Tech Coach Newsletter
Happy New Year! Biweekly Newsletter 1/8
Ambient Sound Websites to Help Keep You Focused
What helps you focus when reading, writing, or getting work done? Do you need a totally silent room, or does some amount of ambient noise help you? For some people, students included, having sound in the background can actually help them focus better. This could include music, nature sounds, or just white noise.
A Soft Murmur
A Soft Murmur offers 10 sounds including Rain, Thunder, Waves, Wind, Fire, Birds, Crickets, Coffee shop, Singing bowl, and White noise. You can play multiple sounds at once, adjust individual volumes, cycle through random volumes (meander), and set timers to start, stop, or fade out the sounds.
Noisli
Noisli offers 16 sounds including Rain, Thunderstorm, Wind, Forest, Leaves, Water stream, Seaside, Water, Fireplace, Summer night, Coffee shop, Train, Fan, White noise, Pink noise, and Brown noise.
You can play multiple sounds at once and adjust individual volumes. If you log in with your Google account you get access to additional features including saving and sharing of favorite combinations, and settings timers to start or fade out of the sounds.
Noisli also has a Chrome extension to turn on and off your custom combos easily - Chrome Extension link
Moodil
Moodil offers 15 base sounds with most having variants for a total of 38 sounds. The base sounds include Rain, Thunder, Fire, Water stream, Waves, Night, Frogs, Birds, Forest, Wind, Leaves, Walking, Train, Coffee shop, and White noise.
You can play multiple sounds at once and adjust individual volumes. If you sign up for a free account, you can also save favorite combos.
Getting Techy -- Easy Ways to Give Students Feedback
FASTER FEEDBACK- EDITING SHORTCUTS IN GOOGLE DOCS!
Are you tired of writing the same feedback over and over again when editing Google Docs digitally? Check out the screencast to see the new way to create Google Doc editing shortcuts!
Already Using Keep? Check out this video for simple integration into docs
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Archived Newsletters
2017-2018 School Year
Biweekly Edition 12/15- Clip it Good, Notification Alerts for GClassroom, New GCalendar
Biweekly Edition 11/26- Google Draw for Infographics
Biweekly Edition 10/30- Read and Write for Google & Equatio
Biweekly Edition 10/09 - Info about the New Google Sites
Biweekly Edition 9/18 - Buncee account set up and information, digital replacements
Welcome Back Newsletter - Google Classroom, Google Forms, Recap and Flipgrid
2016-2017 School Year
Week of 6/5- Review Games
Week of 5/15- Flippity, Sutori, Google Takeout
Week of 5/8 - Google's Team Drive, Google Auto Draw, Keyboarding Shortcuts
Week of 5/1 - Tech Challenge Padlet, Sketch Notes, My Simple Show
Week of 4/10- Tech Challenge Update, Common Lit
Week of 4/3- Interactive Notebooks, Allsides Website for Bias
Week of 3/20 - "I Wish My Teacher Knew"
Week of 3/13- Infographics
Week of 2/13- Screencasting
Week of 1/23- Awesome Chrome Extensions
Week of 1/9- Media Literacy and Flipgrid FREE update
Week of 1/2 - APPY New Year, Managing a Classroom with Tech,
Week of 12/19- Google Classroom Tips
Week of 12/11- HyperDocs, Twitter Challenge, G Suite Updates
Week of 12/5- #Booksnaps, #Mathsnaps & Twitter Challenge
Week of 11/28 -Hour of Code, Google Keep
Week of 11/14- Google Arts & Culture and QUIZIZZ
Week of 10/31- Quizlet Live and #DeviceFreeDinner
Week of 10/24- Formative and Socrative
Week of 10/17- Google Form As A Quiz and Formative
Week of 10/10- Google Guardian Summary and Buncee
Week of 10/3- Dig. Citizenship and FlipGrid
Week of 9/25- Google Classroom and Mentimeter