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Joined October 2012
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Bring your lesson plans to life 📖 ✨
Watch Joe use the @GeminiApp, @Gemini_Notebook, and #GoogleVids to transform a classroom topic into a narrated graphic novel—ready to share with students in Google Classroom.
Explore more practical AI tips here: goo.gle/GES
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Help shape the future of #STEMeducation. We're hiring our first Managing Director to help lead Beyond100K's mission to end the #STEM teacher shortage.
Apply by Jul 10: apply.workable.com/beyond100…
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You told us personalized feedback is essential—but it can take time. We’re here to help!
Gemini in Classroom can support educators in drafting personalized feedback for written assignments that's tailored to student work and learning goals.
Learn more: goo.gle/3Rk8zci
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AI literacy training that fits in your schedule. The Google AI Educator Series is here!
✅ Aligned to @ISTE_ASCD Standards
✅ Snackable: 15–45 min sessions
✅ Stackable: Build your own learning path
✅ Practical: Created for K-12 & higher ed
Get started: goo.gle/4wt5o1Z
ALT Graphic titled "Learn AI at your own pace" featuring blocks for session lengths (15–45 mins) and live vs. self-paced options.
ALT Graphic titled "Your vision. Our tools." featuring blocks for practical use cases, standards alignment, and earning badges.
ALT Graphic with an educator icon. Text: "Join thousands of educators and faculty building the future of learning. Explore the sessions to get started."
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6th grade had to design controllers inspired by their games with the @makeymakey!!! It did not work until 3rd grade came into test!!! They never gave up. They did not even entertain it failing. My mind is blown by this controller! #makersgonnamake #makerspace @SVViperPride @DVUSD
Check out Digital Learning Services's video! #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZTkaMjwHs/
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¿Cuándo ha pasado esto? Sabíamos que @briskteaching es una herramienta espectacular a todos los niveles, pero ahora además está directamente integrada con @GeminiApp para ayudar a mejorar los prompts integrando criterios didácticas y pedagógicas. ¡Totalmente gratis!
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A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only.
I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication.
His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak."
His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order.
Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored.
Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades.
He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds.
Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these.
The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently.
His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in.
I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle.
Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing.
The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.
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So you made something really fun for your class using Canvas in the @GeminiApp… now what? 🤔
Let @JoeMarquez70 show you how two little alligators can help you host your creations on Google Sites. 🐊
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Conor Neill on the 3 best ways to start a speech (most people get this wrong):
"I guarantee if you go to conferences, 19 out of 20 speakers will start in one of these ways: 'My name is Conor Neill. I'm from Tango, and this talk is about the latest trend in monitoring strategies.' But all of you are sitting with a piece of paper that already says who I am and what I'm going to talk about. By repeating what you already know, I'm giving a signal that it's time to get your BlackBerry out."
Conor explains the three best ways to start instead:
Third best: A question that matters to the audience.
"How do you phrase a problem that the audience faces in a question?"
Second best: A factoid that shocks.
"There are more people alive today than have ever died. Every two minutes, the energy reaching the earth from the sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy usage of humanity. Does that change how you think about energy?"
The best way: Start like you'd start a story to a child.
"How do we start a story to a child? 'Once upon a time.' And what happens when you say once upon a time? My daughter leans forward, gets ready to hear, engages. We were all trained as kids to know when a story's coming. We also know when a teacher is about to deliver a 40-minute boring lecture."
He explains the grown-up version:
"In business, you don't hear Jack Welch saying 'once upon a time.' Steve Jobs doesn't start his speeches with 'once upon a time.' So there's a grown-up way of saying it: 'In October, the last time I was in this room, there were 120 people here. I was having a conversation with one of the world's experts on public speaking and he said something to me that changed what I think about what's important in speaking.' Now I can pause for 30 seconds, and you want to know what he said."
Conor concludes:
"Stories are about people. They're not about objects. They're not about things. If you want to tell a good story about your company, don't talk about the software talk about the people who built the software. What they do. How they are. What's important to them. What they sacrifice."
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Audio and video recording in #GoogleClassroom = assignment game changer!
Give your students:
✅ Clear guidance
✅ Personalized touch
✅ Less confusion, more learning
goo.gle/4lSZ27v
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SETDA’s new K‑12 EdTech Quality Action Toolkit is live!
A practical resource to help states, districts, and providers apply the Five EdTech Quality Indicators to ensure digital tools are safe, inclusive, interoperable, and evidence‑based.
Explore the toolkit: setda.info/FEQIToolkit
#SETDA #EdTech
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No sufras con tus hojas de cálculo.
Ahora puedes usar inteligencia artificial directamente en tus celdas con una fórmula que entiende tu idioma.
Así de fácil es usar la función =AI():
✅ Clasificar datos: =AI("Dime si este comentario es positivo o negativo", A2)
✅ Extraer info: =AI("Saca el correo electrónico de este texto", B2)
✅ Limpiar listas: =AI("Corrige las mayúsculas y la puntuación de estos nombres", C2)
Solo escribes lo que necesitas entre comillas y la IA lo resuelve. 🧠✨
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📁 Giving your local Excel files a power boost? Agent mode in Microsoft 365 Copilot now works right from your device.
Here is the quick recap: techcommunity.microsoft.com/… 📊
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While most AI writing tools operate on plain text structured with Markdown, we’re teaching Gemini the underlying data model of @GoogleDocs. By understanding Docs natively, Gemini generates and edits documents with full-fidelity formatting, fonts, and styles. That’s why when you ask Gemini to "match the format," it duplicates the exact structure— even clearing out the old text so you get a high quality, ready-to-use template instantly.
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Top students at Stanford have a secret NotebookLM workflow.
Took me 3 weeks of digging through study groups to crack it.
Most people dump their PDFs into NotebookLM and ask basic questions. These students do something completely different.
They upload their lecture notes, then immediately ask: "What are the 3 most likely exam questions from this material?"
But the wild part is, they don't stop there.
They follow up with: "Now create a study guide that connects these concepts to last week's readings" and "Generate practice problems that combine today's material with previous assignments."
The result? They're not just reviewing. They're predicting what professors want and connecting dots across the whole course.
I tested this on my own research. Instead of 6 hours of manual cross-referencing, I got comprehensive analysis in 15 minutes.
The secret isn't about taking better notes. It's about getting NotebookLM to think like your professor.
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New here? Check out our "Intro to NotebookLM" notebook!
One of our Featured Notebooks, you can explore each of the studio outputs and get a hands-on tutorial by asking the chat: "how can I use NotebookLM to help me with X project?" for specific guidance to best suit your needs.
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Google just showed the most beautiful use of AI I’ve seen this year.
No glossy ads.
No corporate jargon.
Just a simple idea — letting their employees’ children imagine.
They took a child’s hand-drawn sketch and used Veo, Imagen, and Gemini to turn it into a cinematic story.
And suddenly, it wasn’t about products or features anymore.
It was about imagination meeting technology.
I think that’s the real magic of AI.
It’s not replacing creativity — it’s amplifying it.
It helps people turn what’s in their head into something real, visible, shareable.
For centuries, we’ve told stories through whatever tools we had: stones, brushes, cameras.
Now, we have intelligence itself as a tool.
To me, this moment reminds us that AI isn’t just about what machines can do — it’s about what humans can dream again.
But it raises a question I can’t stop thinking about:
Will AI help us rediscover our creativity, or drown it in noise?
#AI #Creativity #Storytelling #Innovation #Technology #Leadership #FutureOfWork #HumanIntelligence
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Starting today, we’re making it easier for everyone to verify if an image was created or edited with Google AI with SynthID, our digital watermarking technology, right in @GeminiApp.
