other people. Make as many boards as you want, as big as you want, see your boards from anywhere, and all your work is automatically archived.'

Sources:
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/10/google-introduced-new-collaborative.html
https://getvoip.com/blog/2016/09/14/online-whiteboard-collaboration/
https://www.producthunt.com/

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10 Great Collaborative Whiteboard Tools for Teachers

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Earlier this week Google launched a new notifications feature for Google Drive users. You can now get an alert on your desktop whenever someone shares an item with you or when someone requests that you share an item with him or her. There have been third-party apps that did this in the past. This is the first time that Google has offered it as a native feature. Watch the video below to learn how to enable desktop notifications for Google Drive.

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How to Enable Google Drive Desktop Notifications

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You have probably heard of Flipgrid and have seen tons of people sharing their experiences using it on social media. It seems that people all over the world have been using Flipgrid in all sorts of creative ways.

Flipgrid is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators. Teachers can provide feedback to students AND better yet students can provide feedback to one another.
The best part? Flipgrid is completely FREE!
My first experience with Flipgrid was back in early 2017 in our weekly #Ditchbook Twitter chat where a group of educators from all over the country shared ideas and inspire one another online. Since then I have had the opportunity to use Flipgrid with students, administrators, as well as other educators in workshops and professional development sessions.

Each time I introduce it the reaction is always the same, "Wow! There are so many ways to use this tool. I can't wait to try it out in my class!".

But don't take my word for it, check it out and try it yourself!

In this post you will find over 50 ideas and ready-to-use Flipgrid activities for your class. You can use the quick navigation box below to jump to any section or scroll through the post to find something that you can use in your class tomorrow!

Getting started with Flipgrid

Getting started with Flipgrid is easy. As a teacher you can sign up (see the steps below) and start creating your grids and topics right away. Students and participants don't need an account, they will simply use the code you provide to log in and start recording!

The Flipgrid Getting Started Guide

Want even MORE assistance bringing Flipgrid to your classroom? Check out their onboarding webinar or visit the updated help center that to get up and running in no time!

Flipgrid conversation starters from the Disco Library

Flipgrid understands the power of community and educators connecting and becoming better together. The "Disco Library" tab at the top of your Educator Dashboard and you will find over 20,000 Flipgrid topics ready for you to add to your Grids. Once you select a Topic to add you will have an opportunity to update and make any changes to the Topic before it is added to your grid.

Below you will find six popular topics from the Disco Library that can help your students get started using Flipgrid in a fun and easy way. Just click on the button Don't see a topic you like? There are lots more here.

50+ Flipgrid activities for your class

English Language Arts

Ready-to-use ELA activities from the Flipgrid Disco Library

Reflect and assess with Flipgrid

Flipgrid Math activities

Ready-to-use math activities from the Flipgrid Disco Library

Science and Social Studies

Ready-to-use science activities from the Flipgrid Disco Library

Creating a community

Ready-to-use community building activities from the Flipgrid Disco Library

Flipgrid beyond the classroom

Conversations about race, equity and justice from the Flipgrid Disco Library

Appsmash with Flipgrid

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Flipgrid for ALL! 50+ ways to use Flipgrid in your class

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You have probably heard of Flipgrid and have seen tons of people sharing their experiences using it on social media. It seems that people all over the world have been using Flipgrid in all sorts of creative ways. Flipgrid is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators.

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10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

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10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

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Exploration = Education, my new motto
This is a guest post by Google Certified Trainer and Innovator, Stacy Behmer.
I had the privilege of attending the Google Geo Institute (#CAGTI17) with approximately 90 other educators from around the world last week to learn more about Google's Geo Tools! I loved using maps with my students and used Google Earth, but my head was spinning with all of the ideas about how we can use the geo tools to help students learn about new places, solve problems, and tell stories!

We may not be able to physically go everywhere, but virtually the possibilities are limitless.

After thumbing through all my links and docs, here are 10 of my many takeaways!

"Everything is something and everything has a place somewhere." John Bailey, Google Geo Education Team. Google Earth is now web based and you can use Pegman and Street View within Google Earth, but you can go places that are off the beaten path and may not be on a street, like these monkeys in the see Street View of Himalayas. These 360 images can easily be embedded into a website or project students are creating.

A new addition to Google Earth is the Voyager Experience! Go to Voyager and select the education tab. Google partnered with National Geographic and other organizations to build content and tell stories from around the world.

There is a power in students creating their own maps to help them visualize information or to tell a story an example of this is two students who collected the Oral Histories of Route 66 and displayed it on a Map. My Maps is can be used for students as they explore events in literature, historical events or even as they study current events. The beauty of My Maps is they are collaborative and can be exported to be brought in as a layer of Google Earth. Kim Randall, @scubagirl812 did a super session on Mapping Made Easy with Google My Maps!

This is another way for students to tell a story using a map! Drop pins, add images, video or text to share your virtual tour. Once a tour is created it can be shared to the gallery or exported as a KML file and added as a layer to Google Earth. Unfortunately, this doesn't have the same collaborative features My Maps does, but the visual display and easy organization is really nice!

There are a lot of data sets out there and Google Earth Engine enables you to track, measure and visualize changes over time. You can look at water patterns and how the Earth's surface has changed over time. Use the Time Lapse link to see how development is changing the landscape of your community. Being able to visualize the data and changes helps to have meaningful conversations with students.

Telling your story doesn't always have to be linear! Thank you to Brooke Whitlow, @BWhitlowEdTech, for sharing Youvisit.com! This site lets you easily create an interactive virtual tour. You can capture your image via any 360 camera app or simply with a Theta 360 Camera (I have the Theta S) and then build your tour with hotspots to add information or highlight key features. Check out the tour that was shared with us by James Allen of the Eminence EDhub. My head is spinning with ideas about how students could not only create a virtual tour of their school but what about helping tell the story of their community and embedding historical events or what their community is known for?

Using Geo Tools to create Location Based AR- This is what excited me the most! Think, make your very own Pokemon Go! Big thanks to Micah Shippee, @micahshippee, for sharing how to use Wikitude to upload your MyMap pins to create your placemarks to get started, but if you want to have more than just text you need to create your placemarks using getech.com and then export them into Wikitude and use the Wikitude app on your mobile device. If you want to learn how to create your own here is Micah's presentation. Below is a screenshot of my first location based AR using My Maps and Wikitude on the Google Campus!

I love the idea of location based AR and having students move around and create it. Jeff Crews, @crewsertech, for showing a few of us Metaverse. This lets you build an series of interactive experiences and turn them into quests, so you can have a scene pop up on your phone when you are in the right location and answer a question or get a clue to move you onto the next location on the map! Building it on the web is slick with a series of drop downs and then you run the app and the icon will show up on your phone or tablet when you start the app! I'm already starting to work on building a quest for around our agency for new staff as part of our orientation Breakout EDU!

9. Theta 360 & Street View

Props to Dean Phillips, @DeanPhillipsMT, for giving me a crash course of his Doing More with 360 session and walking me through how to use the Theta S to add to Google Street View. You can use the camera app within Street View or just connect the Theta to capture a 360 image in one click. The nice thing is you can publish your images for others to see and even stitch them together. Donnie Piercey, @mrpiercey, put together a really nice resource to help folks create their own Street View.

There were a couple of updates to Expeditions while we were in Mountain View, one is the first-person play experience, so students can go through an Expedition independently and see facts pop up for them or listen to information too. The other update is the ability for the guide device to add annotations on the 360 image!

There is also a Moonshot Incubator Project that takes Google Expeditions in Hawaii to another level with lesson plans and images to learn all about our 50th state.

Check out the Google Carboard and Expeditions Ultimate Resource Guide.

It was exciting to hear that the mission of Google Earth is what we do in our classrooms: "Explore everywhere. Learn about anywhere. Create experiences. Share stories." These tools not only provide our students with opportunities to explore the world, but they are also able to capture their own images and share their stories with others! A huge shout out to John Bailey, Emily Henderson, @earthoutreach, and the amazing team of guides who facilitated the three days of learning!

Stacy is a former elementary and middle school teacher and also spent some time as a district technology director. She is currently the Coordinator of Digital Learning from Grant Wood AEA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she works with a team of technology consultants providing technology integration support and training to teachers and administrators. Stacy serves on the Iowa Technology Education Connection board which holds a couple of conferences and a series of workshops across the state promoting technology rich learning environments. She is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and Certified Trainer and enjoys learning from and with teachers and students new ways to incorporate technology in teaching and learning! Feel free to connect with Stacy on or .

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10 Amazing Google Geo Tools for Your Classroom

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I had the privilege of attending the Google Geo Institute (#CAGTI17) with approximately 90 other educators from around the world last week to learn more about Google's Geo Tools! I loved using maps with my students and used Google Earth, but my head was spinning with all of the ideas about how we can use the geo tools to help students learn about new places, solve problems, and tell stories!