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• Snooze notifications in Hangouts Chat
• All talk, no type: 20 things you can do with your voice
• No need to dig, here are 20 treasures from Google Arts and Culture
• Cruising around a supervolcano lake in Street View

Featured Content

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun out from Google+, the company's social network. Google Photos gives users free, unlimited storage for photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p resolution. (Wikipedia)

• Google Photos Help
• Syncs across devices (get the mobile app for iOS or Android
• Search for photos
  • Search with a face (the more photos you take, the more you can pull for use in class … use student photos in class materials … “What does every student look for when they get a new yearbook?”)
• Scan photos with the app
• Create collages and animations
  • Show gradual change in seasons
  • Show growth of plants (animals, like a class pet)
  • Show rapid change (ice melting)
  • Assistant creates animations automatically or you can create them yourself
  • Tell a story (with one animation OR a combination of animations one per slide on a Slides presentation)
  • Up to 50 photos per animation
• Movies
  • Auto-created with Assistant or create manually
  • Add photos and videos, it
  • Let it create a video for you (children, cats, dogs, smiles, etc.)
  • Adjust length, change the music
• Albums
  • Embedding, sharing with parents, demonstrating experiments, hands-on creation, portfolios, artwork
• Sharing
  • Individual files
  • albums
  • Shared libraries
    • school/campus/grade level accounts
    • seniors!
• Photobooks
  • End of the year photobooks - not free, but could be an option for parents or possibly fundraiser
  • Especially great for artwork and creations

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• An alternative to using Google Forms for comments on a Google Site embed a Padlet wall. (Shared by several on Twitter!)

• Monday morning, getting ready for the week! @GTeacherTribe #gttribe #gladyouareback #routine pic.twitter.com/KXPVofm1UU

  — Becky Salls (@BecTec99) September 24, 2018

• Shawn Lane (comment on website) - I was so excited to hear that you can copy a classroom, but it seems to only be available in the new classrooms, and not ones you already have. I was hoping to copy my technology PD class to the new format, but that doesn't seem to be an option now.

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Forms + Student Self-Reflection for Coaching Students to Own Their Learning! (Post by Meredith Akers)
• Kasey:
  • 16 Fantastic Podcasts for Teachers
  • New Course Opening on 10/2/18: The Google Slides Master Class

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