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What? Essay writing tips from ChatGPT? 🧐
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Get Google Certified in 2025! Registration for my winter certification cohort it open! This event will sell out...register soon! Hi Reader! Happy Thanksgiving friends! I'm grateful that you have chosen to journey through the world of edTech with me! 🙏 As a small thank you, I am offering a special sale! Anyone who registers for my winter Google Certification Academy (begins Jan. 21) before December 15 will get free access to my Wednesday Webinar program ($99 value). Click here to register! Okay, let's get into the November Google updates! 🎦 Watch on YouTube | ✍️ Read the blog post | 🎧 Listen to the Podcast 1. New templates for Google Slides - select from a collection of new templates for your next presentation. This is a long overdue refresh for Slides! 2. Essay writing tips from OpenAI - While this article is written for higher education students, it has some interesting ideas. If writing is a significant focus in your class, this is worth a read. 3. New Building block templates - Building blocks are reusable pieces of content for Docs. Google is adding a contact list, task tracker, and decision log templates. Building blocks are also being updated to include enhanced title rows to improve data consistency. 4. Google Vids for EDU Plus - If your school has upgraded to EDU plus, you have access to Google Vids, a new video creation for Drive. Vids shares a lot of similarities with Google Slides which makes it easy to use. You can read my review here. 5. Gemini for iPhone - iOS users can now access Gemini through a dedicated app. I have been using Gemini on my Android phone for a while and it’s really great when helping my HS kids with their physics homework. 6. Scholar and Arts & culture celebrate milestones - Google Arts and Culture is celebrating the 200th birthday of London’s National Gallery with a new exhibit and Google Scholar is celebrating 20 years of providing access to research articles through its online database. 7. Machine Learning Crash Course - this course introduces the core concepts on which AI tools are built. This course is ideal for adults who want to better understand generative AI or students who are interested in pursuing a career in coding and programming. 8. How to organize a complex document - my latest YouTube video reviews five ways you can organize and manage a long document such as board meeting minutes, accreditation reports, dissertations, policy manuals, etc. 9. Figjam gratefulness wall - many years ago I designed a Thanksgiving activity using Jamboard. Since Jamboard has entered the Google graveyard, I decided to re-design this activity using Figjam. 10. Thankfulness Turkey - Eric Curts has re-created a classic November activity in Google Slides. This is a great activity for younger students. Happy Thanksgiving! John R. Sowash 📨 Did someone forward this email to you? Click here to add your name to my monthly email list!
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Hi Reader, The Google Admin console has many helpful reports that provide insight into what’s going on on your domain. Strangely, most of these reports are DISABLED by default. The video below will walk you through the process of enabling key policies that will begin collecting useful data on your devices, user activity, and district data. 👉 Don't wait for an incident to realize you're missing crucial information. 💻 Professional Development for teachers For the past 12 years I have been...
✨ Now scheduling summer and fall professional development sessions! ✨ Hi Reader! Over the past few months I have been intentionally experimenting with different ways to incorporate AI into my daily life. Some of them are very helpful, others, not so much (see my fails below)! There is no question that AI tools like Gemini and ChatGPT can improve productivity and access to information, but it’s not exactly the “magic wand” 🪄 that we were promised. As I reflect on the ways that AI is helping...
✨ The winter Google Certification Academy starts January 21. There are only five spots left! Don't miss out! ✨ Hi Reader! This week I am attending the FETC conference in Orlando, Florida. FETC is one of the biggest and best edTech conferences in the United States. If you ever get a chance to attend, do it! One of my FETC sessions is all about integrating AI into Google Classroom. I’ve put together some of the highlights below. I am cautiously optimistic about the use of AI in the classroom....