Take a Virtual Tour of The White House

Using Google's Cultural Institute

Virtual Tour of the White House

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/asset-viewer/the-white-house/jQGRSIlnzvE8_w?projectId=art-project

Keeping fingers and toes crossed!

Bring virtual reality field trips to your school with Google Expeditions

Starting today, we’re bringing this experience to thousands of schools around the world with the new Expeditions Pioneer Program. During the 2015/2016 school year, we’ll be bringing “kits” containing everything a teacher needs to run a virtual trip for their class: ASUS smartphones, a tablet for the teacher to direct the tour, a router that allows Expeditions to run without an Internet connection, and Google Cardboard viewers or Mattel View-Masters that turn phones into virtual reality headsets. Although nothing replaces hopping on the bus for a field trip, there are some places that are just out of reach (hello, Chichen Itza!). Virtual reality gives teachers a tool to take students places a school bus can't.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/bring-virtual-reality-field-trips-to.html 

Have you visited Google's "My Account" yet?

Google “My Account”

Control, protect, and secure your account, all in one place.  My Account gives you quick access to settings and tools that let you safeguard your data, protect your privacy, and decide how your information can make Google services work better for you.

I just went in and made some changes. There were a lot of things I didn't know about in there!  Especially helpful: Privacy Checkup and Security Checkup.

https://myaccount.google.com/

Homecoming Week!

I'm co-advisor for the Class of 2016 (Seniors!!!). They did an awesome job decorating their wall in the first event of Spirit Week leading up to our Homecoming pep rally/parade/football game on Friday. Can't wait to see if they take the trophy at the end. I'm hearing good plans for their float! The overall theme is "It's a Small World" and the seniors selected Africa.

NYSCATE Conference

A few Dansville employees were selected to present at the 50th Anniversary of the state NYSCATE Conference in November. NYS Association for Computers and Technologies in Education will host this state conference at the Riverside Convention Center in Rochester. Dansville Central Schools are committed to being leaders in technology for learning.

So excited!

It's like Christmas! We just got the Google Docs Voice Typing and the Google Sheets "explore" feature turned on today. Can't wait to see how our teachers are going to use these features.

Google Draw

As you know, I'm a Google Draw devotee!  I just discovered this video by Joshua Pomeroy creating vector portraits in Google Draw. This is fantastic! I just shared this with our art teachers, and now I'm sharing with the world!

Please check this out and let me know if you're as impressed as I am.

https://youtu.be/oIhRTymNFBc 

Check these out!

Cool Websites!

Free Kindle Books - http://hundredzeros.com/

Need More Symbols?

♡⌨☮💪💠⚓

Find the symbol and click on it (copies to clipboard) then paste into your documents!

http://copypastecharacter.com/

Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science. http://www.wolframalpha.com/

PrintWhatYouLike lets you print the good parts of any web page while skipping ads and other junk. http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/

Design your dream home in 3D. http://www.homestyler.com/

Google Sheets - Finding Data Quickly

When you enter in labels and number and select them, in the lower right corner it will give you the SUM of those numbers (see below).  If you click on the arrow, you can find out the average, etc.

   

New Icons!

Notice anything different?

NYSCATE Annual Conference

A few of us from Dansville will be presenting at the Annual NYSCATE (NYS Association for Computers and Technologies in Education) state conference in November.

Tentative schedule shows sessions by us on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!

If you haven't been able to attend before, be sure you do this year--it's the 50th anniversary.  The link to the annual conference is: http://www.nyscate.org/conferences.cfm?subpage=718

Oh, and don't forget about the Rochester Mini Maker Faire on Saturday before the conference.

The Evolution of Google!

My how things evolve!