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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin

Tech Talk!

Pick

Ever want to know who has looked at your Google Document?

Your Topic

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Feel free to:

  • Make a comment
  • Ask a question
  • Make a suggestion
  • Share your knowledge

on any of the pages in this document

Just click on the Comment button in the upper right corner

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Organize your calendar with colors. Using “Categories”, assign names to various colors and utilize them with items on your calendar. Some examples may be a meetings category, or Training, PLC, Planning, Parent Conference, Tasks, etc.

What’s Your Outlook?

Color Coded Calendar

Meetings

Trainings

PLCs

Lesson Planning

Parent Conference

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NEWSELA

Is now paired with PearDeck

Newsela and Pear Deck are teaming up to create Daily Decks designed to spark student engagement! Each one features an adaptive news article with interactive prompts to get EVERY student learning. These free, ready-to-teach Decks will help you explore news topics with your class while working on literacy, critical thinking skills, and building classroom community!

Each article has been curated by Newsela’s expert team and paired with proven instructional strategies to help your students go deeper with the lessons and prompt classroom conversations. With new articles published every day, there’s never a limit to how much you can explore!

Click this link to find out more and to sign up for the Newsela Daily Deck.

https://www.peardeck.com/newsela-daily-news

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Click the image below to launch an interactive course to learn about the new updates with Discovery Education.

  • Create QR Sign-in codes for students
  • New features on the video player (including language toggle)
  • Create quizzes (Video quiz, standard quiz and live quizzes)
  • New Studio features that include ready-to-use lessons
  • New student homepage
  • Integrates with Canvas

Discovery Ed

Live quiz Access:

  • Invite with a link
  • Invite with a code

Live quiz options:

  • Teacher-Led
  • Student-Led (at student’s own pace)

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I need to edit this PDF!

You can convert PDFs to Docs and then edit them!

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Learn how to determine who edited a cell in Google Sheets.

Learn how to access the various versions of a Google Docs, Sheets or Slides and how to restore a previous version.

Who did that?

Version History

Sheets Edit History

Did you know you can restore a document in Google to a previous version?

The version history allows you to see ALL of the changes that have been made to a document. It also allows you to

select/restore a previous version. So no more worries about someone messing up a document.

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Have you ever needed to get a website easily to another device such as…

  • Student phone
  • Student iPad
  • Personal phone
  • Personal iPad

This is a cool website - how do I get it to my phone?

Easily generate a

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