If you are unfamiliar with Book Creator, it is an app/web software that allows the users to sign in with the Google information and be able to create interactive EBooks. The user interface is both intuitive and user-friendly. All K-2 iPads have Book Creator on the students iPads. And Book Creator can be accessed for Chromebooks at app.bookcreator.com
Recently they have posted an update that allows content to be embedded in the books. The update was from the summer, but due to bugs and technical glitches, the TIS team felt it was better to post now, as it is much more stable. Things to embed include Google Maps, Videos directly from Youtube, Audio Clips, Google Docs, and so much more.
For more information about the update go to https://bookcreator.com/2018/08/you-can-now-embed-content-in-book-creator/
Go to https://bookcreator.com/to learn more about Book Creator and gather some ideas on how to integrate into the classroom!
I know you’ve been using Google Classroom for some time now, but maybe you don’t realize the power of the Google Classroom mobile app for iOS and Android devices. By now, you know that Google Classroom can streamline your classroom paper workflow and is a powerful tool for giving students feedback, but did you know that you can use a stylus with the Google Classroom app, that allows you to “write” virtually on student work submitted through Classroom? You can highlight, circle, add hand written comments and even words of encouragements! It’s awesome. As a former middle school Language Arts teacher, this tool would have been indispensable to me. I wouldn’t miss hauling a giant bag full of essays home. Just my trusty iPad!
Use the below to register for the 2019 METS Virtual Rally, which will be held on February 8, 2019 from 8-11:45 am. 
Want to brush up on your Google Skills? Bookmark this 
As the new laptops are deployed to staff, and once you log in, please notice an icon on the desktop that will take you to a page on the website 
Welcome to the new PCCS Tech blog! We are excited to announce a new way of getting important tech updates and a new way of searching for resources that you have access to. Now, instead of a long newsletter quarterly, a curated collection of blog posts will come to your Gmail inbox each week! We hope this is a more digestible and more immediate way of disseminating information from the Tech Department.
If you haven’t noticed already, Google Apps are no longer available in the Chrome Web Store. Google has phased them out and has had plans to soon announce Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). PWAs will function just like apps on your desktop with icons that can be launched from your desktop just like a conventional program or app. More on this to come, but in the meantime, the only way to get a Chrome Web App is through a direct link from a software provider’s website or via a link that is still present in your already added Chrome Apps Launcher. To read more, 
At the end of the 2017-2018 school year, we relayed messaging from Wayne RESA that we would be the benefactors of a free version of Discovery Streaming via REMC of Michigan. Unfortunately, the information relayed to us was incorrect, and we recently learned that only the Health content will be available with our new login. Since we did not seek budget approval for a Discovery Streaming subscription based on this info, we will not have access to Discovery Streaming any longer. But we have GREAT news!
