November EdTech Monthly Newsletter
Nov 2024 Ed Tech Monthly Newsletter
Every month, we will be featuring a person, school, or event to showcase inspiration, innovation, and/or leadership in the technology space.
Karen Jones is a junior high teacher at Shauna May Seneca School, where she leads the Makerspace classroom. With extensive experience in technology, Karen integrates coding, robotics, and design into her teaching. For the past three years, she has incorporated Minecraft Education into her lessons, seeing firsthand how it engages students and enriches their learning by simulating experiences across the curriculum. Minecraft is an incredible educational tool that promotes creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration, allowing students to build, experiment, and think critically in a virtual space that mirrors real-world challenges. A proud moment was when her junior high Minecraft team won the first EPSB Minecraft Education Build Challenge, and they are excited to compete again.
Listen to this November EdTech Newsletter through A Podcast Style!
Looking for another way to interact with this newsletter? You might have seen this last month. Here is a podcast recording created by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool known as NotebookLM, that goes through all the highlights of this November newsletter. This is just a taste of what NotebookLM can do - it can transform text into engaging audio experiences, opening up new possibilities for learning and communication.
After School Tech Tips for November
Check out our After School Tech Tips Playlist weekly on Wednesdays at 3:45 PM. These videos can also be found on our PL Calendar. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel! The lineup for November is:
- November 6th: What is Google Gemini Education? (Basic Version vs Paid Upgrade)
- November 20th: Tips for Prompt Generation using AI (with Google Gemini)
- November 27th: What is NotebookLM?
Google Gemini - AI Updates
Have you heard of Google Gemini? Google Gemini is now available for all staff through their Google Workspace for Education account.
Check out our AI page for more information.
Google Workspaces Update
Images can now be inserted into Google Classroom Practice Sets. Add any graphic to your practice sets to let students answer questions about diagrams or other visuals.
New “Rating” question type available in Google Forms. Students can now be asked to answer a question as a star based rating scale. This may be useful for gathering feedback from students or too gather opinion responses in the classroom.
Adding multi-monitor support to Google Slides. When presenting Google Slides users can now “Pin” a number of presentation styles like full screen and presenter view to specific displays attached to their devices.
Digital Citizenship Updates
Check out this digital citizenship resource for more information!
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