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G Suite Updates is the official feed from the G Suite team and provides essential information about new features and improvements for G Suite customers. Click “Subscribe by email” for a link to add your email address. Or at least bookmark the GSuite Product Updates site to check out what’s happening as new releases occur.

For example, you can keep up to date on features that will both benefit your students AND you!

Learn that Google Sites just added the ability to create image carousels: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/05/create-img-carousel-sites.html

Learn that Google Sheets just added the ability to remove duplicates and trim whitespace: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-sheets-features-may.html

Learn that Google Slides now includes automatic, real-time, closed captioning: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/10/automatic-real-time-captions-google-slides.html

Learn that Google just revamped their GSuite Learning Center

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Google Experiments hosts an ever-expanding collection of experiments, some of which have an educational component. Consider for example NotableWomen.com, an AR experiment that lets anyone see 100 historic American women on U.S. currency. The site includes Common Core Standards aligned lesson plans for grades 3-12.

Consider 20 Years With Google, an interactive visualization of Google Search queries. You can explore Google searches as a way of understanding our culture over the past 20 years!

Consider Groove Pizza, a playful tool for creating grooves using math concepts like shapes, angles, and patterns.

The possibilities are quite endless actually, have you and your students check ’em out: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/

Do you enjoy helping others? Are you passionate about edtech? Do you consider yourself a Google tools expert? If you answered, “Yes,” becoming a Google Certified Trainer might be for you!

Google for Education Certified Trainers are education professionals who help other teachers effectively incorporate technology into their classrooms. You might be an especially good fit for the program if you’re an instructional technology coach or specialist, but anyone can apply!

You can also take online workshops or in-person workshops to help you along with the process. See below for more info on two popular options:

Benefits of Attending the
Google Certification Academy via gEducator.com

• The 3 benefits of becoming a certified Google educator
• Content checklists to identify areas that you need to study before taking your exam.
• Exclusive study guides that you won’t find on the internet!
• Sample exam questions to give you experience with the unique question format of the Level 1 and 2 exams.
• Exclusive lesson templates you can take back to your classroom.
• Your guide to becoming a Google Certified Trainer
• Lifetime access to the GCA community
• A detailed roadmap to finishing your certification before school begins in the fall.
• Access to the Certification Reboot course in Google Classroom

Benefits of Attending the
Google Certification Academy via Shake Up Learning

• 50 Video Lessons (hands-on learning with Kasey Bell)
• 20+ PDF Downloadable Study Material
• Lesson Checks
• Private Community & Study Group
• Testing Tips
• Level 1 Challenges (testing scenarios)
• BONUS: This course includes the entire Google Classroom Master Class!
• 12 hours of Professional Learning Credit
• and MUCH MORE!

Summer is the perfect time to take advantage of REMC’s FREE Virtual Courses.

Seven courses are offered in June and begin on Monday, June 3.  Deadline for registration is Friday, May 31.  Each course is open for three weeks and consists of two (2) one-hour webinars and four (4) to eight (8) hours of resource review, assessment developments and written reflection.  SCECHs are available, ranging from 6 – 10, depending on the course.

• Enhancing Instruction for All Learners
• Increasing Efficiency and Productivity
• Authentic Student Learning & Gamification
• The What, Why, and How of Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Social Media: Professional Development through Social Media, Level 1
• Literacy Instruction and Technology: Foundational Elements, Level 1
• Inquiry and Questioning: Igniting Student Curiosity with Technology, Level 1

READ MORE and REGISTER

The REMC Apple Professional Learning Series 2019 offers educators a variety of learning opportunities that leverage the use of iPads, Apple resources and using SWIFT for app development. All sessions are FREE and 2 days in length.  You may register for one, two or three sessions across the three locations: Ingham ISD, July 31 & August 1 Kent ISD,  August 6 & 7 Washtenaw ISD, August 14 & 15 (nearest location relative to P-CCS) There is no cost for the sessions and SCECHs are free.  Lunch is provided each day. Read More and Register

Michigan educators and students are taking note of the increasing career opportunities in the field of coding, along with growth in drone film production, drone aerial photography, and drone engineering.

In response, REMC is launching a brand new training course for teachers, “Coding and Drones.” This REMC project combines coding and the art of aerial drone control. 

Register and learn more here: https://www.remc.org/Core/News/Article/1289

If you’re not using Flipgrid already in your classroom, we are totally flipping out on you! It’s flipping awesome and your kids are going to flipping LOVE it…but we digress.

Please check out this great blog on why Flipgrid is great, how it solves teacher troubles, and more importantly, supports your students’ learning!

Blog: “Why I am Flipping for Flipgrid”

While you’re over on Medium, be sure to browse around for more amazing topical blogs. Medium is awesome.

Get a free copy of this eBook or podcast from Shake Up Learning on digital choice boards! Blended learning has many flavors, but one thing it has in common is providing more voice and choice for students. Creating digital choice boards for your students is a great way to implement small group instruction, differentiate, and create universal design for learning and opportunity for all students.

The Teacher’s Guide to Digital Choice Boards

Get your FREE copy of The Teacher’s Guide to Digital Choice Boards here.

For EVEN MORE on blended learning, visit: https://sites.google.com/pccsk12.com/nearpod-blended-learning/blended-learning

Using games for review and/or formative assessment is a great way to make learning fun and engaging. Instead of calling on a few students during a review, every student is accountable for reviewing, practicing, and learning important information.

• Games keep student’s attention focused on review.
  
• Games allow for much easier cumulative review so students don’t forget the information you want them to know.
  
• Games create challenges for a high score or fastest completion to increase competition between students and award excellence.
  
• Games are great for bellringers, before or after a lesson presentation, and/or at the end of class.

Do you GOT GAME? Try this one!

WISC-ONLINE GAMES

The feature seems pretty easy to use. If you are accessing Gmail through the browser, after you’ve composed the email, you click the arrow next to the send button, click Scheduled send and then choose when to have it send. 

Note, if you don’t see the down arrow, log out and back into your Google account to have the feature load.

If you are accessing the service through the Gmail app, tap the three stacked dots next to the send arrow, then select Schedule send. Again, a menu will appear that lets you pick when you want the message to be sent.

If you later choose to reschedule the message, you can do that by opening the email and repeating the above steps, or you can choose to delete it.