Description

The Practical Ed Tech Podcast is the audio from my weekly Practical Ed Tech Live broadcasts on YouTube. In each episode I share some news from the  world of educational technology and answer questions from readers of FreeTech4Teachers.com and PracticalEdTech.com

The outline of everything covered in the episode is available in this Google Doc. 

Subscribe to my YouTube channel to participate in the next YouTube Live session. 

Some highlights from the episode:

Google made a bunch of G Suite product announcements this week:

• Originality Reports/ Checker for Google Classroom & Assignments
• Google Assignments - a companion for your LMS
• Create shortcuts in Google Drive
• New fonts in Docs and Slides
• Jamboard gets updated menus
• Socratic by Google helps students get help with difficult questions.

Unsplash for Education

• Thanks to Rushton Hurley for the tip. 
  • Check out Rushton’s monthly newsletter via Next Vista for Learning
  • This month’s newsletter includes a set of activities for showing students the qualities that educational videos should have. 

SeeSaw has an updated Chrome extension for annotating webpages.

• Students can write, draw, and highlight on webpages. They can also add audio notes to the pages they save.