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Source: Workbench Google Workbench is a repository of lesson plans that you can find through search. The search allows you to drill down through grade levels, content, project duration, and learning standards. Lessons can be assigned through Google Classroom or Clever. It’s all free, but they do have some premium features if you want to…
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I was sitting through a presentation at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference when on one of the slides I thought I saw a progress bar for the number of slides in the presentation at the bottom of the slide. The bar was a mirage, but that started me on the trek to add progress bars…
Getting started with an RSS reader #YouTube
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Google has updated the grading tools and gradebook in Classroom
Google for Education’s mission is to help improve learning outcomes for students around the world. We do this by giving teachers tools that make their day to day more efficient and collaboration with students more effective, so students can get the feedback and attention they need to grow. Teachers have told us they want to…