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May 22

Text your whole class for free? No Way

Way! Check out Remind 101. Classroom teachers can create class accounts that allows them to send a text message from their computer that will go out the all of the enrolled members. image

Teachers can signup for a free account and create classes that allows them to send messages to specific groups. The students must self enroll so evil doers you can’t use this to text spam. 

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Once enrolled the classroom teacher can login, select the class, enter their message and way they go!

So many possibilities just jump into my head with this tool!

  • Test reminders
  • Parent notifications
  • Coach posts to players for inspirational comments before game
  • Principal posts with staff updates
  • Coach posts to parents of game cancellations or relocation
  • PTA posts to teachers to share events

What a great tool! 

Posted 1 day ago

education,

May 21

U.S. History: Free streaming history videos & activities

kbkonnected:

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American History Videos

KB…Konnected’s insight:

Unique resources. Plenty to discover and share with students.


See on havefunwithhistory.com

I like how this site breaks down the clips by popular topics, presidents, or my famous people. I wish they provided embedded codes for these clips, but direct links will work.

Nice resource!

Reblogged 2 days ago from kbkonnected

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education, online video,

May 17

Meet the new Google Maps. Looks like a great map program that customizes its points based off of your selections. As an educator I hope we don’t loose our ability to make custom maps for Language Arts and History projects. One of our favorite activities is to create literature trips using maps to show the events in stories or historical locations. While we can always go back to Google Earth for this, it is not a option for Chromebook users. 

The new Google Maps has not been launched at this time. We shall see what other options we will have with this update.

Learn more at http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/ 

Posted 6 days ago

Education, google, google maps,

May 16

A teacher’s complete guide to using Google Voice to collect classwork and homework

Nice blog post on using Google Voice. I am a big fan of foreign language teachers using this for short oral assignments. 

Posted 1 week ago

education,

May 16

Gmail is getting quick action buttons that let you RSVP to events, rate restaurants, view flights, and more

Google on Wednesday announced the addition of a new Gmail feature called quick actions. These new buttons will be rolling out “over the next few weeks,” so don’t fret if you …

Just when you think Gmail is at its best Google Adds quick action buttons. 

Posted 1 week ago

education, google,

May 15

Google Play for Education: Google goes after Apple’s K-12 stranglehold with cheap apps, tablets

Today at its I/O event, Google announced Google Play for Education: A version of the Play store that is aimed and curated for young kids. Applications that are in the Play for Education …

This should make things interesting

Posted 1 week ago

education,

May 15
Quick Reference Guide to Content Creation #infographic

Quick Reference Guide to Content Creation #infographic

Posted 1 week ago

education,

May 13

Images in Google Forms! Happy Monday!

What a great share from Krista Moroder via Google +. 

Posted 1 week ago

education, google,

May 13

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Bringing it all together for Google Apps customers: 30GB shared between Drive and Gmail

More storage for Google Apps for Education users coming soon! Not a GAFE user? No worries Gmail accounts are upgrading to 15 gig. http://is.gd/nnMN6j 

Posted 1 week ago

google, education,

May 13

Google Doc Templates return via Google Drive Apps

If you have been looking for the Template Gallery via web search there is some good news. A Google Drive App has been created to simply this process. 

  1. Login to your Google Account and go to Google Drive
  2. Select the Create button and Choose “Connect More Apps” at the bottom of your menu
  3. Scroll through the apps or search template to find the Google Template App
  4.  Hover you mouse over the icon and click the + Connect Button to add this app to your Google Drive account. Clicking the App title will give you more information about the App

  5. Go back to drive and select the create button. You should see the Template app which will direct you to the template gallery.

If you do not see the template app or any others after connecting them to drive you may need to talk to your Google Apps admin to turn on drive apps for your domain. 

Posted 1 week ago

education, Google Docs, google drive,