Monday, April 15, 2019

April 2019 Tech Tips

Wooclap: Awesome, free live quiz and audience interaction tool, https://www.wooclap.com/
You can ask multiple choice questions, polls, find on image, word cloud, open questions, guessing, matching....

Sign out of all other Google sessions, sometimes you login to many devices with your user login information. If you ever doubt that maybe you forgot to log off of a device you can simply go to Gmail, scroll allthe way down bottom right corder and click on details. You will be able to see all your open sessions and force a log off all of them at once.

Google @ or + mentions: If you are in a google docs, slides or sheets file and want to bring to the attention a specific passage or block of text, you can highlight do a comment. Within you comment add @ or + followed by the name of the person you wish to send a specific email notification to about the comment. It also informs other collaborators who the comment is for.

Google @ and + signs followed by a name can be used anywhere within the body of an email to automatically add recipients in the To: field.

The @name also becomes underlined and blue and is clickable to instantly compose another email to just that person, the blue is a quick indicator for people to see what part of the email concerns them.

Here is an example:

Quickly create a new Google document:  Just type these into your  web browser to launch a new document, spreadsheet, slide, or form.

Docs: doc.new, docs.new, document.new
Forms: form.new, forms.new
Sheets: sheet.new, sheets.new, spreadsheet.new
Sites: site.new, sites.new, website.new
Slides: slides.new, deck.new, presentation.new

Slight variations also seem to work. For instance, you can type “docs.new” instead of “doc.new” to open a document. Want to have quick access to these shortcuts? Just save them as browser bookmarks.


Monday, February 11, 2019

February 2019 Tech Tips


Its been a bit too long since my last update but here is a bunch of cool tech tips. and I am already working on the next batch for next month.

Google Canvas, not to be confused with Canva the free banner, poster creation tool. Google Canva is like an online version of Paper53 or Paint you can use to create quick drawings and export them to use in your projects.

https://canvas.apps.chrome/

App Launcher: Create an easy to access Chrome app launcher that can also have all your apps (Google Tools)  organised the way you like and even add quick commands for google.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apps-launcher/ijmgkhchjindcjamnckoiahagecjnkdc?hl=en

Adobe Color CC: Ever wanted to search up a colour and see what would be complementary or work best for presentations, layouts ,etc... Adobe has a great colour tool that helps you make those decisions.
https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/


Genially https://www.genial.ly/en
A great platform to create interactive images that can link to sites, pop up videos.


17 little known tips, tricks and hacks for google in the classroom presented by Edsurge


Google Earth Educator Portal: Loads of resources on how to harness the power of Google Earth and Maps to enhance education. https://www.google.com/earth/education/resources/?All+categories=Voyager


Google Etch a Sketch: Just for fun a digital version of the old Etch a Sketch.

Monday, December 17, 2018

December 2018 Tech Tips

Here are few tech tips for over the holidays,

Google Slides now allows you to have Closed Captioning for your presentation, only available in english, you can have the system write down everything your saying, live, a bit like the voice typing feature. https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/accessibility/whats-you-say-present-captions-google-slides/

Loads of Christmas Activities https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
As of the 24th follow the Santa Tracker.

Semaine numériqc à l'école http://www.snqcecole.com/ La Semaine numériQC à l’école propose des projets pédagogiques actuels et stimulants pour les élèves du 1er cycle du secondaire et leurs enseignants. Thématique 2018-19 Médias sociaux, citoyenneté numérique, blogue, robotique, programmation. Dès le début janvier.

Apple - Everyone Can Create guides in french and english
Tools for teaching, ressources and easy to download guides on music, drawing, photography and video

Google 2018 Overview video, just a fun video

Friday, November 9, 2018

Food for thought on education English & Français Nov 2018

In English

1. World Teacher Day Google Video

2. The Glossary of Education Reform is a comprehensive online resource that describes widely used school-improvement terms, concepts, and strategies.


 En Français


2. Article du journal de québec 

Des bulletins sans lettres ni pourcentages


3. L'indentité numérique, Commision scolaire de laval

4. ÉducArt est une invitation à découvrir la collection du Musée par des ressources pédagogiques en ligne, superbe platforme interactive.

Tech Tips November 2018 & Ed Tech Teacher Conference

This week, myself, Sylvain Decelles, Elisabeth Jean and Stephanie Lafortune went to the Ed Tech Teacher Summit in Boston. 


We compiled all the presentation links into a padlet to share with you. Elisabeth added also some sketchnotes she created of different sessions.

I am very happy that Elisabeth Jean co-presented with me at the conference on AR & VR in the classroom, here is a direct link to our presentation tinyurl.com/arvrinclassroom

One of the projects we presented was a small guided tour of Selwyn House in french produced by students, once you open it click the gear and turn on narration. https://poly.google.com/view/9i-dqlfSJou

Pushed out Google Add-ons

You may have noticed some additional add-ons pushed out to your Chrome browser namely Talk & comment, Screencastify and Checkmark, instead of writting about each app, I made a a small tutorial video for each one.



Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Conférence Repenser l'école

En fin de semaine, j'ai eu l'opportunité de faire partie de Repenser l'école. Cette conférence gratuite mais sur invitation, qui fût au musée des beaux arts dans des locaux fantastique, crée des équipes mixes de gens diversent et leur donnent une journée pour préparer un pitch sur une école repenser. Il y a quelques consignes mais il y a beaucoup de liberté. Durant la journée de 9:00am à 9:00pm, le samedi, tu travailles en équipe pendant que des experts neurologue, directrice d'institutions, des membres de la communauté ed tech, architect/designer circule à travers les groupes pour vous donner des conseils et vous guide dans vos réflections. Le dimanche, tu fais ton pitch de 5 minute devant une audience. On a aussi eu la chance d'entendre Marc-André Carignan entrevue ledevoir à propos de son livre sur l'état physique des écoles.

Pour présenter notre projet final, nous avons fait un site web www.lesjardinsdedemain.ca

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

September 2018 Tech Tips & Free PD

I plan on going to many conferences this year so stay tuned for many updates and cool ideas in the next few months.



Flipgrid
Wow a great free service for gathering short video answers to questions and giving feedback. Also supports single sign-on with google.

Bookcreator
Big update, you can now embed almost anything, youtube videos, google maps, web pages, etc... Definitely worth discovering.

Google Classroom 
Want to know more about the 2018 redesign check out this article for all the details

Seesaw PD tutorials, so many to choose from: https://web.seesaw.me/professional-development/

Free PD conference in-person and online

Remixed Ed conference 
at concordia sort of an ed camp style conference organized in partnership with LEARN http://www.remixedcamp.ca/home

Le cadre21 offre toutes ces formations en ligne gratuitement en lien avec la nouvelle stratégie numérique http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/dossiers-thematiques/plan-daction-numerique/plan-daction-numerique/

October 2020 Tech Tips

  See the future, I always like sharing these hints at what the next 5-10 years could look like. Microsoft just showcased a video and it eve...