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Eric Curts, from Control Alt Achieve, has a blog post with screenshots and a 23-minute video tutorial in which he discusses his seven tips for cleaning up Google Classroom. Kasey Bell, from Shake Up Learning, has a blog post with screenshots, GIFs, and a 31-minute podcast in which she shares her six tips for cleaning up Google Classroom. Alice Keeler, from Teacher Tech, works with OTIS for Educators, on-demand professional development, to provide a 52-minute video tutorial of Keeler’s eleven Google Classroom clean up tips. At the end of the video, you can take a short quiz to receive a certificate of continuing education time. Matt Miller, from Ditch that Textbook, has a blog post with 10 ways to clean up your Google Classroom. Finally, Shannon Moore, on the Google Workspace YouTube channel, has a 5-minute video that demonstrates her four tips to complete when you clean up your Google Classroom.

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TCEA.org blog titled, “How to Spring Clean: Digitally.” In the article, Andrew Roush lays out 6 Principles to get started with digital cleaning and then looks at more specific examples and describes ways your can clean up your inbox, clean up your social media feeds, find out the access you have granted to your Google account, and how to take your digital cleaning deeper.   

Monica Burns, from Class Tech Tips, has “7 Digital Spring Cleaning Tips for Every Educator.” On her website she also has “10 Quick Tips to Organize Your Google Drive” and a podcast titled, “Spring Cleaning Guide: 5 Tips To Upgrade Your Digital Workflow – Easy EdTech Podcast 157.”

The final article comes from UCLA’s Office of the Chief Information Security Officer and they provide eight tips to “Clear Out Your Cyber Clutter With a Digital Spring Cleaning.” UCLA has curated these resources from the Better Business Bureau, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, and the Center for Internet Security.

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A few weeks ago I put out my newsletter sharing resources to sign up for a Canva for Education account. Throughout the newsletter, I demonstrated how to set up your Canva classes, some of the classroom features within Canva, provided you with links to blogs and playlists to get you inspired, and gave step-by-step instructions you can follow to get started. Now that you’ve had a few weeks to digest that information I wanted to provide you with some TikTok tips and tricks videos that I found helpful and interesting.

In the newsletter, I have also linked to Canva’s design school. Canva believes that anyone can make beautiful designs with Canva. On the website, you will find courses that you can work through. These courses will help you with everything from design basics to supercharging your design skills. Each class has a different number of videos but I’m sure there is something impactful in each video.

In TikTok Tech, I don’t have a TikTok video because the entire newsletter is a bunch of TikTok videos. What I have is a website called Knoword. Knoword is a game-based website that will expand your vocabulary. The website has over 2,00 different vocabulary packs and can be played with or without an account. In Tech Refresh, I want to introduce Manga High. Manga High is a website that boasts over 700 different math activities covering numbers, algebra, geometry, measurement, statistics, and probability. The website is designed for ages 5 to 16 but I found the games more difficult than the age to which they were designed. You can also play games on this website with or without an account, but it is a little more limited.

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Recently, Flocabulary introduced a new feature to their platform. It’s called Flocabulary Mix. Teachers will choose a Skill Video to pair with a Video Text to create a Mix. In a Mix, the videos will play back to back. The Skill Video provides direct instruction on a skill the students should demonstrate when they watch the Video Text. After students watch the Skill Video and Video Text they demonstrate their understanding in the new Break It Down activity. In the Break It Down activity, students practice comprehension skills through multiple-choice questions, an interactive text evidence-gathering tool—through which students literally select clips from the video to support their answer—and an open-ended question to explain the connection between answers and evidence.

Flocabulary Mix and Break it Down aims to help teachers strengthen student comprehension strategies. There are over 100 new Video Texts and 300 Mix combinations across grades K-12. Break It Down is also available on existing Flocabulary lessons and not just new lessons. Along with the Break It Down activity, Flocabulary still offers other engaging activities like Vocab Cards, Vocab Game, Read & Respond, Quiz, and Lyric Lab. Flocabulary Mix and Break it Down are available to users with a school or district Flocabulary Plus subscription for free until September 15.

In TikTok Tech, @teachingandtacoz introduces a fun, non-tech maze activity where students need to work as a group to try to solve the maze and get the entire class through the maze safely. Only one student is allowed in the maze at a time and you can choose to allow talking or have the students only communicate silently. It’s a really fun activity that builds collaboration and critical thinking and can be adapted for any grade level. In Tech Refresh, I just want to reintroduce you to Boddle Learning with my YouTube demonstration. Boddle Learning is a K-6 math-based game that is fun and can be personalized with standard-based assignments. Students also earn coins to personalize their character and design their character's house with furniture and knick-knacks. It’s also a great activity to introduce to students after state testing is over.

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I recently learned about Tango from several different creators on social media and I must say that this is going to be a game-changer for anyone that creates written directions for the internet. For example, if you need to create directions for how to navigate a website, how to turn in an assignment, or how to send an email. This website will follow every step and click that you make, immediately take a screenshot of the step, and provide written directions for completing the step. When you’re done you can go back and edit the screenshot and text, or add any more text and descriptions that you need. Once you’re satisfied with the document you can share the document in many different ways. Gone are the days of you taking your own pictures and trying to format text and pictures to create written directions.    

In TikTok Tech, @oxy.crypto introduces a website that will let you take almost any clip from a YouTube video and turn it into a GIF. In Tech Refresh, @edutechcoach will show you the website CoolSymbol so you can find more emojis and symbols to add to rich text fields.

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More and more people are discovering their love of Canva and the power it can have in the classroom.  This week’s newsletter is all about Canva for education. If you don’t know what Canva is, Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom. Also, Canva is 100% free for K12 teachers and their students! As the teacher, you can create and share engaging assignments with your students for them to complete. Share those assignments or resources to whatever learning management system you use or from within Canva. Students complete assignments at their own pace and turn them back in for you to review, leave feedback, or approve. Throughout the newsletter, I want to demonstrate how to set up your Canva classes, demonstrate some of the classroom features within Canva, provide you with links to blogs and playlists to get you inspired, and give step-by-step instructions you can follow to get started.

In TikTok Tech, Jordan Cotten (@cottentechcoach), introduces the G RTF (Google Rich Text Format) extension. The extension can create rich text in places like Twitter and Google Forms when bolding, italicizing, or underlining aren’t available.  In Tech Refresh, @macrumos demonstrates Apple’s new Universal Control. Use a single keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of your Mac to control up to two other nearby Mac or iPad devices, and work seamlessly between them, provided all devices are up to date and using the same Apple ID.

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Book Creator is a freemium classroom tool that allows students to create multimedia ebooks. I say freemium because teachers can use the website for free but free users can only create one classroom library with up to 40 books in that library. You can archive the library and get access to a new set of 40 books. If you do archive your library, the books you published stay published and accessible online but they are not editable.   

In this week's newsletter, you will find resources from Book Creator that will show you Book Creator’s 18 different templates and themes.  You will also learn about all of the creative tools that are available within the platform. Once you create an account you can access the Discover tab, which provides all kinds of different examples by grade or subject. There is a tab to help you browse Book Creator’s Knowledge Base with links to articles, webinars, and resources. There’s a tab to get certified as a Level 1 Author. Finally, you can also link Book Creator to several third-party apps like Giphy, Bitmoji, Canva, and Google Drive.    

In TikTok Tech, from the latest update to Google Classroom, I will show you how to schedule an assignment for multiple classes at different times during the day.  In Tech Refresh, I will show you how to import grades from a self-grading Google Form into your Google Classroom without looking at each score in a spreadsheet or in the Form’s responses.

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As I was getting the newsletter ready for this week I stumbled across a video from @adelaideed on TikTok. What you will find in this newsletter are resources for starting your journey with digital notebooks or, if you are a power user, resources for taking digital notebooks to the next level regardless of the presentation platform you use. Resources you will find from @adelaideed are an overview video to get you started with digital notebooks, a video of why digital notebooks make life easier, a video for how to use digital notebooks with students, and a video for why we need digital notebooks as a teaching resource in this new post-COVID educational world. You can also find links to her website, her TPT store, and how to get started making your own money from digital interactive notebooks.

If you would like more examples for building digital notebooks into your curriculum, I have a link to an article from Edutopia that will provide you with four benefits of using digital notebooks with your students. I also found a Google Site from All Saints Episcopal School with twelve links and four videos with everything from how to get started building digital notebooks to how to take digital notebooks to the next level. A website with more resources than anyone knows what to do with comes from Matt Miller from Ditch that Textbook. On his website, he has twenty activities for filling digital notebooks as well as walkthroughs for getting started. There is also a help article from Kami that demonstrates how you can use their software for building digital notebooks. 

I also have a resource from Dr. Catlin Tucker that provides walkthroughs with screenshots for building interactive Google Slides. Suzy, from TeachStudentSavvy.com, has video tutorials and explanations for using clickable tabs and a table of contents, how to change backgrounds, how to group items, and keyboard shortcuts for Google Slides. Finally, digital notebook templates are available for free on SlidesMania.com and SlidesGo.com.

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Last week, I introduced Flipgrid and demonstrated how to get started with groups, topics, and some of the unique features of the camera and the effects drawer. This week's newsletter is all about ideas for using Flipgrid in the classroom. The newsletter starts by introducing the Discovery Library and how to add pre-created topics to your library. After introducing the Discovery Library, I found nine ideas from Edutopia for incorporating Flipgrid into the classroom. Matt Miller, from Ditch that Textbook, provides an index to 50+ ideas for incorporating Flipgrid into your classroom. Finally, Holly Clark, from the Infused Classroom, has a handful of ideas for users at various comfort levels and age levels when using Flipgrid in the classroom.  

In TikTok Tech, @teachersresourceforce will show you a website that will deliver daily morning meetings right to your inbox with zero prep. While the website does have a cost, Slides Mania does have free templates you can download if you would like to create your own morning meeting slides. In Tech Refresh, Jesse Bastarache, from @jess_rehearsal, will show you how to use icons to make them look like you have infinitely cloned them for students to use in different activities on Google Slides. If you are looking for icons to use you can find them at the Noun Project or Flaticon. You can also install the add-ons in Google Slides to pull in icons without leaving your Slides.

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This week's newsletter is all about getting started with Flipgrid. Flipgrid considers itself a social learning platform that gives students a voice through their creativity and self-expression. Flipgrid’s mission is to “empower every learner on the planet to share their voice and respect the diverse voices of others.” Use Flipgrid to create a group for your class or classes, and create a topic to elicit feedback, generate discussion, record your screen, or give a presentation. Through the power of the camera, students can record themselves, upload a clip, record only their voice, or record their screen. Students’ creativity comes from the effects drawer where they can add backdrops, filters, text, drawings, different boards, stickers, GIFs, photos, and frames. Before students complete their video submission, they can also add music to give their videos just a little extra.

In TikTok Tech, Derek Anderson, from @weaponofmathdestruction, will show you how he uses Mad Libs to help make word problems more palatable and understandable for students in math. In Tech Refresh, Austin Armstrong, from @socialtypro, provides a website you can use to compress files you are loading to your website or presentations to help them load better for your audience without losing quality. This week’s newsletter goes through all of these features and provides resources to help you get started. If you’d like to try Flipgrid and participate in a topic I provided for this week’s newsletter, you can create an account, log in, and join the conversation by clicking the link - flipgrid.com/82edbd75.

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• I really like you. And not just on social media! - www.slidesmania.com
• You are just my type. - www.kamiapp.com
• My love for you has no bugs. - www.boddlelearning.com
• You’re more awesome than a zero inbox. - Social Media
• I was programmed to like you. - www.canva.com/education
• I’d pause my game for you. - www.blooket.com

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This week's newsletter is all about sharing the love of some of my favorite features in SMART Notebook and Lumio. A couple of weeks ago, SMART Technologies shared 3 Sweet Treats for Your Classroom. Within the blog post, SMART shared printable Valentines for your classroom, both color and black and white Valentines, as well as engaging ready-made resources for teachers to use immediately.   The Valentines I gave out to the tools in SMART Notebook and Lumio this week are:    

• I think you are monstrously cool! - Game-based Activities
• You’re a knockout! - Screen Capture Tool
• I’ve got my eye on you! - SMART Exchange & Learning Resource Lessons
• You light up my life! - Ready-made Resources
• I only have eyes for you! - Picture Transparency & Masking Tools
• You’re always on my mind! - Infinite Cloner

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This week's newsletter is all about an immersive reader, an awesome accessibility feature new to Lumio by SMART Tech. When a student or teacher uses immersive reader, they have several different features to use.   

• change the text size 
• change the text spacing 
• change the font 
• change the theme to make it easier to see 
• view words by syllables 
• view parts of speech by color 
• change the color to the different parts of speech 
• change the line focus 
• use picture dictionary 
• turn on word or document translation 
• change the voice speed 
• change the reading voice to male or female  

In TikTok Tech, Jeremy Michelbook from @mrmichelbook introduces you to a safe website students can use during inside recess to play old-school card and board games. In Tech Refresh, Kasey Bell from @shakeuplearning will show you how to search all of those open tabs that are just hanging out in your Google Chrome.  

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The newsletter is about resources for getting you started incrementally using Lumio and the best ways to incorporate the software into your classroom. The resources in this newsletter are the 5 Benefits of Using Lumio in the Classroom by Julie Smith, The Techie Teacher, and Lumio - Connect With Your Class by Richard Byrne, FreeTech4Teachers. There are also several teacher resources from SMART with walkthroughs, both written and video versions, instructional ideas to help you engage students, enhance the lesson, and extend students’ learning. I also demonstrate the new ready-made templates, virtual manipulates, graphic organizers, ready-made content, Desmos resources, a free suite of math software tools, and Phet resources, interactive simulations for science and math.

✅ Season 2 Newsletters - SMART Lab & SMART Notebook App

✅ Season 3 Newsletters - SMART Learning Suite Online, SMART Exchange & 12 Days of SMART

✅ Season 4 Newsletter - How to Use Lumio

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In TikTok Tech, Matt Brandenberger from @mattbedtech introduces you to a website to animate your student drawings. The website allows students to download their sketches in various animated poses to create a much larger video. In Tech Refresh, I will show you how to maximize your Google Slides canvas to make your Slides as big as possible when working on your presentation.

Extensions & Mac App

• bitmoji
• colorpick eyedropper
• remote for slides
• ColorSlurp

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In TikTok Tech, Heather Fischer from @atrailblazingteacher introduces you to the website wodb.ca to help create classroom discussions about which item doesn’t belong in the group. The website provides various puzzles, typically STEM-based, for students to discuss without providing a clear correct answer for the puzzle. The idea is to formulate solid arguments as to why one answer might be more correct than another answer.  In Tech Refresh, @cnnunderscored provides you with four unique keyboard shortcuts for your Mac.  

Add-Ons 

• Magic Rainbow Unicorn 
• Extensis Fonts 
• The Noun Project 
• Flaticon 
• Paletti 
• Unsplash 
• Haiku Deck 
• https://wodb.ca  

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In TikTok Tech, Catherine Coyle from @classroocreations introduces you to the website 99math.com to help students engage and become more fluent in their math skills. In Tech Refresh, @classroomcreations will show you how to print anything to a PDF file or pull out a specific page in a PDF through the printing dialogue box.

• coolors.co
• adobe.color.com
• paletton.com
• canva color picker
• 99math.com

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In TikTok Tech, Cassidy Peterson from @pvsectech shows you a website that will help you write an essay or email with easier readability for your audience. Just copy and paste your text and the website will provide you with suggestions to lower the reading level. In Tech Refresh, @sirtylertarver has a website that will take the distractions away from YouTube videos. It also has a feature for you to create a customized URL for the video to share easier through your learning management system.  

• undraw.co
• storyset.com 
• thenounproject.com 
• flaticon.com 
• freepik.com 
• unsplash.com 
• pixabay.com 
• remove.bg 
• Adobe Background Remover
• erase.bg 
• cleanup.pictures 
• hemingwayapp.com 
• viewpure.com 

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In TikTok Tech, @a_biology_teacher shows you a worksheet he created that you can use to help students get half the points back on their tests. He has the worksheet available on his Teachers Pay Teachers site and he’ll walk you through how to use it in his video. In Tech Refresh, @jess_rehearsal will help you recover any tabs you may have lost by accidentally closing your entire Chrome browser.  

Resources

• www.wordmark.it 
• www.creativemarket.com 
• www.cooltext.com 
• www.coolfont.org 
• www.textgiraffe.com 
• www.fontmeme.com 
• www.picfont.com  

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In TikTok Tech, @jwoz_teaches shows you how to get students to write a five-sentence paragraph using an emoji prompt generator. After that, she’ll discuss how to use Socrative so students can vote in class for the best paragraph. In Tech Refresh, @josiah_stpeter will introduce you to a Chrome Extension called Draftback. It is similar to Version History in Google Docs but plays a video of real-time typing and gives statistics for interaction within the document.

Look over all the resources for building great presentations and help your students find the right templates for their presentations. There’s a link to all the websites in the newsletter; Slides Mania, Slides Carnival, and Slides Go. You can watch the video or listen to the podcast to learn about the great ideas.

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This week's newsletter is all about tips from Garr Reynolds to help your students create better presentations. The idea is to get students away from creating Sliduments full of text and then reading that text when delivering a classroom presentation. The idea is to create presentations that are dynamic and interesting. Presentations where the presenter is the storyteller and is using the slides and their personality to engage the audience.  

In TikTok Tech, @mac_hacks shows you how to organize your Mac desktop into stacks. In Tech Refresh, @tatechtips show you how to use Windows' Clipboard History to copy and paste multiple items instead of copying and pasting everything one at a time.  

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This video discusses how to use Kami in the classroom. The newsletter has resources for using Kami for collaboration, assessments, inclusive learning, and digital whiteboarding. If you are new to Kami or a veteran user I strongly encourage you to enroll in Kami’s free certified educator program.  

In TikTok Tech, I found a great resource from @newedtechclass that shows you how to present over Google Slides or any other program using your screen as a backdrop in Flipgrid. Using this feature in Flipgrid you can either post the video to Flipgrid or download it and post it somewhere else. In Tech Refresh, another video from @newedtechclass lays out a good example for organizing your Google Classroom.   

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Learn about Flocabulary, a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. The newsletter has resources for sequence of uses, best practices, implementation at any grade level, and within any area of study.

TikTok Tech has tech resources from Jordan Cotten and a video on how to create a comment bank in Google Docs. Finally, there is a link to a video from me where to find and how to implement a comment Bank in Google Classroom.  

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During digital citizenship week, I thought it was important to reintroduce the 9 pillars of digital citizenship. Along with listing the 9 pillars, I found various other resources to reinforce the concepts with each different pillar.   

In TikTok Tech I show you how one teacher creates magnetic contact cards to share with her parents. In Tech Refresh I demonstrate Common Sense Media's free digital citizenship curriculum.

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Kami is one of the most powerful PDF annotation and digital whiteboard tools a classroom can have in this new technology-forward learning environment. This video will give you a brief demonstration of Kami along with providing an explanation of the Kami updates added over the summer.   

TikTok Tech explains how to begin the discussion about individuality using Lego. Tech Refresh will show you the best ways to create dynamic Gmail signatures through a template or using a third-party website (Wise Stamp and MySignature.io).   

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This week I look at some of the most important Google Workspace updates that were released over the summer for Classroom, Forms, and Docs. I will also discuss some of those updates that will be released very soon. A new showcase on the podcast comes from great users on TikTok who share the technology they are using in their classroom. The first resource is Quiver Vision. This website was demonstrated by a TikTok user _nicholsanddimes. The website allows students to color a picture and have the picture come alive in many ways through augmented reality. There are both free and paid items on the website and the app is free in both the Apple and Google Play app stores.  To visit all the links to the resources mentioned please click the link to the newsletter.

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Raindrop.io is a really nice digital bookmarking site. The extension is very intuitive if you've used other digital bookmarks before, the resource works as an extension in any web browser, on any mobile device, and a downloadable app on any computer platform. The layout of the website can be anything from functional to beautiful, you can change the icons on your collections, and you can add any file from your computer into any collection. Raindrop.io is a wonderful resource and a resource I think you'll really like.  

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Website: https://evernote.com

Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows you to tag and group articles for better organization. You can annotate websites and PDFs by highlighting passages or adding notes. Also, add articles, annotations, and notes to an outline for more organized and comprehensive research. Finally, share and collaborate easily by creating groups of websites, PDFs, images, or outlines for your family, class, team, or district. 

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https://www.pocket.com 

https://www.instapaper.com 

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Toby is an extension for your browser that will organize and store your bookmarks into collections. You can easily open a collection with one click and share collections with your team or organization. Toby is one of the easiest and most useful organizational extensions you can install and use within your browser.  

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Symbaloo has two unique features when it comes to creating online bookmarks. First, Symbaloo organizes its bookmarks in a grid. However, that grid can be all about one subject or the grid can be organized according to smaller subjects within a larger theme of the bookmark's webmix.   

Symbaloo also allows educators to create learning paths for their students based on resources and material they've curated personally or from around the internet. The resources can be websites, documents, videos, or information embedded right in the mix. The learning paths allow students choice in how they move through the material and get from the start to the end of the learning path. Giving students a path to their learning gives them power and choice with the material.

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One of the most powerful and used online bookmarking tools is Wakelet. If you are familiar with Pinterest, Wakelet is similar to Pinterest in that you can create different collections in Wakelet the same way you can create different boards in Pinterest. However, with Wakelet, you can save anything you find on the internet from websites, to videos, PDFs. tweets, songs, and more. You can also take all of those resources and put them into a beautiful collection that is arranged to build stories through text, images, bookmarks, or other apps. The podcast provides you a lot of resources to get started using Wakelet if you are new to the platform. The podcast contains walkthroughs for curating a set of resources within Wakelet. I will show you how to use the Chrome extension new tab feature and how to harness the power of Wakelet Spaces to compartmentalize your online world. 

Ziteboard is similar to apps like Miro and Explain Everything. It is a simple whiteboard with an unlimited canvas.  

Canvas.apps.chrome is a little know resource in Google. The app is different from Google Drawing and while it may seem like a simple tool I can see a lot of uses for the canvas. It works best in the Chrome browser and on a Chromebook.   

Classroomscreen has a whiteboard widget built into the web-based tool but it is really more of a classroom management tool than it is a classroom whiteboard.  

Any of these resources would be a great addition to your classroom but have different benefits and drawbacks, which is why it’s important for you to vet them yourselves to choose the best fit for you and your students.

Whiteboard.chat is a great resource that allows students to each have their own whiteboard, gives teachers the opportunity to join the student's board, and allows teachers to present their board to all students.

Miro works better for students in upper grades or for people working in the business industry because the collaboration is built on one platform shared amongst many users and requires a login to participate. It has great features like built-in chat, elaborate templates, and the ability to leave comments throughout the whiteboard.

Whiteboard.fi is similar to Whiteboard.chat but feels a little behind some of the tools available. Whiteboard.fi is under the Kahoot umbrella and has a free and paid option so I believe there is a lot of room for the platform to grow in the future.

Any of these resources would be a great addition to your classroom but have different benefits and drawbacks, which is why it’s important for you to vet them yourselves to choose the best fit for you and your students.

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Website Resources: 

• Learn About Canva’s Education Program
• Apply for Canva’s Education Program
• Canva’s Design School

Explain Everything Website

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• suite.smarttech.com
• hellosmart.com

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This week we look at Google Jamboard. Slightly different than Google Slides, Jamboard allows for a more collaborative feel between teachers and students. This week’s podcast will give you an overview of Jamboard on a computer/Chromebook and on an iPad. There are also a lot of resources to drum up inspiration and templates to download and use for anyone from a beginner to an expert. There are resources from Google Teacher Center, Class Tech Tips - 5 Quick Jamboard Activities, Ditch that Textbook - 20+ Tips, Brian Sepe - Book Club Template and People Who Teach podcast, Tech Fairies - 10 Jamboard Ideas,  Infused Classroom - 10 Jamboard Activities, Kevin Stratvert - Get to Know Jamboard, and Wakelet Jamboard Resources.

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If you're looking for new ways to use edtech tools in your classroom as a whiteboard then look no further than Apple's presentation tool Keynote. This podcast will demonstrate how you can share the Keynote with your students, ways you can use Keynote as a whiteboard tool, what Keynote looks like on a Mac, in any browser, and on an iPad. Special thanks to Chris Wood for the idea and for his free Apple Book

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• YouTube: Time & Timers
• CoolFont.org
• WordMark.it
• TextGiraffe.com
• FontMeme.com
• CoolText.com
• CreativeMarket.com

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• https://teachermade.com/ 
• https://www.quizalize.com/ 
• baamboozle.com/ 
• Make 24 
• https://mathigon.org/ 
• Kahoot Blog - add your Bitmoji 
• Quizizz Blog - new question options  
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Chapters 

• 01:47 Teachermade 
• 08:35 Quizalize 
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• https://ditchthattextbook.com/ 
• https://www.pixton.com/  

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If you've ever wanted to update your students Google Slides after you've pushed out an assignment through Google Classroom or if you've ever wanted to share information with students to pace progress or help them with an assignment, this podcast will tell you how to do that. Written instructions can be found in the newsletter along with a GIF of instructions for each step. Inspired by a TikTok I found from @ms_lilley13 this is a longer form of that video.  

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Zoom backgrounds can be great fun but can also be used as teachable moments for students. Examples of things you can provide to your students using Zoom backgrounds are Classroom Agendas, Classroom Rules, Lesson Objectives, Lesson Activities, or play Conference Bingo. You will find resources from Zoom, Canva, Google Slides, Jeff Utecht, Shifting School, Jonathan Wylie, Leveraging Learning, and the app mmhmm all demonstrated in this podcast. To see the resources in action you can watch the full video on my YouTube channel.

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