FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

"Transfer your content using Takeout. Copy and transfer your email and Google Drive files to another Google Account. It does give ownership of the copied files to the destination Google account."

"Give your lessons a unique spin which leads to a different learning experience everytime you play! Make a set of questions and build your own themed revision game for students to race each other round whatever kind of track you can imagine. Students join the game on their own devices and have to answer questions to move their player on the game screen. "

AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool. It pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast. There's nothing to download. Nothing to pay for. And it works anywhere: smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, etc.

"In a world filled with ever-more-complex technological, sociological, ecological, political & economic systems... a tool to make interactive simulations may not be that much help. But it can certainly try."

"Digital portfolios allow educators, students and professionals to showcase themselves and provide an opportunity for reflection and continued professional growth. Developed by teachers, PortfolioGen makes it easy for users to create and add portfolio pages, upload documents, insert photos and links, embed videos and add relative content to build a comprehensive online portfolio website that you can customize and design to reflect your own personal style."

"Sketchboard is an endless online whiteboard, powered by your team's ideas. Work with your team in real time and get immediate feedback."

CREATE BEAUTIFUL VIDEOS FAST AND EASY Easy to edit motion graphic templates and more to make your videos more engaging An alternative to Animoto

"Brainstorm, organize, prioritize and act on the best ideas, in the same room or around the world, on a realtime sticky note whiteboard."

"Make chatbot polls. Fast. Plug in our widget or send out a link to surveys that people will actually want to complete."

"Click and Choose. Drag and Drop. Edit and Play. That's Animaker - 10X Better than other Online Animation Video Making software (#DIY). Animaker is a simple animated video making app which helps a wide range of users to craft videos of studio standard without much training or external guidance."

With the new iOS 11 update the iPhone is now formatting pictures to HEIC so they will have to be converted for most Windows software to recognize.

"Kialo is designed to facilitate constructive debate about the most important issues in the world, without turning into the usual Internet Shouting Factory. We aspire to become not just where you come to argue, but also where you can explore the reasons why people disagree and see diverse points of view on the issues that matter. On Kialo, you can view and critically assess others' discussions, add your voice, and watch the conversation expand as more and more people chime in."

"Virtual reality (VR) is on the verge of gaining a foothold in schools thanks to affordable viewers like Google Cardboard. And with more VR apps appearing every day, it's likely that immersive VR expeditions will eventually become an engaging way for students to explore everything from historical landmarks and distant planets to oceanic locations and even the human body.  "

"it is even easier for teachers and students to keep track of those big mile markers when a paper goes from rough draft to revised draft to final copy. Recently Google gave Revision History a face lift, renaming it to Version History and adding the new ability to name specific versions."

"Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform used by millions of PreK to PhD educators, students and families around the world."

Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is designed for children who have not had prior experience with computer programming. By the end of these games, players are ready to use conventional text-based languages.

"Carry out lessons with ease! Knowlounge goes beyond typical smart learning and teaching methods with its shared whiteboard tool. An interactive and easy-to-use interface makes it perfect for use in flipped learning and group studies."

YouTube provides an option for doing a review for AP courses. "How do I start streaming? To go live using Stream now, open your encoder and start streaming from youtube.com/live_dashboard. There is no start button in the live dashboard." Here is a link to a web article from Richard Byrne about a teacher using YouTube Live for an AP European History review: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/try-youtube-live-for-review-sessions.html#.WRmz7esrKM8

"I was approached by a teacher who had never redesigned her lessons to take advantage of edtech's potential to transform learning. She was still stuck in the $1,000 pencil phase of using new tools to do traditional work. When I showed examples of how teachers around the country were challenging students to design and find solutions to their own problems, she immediately saw the benefit of shifting her thinking. The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. The bad news is, she was afraid of appearing vulnerable in front of her students if something went wrong." It is okay to not know everything about technology. Many times your students know more than you do...and that is okay!

"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."