Month: May 2019

This week we are looking at a resource that has been around for over 10 years but many teachers have never heard of it. I am talking about a website called Watch Know Learn. The site was launched by Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger in 2008 as a collective video library, curated with a wiki style philosophy.

Watch Know Learn is in the business of indexing educational videos and placing them in more than 5000 categories. The videos are sourced from familiar places like YouTube and Vimeo, TeacherTube and many other video streaming platforms. read more

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What better way to review and celebrate the school year than a picture slideshow!

Google Slides add-on, Photo Slideshow, will assist you in inserting pictures quickly. Photo Slideshow will add an image per slide from Google Photo Albums or a Google Drive Folder and will work with 200+ images. Once images appear, you can use all the bells and whistles Slides has to offer to create a dazzling presentation. Use Slide’s Publish to the Web feature to share the slideshow with others.

The following steps will assist you in adding the Photo Slideshow add-on and using the tool: read more

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A quick tip for you this week!

Do you use the private comments feature in Google Classroom? If not, you SHOULD! By their very nature, private comments allow for a conversation between you and the students, providing for awesome feedback opportunities!

Private comments can also be used to share links to enrichment material, videos to help reinforce the learning, and more. But in order to make the link “live” (or clickable) for the student, you need to be sure to do it correctly.

  • Wrong: nwoca.org
  • Right: http://nwoca.org

You’ll need to put the http:// or https:// in front of the URL in order for Classroom to recognize it as a live link. read more

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Summer’s coming!

Want to get Google Certified?

Need CEUs or college credit?

You can take our Google Certified Educator Level 1 or 2 cohorts at your own pace this summer. But you have to act quickly, because registration closes this Friday, May 10th!

Time is running out! Sorry, but we will not be accepting any registrations after the deadline.

Our popular Google Certified Educator Level 1 and 2 cohorts will take an educator through all the necessary skills needed to pass the Google exams. They will be conducted in Google Classroom by Google Certified Trainers Kristie Hughes and Chris Malanga. read more

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