June 2019 Tech Tips

Smart compose on mobile

You will notice after the recent upgrade that google has added Smart Compose, that cool function that kind of knows what your about to type in a light grey colour. Just swipe to autocomplete.

Resources pour créer des jeux d’évasion

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13enkwnK5KS4sKC0Zh_oGSXX1i0SAxo9EtxgvouYqU_8/htmlview

Branché et futé

Le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada a produit une bande dessinée romanesque intitulée Branchés et futés : Internet et vie privée pour aider les jeunes à naviguer en ligne en comprenant bien les risques d’atteinte à leur vie privée. Lien

Google Education PD: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfz2dsqC08

Google has released a global status report on education and added a series of videos by teachers about how to take advantage of ed tech to enhance your lessons.

https://edu.google.com/latest-news/future-of-the-classroom/?modal_active=none

Seesaw Update

Seesaw has a few interface changes https://web.seesaw.me/creative-tools

Three fun Games

GeoGuesser

https://www.geoguessr.com

Based on a street view image, try to guess the location.

QuickDraw

https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com

Quickly Draw and have an AI try to guess

Akinator

https://en.akinator.com/game

Think of a character and have Akinator figure it out using a bunch of Yes and No Questions, some questions are a bit risky but it works.

May 2019 Tech Tips

Annoncé au Sommet du numérique par le ministre de l'Éducation :

le Cadre de référence de la compétence numérique


Ce cadre de référence vise à favoriser le développement de la compétence numérique dans l’ensemble de la communauté éducative pour que les Québécoises et les Québécois soient autonomes et critiques dans leur utilisation du numérique. Cette habileté est primordiale dans le contexte actuel, marqué par des innovations technologiques qui transforment le marché de l’emploi et influent sur les compétences recherchées par les employeurs. En ce sens, il est nécessaire d’adapter la pratique enseignante et d’inclure la compétence numérique dans les programmes éducatifs pour préparer les futurs travailleurs et travailleurs aux défis de demain.

http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/ministere/Cadre-reference-competence-num.pdf

Ce document est en lien avec le Plan d'action numérique annoncé l'année passée et va être bonifié dans les mois à venir.

Google Classroom student picker 

Available on the IOS version, you can randomly choose a student to answer a question or choose to skip or hide a student if he is absent.

https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9123699?hl=en

Google Earth Timelapse

Go anywhere on earth and replay the last 34 years of satelitte footage to see areas grow, environmental disasters impact, etc...

https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/  

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Create a random medieval town, which you can change colors, add text, change shapes, etc...

https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator  

Google NEXT announcements

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

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:

@Jasmin Nuhanovic 

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.

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

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-03-16-17-little-known-tips-tricks-and-hacks-for-using-google-in-the-classroom

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.

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

http://g.co/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.

3. The Dos and Don'ts of Classroom Decorations

 En Français

1. Ressources d'integration des technologies dans plusieurs sujets.

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.