Several software updates were added to Managed Software Center (look in the Applications folder on the hard drive) for the Macintosh computers in use in the district. I recommend upgrading as soon as you can. The exciting update is not in Google Drive File Stream but in Google Chrome. Version 87 has much improved performance…
Adobe announced in July of 2017 and I have posted that Flash was going the way of the dodo bird at the end of 2020. Well, how time flies because we are now closing in on the end of 2020. Google has slowly been making it harder and harder to run Flash in the browser….
Kenton City Schools has signed up with a 60 day trial of Kami’s teacher plan. After the 60 days, the licence will revert back to the Basic plan. Kami is a web based app that students can use to collaborate, edit, or markup documents and images, such as PDFs and jpegs. It’s a nice alternative to…
Teachers, here are some notes about ProgressBook for you. ParentAccess I just found out that ParentAccess was turned off over the summer by WOCO. I enabled it in the evening on 8/19/2020 so students and parents should now be able to log in. Google Classroom Sync As you are adding assignments in Google Classroom, please…
This year, for the new staff bootcamp, I put together a self guided tour of the technology available at Kenton City Schools. I thought others may be interested in it, so here is a link to the presentation. ⚠ Be forewarned, I talk at the start, so you may want to turn down your speakers….
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…