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Fix your language & country settings in Google Docs, Sheets & Slides
Have you been frustrated by your Google Docs, Sheets or Slides having the wrong measurement, date, currency or language settings for your country? If so, you’ll love this simple fix! In this blog post, I’ll explain how changing the language settings in your Google account (via Google Drive) will solve this problem for good.
One Way Google Helps Make Maths Interactive And Engaging For Students
Today I am off to present to a group of teachers on how to use technology to motivate and engage their students. So today’s post is dedicated to maths teachers who are working tirelessly to make maths interactive, fun and engaging to their students; hopefully this post will put a smile on their
Using Technology Better Show: An Interview with Quim Sabria from Edpuzzle
In this UsingTechnologyBetter show, Quim Sabria will take you through the world of EdPuzzle, starting from how EdPuzzle works to where EdPuzzle is best used in the classroom.
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The Using Technology Better Show – Episode 3: Safer Internet Day
It’s February, and that means Safer Internet Day! We’ve celebrated by putting together an online safety themed episode of the Using Technology Better Show for you. Waiting for you inside this edition are Karla Sanders, Mark Herring and Adrian Francis, sharing: what they wouldn’t do when helping their students learn
UTB Newsletter 2021 – Issue 1
Welcome to a new year full of new possibilities We hope you have had time to unwind, spend time with family and friends and are recharged and ready to make a difference in so many lives! 😀 Thanks to all of you who tuned in to the first edition of The
TPCK unpacked with Michael Phillips from Monash University Ep 28
In this week’s OutClassed Podcast, Mike and Blake continue on their discussion regarding the 7 essential elements of school transformation framework. This week it is all about technology and infrastructure.
TPCK unpacked with Michael Phillips from Monash University Ep 28
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Fake News and Getting Google Search to Work For You Ep 27
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End of year wrap – What we have learnt and what we are looking forward to – Ep26
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LearnBytes episode #10 – Kulari Lokuge: Why you need to take your people on the journey
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LearnBytes episode #9 – Dom Puttick – How to work & workout smarter, not harder
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UTB Newsletter 2020 – Issue 12
Welcome to the last newsletter for 2020. Put your hand up if you are…
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LearnBytes episode #8 – Lara Kirk – Think like this for creative problem solving
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Curriculum Mapping – A Design Thinking Approach (Part 1 of 3)
Author: Lara Kirk Here in New Zealand our Digital Technologies curriculum has only existed for a few years, and has only been expected to be taught in schools since the beginning of 2020. Our trainers are asked frequently if we have a curriculum map linking Digital Technologies to other curriculum
Mike, Mark and Adrian discuss what tool and device is best in education
Devices are changing a lot, it’ll be interesting to see. I think, you know, device prices are coming down, that’s a good thing. I think there still needs to be some metric around about how much you spend as to, in where’s the improvement?
UTB Newsletter 2020 – Issue 7
Welcome to this month’s newsletter. I can’t believe another month has FLOWN by! Hopefully you are finding some time for rest, or have plans in place to get some. One of the important concepts I have learnt this year is that you need to take time to breath in.
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The Using Technology Better Show – Episode 3: Safer Internet Day
It’s February, and that means Safer Internet Day! We’ve celebrated by putting together an online safety themed episode of the Using Technology Better Show for you. Waiting for you inside this edition are Karla Sanders, Mark Herring and Adrian Francis, sharing: what they wouldn’t do when helping their students learn
UTB Newsletter 2021 – Issue 1
Welcome to a new year full of new possibilities We hope you have had time to unwind, spend time with family and friends and are recharged and ready to make a difference in so many lives! 😀 Thanks to all of you who tuned in to the first edition of The
TPCK unpacked with Michael Phillips from Monash University Ep 28
In this week’s OutClassed Podcast, Mike and Blake continue on their discussion regarding the 7 essential elements of school transformation framework. This week it is all about technology and infrastructure.
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How to Sync Gmail With Outlook
There are a number of Google Apps purists that would ask the question: “Why on earth would you want to Sync Gmail with Outlook?” Yet for a number of schools managing the process of changing over to Google Apps, migrating teachers off outlook to using Gmail through their browser
UTB Newsletter 2021 – Issue 1
Welcome to a new year full of new possibilities We hope you have had time to unwind, spend time with family and friends and are recharged and ready to make a difference in so many lives! 😀 Thanks to all of you who tuned in to the first edition of The
Researcher and Outline in Office 365
There are some useful functions native in Microsoft Office 365 that help you research and create great presentations that can make learning easier. In the classroom, helping students research and summarise is a skill we need to develop. These tools will help stem the cut and paste epidemic.
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The Using Technology Better Show – Episode 3: Safer Internet Day
It’s February, and that means Safer Internet Day! We’ve celebrated by putting together an online safety themed episode of the Using Technology Better Show for you. Waiting for you inside this edition are Karla Sanders, Mark Herring and Adrian Francis, sharing: what they wouldn’t do when helping their students learn
UTB Newsletter 2021 – Issue 1
Welcome to a new year full of new possibilities We hope you have had time to unwind, spend time with family and friends and are recharged and ready to make a difference in so many lives! 😀 Thanks to all of you who tuned in to the first edition of The
TPCK unpacked with Michael Phillips from Monash University Ep 28
In this week’s OutClassed Podcast, Mike and Blake continue on their discussion regarding the 7 essential elements of school transformation framework. This week it is all about technology and infrastructure.
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Improve student reading with Learning Tools in Microsoft Word
Microsoft’s Learning Tools are designed to help students improve their reading by building their decoding, fluency and comprehension skills. In this blog post, we’ll show you and how students can make use of Learning Tools in Word 2016.
Two of the best plagiarism tools for teachers
There are some great plagiarism tools for teachers, some paid and some free. Below are the best free and paid plagiarism tools for teachers (plus a bonus Google Add-on). Free image on flickr.com The ability to find, assimilate and produce your own work is becoming increasingly hard for students and
Scratch 3.0 – What’s new?
Scratch 3.0 is available to try in beta version and it has some awesome new features. I’ll show you a couple of them in this video. If you’ve never used Scratch before or are an old pro you’ll be delighted by how much computational thinking can be developed in this user friendly system to design games, animations and stories.
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The Using Technology Better Show – Episode 3: Safer Internet Day
It’s February, and that means Safer Internet Day! We’ve celebrated by putting together an online safety themed episode of the Using Technology Better Show for you. Waiting for you inside this edition are Karla Sanders, Mark Herring and Adrian Francis, sharing: what they wouldn’t do when helping their students learn
UTB Newsletter 2021 – Issue 1
Welcome to a new year full of new possibilities We hope you have had time to unwind, spend time with family and friends and are recharged and ready to make a difference in so many lives! 😀 Thanks to all of you who tuned in to the first edition of The
TPCK unpacked with Michael Phillips from Monash University Ep 28
In this week’s OutClassed Podcast, Mike and Blake continue on their discussion regarding the 7 essential elements of school transformation framework. This week it is all about technology and infrastructure.
