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This week's newsletter is all about websites you can use to build a color palette. It can be difficult when it comes to finding complementary colors to each other and to the graphics you've used in your presentation. This podcast will tell you about four resources you can use to build the perfect color scheme and template for your presentation. All of these resources will allow students to find the perfect color to match whatever images or palettes they may be using and creating in their presentations.  

In TikTok Tech, Catherine Coyle from @classroocreations introduces you to the website 99math.com to help students engage and become more fluent in their math skills. In Tech Refresh, @classroomcreations will show you how to print anything to a PDF file or pull out a specific page in a PDF through the printing dialogue box.

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This week's newsletter is all about graphic resources you can use to insert into your classroom projects. The resources are Creative Commons instead of students going out and pulling graphics from a Google search. I have websites with simple illustrations you can color code to the colors in your presentation, websites that will provide you with black and white and colored icons, websites with free vector graphics and stock photos, and a website with free videos and music. All of these resources will allow students to find something to use in whatever classroom project they are trying to create.  

In TikTok Tech, Cassidy Peterson from @pvsectech shows you a website that will help you write an essay or email with easier readability for your audience. Just copy and paste your text and the website will provide you with suggestions to lower the reading level. In Tech Refresh, @sirtylertarver has a website that will take the distractions away from YouTube videos. It also has a feature for you to create a customized URL for the video to share easier through your learning management system.  

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This week's episode is about finding the right font for your presentation. Creating graphic headers and text can make all the difference. In this podcast, you will find six resources to help you find the right font to fit any situation that might arise when you use PowerPoint, Slides, Canva, or Keynote to create a presentation.

In TikTok Tech, @a_biology_teacher shows you a worksheet he created that you can use to help students get half the points back on their tests. He has the worksheet available on his Teachers Pay Teachers site and he’ll walk you through how to use it in his video. In Tech Refresh, @jess_rehearsal will help you recover any tabs you may have lost by accidentally closing your entire Chrome browser.  

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This week's podcast is all about slide layout template resources. I want to provide you with resources to help you and your students find the best designs that can then provide a greater impact when building presentations. With these resources, you and your students can create presentations that are dynamic and interesting. As a teacher, you can use the resources to build game templates, interactive notebooks, and other assignment-based slides. These websites also have blog posts to help everyone learn how to build better presentations and use the free resources provided.

In TikTok Tech, @jwoz_teaches shows you how to get students to write a five-sentence paragraph using an emoji prompt generator. After that, she’ll discuss how to use Socrative so students can vote in class for the best paragraph. In Tech Refresh, @josiah_stpeter will introduce you to a Chrome Extension called Draftback. It is similar to Version History in Google Docs but plays a video of real-time typing and gives statistics for interaction within the document.

Look over all the resources for building great presentations and help your students find the right templates for their presentations. There’s a link to all the websites in the newsletter; Slides Mania, Slides Carnival, and Slides Go. You can watch the video or listen to the podcast to learn about the great ideas.

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This week's newsletter is all about tips from Garr Reynolds to help your students create better presentations. The idea is to get students away from creating Sliduments full of text and then reading that text when delivering a classroom presentation. The idea is to create presentations that are dynamic and interesting. Presentations where the presenter is the storyteller and is using the slides and their personality to engage the audience.  

In TikTok Tech, @mac_hacks shows you how to organize your Mac desktop into stacks. In Tech Refresh, @tatechtips show you how to use Windows' Clipboard History to copy and paste multiple items instead of copying and pasting everything one at a time.  

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This video discusses how to use Kami in the classroom. The newsletter has resources for using Kami for collaboration, assessments, inclusive learning, and digital whiteboarding. If you are new to Kami or a veteran user I strongly encourage you to enroll in Kami’s free certified educator program.  

In TikTok Tech, I found a great resource from @newedtechclass that shows you how to present over Google Slides or any other program using your screen as a backdrop in Flipgrid. Using this feature in Flipgrid you can either post the video to Flipgrid or download it and post it somewhere else. In Tech Refresh, another video from @newedtechclass lays out a good example for organizing your Google Classroom.   

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Learn about Flocabulary, a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. The newsletter has resources for sequence of uses, best practices, implementation at any grade level, and within any area of study.

TikTok Tech has tech resources from Jordan Cotten and a video on how to create a comment bank in Google Docs. Finally, there is a link to a video from me where to find and how to implement a comment Bank in Google Classroom.  

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During digital citizenship week, I thought it was important to reintroduce the 9 pillars of digital citizenship. Along with listing the 9 pillars, I found various other resources to reinforce the concepts with each different pillar.   

In TikTok Tech I show you how one teacher creates magnetic contact cards to share with her parents. In Tech Refresh I demonstrate Common Sense Media's free digital citizenship curriculum.

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Kami is one of the most powerful PDF annotation and digital whiteboard tools a classroom can have in this new technology-forward learning environment. This video will give you a brief demonstration of Kami along with providing an explanation of the Kami updates added over the summer.   

TikTok Tech explains how to begin the discussion about individuality using Lego. Tech Refresh will show you the best ways to create dynamic Gmail signatures through a template or using a third-party website (Wise Stamp and MySignature.io).   

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Since March 2020 Nearpod has added some amazing new updates. This week's newsletter talks about those new updates and links in this week's newsletter provide resources for all those new updates. I've added a TikTok Tech Corner that covers an interesting idea in education. There's also a new Tech Refresh Corner that demonstrates tech basics. It's a bit of a redesign to provide you with more resources.

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