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Back to school in so many ways...


Help your students Research like a Boss!

Research projects can be extremely frustrating!  Students have difficulties finding reliable sources and teachers often have a difficult time teaching students proper research skills.  Use this Slide Presentation to assist your students in effectively utilizing multiple Google Search Tools, including Explore, Scholar, YouTube filters, images, citations and more!


Something Googly for Everyone!


Google for Education has started a short series of 30 minutes Google Tips and Tricks.  These sessions are usually held during school hours so they are not available to most teachers to view live.  The sessions are super helpful!  

I'm including the page that holds the Recordings so you can view on your own time if you would like.  Some really great tools on display in

Here are just a few of the topics so far:
  • Google Classroom Glowup
  • Chrome Sweet Chrome - What's New?
  • Get Started with CS First


Elementary EdTech 💻


Resources galore from last year's experience are gathered in one place to make things easier in Elementary Ed. We have all of the lessons created by the content specialists, which were weekly lessons covering Science, Social Studies and so much more. And lessons created and or shared by your fellow teachers. Where you ask? On Teachers Pay Teachers? Or Linktree? No! On our own Elementary Doc Locker on the VUSD Gateway. Look for the following area on the website:




There is also a place for you to submit your lessons to the site.   We know that many of you have created a lot of resources and digital lessons for your students as well.  Please share!  Let's make our loads just a bit lighter if we can. (Please only submit copies, not originals)














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  1. AnonymousOctober 1, 2021 at 3:13 PM

    Very cool resources! The slides deck is super user-friendly and engaging. Most excellently tasty tech byte! Thank you, Digital Education Coordination Team!

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