Category: google
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Block Video Ads in YouTube
Have you noticed how recently, more advertisement videos in YouTube have started to auto-play without prompting? I’ve noticed this is happening on other websites as well, in addition to YouTube. Since I often seem to have about 50 different tabs open in my web browser, this can present a challenge trying to find WHICH tab…
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Educators Rejoice! YouTube Permits Moderated Video Comments By Default
Educators rejoice! This is a great piece of news. I’ve waited a couple of years for Google to make this available as a YouTube channel setting. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Jonny Hunter YouTube has tremendous value to classroom teachers as a free video hosting platform. In the past, when posting…
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How to Share Videos from a School iPad Cart
I visited with a K-3 librarian today who recently received a cart of iPads at her school for teachers to check out and use with students. She was unsure how to share videos the students create and save to their iPad camera rolls, however, with apps like iMovie, Puppet Pals, and Sock Puppets. In this…
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8th Grade GeoMap Project For English: Road to Hiroshima
My 8th grade daughter asked me over the weekend if I had any ideas for a project she could do in her English class related to John Hersey’s book, “Hiroshima,” which her class just finished reading. My first thought was a GeoMap project, which would overlay statistics about the numbers of Japanese and U.S. soldiers…
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Sortable, Mobilized Google Spreadsheet with Student Photos and Information
Last night at our church, one of the parent volunteers helping out with middle school and high school mid-week activities was taking photos of students with an iPad Mini. I asked him if he had an app for organizing and sharing the photos he was taking, and he said no: He’d tried unsuccessfully to put…
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Podcast409: All My Lesson Plans are in Google Docs! (An Interview with Shelly Fryer)
This podcast is a 17 minute interview with Shelly Fryer, who is teaching third, fourth, and fifth grade students in a self-contained classroom this year in Oklahoma City. Shelly has been out of the classroom for over a decade, and in returning has committed to teaching as a twenty-first century educator. One of her top…
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Replace Chromebook 303C Broken Screen with Screen Surgeons
A couple of weeks ago, our family Samsung Chromebook mysteriously stopped working. I say “mysteriously” because no one in our family knows exactly how it happened, but somehow the screen got cracked leaving the laptop unusable. In this post I’ll describe how I replaced the laptop myself for $67 using the screen and laptop repair…