Today we’re introducing the next era of G Suite for Education: Google Workspace for Education. Google Workspace for Education includes all the products you already use, like Classroom, Meet, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and many more. More than 170 million students and educators worldwide rely on our suite of tools. Everything you need…
There are a couple of upcoming online edtech conferences that are free to attend. Future of Education Technology Conference First up is FETC, the Future of Education Technology Conference. It usually takes place in Florida or Louisiana the last week of January. This year the conference will be taking place online from January 26 –…
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…
Google is offering an 8 week email course on getting started with Google for Education. Each lesson comes to your inbox on Tuesdays and will take less than 15 minutes to complete. The lessons are video based tutorials on Drive, Docs, Classroom, Forms, Sheets, SLides, Drawings, and Gmail. There is no cost for this course….
Richard Byrne has put together a screencast on how to create a word cloud directly in Google Docs. You may currently use ABCya (works on Chromebookse) or Wordle (does not work on Chromebooks) but this will cut out a step. This is a Google Docs add-on, and he describes how to add the add-on to…
Google has an online course with 8 lessons on using Google Classroom. Check it out: https://www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/classroom/basics.html
On my Tech Fair Day 2012 course in Moodle I had listed some resources for using Google Talk and GMail. You can still enroll yourself in the course, but I’m also going to list those resources here to help you use Google Talk and GMail tips. Google Talk Go Google: Spare Tickets – YouTube –…
I had the privilege of addressing the soon-to-be graduates of the University of Findlay College of Education on April 13. It was a pleasure to speak, although it was tough for me to limit myself to 20 minutes. A copy of the speech and the audio from the speech will be posted to http://ryancollins.org/ as…
The first issue of what I will be offering as a monthly newsletter on educational technology issues is now available. Staff members will receive a paper copy in their mailbox, and everyone can download a copy here. If you are interested in writing an article or are doing engaging and innovative work in your classroom…
The eTech (organization formally known as SchoolNet) 2006 Technology Conference was held February 13 through the 15. For those that couldn’t attend, eTech has made available all the presentation materials from the various sessions that were held. Examples include: Daily Agenda: Incorporating Technology Into The Classroom Differentiating Instruction With Style Bringing the Trip Back Home…