Google made a lot of announcements at Google NEXT
Here is a list of the popular one https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/googlecloudnext-edu/ I have outlined my favorites and added one not annonced but really awesome.
1. Insert Audio in Google Slides
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/04/add-audio-to-slides.html
2. Edit Office Files including Word, Excel, Powerpoint without needing to convert to Google format and allow to collaborate as well.
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/04/office-editing.html
3.Live Captions in Hangout Meet: First introduced in Google Slides, closed caption allows you to have a have a written bar at the bottom with everything being said. The system uses your microphone to use text to speech, and write what your are saying. This is now available to online sessions using Google Meet. Currently only available in english.
https://gsuiteupdates.gooork gleblog.com/2019/04/live-captions-in-meet.html
4. Schedule Email, write now send later: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/04/write-now-send-later-with-schedule-send.html
5. Google Assistant with Work and School accounts: The Google Assistant is what powers your android device but also your Google Home and minis. For unknown reasons you could not use your school account calendar with these devices. Now you can,
https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/7219584?hl=en
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
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.
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.
Loads of Christmas Activities https://
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.
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
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
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