Tuesday Tech Tips

April 13, 2021

Tech Updates from Edward

Tuesday Tech Tips is a weekly blog that contains interesting technology tips, articles, and videos.

Google Workspace Status Dashboard

On Monday, April 12, 2021, there was a Google outage that impacted Google Drive. The Google Workspace Status Dashboard offers performance information for the following Google services. Unless otherwise noted, this status information applies to consumer services as well as services for organizations using Google Workspace.

Check back here any time to view the current status of the services listed on the dashboard

For additional information or to report a problem, please visit the Google Workspace Help Center or see the Google Workspace Known Issues page.


Direct from Apple Education: Build Confidence with Apple Teacher — Mac Basics - Click to Sign Up


Next Session: Wednesday, April 14, 2021

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (EDT)

Online

We’re excited to announce Build Confidence with Apple Teacher for Mac series—designed to help you make the most of your Apple products for teaching and learning. Join colleagues and local Apple team members to go through the steps to sign up for Apple Teacher, explore new program resources, and work to earn badges to become a recognized Apple Teacher.


In these sessions, you’ll build foundational skills on Mac 
that directly apply to activities with your students. Learning more about how to use a variety of Apple apps will also help you become more effective and efficient with research, planning, communication, and other multitasking skills that have become so important in teachers’ lives.


You’ll leave each session with new skills and ideas, implementation resources, and a connection to a community of peers who share a common purpose. Follow @AppleEdu, #AppleTeacher, and #EveryoneCanCreate on Twitter for 
more tips and inspiration from champions of creativity around the world.


That's it for now!

Enjoy the Tuesday Tech Tips!

Tips from the Tech Coaches

Amy

Social-Emotional Learning Support in a Hybrid Setting

How to Help Students Improve Executive Functioning During Hybrid Learning... read more from Edutopia.

Connie

MSU gets $2 million for computational thinking research.

Michigan State University announced this month it’s received more than $2 million in research funding from the National Science Foundation that will help more K-12 teachers integrate “computational thinking” into their lesson plans. Learn more.

Myra


Anchor image backgrounds in Google Sites

You'll now see an anchor icon in Google Sites when editing a section that includes a background image. When selected, you can choose what point to anchor the image on or if the image should be centered.




Ted

Have you seen what's new in Google Classroom? Rich Text formatting is now available! Enjoy all of the bolding, italicizing, and underlining you want!



Have a wonderful tech week!