As summer winds down, it's time to get ready for the new school year by preparing your Google Classroom courses. In this episode I'm sharing the four-step process that I use to build my courses along with some advanced tips and new features you can use this year.  

Episode Sponsor: Classroom Kickstart, a self-paced course to help you maximize your use of Google Classroom this year. 

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You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

Noah Levin joins me to introduce the education community to Figma, a web-based design tool that works beautifully with Chromebooks.  

Episode Sponsor: Teach with Chrome virtual course: chrmbook.com/courses

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

As part of my daily routine, I scan dozens of blogs, visit a handful of Facebook groups and skim through Twitter.

The goal: find the most helpful resources, tools, and articles that I can share with my teacher friends (that’s you!)

Check out these 10 interesting, useful, and fun links for the month of August 2022:

1. Trust rules for Google Drive
2. Google Doc edit notifications
3. Add-ons for Google Classroom
4. Quick actions for Adobe Express
5. 21 typing resources
6. Calendar cleanup
7. Digital pen + eraser
8. Essential technology skills checklist
9. Back to school tech quiz
10. Google Classroom for parents

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

If you are in charge of managing a fleet of Chromebooks, your work starts now, before students and teachers return to the building.

Today on the podcast I would like to share two suggestions to help IT administrators clean up and refresh their Chromebook fleet before students and teachers return to the classroom.

Episode Sponsor: Penoval USI702 digital stylus

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

This episode kicks off my 2022 "toolbox" series of episodes where I will be sharing my favorite classroom tools to help you prepare for the 2022-23 school year. 

The first toolbox episode is all about drawing, sketching, and doodling! More schools are purchasing touch-screen Chromebooks which means you need to know the best apps for taking notes, annotating videos, and being creative. 

Episode sponsor: Penoval, creator of the USI702 digital stylus with built-in eraser. 

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

As part of my daily routine, I scan dozens of blogs, visit a handful of Facebook groups and skim through Twitter.

The goal: find the most helpful resources, tools, and articles that I can share with my teacher friends (that’s you!)

Check out these 10 interesting, useful, and fun links for the month of July 2022:

1. New font options for Google Forms
2. PIP for Google Meet
3. Google Task updates
4. Request a “transformation report”
5. Kick start coding competition 
6. Beta test the latest EDU updates
7. VA district missing 1,800 Chromebooks
8. Summer read: singularity series
9. Barcodes in Google Sheets
10. “Paint Online” Chrome extension

Episode sponsor: Vizor for Chromebooks

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

Thanks to VIZOR for Chromebooks for sponsoring this episode!

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

The end of the school year has arrived! Congratulations on surviving to the end of a challenging year.

Before you lock your classroom door for the last time, there are three things you should do to officially “end” the 2021-22 school year.

Not only will these quick tasks help you put this year behind you, they will also put you in a GREAT position for the 2022-23 school year!

Thanks to VIZOR for Chromebooks for sponsoring this episode!

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

If your Chromebook is acting sluggish or not responding at all, it might be time for a powerwash!

I recently had an issue with the camera on my Chromebook so I decided to give it a powerwash.

The ability to quickly reset a Chromebook without losing any information is an underrated feature of Chrome OS.

Episode sponsor: Vizor for Chromebooks

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

As part of my daily routine, I scan dozens of blogs, visit a handful of Facebook groups and skim through Twitter.

The goal: find the most helpful resources, tools, and articles that I can share with my teacher friends (that’s you!)

Check out these 10 interesting, useful, and fun links for the month of May 2022.

Episode sponsor: Vizor for Chromebooks

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Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!

You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!