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Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun out from Google+, the company's social network. Google Photos gives users free, unlimited storage for photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p resolution. (Wikipedia)
- Google Photos Help
- Syncs across devices (get the mobile app for iOS or Android
- Search for photos
- Search with a face (the more photos you take, the more you can pull for use in class … use student photos in class materials … “What does every student look for when they get a new yearbook?”)
- Scan photos with the app
- Create collages and animations
- Show gradual change in seasons
- Show growth of plants (animals, like a class pet)
- Show rapid change (ice melting)
- Assistant creates animations automatically or you can create them yourself
- Tell a story (with one animation OR a combination of animations one per slide on a Slides presentation)
- Up to 50 photos per animation
- Movies
- Auto-created with Assistant or create manually
- Add photos and videos, it
- Let it create a video for you (children, cats, dogs, smiles, etc.)
- Adjust length, change the music
- Albums
- Embedding, sharing with parents, demonstrating experiments, hands-on creation, portfolios, artwork
- Sharing
- Individual files
- albums
- Shared libraries
- school/campus/grade level accounts
- seniors!
- Photobooks
- End of the year photobooks - not free, but could be an option for parents or possibly fundraiser
- Especially great for artwork and creations
Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag
- An alternative to using Google Forms for comments on a Google Site embed a Padlet wall. (Shared by several on Twitter!)
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Monday morning, getting ready for the week! @GTeacherTribe #gttribe #gladyouareback #routine pic.twitter.com/KXPVofm1UU
— Becky Salls (@BecTec99) September 24, 2018
- Shawn Lane (comment on website) - I was so excited to hear that you can copy a classroom, but it seems to only be available in the new classrooms, and not ones you already have. I was hoping to copy my technology PD class to the new format, but that doesn't seem to be an option now.
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