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Decorate a Christmas Tree with Google Slides

By Eric Curts

This is a great way for students to be creative and to work on their writing skills by describing or writing about their holiday traditions, plans, or memories.

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3 Things I'm Proud of This Week: Explosive Disposal. A Few Good Men

By Ramsey Musallam

This week students were challenged to solve this case taken directly from the movie A Few Good Men.

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How to Organize Class Project Groups to Support Our Students’ Future of Work #WanderlustEDU #FOW

By Micah Shippee

In a gig-based economy our students will find themselves working on asynchronous teams in different geographies, different times, and with different cultures. How then can we prepare them for this workflow?

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What's New in Google - September 2019

By Eric Curts

Find out what's new in G Suite for September.

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Spice Up Your Slides with 600+ Free Design Templates

By Eric Curts

In this blog post we will look at over 600 design theme templates for you and your students to use in your creations.

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Google Slides for "Lab Reports" (update)

By Ramsey Musallam

This school year I have decided to streamline the process, adding instructions, embedded video, and rubrics to the slide template students will work in.

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Google Slides Short and Long Vowel Sounds Audio Activity

By Eric Curts

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4 Free and Easy Audio Recording Tools for Google Slides

By Eric Curts

It is wonderful that we finally have the option to add audio directly to a slide!

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Add Videos to Slides with the Screencastify Add-on

By Eric Curts

Technology should empower our students to seamlessly create, express, and share their ideas.

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Google Slides Has Easy Peasy Accessible Closed Captions

By Lisa Nielsen

Closed captioning helps students during presentations by making content more accessible and inclusive.

Google Slides Lab Report: A Simple, Tangible, Reasonable Solution

By Ramsey Musallam

My final "stack of papers" to grade was a shared folder full with our final lab practical reports: a group experiment where students determined the optimal H2-O2 ratio to fill a 2L bottle fo for maximum product upon ignition.

How To Stop Google Slides from Auto-Advancing When You Click On Them

How To Stop Google Slides from Auto-Advancing When You Click On Them

By Micah Shippee