Google Slides: Set in/out points in videos

You can set in and out points in videos that are embedded in Google Slides! Read more. 

Icons for Google Slides

If you ever have a need to insert simple icons into a Google Slide you should check out this add-on: Insert icons for Slides. You can search for icons and easily recolor them to match your theme! Awesome!

Google's Free Online Digital Literacy Courses

Google offers a variety of FREE online courses over digital literacy topics. They seem to be more business focused right now but education can definitely benefit from these!
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Ditch That Textbook's FREE Digital Summit

Want to learn some pretty cool things? Get new ideas? Maybe even find that what you're doing is totally on the right path? Check out the coming Ditch That Textbook's FREE Digital Summit. New videos are released every day Dec. 14 - 22 and remain available through Dec. 31. Participate at your own pace. Read more & sign-up. 

Birdville ISD's FREE online Digital Summit -- going on NOW!

Birdville ISD's BirdNest (Digital Learning) is hosting a #12DaySummit right now. Each day, Dec. 3 - 18, a new guest speaker video is emailed out to participants for you to view at your convenience. Videos are available through early January. Read more and sign-up.

Today's guest speaker was @jmattmiller from Ditch That Textbook. I recommend you check it out!

The importance of teaching organizational and listening skills

It's never too late to teach cognitive organizational and listening skills to students. Contrary to popular belief, students are not born with these skills. 
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FISD Webinar: Checkmark

Do you find leaving comments for students in Google Docs/Slides cumbersome? 

Would you like to speed up the process of providing student feedback or having students leave feedback for each other?

We invite you to a 15 minute Webinar on Wednesday, December 5^th at 4:30pm to learn the power of the Google Add-On called Checkmark which helps you leave customized comments in Google Docs and Slides efficiently.

Visit bit.ly/FISDcheckmark on Dec. 5^th by 4:30 to grab the link to join the webinar.  This webinar will be recorded for later viewing.

#12DaysTwitter Challenge

Add your contributions to #ourFISDstory through the #12DaysTwitter challenge! Connect to CHS with @Cen10Titans.

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The Oatmeal: You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you

It's been a while since I shared this. It's a good one and worth sharing again. Read it if you haven't read it lately.
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Copyright Friendly Images

One big area where students and teachers violate copyright law is when selecting images to use. Images found from a Google Image search are often covered by copyright law and using them in your own work could be a violation. Instead, check out this list put together by Richard Byrne. Some of these are blocked on our filter because we cannot filter them as we need to.