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"Free Technology for Teachers" - 2 new articles

  1. Slides, Assessments, and Bikes - The Week in Review
  2. One Good Way to Record a Video in Gmail
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Slides, Assessments, and Bikes - The Week in Review

Good morning from Maine where we've finally had a nice stretch of summer weather, if you ignore yesterday's rain. This week was full of bike rides, a backyard camping trip with my daughters, and general summer fun. I hope that you've had an equally great week. 

Besides the fun mentioned above, I spent a lot of time working on the backend of PracticalEdTech.com to get it ready to load my courses into a new format that will truly be on-demand. In the meantime, you can still access all of the courses in their current version right here

These were the week's most popular posts:
1. Five Wolfram Alpha Tutorials for Teachers
2. A New Google Classroom Control Over Assignment Submissions
3. Using AI for Creating Formative Assessments
4. 71 Google Slides Tutorials
5. Five Resources for Teaching and Learning About Copyright
6. Four Dozen Google Forms Tutorials
7. Five Tools for Creating Automatically Scored Formative Assessments

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This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com. If you see it elsewhere, it has been used without permission. Featured image captured by Richard Byrne.
   

One Good Way to Record a Video in Gmail


Sometimes it is easier to reply to an email with a video than it is to write out a reply. For example, when a colleague asks me for help with Google Classroom I could write step-by-step directions or I could record a short screencast that would accomplish the same thing. Loom's Chrome extension makes it easy to do that. 

With Loom's Chrome extension Gmail users can reply to email by simply clicking the Loom icon and recording a video. The video is then instantly uploaded to your Loom account and inserted into the body of your email. In this short video I demonstrate how to record a video right from your Gmail inbox. 

 

Yes, there are other tools for making screencast videos. And you could use one of those to make a screencast for a colleague, but I think Loom's Chrome extension streamlines the process better than other screen recording tools. 

Applications for Education
Besides being helpful when answering help requests from students or colleagues, Loom's Chrome extension could be useful in having students explain exactly what they need help with when they send you an email. Sometimes students don't know exactly how to phrase their requests in writing so giving them the Loom option could be a good way to get a better understanding of what they're asking. 
   

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