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Randall Black
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Canva – Restricted SharingAs a means of increasing security and safety for students on their platform, Canva will automatically begin restricting sharing capabilities for students only on October 27, 2023.
Students should expect the following changes:
- Students will no longer be allowed to share a project outside of their school email domain.
- Students can no longer create a "Anyone with the Link" permission for sharing a project.
- Public view links or published websites will no longer be an option for student projects.
Educators can request the disabling of this feature for a collection of school teams by contacting Canva at edu-experts@canva.com, if their district admin allows them to make changes to Restricted Sharing.
For additional details about Restricted Sharing and this change, visit the Canva Help Center online.
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Students and teachers often times struggle to remember the various formats for citations of sources they may be using for work in their classes. Today on EdTech Shorts, we’ll look at a few options for creating citations of your sources using Chrome Extensions. Apogee (Link) Apogee is a citation maker that will cite your source […]
Insert Learning (Chrome Extension) saves teachers and students time while keeping students engaged. Teachers can insert questions, discussions, and insight directly into any website. When students go to that website, they can respond to those questions and discussions, see that insight, and take their own notes. Here are some tips on how to use Insert Learning: […]
If you are looking for a way to connect and collaborate with other educators, find trainings and lessons for your classroom, and earn badges and certificates to better your skills with technology in the classroom; then you need to check out the Microsoft Educator Community. Some of the awesome things on the Microsoft Educator Community: […]
How do we get Minecraft: Education Edition? West Virginia If you’re an educator in West Virginia then you may be aware that in June of 2018, the West Virginia Department of Education was able to license Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE) for ALL (approximately) 300,000 users in our Office 365 tenant. All users have successfully been […]
Previously on EdTech Shorts we shared NAME REDACTED as a replacement for the recently shut down Today’s Meet. On today’s episode we’ll be hearing about another free alternative call Yo! Teach. To share this tool with us is Chris Nesi (Twitter, Website)from the House of #EdTech podcast. He recently featured this tool as his #EdTech […]
In addition to announcing that Flipgrid was now 100% free in June, Flipgrid has listened to feedback from it’s users and made some awesome updates. Grid Launchpad With Grid Launchpad now released, passwords are no longer needed to setup your grid for your community. There are various ways to do so. School E-Mail Domain Use […]
Flipgrid has published a list of Do’s and Don’ts for getting started using Flipgrid in your classroom. Do’s Do read Flipgrid’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Do follow your school policies around using the application and sharing with other schools Do clean up the student content when you no longer need it or if […]
While doing some professional development recently on Flipgrid I was asked a couple of questions that I wanted to share here on EdTech Shorts. Can a student hide or delete a video? There are a few ways that a video can be hidden or deleted. If a student included their e-mail address when they submitted […]
Not all students are 100% comfortable in front of the camera. Using Flipgrid can be hard for them. On this episode I am sharing tips for helping students who may be a bit camera shy (shared from Flipgrid’s own help pages (https://help.flipgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003079854-Camera-Shy-Tips-for-all-Students). Use the moderation settings Cover the camera Use props to make them more […]
Flipgrid provides you with a great platform for students to practice digital citizenship and netiquette (net etiquette) in a protected, controlled environment. Melissa Dills (Twitter) created this amazing guide for students to help them follow Flipgrid Netiquette. Looking for video response and @Flipgrid netiquette for students. Couldn’t find much so I created this… Feel free […]
On the first episode of EdTech Shorts, I featured Quizizz as a classroom assessment tool for teachers. As of May 10, 2018 Quizizz is adding support to align assessments to state standards! If your state isn’t listed yet, fill out this survey and request that they add it!
If you are looking to enhance your classroom experience for your students through social media, here are some quick dos and don’ts in that practice: Dos Do use separate personal and professional social media accounts. Putting a boundary between school and personal life is good for your career and less stress on you. Do make sure you […]
Has your school or district has recently turned on the G-Suite for Education and you are lost in where to start? Then check out the G-Suite Training Extension for Chrome by Google!
If you are looking for a way to make those boring Powerpoint or Google Slides presentations more interactive in your classroom. Try out Nearpod.
Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity suite in the world. This episode is the second of three looking at some great shortcut keys available in the office suite. Today we are looking at Microsoft Powerpoint. You can find a list of great shortcut keys for Microsoft Powerpoint at https://randallblack.com/powerpointshortcuts.
Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity suite in the world. This episode is the second of three looking at some great shortcut keys available in the office suite. Today we are looking at Microsoft Excel. You can find a list of great shortcut keys for Microsoft Excel at https://randallblack.com/excelshortcuts.
Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity suite in the world. This episode is the first of three looking at some great shortcut keys available in the office suite. Today we are looking at Microsoft Word. You can find a list of great shortcut keys for Microsoft Word at https://randallblack.com/wordshortcuts.
If you’re an educator on Twitter, hashtags can help you to find content to push forward your professional growth.
ChromeOS and Chromebooks have become extremely popular over in education over the past few years as more and more schools and districts implement 1:1 programs. This episode of EdTech Shorts shares some of the popular keyboard shortcuts for ChromeOS and the Chrome web browser. You can find a list of all shortcuts available at https://randallblack.com/chromeshortcuts.
Quizizz, similarly to Kahoot, is an easy, free assessment tool for educators to assess their students live in class or for homework.
EdTech Shorts with Randall Black – Coming Soon! If you are looking for quick and simple edtech tips as an educator? Then you have found the podcast for you. Randall Black shares these “shorts” to help you to work smarter, not harder in your classroom or school.