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Student Writing in Google Slides - How to showcase students' written work by using a Google Slides magazine-style template.
Translating Google Meet - How to translate Google Meet chat messages, live closed captions, and menus into any language.
PuzzGrid - Play or create your own online word puzzles where you try to identify four sets of linked words and determine what they have in common.
Zenica - Build and share your own virtual bookshelves, with personally selected books and descriptions.
Free Audiobooks -9 to 5 Google, Google Books - Google Play Books offers 20 free classic books as audiobooks with auto-generated narration.
World Language Resources for K-12 - Google Doc with large collection of world language digital resources, organized by topic
Learn with News - Current event articles, each written at three different reading levels, including resources for difficult words, activities, vocabulary practice, conversation questions, and more.
Speechling - Free site to practice a new language by listening to and recording phrases, as well as taking assessments.
Plagiarism Video - Video from CommonCraft explaining what plagiarism is and how to avoid it in your writing and other projects.
Charlala - Language learning tool that lets students draw on their devices to answer questions, retell stories, play games, and more.
Google Search Pronunciation Practice - Google Search on mobile now lets you practice pronouncing words. English now with Spanish coming soon.
Story Starters - 7 online resources and tools to provide story starters for student writing
Media Literacy Booster Pack - Media Literacy resources covering evaluating information, separating facts and opinions, recognizing bias, filtering out fake news, detecting propaganda, uncovering how news is made, spotting errors in the news, and taking charge of your role.
Fluentkey - Create interactive quizzes from any video (similar to EdPuzzle or PlayPosit or iSLCollective)
Imagine Forest - Free website for students to write and publish stories online, with helpful story starters, images, feedback, goals, and more.
Books: From Scrolls to Screens - Google Arts & Culture online collection of images, videos, VR scenes, and more, all about the history of books.
Google Books - Google Books site gets an updated look and layout with easy access to citations, recommendations, and more.