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Vol. 2, Issue 11 May 20, 2014
Tech News Tuesday online eNewsletter
IN THIS ISSUE
Schools almost out for Summer! Have fun with these awesome resources:
Focus On – Resources for Teachers
Cool Tool – Blendspace
For the Rookie – How to use Tabbed Web Browsing
Google Apps for Education – What is your MCS Google Account
Mobile App – Adobe Voice for the iPad
Trending Topic – Upcoming Google Classroom tool
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Focus On page 1
Cool Tool page 2
For the Rookie
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Google Apps for Education
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Mobile App page 5
Trending Topic page 6
OpenEd * opened.io Focused on offering Common Core resources. Wealth of Language Arts and Math lessons, games, quizzes, and tests.
Gooru * goorulearning.org K-12 collections of engaging web resources for Science, Math, Social Sciences, Language Arts, and Standards
Common Curriculum * commoncurriculum.com Create your Common Core Lesson plans on the web with easy to use drag and drop features
PBS Learning * ca.pbslearningmedia.org Free educational resources organized by grade level, subject, and standards
Discovery * discoveryeducation.com/teachers Free high quality, engaging, and relevant resources
TeachersFirst * teachersfirst.com Collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time
Global Education Database * gedb.org/courses Real-time directory of educational resources being used in the classrooms around the world
EducatorsTechnology * educatorstechnology.com Resources of educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers
Do2Learn * do2learn.com Special Needs educational resources
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Create lessons within 5 minutes. Easy to use drag and drop features to curate digital content and share lessons online. Collect web resources in one place and share with just one link. Students and Teachers sign-in with their Google Account. Allows content from Google, YouTube, Educreations, Google Drive, Dropbox, OpenEd, Gooru, any video, photo, audio, document, or presentation file. Has built in quiz creation and you can also embed a Blendspace into your website. Great for Differentiated Instruction and Project-Based Learning.
Cool Tool
www.blendspace.com
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For the Rookie
Tabbed Browsing
Tabbed Browsing is a very useful feature that allows you to open multiple websites in a single browser. You can open webpages in a new tab, and switch between them by clicking the tabs you want to view.
a Browser is a program on the computer that allows you to visit webpages and use the Internet. Many Browsers are free such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Find out what browser you are using and make sure it is always updated with www.whatbrowser.org
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Google Apps
for Education Welcome!You now have a Google Account through Modesto
City Schools! This video will share what that means:
MANY WAYS TO GET TO GOOGLE APPS
ON THE WEB
Google Drive drive.google.com
Google Docs docs.google.com
Google Sheets sheets.google.com
Google Slides slides.google.com
Google Form forms.google.com
Google Drawings drawings.google.com
Google Sites sites.google.com
Google Calendar calendar.google.com
Google Keep keep.google.com
ON ANDROID DEVICES
Google Drive app link
Google Docs app link
Google Sheets app link
Google Calendar app link
Google Keep app link
ON APPLE IPHONE IPAD DEVICES
Google Drive app link
Google Docs app link
Google Sheets app link
CHROME WEB STORE
Google Drive app link
Google Docs app link
Google Sheets app link
Google Slides app link
Google Form app link
Google Drawings app link
Google Calendar app link
Google Keep app link
> Click here how to sign-in for your
first time to MCS Google Apps for
Education
> Apps and Extensions and Themes,
Oh My! Click here to find out what it is
all about
> Help and Support is just an email
away for MCS Google Apps for
Education. Email us at
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Mobile App
Story
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Made Fun
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Adobe Voice
http://getvoice.adobe.com
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Trending Topic
Have a great Summer from the folks at
Google Classroom In September 2014 Google will be debuting a new free tool to Google Apps for Education suite called Classroom. It will help teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and communicate with their classes with ease.
> Click here for more information and how to sign-up for a preview
www.google.com/edu/classroom
