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What if your students could step inside the Louvre Museum, explore Frida Kahlo’s studio, or walk through the streets of ancient cities, all without leaving your classroom? In this episode, we explore the Google Arts & Culture app with French teacher and tech integration specialist Heidi Trude. From boosting cultural understanding to sparking meaningful conversations, Heidi shares creative ways to use this free tool to make language and culture come alive in your classroom.

Topics in this Episode:

• how Heidi first discover the Google Arts & Culture app, and what made her decide it was a good fit for your classroom
• Heidi's favorite features of the app, and how she incorporate them into her lessons
• using Google Arts & Culture to enhance your students' understanding of art, history, and culture 
• projects or activities using the app that have a particularly powerful impact
• how tools like Google Arts & Culture are shaping the future of how we teach cultural understanding and global awareness in the classroom
• Heidi's Resource: Making Art Come Alive with the Google Arts and Culture App

Connect with Heidi Trude

• Website: Tech with Trude
• Facebook: Heidi.Trude
• Instagram: @hlt2007
• X/Twitter: @htrude07

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•  wlclassrom.com
• X (aka Twitter):  @wlclassroom
• Threads: @wlclassroom
• Instagram:  @wlclassroom
• Facebook:  /wlclassroom
• WLClassroom Facebook Group

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