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Google enthusiasts, unite.
During an ISTELive 25 session, Dr. Wanda Terral, chief of technology for Tennessee’s Lakeland School System, took attendees through a growing list of Google tools, along with some non-Google resources, to boost classroom creativity, productivity, and collaboration.
Here are just 10 of the resources Terral covered–explore the full list for more ideas and resources to increase your Google knowledge.
AI Trust You: An add-on for Google Docs. Provides a structured way for students to document their use of AI in their assignments while giving teachers a framework to guide and monitor AI use. Developed and made available by the Laguna Beach School District.
Teachable Machine: A fast, easy way to create machine learning models for your sites, apps, and more–no expertise or coding required.
ViddyScribe: Enhance videos with professional audio descriptions powered by AI. Useful for sharing videos with those visually impaired. The free version allows for 50 minutes of video a month with videos of up to 2 minutes in length.
Which Face is Real? Get students thinking critically about images they see and try to choose the one not created with generative AI.
Data Commons: Who IS John, and why does he have 40 watermelons? Why use made-up data when this is available?
Sodaphonic: Record, edit, and download audio. No login required. It also allows for trimming and selecting sections to cut.
Virtual Field Trips from Google Arts and Culture: An alternative to Google Expeditions.
Slip-in-Slide: Insert slides into multiple student presentations at one time using Slip-in-Slide. Choose to send one or many slides from your presentation to an assignment folder in Classroom.
Geeks for Geeks: A computer science portal featuring lots of useful info, tutorials, videos, and tools, including topics like machine learning, data science with Python, and school subjects like mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.
GapMinder: Free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics.
