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A quick way to randomize students with Google Sheets **Update**
UPDATE October 2020 – Google Sheets now has a randomize range option. I’ve also created a video demonstrating the randomize range option. Use the randomize range option With the randomize range option, it’s a piece of cake to randomize a list of students. Let’s say you have a list of students: To randomize the range,…
ⓔ Google’s Education on Air Archive of May 8 & 9, 2015
Google held an online conference this past weekend and has now put up the footage of each of the presentations. There are keynotes from Tia Lendo, Michelle Obama, and LeVar Burton along with some very fascinating sessions. I’ve embedded a few of my favorites, but you’ll probably want to visit the website! (The first two…
Add your projector or smartboard into your hybrid teaching in a Google Meet #YouTube
When using Google Meet, sometimes you’ll want to bring in another device, for example your desktop computer that is hooked to the projector. By using the Present button to join the meet, you can bring what’s on your projector into the Google Meet. This helps when you’re stuck in the hybrid teaching mode with students…
Google, Microsoft, and Cisco are making their full conferencing tools free because of the coronavirus
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Downloading your Google Slides presentations as images
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