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"It's easy to get intimidated when you start thinking "I have only 25 minutes to write my essay for the SAT"."

"This process uses Near Field Communication (NFC), a feature we've talked about once before. You've probably even seen it in commercials, where people share playlists and perform other actions just by touching their phones together. Those uses haven't really caught on, but NFC tags will work anywhere-they're basically tiny stickers, keychains, and other trinkets that perform tasks when you tap them with your phone."

Marco Torres "screenr" of how to use Webspiration

Thought provoking article from eSchool News about "Teaching innovation in our schools".

"My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development. I say "My" in the loosest sense of ownership really, as with all of the presentations they belong to us all. I just kickstart them and point them off in the right direction."

"Welcome to the Google Apps for Education Training Center. This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context"

"Assuming you've got all your copyright concerns in order, it's now as easy as pie. You no longer need a 3rd party service to "Strip" the video from the page-apparently YouTube has now opened up saving the videos directly from the site itself."

Very well done tutorial on how to use Google Takeout for migrating Google documents and items from a GAFE domain to a personal account. 

"Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. Course Builder contains software and instructions for presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and assessments. It also contains instructions for using other Google products to create a course community and to evaluate the effectiveness of your course. To use Course Builder, you should have some technical skills at the level of a webmaster. In particular, you should have some familiarity with HTML and JavaScript."

Thought provoking post about screencasting.   However, how about using screencasts as method of assessing student learning?

"The Family Handyman is the DIYers best friend, offering a variety of print and digital resources for do-it-yourself homeowners. Our forte is accurate and complete how-to instructions for improving homes, yards and vehicles. "

Learn how to annotate/grade assignments within Google Classroom.

Learn how to share information with parents within Google Classroom.

Customize how the stream appears in Google Classroom.

Looking for ways to schedule a lab? How about Transfering ownership or eliminating choices on a Google form if already taken? Check these scripts out.