Google Takeout, learning from Ikea, and formative assessments – Top 3 of the week

Google Takeout, learning from Ikea, and formative assessments – Top 3 of the week

Google offers two options to students and staff to take your data with you when you leave Google Takeout lets you download or transfer your data. Enhancing student learning through the IKEA effect More evidence of taking ownership increases learning. Quiznetic lets you build interactive formative assessments Tired of Kahoot? Try Quiznetic.

Google offers two options to students and staff to take your data with you when you leave

Google offers two options to students and staff to take your data with you when you leave

If you are a student who is graduation or a staff member leaving a G Suite for Education district, Google offers two options for you to take your date with you. You can download your data or transfer the data to a personal account. Downloading your data Google has offered the ability to download your…

Google is adding a Personal search tab

Google is adding a Personal search tab

Under the More tab on the search results tab Google is adding a Personal tab. Selecting it searches your personal information stored in Google. Selecting Personal searches for matching data in your Calendar, Gmail, and Photos. It doesn’t appear to search Google Drive for content though. The Personal tab is only showing for personal accounts right now, and there isn’t any…

Chromebook printing without Cloudprint, free art books, and build a city block – Top 3 of the week

Chromebook printing without Cloudprint, free art books, and build a city block – Top 3 of the week

Printing to local network printers without Cloudprint I can now print to my wireless Brother printer at home without setting up a Cloudprint server. The Guggenheim now has over 200 art books available for free Who does love free stuff? Especially when it’s from the Guggenheim! Brick Block is a neat “build your own city…

Printing to local network printers without Cloudprint

Printing to local network printers without Cloudprint

Chromebooks recently gained the experimental ability to print to local printers with the release of Chrome OS Version 57 to the stable channel. That’s great news if you want to use a Chromebook with network printers that don’t support Google Cloud Print. Local printing also allows you to print when your internet connection is down or…

Working on your smartphone, Microsoft and Apple battle, textspeak in college – Top 3 for the week

Working on your smartphone, Microsoft and Apple battle, textspeak in college – Top 3 for the week

Don’t assume I’m not working because I’m on my phone Smartphones do more than Snapchat or Facebook! Microsoft And Apple Target Schools In War With Chromebook Competition means more choices in the classroom. Textspeak doesn’t work in college Formal rules still exist.

Chromebook focus, Flipgrid, and WriteReader – Top 3 for the week

Chromebook focus, Flipgrid, and WriteReader – Top 3 for the week

Forest is a really cool Chrome extension to help teachers and students focus Help students stay off of distracting sites. Using Flipgrid in your class for video responses Neat way to enhance class discussions. Use WriteReader with students for digital publishing and classroom ebooks Web based digital publishing platform for students.

Twitch will air all episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood starting on May 15th

Twitch will air all episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood starting on May 15th

First there was Bob, then Julia, and now we’d like you to meet Fred. But you can call him Mister Rogers. We are incredibly excited to announce an all episodes marathon of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood starting on May 15th at 12:00pm PT. All 886 episodes — including many episodes that have only aired once or are unavailable elsewhere online — will stream consecutively on twitch.tv/misterrogers….