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Quick help guide for teachers and students who use Google Classroom.

"Real World Delivered to the Classroom. Nepris connects teachers and students with the right industry experts, virtually without having to spend much planning time or leaving the classroom while providing an effective way for companies to extend education outreach and create equity of access."

"Google Classroom has the potential for a variety of assessments within the platform and even more ways to provide feedback to students. The following shares what I've learned using this workflow over the last four years, including some of the new features on the most recent update at the beginning of the 2018 school year. "

"It starts with an image. Define the image through multimedia.  Present ideas.  Pack it full of content. Create links to amazing sites. Explore, share and create with ThingLink in the classroom!"

"I've never been a big believer in teaching to a test. Indeed, since my first year in the classroom I've used a project-based model with my science and social studies classes."

Consider these areas when considering flipping your classroom.

Excellent tips on working with students in a 1:1 classroom when they are working on projects.

Videos about flipping your classroom

"What are best practices to make a flipped classroom model work?"

"Managing tablets as learning tools in the classroom is not easy, especially when many kids use them largely as toys outside of school, if they have access to a tablet in their home environment. Kids often come to school and instinctively want to engage with a tablet as a toy, expecting to be free to play the games they want to play and explore the apps they are interested in. To get kids to shift into tablet as learning tool, teachers are finding that instilling fair, reasonable and consistent classroom habits in tablet learning environments is key."

"What any web-enabled device allows us to do in the classroom is build upon the convergence of powerful hardware and dynamic teaching. Teachers need to begin seeing the new tools as supplements to what they're already doing really well."

"Integrating video projects into the classroom can be as simple or complex as you want. Just grab a phone, digital camera or tablet and your students are on their way. Here are some video project ideas, divided into ideas for any classroom and ideas for specific subject areas."

"As video becomes a growing part of our everyday lives, it's natural to see it being used in the classroom now more than ever."

"Otus is an easy-to-use, yet powerful classroom tool that brings the best iPad and Chromebook education features together into one secure environment, and uses a single login." Not only for the iPad...works well with our PLDs. Has easy interface and is easier to use than Moodle and more features than Google Classroom.

So, what teenager doesn't want to see themselves? Everything I do for my class is done via Google Classroom. I upped my game today.

"As a lot of us are gearing up for the start of school and beginning to set up our classes in Google Classroom, I thought it was a great time to share three Google Chrome extensions that can make your experience better for you and your students."

"You bring the content. We bring the ​games. Blended games for the classroom using your content. Blended Play is a gaming platform for any classroom content. Our goal is to provide easy to use, strategy driven games that can help review content in any subject."

What is AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback. Who uses AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden has many different users: classroom, conference and corporate audiences, creative teams, online crowds, mindmappers, and more! Benefits of AnswerGarden: AnswerGarden fits educational, professional and creative purposes, is standalone and embeddable, and shows thousands of answers in a glance!

"The editors had to ponder what would make a technology easier to avoid than try to implement, and came up with a list of broad technologies and technology trends that either A) caused, rather than eased, more problems and concerns in the classroom, and/or B) were not evolved enough to make an actual difference in teaching or learning."

Interesting article on changing the technological landscape in the classroom through four different levels.