Into the Driver's Seat

A fully customizable yearly planner (you can change colors, fonts, add stickers - it comes with more than 100!) All links set!

 

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Sometimes we receive worksheets in PDF from our daughter's teachers for her to work on. Our printer doesn’t work very well, and I know some of the families don't have a printer at home, so in order to make the PDF editable for her and her classmates to complete using a computer, I use Google Slides..

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Google Slides isn't just for delivering presentations to an audience. Here are 30 activities that bring interactive learning to students.

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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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Did you know you can edit images inside Google Docs and Slides? In just a few clicks, you and your students can add some pizazz to your images in Google Docs and Google Slides! Editing images give you the ability to add a professional touch to your presentations and documents. Some of these features are a bit hidden, but once you see the possibilities, your docs and slides will never be the same. No need for fancy Photoshop software to do simple cropping, add a border, a drop shadow, or even mask an image into a shape!

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Play Farkle in Google Slides Previously I had blogged on playing Farkle and provided a template in Google Slides and Google Sheets. The Google Sheets spreadsheet had a menu I coded to allow students to roll dice within the spreadsheet. I think using actual dice is better but when we do not have access to …

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PowerPoint is awesome, but here's the truth: some of the default features of PowerPoint can lead you down the path of creating horrible PowerPoint slides

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Free pattern backgrounds that you can create yourself in PowerPoint. Use geometric pattern background and abstract pattern backgrounds for amazing designs!

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Free Technology for Teachers

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I’m fascinated by hyperdocs so I created this notebook template with tabs as a simple packaging for them. As usual, if you want to use it for something else, you can edit the titles of the tabs by clicking on Edit > Find and Replace. Colors are editable within the master, go to Slide > Edit Master and change the theme colors.Do not delete or add slides, duplicate the existing ones so you don’t have to add the links again.

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Last week I published a short post about a neat new service called Video Puppet . Video Puppet will take your PowerPoint slides an

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For teachers and students, Slides is one of the most versatile free tools offered by Google. This post explains what Google Slides is, how to use it, and lots of creative classroom examples. Also find out how to embed Slides into blog posts if you're using Edublogs, CampusPress, or WordPress.

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Ryan O’Donnell ryan@creativeedtech.com @creativeedtech “I Didn’t Know Slides Could Do That”! Then go to “Trainings” www.creativeedtech.com

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Earlier this year I excitedly shared the Google Slides Add-on called AudioPlayer for Google Slides. The video tutorial that I made fo

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PowerPoint is awesome, but here's the truth: some of the default features of PowerPoint can lead you down the path of creating horrible PowerPoint slides

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Quick Slides are a simple, beautiful and powerful way to add text and images to complement your regular Mentimeter questions, with one twist - your audience can interact and engage with your slides. No matter if you are presenting

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