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Google Classroom - Ability to Assign Items to Individual Students

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Google just made a BIG jump in personalizing work for students in Classroom!  You can now assign a Question, Assignment or Announcement to as many or as few of your students as you want.  The first time you login and this feature is available to you, you will see the following message: When you create a new item, you will now see a dropdown that says All students - The first item is All Students.  This gives a quick way to either select OR deselect all your students - So, you can either uncheck the students you do not want to get the item, OR you can deselect all students and then check the students you want to get the item - Once you have the correct students with checks by their names, the dropdown will change to show how many students are going to get the item - That's it!  It works for all the items you can add in Classroom, too. Ironically, I just told a teacher yesterday that Classroom would not be the best tool to use in tracking studen...

FREE Webinar - Watson for Education (Office Depot)

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Just found out about this! A FREE Webinar from Office Depot - Watson for Education April 28, 2016, 4:00 - 5:00 PM EST     Join a free presentation led by Kevin Baird, Chairman and National Supervising Faculty, Center for College and Career Readiness; and Kathy Brooks, Principal K-12 Technology Consultant, Office Depot. Learning in a Cognitive Era and the advancement of self-learning computing technology defines the cutting edge of EdTech.  In this session, we recap the comments made by IBM’s education team at SXSWedu, as they look forward to an era of Cognitive Computing in Schools.  In the second half of the session, Office Depot’s team provides a first-look into the new Office Depot / IBM Personalized Learning Solution.   We’re proud to be convening these education thought leaders and know you’ll find each session to be enlightening and enjoyable. We hope you’ll join us.