The Google for Education Newsletter Issue 37 |
March 2021
Three Things to Know
Celebrating 10 Years of Chrome We're celebrating Chromebook's 10th birthday with a look back at milestones and memories we've made along the way, and a look at new features and what's to come.
Catch up on EDU in 90 Stay connected on the latest Google for Education news with EDU in 90 on YouTube, including episodes recapping Learning with Google and more.
Early Access Programs: Google Workspace for Education We're working hard to launch new features later this year, and we’d like to invite you to test these features. Adminstrators: Sign up for the Forms draft responses beta at g.co/forms/betas and express interest in testing additional features between April-August.
Educator Resources
Getting Started with Google for Education Looking for training on Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals? Sign up for our 8-week email training series that delivers video tutorials to your inbox every Tuesday on core Google tools. Lessons take less than 10 minutes to complete. Register today!
Teach Women's History with Applied Digital Skills Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Explore a Topic: Women’s History lesson from Applied Digital Skills. In this lesson, students research a topic, event, or figure in women’s history, then create a project to share their findings with the class.
Extra Credit
Bring Climate Change Reality to Students with Google Earth Looking for ideas of engaging classroom activities to introduce global environmental changes? Please join this event to learn Cloud to Classroom, a joint project of Google Earth, National Geographic and NASA to put satellite data in the hands of the world.
Learn with Google Arts & Culture Designed as an entry point into the wealth of resources, Learn with Google Arts & Culture highlights subject related content including lesson plans, stories, videos, high resolution images, 3D models, and more from museums around the world. Check it out!
Google Arts & Culture: Sounds Like Kandinsky Discover Kandinsky’s life, art and synesthesia with the Centre Pompidou. You can ‘listen’ to one of his paintings or project his works into your home in AR. A lesson plan can be used in class or given to students to work through.
Accessibility Apps & Tools on Chromebook App Hub There are many popular accessibility apps that integrate seamlessly with Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education, including Don Johnston's Snap&Read, Capti Voice, Cricksoft's Clicker Communicator, and Texthelp's Read&Write. Learn about apps' accessibility policies on the Chromebook App Hub.
New Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron Processors Digital technologies have transformed teaching and learning. Watch this video to learn how the new and upcoming Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors bring more performance and enable great education experiences, including advanced video conferencing on Chromebooks.
Make Learning at Home Fun with AR Search Augmented reality (AR) in Search lets students and guardians bring 3D objects and animals to life and learn in their homes. Find out more about how to interact with everything from a T-Rex to a complex animal cell.
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