April 2020 Tech Tips

Interesting Article from the New York Times:
Coronavirus Ended the Screen-Time Debate. Screens Won.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/technology/coronavirus-screen-time.html


https://whiteboard.fi/#about-section
Easy to use Whiteboard system, you can ask questions and see students answering live on their own whiteboards. Thanks to Elisabeth Jean for the tip.

GoSoapbox https://www.gosoapbox.com/
An online student response clicker system

30 Activities from Apple These activities are great for children ages 4–8+

The full versions of Popplet and PicCollage Edu are currently free on IOS(iPad or iPhone)

Popplet

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/popplet/id374151636?l=

Popplet is a mind mapping app

PicCollage

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/piccollage-edu-collage-maker/id977081997?l=

An easy to use photo editor

February 2020 Tech Tips

Microsoft Report on Education in 2030 Infographic
https://edudownloads.azureedge.net/msdownloads/Microsoft-Staff-2030-Infographic.pdf

Student Selector in Google ClassroomTo randomly call on your students, you can use Classroom’s Student selector. The Student selector randomly picks students from your class roster. You can call on a student, skip a student to call on later, or mark a student as absent.https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/9123699?hl=enhttps://imclient.herokuapp.com/audiorecorder/

Cloud Audio Recorder is a fun, simple and easy to use audio & voice recorder.This audio recorder is a free recorder that can capture any sound, voice made by your computer microphone. You can save the recorded audio to the mp3, wav format. Supports HTML5, Flash recorder. You can also save the audio file to your computer or Google Drive directly.

https://www.citnum.caDévelopper la citoyenneté est devenu essentiel à l'ère du numérique. Amener les futurs citoyennes et citoyens à faire preuve d'autonomie, à agir en étant guidé par une réflexion éthique et à démontrer une vivacité dans leur façon de penser de manière critique.

L'IAJe suis allé à une présentation sur le IA par Valérie Bécaert d'Élément AI à montréal, voici un TED Talk sur le sujet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcqmkJmi10o et voici un bon vidéo qui explique les différents type de IA sur le marché. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrME1t21gc

December 2019 Tech Tips

Just a couple this month:

Cool tips to get more out of Google Docs, Sheets and Slides:

https://gizmodo.com/21-tips-to-make-google-docs-sheets-and-slides-work-for-1840196294

Canva is now free for educators:https://www.canva.com/education/

How Canva can help in your classroom, Infographics. Presentations. Posters. Documents. With Canva, you can create anything you can imagine.

Get all the pro features for free.

November 2019 Tech Tips

Google Slides:

I know this should have been available a long time ago but by the end of the month you will be able to insert audio in Google Slides

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/11/slides-audio-update.html

Google Earth:

Brand new Google Earth Stories feature allows you to build a story from different locations adding interesting facts or build a narrative. Collaborate with others to build an amazing experience. Only on Google Earth Web via a laptop/desktop but the experiences can be shared to IOS or Android devices as well.

https://www.blog.google/products/earth/new-google-earth-creation-tools/

Phishing:

Just a small reminder against phishing attacks such as the one we got this week with Hal's Email address, here is a brief article to help detect these attacks.

Stop That Phish | SANS Security Awareness

For a brief quiz to try to beat the scammers try Google’s Phishing Quiz

Jigsaw | Phishing Quiz

Presenter Coach:

A free service from microsoft and available to everyone (you will need to setup a Microsoft account, you can use your selwyn email to generate this). This service allows you to run a presentation and an AI will give you pointers and a grade approximation on how well you did.

You can read Richard Byrnes analysis of the service and how to convert your slides document to work with the service as well.

How to Use Presenter Coach as a Google Slides User

Green Screen: 

I found this great ressources that outlines very easy, classroom projects and tools (mainly doink green screen) with loads of links.

Green Screen Magic | Smore Newsletters for Education

September 2019 Tech Tips

ios 13 and iPadOS: Apple has released a new version of ios on iPhone and iPad. on iPad especially we have a bunch of changes to multitasking, gestures and pencil tools. Here is a video that goes over all the new stuff, it's quite long but you can skim through sections. IOS 13 Features & Gestures

Kahoot!: Kahoot has a new creator tool to build even better quizzes. 

Seesaw: New Creative Tools allow to have a sort of Explain Everything(Whiteboard) features.

Remixed Conference hosted by LEARN, this free conference is a great mix of presentations and presenters. The conference takes place at Concordia downtown.

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