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Weekly Tech Tips 6 June 2021

 Dear Friends,


WHAT! For Pete’s sake Scott, I’m on vacation dude. Leave me alone.


Weekly Tech Tips


Google Takeout:

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout and or Transfer: https://takeout.google.com/transfer 

Takeout Tutorial

https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2020/05/google-takeout.html?m=1

Just video

https://youtu.be/iBXet3by4SU


Great example of what many districts are doing with EdTech PD:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vPpaBmJ7zv-BLQhClK4ZoCNfW6yRtOJvD7CtybDYZM/edit



I signed up for a Schoolytics account. Somehow, even though we use no fewer than 4 different LMSs, we do not have access to this kind of analytic data. If you use Google Classrooms (A FIFTH LMS) like I do, you too can sign up for a free Schoolytics account.


I get a lot of ideas and tips from Mr. Raphael’s Android Intelligence. Useful tips every week. Sign up here:

https://www.androidintel.net/refer/?rh_ref=fe2c21e8


This Summer’s Courses and Resources


The Google Certified Educator Level 1 course on Google Classroom is still there and will remain there for as long as it is relevant: Login to Google Classroom and input class code: 76trm2u or go here:

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ5Mjg3ODQ1MjZa?cjc=76trm2u


Harvard Graduate School of Education (Free Courses at the Bottom)


Interested in how to use Chromebooks for education? Take this month long course with John Sowash via Google Classroom:

June 7 - July 9 2021


Wakelet Community Week

https://wakelet.com/@CommunityWeek2021


Active Learning for a Post Pandemic World

This has Prof Mazur on the panel. The guy who co-developed Perusall.

Prof. Mazur's video (again) 

Remote Teaching Was a Disaster. Was It?


MITx Summer Offerings

I'm taking the thermodynamics course. Study buddies?


“This past year, dining tables became desks. Chat rooms became classrooms. School is no longer just one place–it’s many. Now, we have the unique opportunity to turn this new normal into a better normal. And it starts with your invitation to The Anywhere School 2021, a free livestream event that gives education leaders, IT administrators, and teachers the product updates and tools to prepare for – and rebuild – the future of learning.”

Hi GSIS educator friends! @GoogleForEdu is hosting livestream event on 6/22 & 23 called #TheAnywhereSchool.

Register to be the first to preview new #GoogleEdu features dropping next school year. RSVP here:

goo.gle/tas21 (English)

goo.gle/tas21-es (Spanish)


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Have a great summer!

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