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Minecraft is coming to Chromebooks

Byryan July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

Microsoft announced the Minecraft: Education Edition Chromebook Beta is now open for people to try! There are a few caveats with the beta:

Minecraft is the Android version, so your Chromebook must support the Google Play store.
You can’t use a managed account (I would assume this means a managed Chromebook too).
You’ll need a Microsoft account

There is a FAQ available to answer your other questions. The Microsoft account requirement will be an issue for non-Microsoft 365 school districts, but it is not insurmountable. There is a free 365 tier that school districts can use, and there is only one caveat when using both G Suite for Education and Microsoft 365 in the same school district. Email can only be used one or the other. So, if you are currently a Google school, your district can sign up for Microsoft 365 and use everything in it except email.

The good news is that this version will be fully compatible with Minecraft for other operating systems

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The Googlefication of the American classroom

Byryan May 26, 2017May 31, 2017

In the space of just five years, Google has helped upend the sales methods companies use to place their products in classrooms. It has enlisted teachers and administrators to promote Google’s products to other schools. It has directly reached out to educators to test its products — effectively bypassing senior district officials. And it has…

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Free mind mapping software for Google Drive

Byryan June 25, 2016June 25, 2016

Using the open source MindMup MapJs software, Mindmup 2.0 offers free online mind mapping software with Google Drive integration. Mindmup works like other mind mapping software, where you can map out thoughts and ideas through the use of children or siblings boxes, all interconnected. The node can consist of boxes or images, although there isn’t a clip art library…

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Power through that first draft with Write

Byryan April 25, 2019April 24, 2019

I’ve mentioned the world’s Most Dangerous Writing App, and to join it, I bring you Write. You select a time limit and start writing. Don’t stop, or you will lose everything you’ve written. When done, it will save your document to your local machine. Students will want to copy/paste their document into their word processor…

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Make tables prettier in Google Docs with the Table Formatter add-on

Byryan December 4, 2019December 2, 2019

Source: Table Formatter – Google Docs add-on Sure, you could set the background color and text color yourself, but the computer is supposed to make things easier! The Table Formatter add-on gives you the ability to style your tables, making them stand out like never before.

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Handy, Overlooked YouTube Features – Free Tech 4 Teachers

Byryan June 27, 2016

YouTube offers a bunch of handy editing tools that often go overlooked by users. One of those is the option to rotate videos that have been shot in vertical mode when they should have been shot horizontally. Source: Free Technology for Teachers: Handy, Overlooked YouTube Features A great video showing off these YouTube features.

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Android apps are coming to Chromebooks, and it’s going to be huge

Byryan May 20, 2016May 20, 2016

Google announced at its I/O 2016 Developer Conference that Chromebooks will soon be able to run Android apps, opening up a library of 1.5 million apps for use on the Google Chromebooks. The implications are pretty big for education, and it’s happening this year. The numbers Chromebooks now make up over half of the devices…

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