March EdTech Monthly Newsletter

March 2025 Ed Tech Monthly Newsletter

News and Updates

Due to the temporary reassignment of central roles in support of schools, we are temporarily pausing many of our professional learning supports. To ensure that all schools have access to professional learning opportunities during this time, we will be continuing our After School Tech Tip Videos and shifting some of our offerings to online professional learning and asynchronous resources.

We appreciate your understanding and flexibility as we work to support all schools during this time. Future professional learning opportunities will be communicated in this EdTech Monthly Newsletter and the EdTech Announcements.

Vretta Digital Assessment Platform in EPSB

In preparation for spring provincial exams, be sure that the Vretta key contacts at your school stays connected to both EPSB and ABED support. Join one of the following Google Spaces for updates and information:

Tech Spotlight: Showcasing Leaders and Innovation

Featuring Thomas Rogers!

Thomas Rogers is an Assistant Principal at S. Bruce Smith School. With his decade of teaching and administrative experience in education, one of his passions is Educational Technology. Thomas constantly explores how technology can impact curriculum, assessment, and collaboration and is often seen providing support to his colleagues. He assisted with the launch of the BYOD initiative at S. Bruce Smith and, with a team of students, currently helps maintain their fleet of devices alongside our IT personnel.

Click here to learn more about Thomas Rogers or see our previous Tech Spotlights.

March Newsletter - Podcast Edition (NotebookLM)

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Tech Trajectory: Professional Learning (PL) Opportunities

After School Tech Tips

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.

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Tech For Good: Tips and Tricks, Updates, and Inspiration

Passwords Lessons

You might recall that the way that staff and students in grades 4-12 work with passwords was changed last year to better support password security. These changes allow students to develop password related skills while staff can still reset a password in the classroom as needed. Check out the TIPS resources for comprehensive lessons, presentations, and tutorial videos!

Google Workspace Update

Google Vids is Now Available for All Users: The new Google Vids editing and creation suite is now available to all users as a core Workspace app. (Read More). The TIPS team has already generated a number of support videos for schools HERE.
Grade All is now an option in Google Classroom: For completion assignments or other assignments where applying a grade to all students in a Classroom is desirable, this feature is now available. (Read More)
Google Meet Caption Scrolling: For users that enable live captioning when in a Google Meet the ability to scroll backwards in the provided captioning is now available. This can help users quickly look back at a word if they missed it. (Read More)

Magic School

Magic School is an AI-powered platform designed to help teachers save time and enhance their teaching, including assisting teachers with developing lesson plans, designing assignments, generating materials, creating newsletters, and several other tasks.

To learn more about MagicSchool, check out our AI page for more information.

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