Learn about new Chromebook, Classroom, and Meet features for Google for Edu users.

Learn about updates to Google for Edu including the Anywhere School and some new educator resources.

Learn about the latest updates to Google for Workspaces Edu in this quick video.

Genuis Hour project idea for ELA researching a topic of student's choice regarding WWII and/or the Holocaust. Preview image Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

Although this blog title emphasizes teaching students to analyze nontraditional texts, teachers too will appreciate the strategies the author suggests for learning to conduct textual analysis.

Includes suggestions for how to increase student engagement and participation during class discussions.

The author describes an eighth-grade language unit that helps students understand the value of dialects and standardized English.

Provides evidence-based strategies to support students (geared towards a university audience but many of the suggestions can be adapted/used in secondary contexts).

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains, Intervention A, a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program.

This month join us for a great Make-And-Take Marvel with co-leader Kelli Cannon. We will also share our monthly newsletter and some Googley updates.

We will have a brief sharing session and then what we are calling Make-and-Take Marvels, pre-made lessons that you can take to your classrooms tomorrow with all the materials ready to go. This month, co-leader Matthew Winters will walk us through a lesson he calls "In The Room," a miniature digital/physical diorama project using Google Slides.

Learn more about Utah's GEGUtah program and join in on the fun! We are so excited about our upcoming GEGUtah/Utah Nearpod Community combined meetup! Come join both communities to share what is new with Google and Nearpod.

Join us on May 4th for our May GEGUtah Meetup! We will have a few guest speakers from Derivita to discuss their amazing integration with Google Classroom. Then Ian Davey will walk us through a Design Sprint to spark us for Summer break!

This episode just came out at the tail end of September and covers a lot of great updates, a new series on Chromebooks and ChromeOS, and Google's new standalone Read Along site for our younger students.