Five on Friday

1.  This week the ITRTs went to VSTE where I got tons of ideas! This first resource is a list of some of the amazing web based project sites that I was either reminded of or introduced to.

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• https://info.flipgrid.com/
• https://newsela.com/
• https://www.commonlit.org/   
• ​https://www.aurasma.com/
• https://www.canva.com/
• https://www.powtoon.com/home/
• https://www.ted.com/talks
• https://sites.google.com/a/k12albemarle.org/vmistem/computational-thinking​​

2.  Check out this blog!  Be sure to bookmark this page and visit each day to reveal another Google Tool that you can use.  ​http://enewsletter.weebly.com/countdown-calendar.html

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3.  Wanna have some fun with Google?  Try some of these sites.

• ​Mystery Animal - A game to see if you can guess the animal Google is thinking about in 20 questions or less.  Was originally designed to work with your Google Home.
• Spell Up - A spelling game that Google originally designed for ESL students but everyone will have fun with!
• Smarty Pins - Answer Trivia questions by dropping map pins on a Google Map.
• Auto Draw - Start drawing and see how fast Google can guess what you are drawing.
• Ngram Viewer - More for the trivia lover!  Type in three words and see which one is found the most time in books.  
• Google Feud - If you are playing Family Feud against Google, which one of you will win?

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4.  This is a page from one of the presentations I attended this week at VSTE.  It has a TON of extensions and apps that you may want to check out.  These only work on the Chrome browser.  

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5.  Friday at the Movies - Be more Dog!