Canva – Restricted Sharing As a means of increasing security and safety for students on their platform, Canva will automatically begin restricting sharing capabilities for students only on October 27, 2023. Students should expect the following changes: Students will no longer be allowed to share a project outside of their

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ClassroomQ As educators we often encounter those times when multiple students across the classroom have their hand up waiting for assistance. It is extremely hard at times to keep track of whose hand went up first or even what order they all went up over all. ClassroomQ is a product that helps

IM Creator If you are looking for a simple, easy to use, free place to design, publish, and host a website then you need to check out IM Creator. IM Creator makes is really simple to design a website from one of their many free templates that are responsive and intuitive.

Ideas for Flipgrid Guest Mode With Flipgrid’s recent addition of Guest Mode, Kristin and Joe Merrill, Flipgrid Ambassadors from Florida, shared some fantastic ideas for using Guest Mode in their classrooms that I wanted to highlight on EdTech Shorts. Speak To An Expert Family Homework Schoolwide Challenges GridPals Thank a

Flipgrid Topic Guest Mode This past summer Flipgrid introduced the Grid Launchpad and it allowed users to tailor their grid security settings to be unique to their own learning community. Parents have wanted to see what their students were doing on Flipgrid, but could not do so in a way

Microsoft’s Immersive Reader on Flipgrid Microsoft has now integrated their Immersive Reader into Flipgrid. The Immersive Reader is a part of Microsoft’s Learning Tools accessibility tools for the classroom. It allows you to break down a text for students with learning difficulties. Students can begin using the Immersive Reader immediately

The 4 C’s Learning Menu w/Kasey Bell Today’s EdTech Shorts features Kasey Bell (Twitter, Website) sharing her 4 C’s Learning Menu. This is a tremendous tool for helping your students share their learning while exploring the 4 C’s (Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking). You can quickly access the 4 C’s

Tips for Making Great Instructional Videos Recently on the House of #EdTech Episode 119, friend of the show Chris Nesi (Twitter) shared his list of tips for making great instructional videos. I wanted to quickly share those with you on this episode of EdTech Shorts. Chris’ lists is: Forget the headset

Random Student Selection Tools Previously on EdTech Shorts we looked at Google’s student selection tool in the Classroom App on Android. On this episode we’re going to look at some other random student selection tools. Support EdTech Shorts by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/edtech-shorts This podcast is powered by

Student Selector in Google Classroom (Android App) Google has made a new tool available in their Classroom Android App to make it easier for you to randomly select students from …

Automatic Captioning in Google Slides On October 8, 2018 Google announced a new feature that a lot of educators are going to love. Automatic, real-time captioning is now available in …

NEW Features in OneNote Online In starting off the new school year, Microsoft has announced some new features for OneNote Online to enhance creativity, productivity, and collaboration. Insert from Camera …

Creating a Grading Rubric in Microsoft Teams Are you an educator using Microsoft’s Teams to manage your course content and assignments? Did you know that you can now build grading …

Creating a Math Quiz in Microsoft Forms Are you a math teacher looking for a way to create online assessments with the tools provided to you by Microsoft as a …

Chrome Extensions for Citations Students and teachers often times struggle to remember the various formats for citations of sources they may be using for work in their classes. Today on …

Insert Learning Insert Learning (Chrome Extension) saves teachers and students time while keeping students engaged. Teachers can insert questions, discussions, and insight directly into any website. When students go to that …

Microsoft Educator Community If you are looking for a way to connect and collaborate with other educators, find trainings and lessons for your classroom, and earn badges and certificates to …

# Episode Notes

Yo! Teach featuring Chris Nesi Previously on EdTech Shorts we shared Tozzl as a replacement for the recently shut down Today’s Meet. On today’s episode we’ll be hearing about another …