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BeCareful with Phishing emails!  - Yes... this tech guy clicked on a phishing email! 

I love the KnowBe4 product.  It keeps all of us on our toes with phishing emails.  Well, I get them just like you do... and BAM - this tech guy was not careful enough.  I am a Costco Business Member and get several emails a week... so when I got an email that looked like it came from Costco and a free turkey... hey I clicked on it.  (Like WOW - a free turkey!) A good reminder to us all - they get us at our busy time, our weak moments when we are expecting a package, or just another typical email you may receive, or even a free turkey!  (Guess I am the turkey on this one, LOL.) 

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Have a great holiday, but do not expect a free turkey this season... and always be careful with emails, software downloads, and your personal information! 

Misc. Tech resources: 
3 Easy Steps to Create Scan and Read QR Code Listening Stations

All About Me Projects for Google Classroom (made with Spark Video!) 

GREAT EXTENTION for Chromebooks and webcam! - Alice Keeler Webcam Snapshot. <---

11 Technology Tools for the Reading Classroom. 

8 Adobe Spark Poetry Activities for Chromebook & iPad Classrooms. 

How to annotate your photos with iOS 10's Markup feature  Works on iPads and iPhones.  Must be IOS 10 or above.  (Note- the old iPad2 units will not run IOS 10.) 

One for the K-6 teachers - (We have Book Creator licenses for the iPad carts.)  - 7 Favorite Apps to Use with Book Creator

Some great resources from one of my Favourites - Richard Byrne - @rmbyrne  Always good stuff from this guy! 

Three Free iPad Apps for Creating Talking Animations. 

How Your Digestive System Works - A TED-Ed Lesson 

Four Things Students Need to Create Book Trailer Videos 

Seven Ways to Create Screencasts on Chromebooks  - Try out the Screencast-O-Matic public Beta too.  (I love Loom as well as serval others in this post.) 

ADA Project - An Open Multimedia Mathematics Textbook 

Great site! - 51 World Geography Games for Kids

Five Tools for Creating Animations on Chromebooks 

Three Good Ways to Create Instructional Animations 

One for the music teachers! - Music Crab - A Cute App for Learning to Read Music

Keeps kids learning over Christmas break with these tools:

7 Free Education Apps to Keep Students Learning

You have to check out these templates! WOW

These teacher and student templates (FREE) will show you what you can do with Google Slides.  Gone are the days of "I wish I had Publisher" and in are the days... WOW, I did not know you could do that with Google Slides. Some great templates for class projects and awesome examples of what can be done with Google Slides. 

Create G Suite Templates with This Mind-Blowing Hack (Cool tip) 

Elementary staff - Have you tried out SeeSaw?  If not, give Jason a call to get you rolling!

Tip - Add Audio to Images In SeeSaw Digital Portfolios

New - New Features in SeeSaw

Google has added more templates.  (They still need more!) 

Visit the home page of each to see them; Docs Home ** Sheets Home ** Slides Home

HS & MS staff - Get ready for a great new product for Chromebooks!

Hope to see all of the MS & HS staff at our January 5th training on GoGuardian. Jason has a great program lined up for you! 

Free Kindle eBooks:

Jules Verne: The Collection Kindle Edition 47 Novels Free

Free Kindle ebook: The Complete Novels of H. G. Wells

Twas The Night Before Christmas [Kindle Edition] Free ~ Amazon 

Quick and Easy Recipes: 30 MINUTE MEALS: Quick Recipes You Will Love (Quick and Easy Cooking) Kindle Edition

More from the Slickdeals.net site:

Amazon.com is offering Select Customers: $5 Kindle eBook Credit for Free. Note, click "Continue with Offer" then sign into your account and if you are eligible, you will see a message that that the $5 Credit applied to your account.

Subscribe to Kindle Daily Deals Newsletter Get $1 Kindle eBook Credit 

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King Kindle Edition by E. T. A. Hoffmann [amazon.com]
Shakespeare: The Complete Collection [amazon.com]
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales [amazon.com]
Ben-Hur [amazon.com]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [amazon.com]
The Canterville Ghost [amazon.com]
Peter Pan [amazon.com]
The Jungle Book [amazon.com]
The Virginian [amazon.com]
The Man of the Forest [amazon.com] 
The Charterhouse of Parma [amazon.com]
Selected Short Stories Kindle Edition by Rabindranath Tagore [amazon.com]
The Red and the Black [amazon.com]

AmazonClassics [amazon.com] pre-orders
A Doll's House (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
My Ántonia (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
North and South (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
The Piazza Tales (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
A Study in Scarlet (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
Silas Marner (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]
Shakespeare's Sonnets (AmazonClassics Edition) [amazon.com]

Dear Santa: Children's Christmas Letters and Wish Lists, 1870 - 1920 [amazon.com]

Thanks for a great year!

From the tech department, I would like to wish each of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYear!  As one of our tech staff just mentioned yesterday .... It’s a pleasure to work for such a progressive district with passionate teachers and leaders.  Yes, this tech guy feels really blessed this year.  (Even though there was no free turkey.)