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Quick tips for technology integration

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Not sure how to embed a widget, doc, app, etc to your blog, use the snipping tool in Windows or Mac and capture the creation as an image.

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Use Google Forms to log when you contact parents.

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Use a ? in front of your search terms in Chrome to hide previous searches that drop down in omnibar.

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Make students published authors through Google Docs.

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My Singing Monsters is  world-building music game where you collect and breed your own adorable monster mash. Each monster has a unique song, sound and personality, allowing you to create your own digital monster orchestra. This free app is sure to delight all ages with their monster theme and musical twist!  

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Site Search Made Easy!

To search a specific site just put the word 'site:' in front of the url and the search term after url.  

ie: site:(url) (search terms),  site:girlgoinggeek.com cloud)

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Have you ever visited a website and wanted to print the information but you weren't near a printer?  Are students at home doing research and run out of ink for their printer?  Or perhaps you are wanting to start a paperless initiative at school and not sure how to get started.  Here is a quick tip on how to capture information on a website as .pdf and save it to Google Drive.  

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Do you send home a letter asking parents to sign up for parent/ teacher conferences? Here are a few paperless options using Google. #edtech

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Heard a neat idea today:  If you want to find out how students learn technology, give them a new piece of software and have them write a manual on how to use the software.  

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Use Google Presentations to create thank you slides!

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Have students use Google Presentations to create comic strips based on something they are learning.