Tech Tips

Check Out Previous Summer Summit Session Recordings (Summer 2026)

For the past few years, District 202 has offered the Summer Summit for their teachers and staff to get inspired with new ideas before starting the new school year. Summer Summit 2026 will be held virtually July 27-29, 2026. The schedule and sign up links will be released soon. In the meantime, please check out the recordings of our previous Summer Summit sessions.

Summer Summit 2025

Summer Summit 2024

Summer Summit 2023

Summer Summit 2022

Summer Summit 2021

Using Gemini to Re-Level Text (Week of 5/4/26)

by Steve Eighner

Tools to Support Multilingual Learners (Week of 4/27/26)

Kimmy Schuelke, our ITC that supports EL/multilingual teachers, curated this list of programs and applications that can support multilingual learners, including newcomers. The tools are now organized by level and include helpful videos for your reference. Visit our Multilingual Support page by clicking on the image or the button to the right. The page is also linked on the homepage and the menu at the top.

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Editing PDFs in Canva (Week of 4/13/26)

Canva Edit PDFs

By Nicolette Kolinski

Exploring AI Features in Google Classroom (Week of 4/6/26)

AI Features built into GC

By Nicolette Kolinski

Using Gemini to Search Google Drive (Week of 3/23/26)

Searching Drive with Gemini

By Nicolette Kolinski

Creating Citations in Google Docs (Week of 3/16/26)

Citations in Google Docs.pdf

By Jessica Faber

Google Read Along to Boost Reading Skills (Week of Mar. 2, 2026)

By Jillian Zirbes

Using Google Questions to Enhance Student Participation

(Week of Feb. 23, 2026)

By Lisa Packley

Using NotebookLM to Create Multimodal Resources

(Week of Feb. 16, 2026)

Discovering Google Updates (Week of Feb. 9, 2026)

Instructional image titled Tech Tips that guides users to open the Help menu in Google apps to see recent updates, supported by simple graphics and screenshots.

By Laura Shervino

Essential Ctrl Shortcuts for Google (Week of Feb. 2, 2026)

A colorful, cartoon-style infographic titled "Essential CTRL Shortcuts for Google" featuring a grid of organized shortcut cards. The graphic includes sections for Text Editing, Formatting Text, Paragraph & Layout, Navigation, Google Sheets, Comments & Collaboration, Gmail & Drive, and Google Chrome. Each card lists specific keyboard commands, such as Ctrl + C for Copy and Ctrl + B for Bold. A yellow banner at the bottom provides a "Universal Google Tip" stating that Ctrl + / will show all available shortcuts.

By Kacey Helland

General & Text Editing

Select All: Ctrl + A
Copy: Ctrl + C
Cut: Ctrl + X
Paste: Ctrl + V
Paste Without Formatting: Ctrl + Shift + V
Undo: Ctrl + Z
Redo: Ctrl + Y or Ctrl + Shift + Z

Formatting

Bold: Ctrl + B
Italic: Ctrl + I
Underline: Ctrl + U
Strikethrough: Ctrl + Shift + X
Clear Formatting: Ctrl + \
Increase Font Size: Ctrl + Shift + >
Decrease Font Size: Ctrl + Shift + <

Paragraph & Layout

Left/Center/Right Align: Ctrl + Shift + L / E / R
Justify: Ctrl + Shift + J
Numbered List: Ctrl + Shift + 7
Bulleted List: Ctrl + Shift + 8
Decrease Indent: Ctrl + [

Google Apps Specifics

Sheets

Select Column/Row: Ctrl + Space / Shift + Space
Insert Date/Time: Ctrl + ;

Gmail

Send Email: Ctrl + Enter

Chrome

New Tab: Ctrl + T
Incognito Mode: Ctrl + Shift + N

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