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In this episode of Life is But a Google I share Slido , an add-on for Google Presentations for fun and engaging polling questions for your students.   Here is an example of a Slido word cloud poll question.

Stop animation videos are a highly entertaining way for students to show understanding of concepts that focus on change over time, a process or a progression. In this podcast I share two low tech methods for making stop animation videos, many ideas of how they can connect to curricular areas and many different types of stop animation videos. There is a little something for everyone in this podcast.

Greetings educator friends and colleagues. I hope your week went well. Here are a few interesting finds from this week. #1 Have you notices the number of fast food restaurants that have "We're Hiring" signs? Check out this robotic solution! Meet Flippy. It's the world's first AI kitchen assistant,  a robotic and autonomous smart-kitchen solution created by Miso Robotics,  made for quick-service restaurants (QSRs) across the world.  Speaking of robots, have you heard of "soft robots"? They can handle things more gently than a regular robot. Check out this article .  #2 If you are using Go Guardian Teacher a new feature is now available to allow for different scenes for different groups of students or individuals.  Scenes + Student Groups #3 Betsy from " Now Spark Creativity " shared a slide deck for Gratitude Poetry Tiles . I love this for when students need a relaxing and creative activity.  #4 My college sons introduced me to the site, "

In this episode of Life is But a Google #Podcast I talk about "Everyday Examples of Artificial Intelligence". We also play a game to learn more about artificial intelligence and how it is a part of our everyday lives. Enjoy!

 🍂🍂 Happy November all! 🍂🍂 If you live in Wisconsin or the midwest I hope you are enjoying the fall-like weather and the cool temperatures. I feel as though we have finally gotten into a rhythm of day to day school, teaching and learning.  It's been a creative week of STEM projects in our Innovation Lab. During Excel this week my colleague, Teri and I, led a Cricut Design Space Activity to create a personalized name plate. Students were able to show understanding of scale, positioning, layers, welding and weeding, which are all graphic design concepts. Another project my youth apprentice and I worked on is a balsa wood airplane cut out on the Cricut machine. We wanted to add weight to the nose of the plane, so we used Tinkercad.com to design and then 3D print pieces to add to the nose.    It may seem like a simple project, but a lot of design, critical thinking and troubleshooting went into these gliders.   On Monday we plan to have a friendly competition to see who's desig

On this episode of "Life is But a Google", I share new updates to Screencastify. There are several new updates that have become available over the past year and they are pretty awesome. Take a listen.