Looking for vocabulary or theme-specific word games? Or need a fun way to reinforce word recognition? Our free and easy-to-use interactive puzzle maker lets you custom create word games for your student or child.

Google Slides

"When designing lessons my first thing I consider is “how will students collaborate?” My go to on this is collaborative Google Slides. I create ONE Google Slides and give all students edit access. In Google Classroom this is a snap by selecting the tiny triangle next to the “attachment” and changing to “Students can edit file.”

Create Blank Slides

"Sometimes I do design a template (see my Farkle template) but usually I leave the slides completely blank. Make a Google Slides presentation and name it. Close the slides. Don’t bother typing directions on a slide, the students will just type on it.

Put Your Name in the Speaker Notes

"In the description for the assignment, I instruct students to “Add a slide and put your name in the speaker notes.”

Thanks to Tricia Roach for posting this Education Closet graphic on the NEA edCommunities Works4Me page. View large graphic.

"Nature and humankind are both great artists, and when they join forces, amazing masterpieces can be produced. Today Bright Side has collected for you works in which the combined efforts of mother nature and photographic artists have captured magic moments showing the wondrous diversity of modern life and the natural world. Pictured above is the Westerdok District in Amsterdam."

Tags: images, art, landscape, worldwide.

Rather than adding "plain" screenshots to your PowerPoint presentation like 99% of people do (yawn!) follow these simple tips to make your screenshots stand out

With a cutout!

Lindsay Kolowich shares these 17 great tips for taking some really awesome pictures with your phone in this Hubspot article.

The way children use technology is very different from adults. This gap makes it difficult for parents and educators to fully understand the risks and threats that children could face online. As a result, adults may feel unable to advise children on the safe and responsible use of digital technologies. Likewise, this gap gives rise to different perspectives of what is considered acceptable behaviour.

Infographics are such a fun and effective visual way to display information. We at Buffer have certainly used them quite a few times to share information.

There are so many tools being released every day allowing us to easily create better and better images— including infographics—to share and use in our marketing efforts.

Even folks (like me!) who never thought it possible to create one ourselves!I had a lot of fun researching and testing out a handful of different infographic makers, and I’d love to share the seven tools I liked best to easily create beautiful infographics....

Digital intelligence or “DQ” is the set of social, emotional and cognitive abilities that enable individuals to face the challenges and adapt to the demands of digital life. These abilities can broadly be broken down into eight interconnected areas.

If you have ever tried to record the screencast of your iPhone or iPad (perhaps for creating video demonstrations and tutorials), you might already be aware that there aren’t any global screen recording apps available on the App Store. If you want to install screen recording apps, it would usually require you to jailbreak your iOS device. But if you don’t want to jailbreak it, here are some screen recording solutions for you.

Get all the @edtechteam #GoogleEdu Tips posters here http://goo.gl/2jRKVe Available in English, Spanish and French!

Digital intelligence or “DQ” is the set of social, emotional and cognitive abilities that enable individuals to face the challenges and adapt to the demands of digital life. These abilities can broadly be broken down into eight interconnected areas.

A quick way to share a list of web resources is to use the OneTab Chrome extension. Students or teachers can conduct a Google search on a topic. Hold down the Control key (Command on a Mac) when clicking on a link will open the destination URL in a new tab. After gathering several web resources in multiple tabs, click the OneTab Chrome extension to gather all of the links into a single list.

This Google Classroom essentials infographic shows some of the key items in Google Classroom. There is a lot more features this does not cover, including the student perspective. Check out the student guide to Google Classroom. I also have over 90 blog posts on Google Classroom at http://alicekeeler.com/googleclassroom.

CLICK IMAGE OR HEADLINE TO SEE THE INFOGRAPHIC -JL