Miscellaneous tech tips:

How to edit master slides in Google Slides. Do this to edit default font choices, color schemes, and branding. This short video will walk you through this easy process.

QUICK TIP OF THE WEEK (Organize "Shared with Me") - Please resist the urge to delete and clean up the shared with me section of Google Drive. <---Never do this! Instead, add shortcuts to these files inside your own folders to keep these files organized.

Watch this quick video to learn how!

More icons for your slides! The creator of the popular site SlidesMania (has a wide range of Google Slides/PPT templates that are free to use) has brought us IconsMania. Just go to IconsMania and search for what you need or browse the collections. While browsing you can limit the options to colorful, outline, or monochromatic. (Just click, I am a Google user and you will have the template.

EXPLORE THE LOUVRE’S ENTIRE COLLECTION ONLINE

How to Add Captions to Images in Google Docs

Add Padlet Walls to Google Sites - Short how-to video here.

Create Jamboard Math Activities with Equatio Remember to check out our "Jamming with Google’s Jamboard!" doc for more great resources and ideas for Jamboard.

I know the school year is over, but I still wanted to share this resource for another year. A collection of HyperDocs that are great for the end of the school year! -Check them out here and Six Ideas for End-of-Year Review Activities.

FlipGrid is a must-have and must-use tool for everyone! This video will show you how to Screen Record with Flipgrid. Remember, there are Loom and other great tools we recommend for screen recording as well.

Here's one for the home tech help:

Windows 10 has a built-in ransomware block, you just need to enable it This is one for your home PC. (We run Sophos here, so you would not be able to do this setting on the school computers. - How to article here.

This is not your Grandma's Word! Some new Google Magic coming soon to the Gsuite! Wow, pretty cool stuff.

Insert smart chips for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides files, other Google Drive files, and Calendar events. Unlimited canvas size, checklists on steroids, and more coming soon!

Check all of the new stuff here.

This is all a part of their smart canvas that was recently announced. — a new product experience that will make it easier for people to stay connected, focus their time and attention and transform their ideas into impact.

Audio into Google Forms! Mote delivered! Teachers use Google Forms in so many amazing ways. With Mote, things have just got even more amazing - you can now add voice notes to your forms! Mote offers a lot of features for free. This one-minute video will walk you through how it adds voice to forms.

Great new feature in Google Docs! - Nice and easy way to see who edited what in your Doc. “Show Editors” provides more context on changes made in Google Docs

New in Loom: Notification Center, Instant Editing, and more. Looms is one of favorite screen recording tools. And all of it is free to educators! Great for recording how-to videos and sending them out via classroom, SeeSaw, email and more! Checkout our Screen Recording doc to get signed up as well as explore a few more great tools!

Edit your videos 300x faster with Instant Editing

Tripped on a word? You don't need to re-record! Just edit your video at the end – it's faster than ever before. The best part? We have more advanced editing features like filler word removal coming soon! Read more.

Tip of the month: Picture-in-Picture mode
Next time you're watching a design, code, or copy review, click Toggle PiP or the shortcut p to pop out the video instead of switching between Loom and where you're working.

Norris K-2 teachers - SeeSaw has a new feature called Progress!

Progress enables teachers to efficiently identify student engagement trends, target instruction accordingly, and generate individual Progress Reports to share with families
See what Progress can do!

Watch video: bit.ly/Progress-Training

Progress is currently available on web only (not mobile), which means it does not require any updates and is immediately visible to you and your teachers.

Keep up the great SeeSaw work. As a part of the pro version, our administrators can post/send building announcements to family and more. They also get a weekly report on all of the activities! We have had 514 parent visits this past week! Here is a sample one from this past week:

SeeSaw tips and tricks - several great resources.

Amy Storer's Wakelet
Betsy MintonTech's YouTube Playlists
App Smash Activities with SeeSaw

Don’t Get Stuck in a Click-and-Drag Rut via Elizabeth Garvic
How do you create Magnifier activities in Seesaw? Via Kris Szajner

You must check out his Twitter feed to get a ton of SeeSaw tips and tricks.

Google Docs has won the office suite war among one generation - I ran across this tech article and it looks like the future is GSuite for all.

How to Use the Google Slides Presenter Toolbar
HOW-TO GEEK - When you’re presenting a slideshow, the last thing you should worry about is how to control it. With the Google Slides presenter toolbar, you can concentrate on your presentation, not the navigation. Check out it's new features here.

Create captivating certificates and so much more!
Are you a teacher looking to reward your students or a coach wanting to celebrate your team? You’ll love the range of fully customizable certificates for any occasion.

If you have not looked at Canva - Do it this summer! This makes our top 10 list of teacher tech tools every time. - Canva for Education, It’s 100% free for K12 teachers and their students. (They give us the full paid product for free!) -Sign up here.

A couple nice tools for Google Classroom to explore this summer!

Glasswork Zoom (No, not the Zoom video conferencing product.)

Classwork Zoom may be a great addition to your Google Classroom. It was developed by a teacher. (The free plan gives you a nice feature set. (And the paid plan is only $20 in case you really like it.) It allows you some further insights and timelines into students' work in Google Classroom. This short 2-minute video will get you started.

Schoolytics

Schoolytics complements your Google Classroom workflow by offering on-demand, real-time student activity reports that save you time, foster student engagement, and support your communication with students, families, and colleagues. Teacher accounts are free.

Checkout the 3 minute video tutorial.

FAQ here.