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This is part 5 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. Google groups is a service offered by Google to create email listservs. While some of its functionality can be duplicated with Google Classroom, there are times when having a Google Group comes in handy. First, you will need to know if Google Groups is turned…
Anyway, in the case of coding for all, advocates often make an economic claim, one that says American companies will be desperate for new workers to write software, with the numbers often in the hundreds of thousands. Source: CS Is Not The Solution – Assorted Stuff I don’t really know who is talking about the coding…
Quick access to Google services? Bah, I’ve already set up bookmarks for that. But, quick access to documents? Sign me up! Black menu for Google is a customizable toolbar icon designed to give you quick access to Google services and documents. I stumbled across it in the Chrome Web Store, and almost went on by….
The BBC Micro:bit isn’t just a great project board for children, but for anyone who wants to ease themself into programming with a relatively basic device. But what exactly can you do with one of these modest-looking single-board computers (SBC)? Here are some awesome Micro:bit projects to get you started and inspire you. Source: 10…
Being an Mac school, we have use iPhoto (now Photos) a lot to manage all of the photos collected during the school year. But, now that Google offers unlimited storage of photos (it resizes the photos to 2048×2048 for non-Google Apps for Education Users) it makes sense to move photo storage to Google Photos. Getting…