Google News and Updates

• Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet
• Create and work with documents that contain multiple page orientations in Google Docs
• Open Office attachments from Gmail in Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides with one click
• Some Google Meet settings now “sticky” for Education users
• Take a snowy stroll with Street View
• Create a festive song with Blob Opera
• 20 years of Year in Search

Featured Content

• Pam Hubler had a possible idea to answer a question in e124 using Wakelet to curate Google materials
• Another possible answer to the same question from Stephanie Litz
  • Hello Matt and Kasey,
  • So thankful for your podcast, keep up the good work because your listeners appreciate it. 
  • Regarding the question from Marcel (below), I found this resource that might be a good fit: 
  • Cube For Teachers Website - Cube For Teachers is a place where educators search, share, and store links to free open educational K-12 resources, including lessons, activities, interactive games, teaching strategies, tech tips, videos, special education, subject-specific resources, and more.
  • Cube For Teachers - Chrome Web Store
  • @cubeforteachers 

Dr. Rebecca Kreider from Mt. Olivetownship school district, verbal feedback is 3x as effective. She recommends Mote.

Ditch Summit tips:

• Matt Miller: Mote Chrome extension for voice feedback. Use your dictation/voice typing command on a mobile device.
• Esther Park: use unscreen.com to create a GIF from a short video clip
• Paula Martinez from Slides Mania: The master is for teachers. Duplicate layouts in the master for different versions of pages. Click on the “Colors” button in the master for master colors.
• Desiree Alexander: Make files available offline or downloadable so students won’t need internet access to complete at home.
  • How to Access Google Files Offline
• Kasey: Google certifications, magnetic poetry, Google Drawings, making ebooks with Google Slides, the resources she shared in her session
  • How to Create Drag and Drop activities
• Register for Ditch Summit, a FREE online conference for teachers available until January 8: DitchSummit.com

On The Blogs

• Matt
  • New book, Do More with Google Classroom, is available!
  • Check out the book companion website for resources
  • Ditch Summit: Free online conference for teachers, December 14 to January 8
• Kasey
  • 8 Reasons to Love Blended Learning with Google
  • EARLY BIRD Special! Buy Blended Learning with Google, get FREE Google Tips Training
  • Blended Learning with Google (on Amazon)
  • Google from A to Z (on Amazon)