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β¨ Explore Gemini for Education with me! Free webinar April 23, 2025 β¨ Hi Reader! As usual, there are a good number of updates and new features to share this month. Google has been working hard on some pretty cool Gemini features. I'm hosting a free webinar on April 23 to demo and discuss what's new. Details are at the bottom of the email. I hope you had a good spring break...let's check out this month's updates! π± Listen to the Gemini Audio Overview of this email π± βCustom content for Read Along - Teachers in EDU Plus domains can now upload custom content to Read Along. This means you can provide students with reading support for your own stories, articles, and assignments. βGoogle Vids Education Film Festival - teachers can submit their Google Vid creation to be featured in a Google For Education blog post. The submission deadline is May 15, 2025. βNew sidebar menu for Google Slides - this handy menu provides quick access to templates, building blocks, and other features, based on your Google license. βClone yourself in minutes - my latest YouTube video discusses three ways to use video in your classroom. Itβs not as hard as you might think! β5 end of year project ideas - I know it's hard to believe, but the end of the school year is not far away. Take some time to plan an end-of-year project to help students reflect on their learning. βAudio Overview for Gemini - This popular feature first appeared in NotebookLM, but is now available in Gemini as well. It is especially useful when using the βdeep researchβ model. I used this feature to create an audio summary of this email. βCanvas for Gemini - When working on longer, complex writing projects, βCanvasβ makes it easier to use Gemini as a co-writer. This is a great tool to use when developing lesson plans or assignments. β5 advanced Gemini features - Google has added a LOT of impressive features to Gemini. If you arenβt using these, you are missing out! βA Classroom Teacherβs take on AI - Blake Harvard, HS social studies teacher from Madison Alabama, shares his honest thoughts on the incursion of AI in education. βuBlock Origin Lite - you may have noticed that some of your Chrome extensions are no longer available including some popular ad-blockers. uBlock Lite is an alternative that will work, although not quite as well as the original. Let's explore Gemini together!Keeping up with the latest AI updates is hard work! Let me be your guide! Join me for a FREE webinar on April 23 where we'll review the latest Google AI updates and look at some cool new features!
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