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 Google News and Updates 
 -  Snooze notifications in Hangouts Chat
  -  All talk, no type: 20 things you can do with your voice
  -  No need to dig, here are 20 treasures from Google Arts and Culture
  -  Cruising around a supervolcano lake in Street View
  
 Featured Content 
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.
  
 On The Blogs 
 - Matt - Google Forms + Student Self-Reflection for Coaching Students to Own Their Learning! (Post by Meredith Akers)
  - Kasey: 
 -  16 Fantastic Podcasts for Teachers
  - New Course Opening on 10/2/18:  The Google Slides Master Class
  
   
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