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Describe the Google Sheets or Excel formula you need to GPTExcel, and it will generate and explain the formula for you.
You get 4 free request per day.
gptexcel.uk/
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Need some jokes? Enter a grade level and topic into the Teacher Joke Generator. The AI isn't a great joke teller, but sometimes the jokes are worthy of a chuckle.
app.magicschool.ai/tools/tea…
ALT MagicSchool.ai Teacher Joke Generator Screenshots
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Typpo is an iOS app that records your voice and makes an animated video that displays your words and while playing your audio. Select from a variety of design templates. typpo.app/
(Thanks to @emilyforedu's for writing about Typpo on TCEA blog.) #AiinEdu #ShiftInEdu
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If you have a second display attached to your computer, then you have the option to mirror or extend the screen. Mirroring duplicates the computer's screen while extending treats each display as a separate screen.
ALT Switch between mirroring and extending your screen keyboard shortcuts
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🧍♀️ Lucidpic generates realistic looking photos of people. You choose the age, gender, ethnicity, expression, hair color, clothing, and place.
Limited to 3 free generations per month.
lucidpic.com/
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Tip Tuesday! A Google Doc's background doesn't have to be white. Go to File, choose Page setup, and pick a page color. Be sure the text color contrasts with the background color for readability.
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I love Freeform as a teacher whiteboard. I can take photos of textbook pages and handouts (or insert PDFs) and mark them up while mirroring my screen. Being able to easily zoom in is a big plus.
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Tip Tuesday! You can go to a specific slide by typing the slide number and pressing Enter or Return when in Slideshow/Present mode in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote. You could write down a list of key slide numbers as a reference before presenting.
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⚙️ Happy Friday! Starting off your day with humor is bound to help your COGnitive skills.
#FunnyFriday #Shapegrams
ALT Comic of a man sitting on a chair reading a newspaper. Speech bubbles say: "Did you read the news about the gear that was wanted for littering? He turned himself in."
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⏳ Hey, look! ValenTIMERS!
online-stopwatch.com/valenti…
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🎯 Ernest Gonzales tells us about a beautiful collection of graphic organizer templates in @Canva from @SAISD_EdTech. "Graphic Organizers for Active Learning" are organized into 8 categories.
blog.tcea.org/80-graphic-org…
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Have you checked in with your students lately? Simplify it with Google Forms.
bit.ly/2Y5rn3z via @msventurino
#teachers #sel #edchat
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🍭 Tease a lesson by displaying a "whirly swirly" image related to the lesson. Invite students to guess and discuss before revealing the image and lesson connection.
ALT Hook them with a Whirly Swirly. Upload to Lunapic.com, click Effects, and adjust Swirl Amount.
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When certain shapes are selected, a yellow-orange diamond appears. Dragging one of these handles changes a feature of the shape. Some shapes can look very different after they have been adjusted!
#Shapegrams #GoogleEdu #GoogleSlides #GoogleDrawings #edutwitter
ALT Adjustment Handle Poster
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🧐 Open a lesson with a "Baffling Blur". Blur parts of an image and invite students to make educated guesses about what has been blurred. You can use Canva.com to blur areas of an image.
ALT Six Steps for blurring parts of an image with Canva.com
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Tip Tuesday! If your iPhone is running iOS 16, go to Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Keyboard Feedback and turn on Haptic. Now you'll feel a tiny vibration each time you tap a key.
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☀️ "Display fonts" are typefaces with big personalities—they are designed to stand out.
I've listed Google's free display fonts with personalities that connect to the seasons.
shapegrams.com/fonts/
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"Why not teach this instructional strategy with a getting-to-know-you activity?"
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Educator @mrshowell24's Ss get to know learning practices (and each other) a little bit better at the beginning of the year with this strategy:
#TeacherPD #TeacherLife #TeacherTwitter
ALT Digital graphic titled "My Personal Hexagon." There is a blank hexagon with a line in the middle of it. There, students are instructed to write their names. On the lines outside the hexagon, students are invited to share six things about them, including the number of pets they have, what their greatest strength is, what they do for fun and what they hope to accomplish this year.
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Sometimes foldables are "just right" in that they allow for a bit of scaffolding, but easy enough for Ss to handle without a lot of help. @MarianaGSerrato has gathered all of hers together for you to access for free 💙
bit.ly/3Tns4NH #teachertwitter #learning #scichat
