Last month I had the privilege of my presentation Rock Google Slides Like the Boss You Are being selected for the NEOTech 2020 conference. Unfortunately, the conference was canceled. Today the organizers have announced a way to virtually attend the conference through their website, NEOTech Conference. Besides my presentation, there are a ton of other presentations…
Here’s a tip to help us better support you and your students. When sending in a screenshot, take a screenshot of the entire screen. vs The latter tells us a lot more about the state of the computer. For example, the first shot doesn’t include the address of the web page. If you want to…
NWOET is offering free webinars over the next couple of weeks. The topics for these webinars include (but not limited to): Organizing online content Using free resources Teaching “Live” with students Team Teaching Online And more. For information, visit the NWOET Live website.
Google has been busy this past week. Besides renaming Hangouts Meet to Google Meet, Google has also added Google Meet to Google Classroom. What this means is that your classroom can now have a permanent virtual address that students can easily access. Adding the Google Meet address Visit your Google Classroom and click on the…
Eric has put up a series of videos to help you get the most out of Google Meet. Google Hangouts Meet is an easy but powerful tool for video conferencing. With Meet you can connect with other people using any device including a PC, Mac, Chromebook, smart phone, or tablet. While in the video conference you can…
Loom is another type of screencasting software, and their pro version is now free for students and teachers. Differences between Loom and Screencastify The biggest difference is for students. They can record unlimited length screencasts with Loom Pro vs the 5 minutes they are limited to with Screencastify. Another difference is the storage of the…
This article is more for the elementary students that may be signing in to the Chromebooks for the very first time or are having issues signing in to the Chromebooks/ The KCS Chromebooks The Kenton City Schools’ Chromebooks are locked to KCS email accounts. Personal or other Google accounts cannot be used on the Chromebooks….
Screencastify is offering free unlimited accounts to the staff! Directions are available on the Free Internet Services Info page. Staff, check out Internet Resources for even more resources!
No matter where you live or work, the novel coronavirus means you’ve probably begun exploring the option of working from home instead of a centralized office. (In many cases, “option” is a gentle way of putting it.) Here at Ars Technica, our staffers have seen their phones and messaging apps blow up with countless versions…
Here are two options for dealing with PDFs from students. Commenting in Google Drive While you can’t annotate PDFs in Google Drive, you can comment on them. A student or teacher can add comments to PDFs completely in Google Drive without using any other software. Annotating PDFs in Xodo Students and staff can also write…