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This blog post describes Quizlet Live feature in Quizlet. Quizlet live allows for competition among students or groups of students as long as each student or group has a device.

This site contains examples and information for educators looking to use G Suite as a collaboration tool.

Ideas for how to use Shared Google Drive in your classroom

This site provides links to and information about useful free add-ons for Google Docs to make the software even better for classroom experiences.

Lesson plans for middle school age students using Google docs

Provides a number of reasons, with relevant links, to explain why using spreadsheets in the classroom is a good idea.

An article from TEACH Magazine about why Google Drive is a useful tool in the classroom.

Does exactly what it says - provides five different ideas for how you can use Google Docs in the classroom.

This article identifies 10 ways in which Google Docs can be used in the classroom to make your life as a teacher a little easier and to make lessons and assignments more engaging for your students.These ideas are useful, engaging, and purposeful.

This blog focuses on Google Sheets and gives 4 purposeful uses in the classroom. Google Sheets is no longer for math classes! These four ideas are used in any class! The blog includes links to live rubrics as well.

This blog post describes some different ideas for using spreadsheets in the classroom. I thought the timeline was a great idea! It would be a great idea to do at the beginning of the semester with the students.

This site includes some good ideas on quantitative problems to give students to solve using spreadsheets in non-math classes. It also contains examples using PowerPoints with embedded spreadsheets.

Created by Techsmith, the makers of powerful video editing software Camtasia, this video covers some very basic strategies for incorporating videos into classes.

This site briefly addresses a few of the primary ways videos can assist in classroom settings and includes a detailed list of helpful resources.

Provides 10 tips for using student-created video content in the classroom. The ideas provided here can be adapted to suit multiple age levels.

Discusses the benefits of multimedia use in the classroom and new ways to use multimedia within the classroom.The article offrsr suggestions of what types of materials can be used. There are many tools to explore on your own with the suggestions given by the author.

Offers the latest news, updates, commentaries from teachers, IT, and adiministrators regarding multimedia in the classroom. This site offers a snapshot of different articles with links to each article and comments.

This fact sheet from the National Center for Education Statistics provides a good overview of the prevalence of Internet usage in schools in the U.S.

In this article by middle school teacher Stephanie Pinkin discusses the way the Internet and Web 2.0 tools have changed education during the course of her career.

Keep your students engaged and motivated with streaming episodes.

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