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🚨 Google just dropped a NEW tool — and teachers, you’re going to want to see this one. 👀 Meet Google Pics, Google Workspace’s new Gemini-powered tool for creating AND editing images. You can generate visuals, make targeted changes to specific parts of an image, edit text,

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This Seancheer mini bag sealer might be the teacher snack-drawer gadget I didn’t know I needed. 😂 We tested this portable heat sealer on an open snack bag to see if it could actually reseal it — and yep, it worked. Perfect for chips, snacks, classroom treats, travel, pantry

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If you have students who understand the content better when they can hear it AND see the words at the same time, save this one. 👀🔊 Hearald is a Chrome extension that reads webpages aloud while highlighting each word as it goes — which makes it a really simple addition to your

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Your browser doesn’t need to look like a digital junk drawer. 😂 If you’re constantly bouncing between Google Classroom, your gradebook, lesson resources, email, Slides, Forms…and the other 32 tabs you swear you still need…try Tab Groups in Google Chrome. Group related tabs

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You picked a number… now you have homework. 😂👇 1. Canva: Open Magic Studio and try one feature you’ve been ignoring — Magic Grab, Magic Edit, Magic Write, whatever catches your eye. 2. Diffit: Grab something you already teach and use Diffit to create a differentiated version

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Teachers, sometimes the email you want to send and the email you should send are two very different emails. 😅 So get the frustration out first. This Gemini prompt lets you brain-dump what happened, how you’re feeling, and what you really want to say — then helps turn it into a

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Creating an online course doesn’t have to mean hours of recording, editing, and overthinking.
ScreenPal turned our Innovative Learning Summit session into a practical guide to course creation from microlearning+storyboarding to batching, AI, & accessibility.
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Back-to-school teacher brain already at capacity? 😵‍💫 Differentiation doesn’t have to mean creating a completely different lesson for every student. Diffit for Teachers is one of our favorite tools for quickly adapting content and creating resources that help you meet learners

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The YouTube link alone wasn’t enough. 👀 I asked Gemini to turn a YouTube video into fill-in-the-blank structured notes for students, but it needed a little more context first. The fix? Grab the video transcript, paste it into Gemini, and THEN ask it to build the student

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Teachers, before you rebuild your syllabus from scratch this year… Google Docs has a tool for that. 👀 Go to Tools → Compare documents and Google Docs can compare two versions of a document and show you exactly what changed. Use it to: ✨ Compare last year’s syllabus to this

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Teachers…how many times have you typed basically the SAME parent email? 😅 Try this instead: 📄 Create ONE Google Doc 🗂️ Make a separate tab for each email template you use ✏️ Update them whenever you need to 📧 Use the email building block in Google Docs ➡️ Hit the Gmail

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Teachers…Google Forms can help you build the quiz now. 👀🤯 Kris found the Gemini button hiding in the top corner of Google Forms (Ed Plus license), and it can help you create quiz questions without starting from a completely blank form. That means less time building the

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Google Classroom just gave teachers a MUCH better way to give feedback. 👀🎙️🎥💻 Instead of typing out another giant private comment, you can record audio, video, OR your screen right inside Google Classroom. Sometimes it’s faster to say it. Sometimes students need to see it.

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You’re officially done typing the date into Google Sheets. 📅🙌 These tiny keyboard shortcuts are the kind of Google Sheets tricks that don’t seem life-changing…until you start using them ALL the time. 📅 Insert the date ⏰ Insert the time 📅⏰ Or quickly add both Save this one

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Canva keeps adding AI features… and these two are worth learning. ✨ Magic Grab lets you pull an object out of an image and move it wherever you want. 🎨 Magic Edit lets you replace or change parts of an image with a simple prompt. Both can save a ridiculous amount of editing

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You don’t need to read every email anymore. If you use Gmail for work, Google’s built-in AI can summarize your inbox, answer questions about your emails, and help you find what actually matters. We’ve been testing it, and it’s one of those features that’s easy to overlook—but

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Your inbox doesn’t have to be a graveyard of newsletters you meant to unsubscribe from six months ago. 😅 Gmail has two easy ways to see your subscriptions in one place and start cleaning them up without digging through individual emails. 📧 Method 1: Change the end of your

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Your inbox doesn’t have to look like a digital junk drawer. 📬 A few Gmail filters + labels can automatically organize emails before you ever read them—and color coding makes it even easier to find what matters. This is one of those tiny changes that saves time every single day.