Check out Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen) presentation tips to help you prep, design and deliver an effective experience for the parents on Thursday night.
Also if you are sharing desktops switch user instead of signing in and out for a quick transition.
By creating an assignment in Google Classroom you have the option to make a copy for each student, however if you want to handout a copy without assigning it to students select the settings anyone with the link can edit and change the word edit to copy in the url.
The explore Google Classroom station is now ready:) 
It will be up for the month of May to help you get ready for the change communicated last week. Stop by to play, explore and learn.
If you have indicated you would like specific help (one-on-one) watch out for an email from Liz later today. The following group sessions will run next week, please RSVP below:
Below is an interactive template you can explore on your own, but it’s recommended that you explore classroom with a partner to be learn both the teacher and student perspectives. If you need a student to help you explore some are on hand ready and excited to help you.
WARNING: The autosave function only works in WordPress (blogs we use for student digital portfolios) if the Save Draft button is clicked initially. Once this has happened students will see timestamped revisions directly under the body of the post. 
Hypertext is nothing new, in fact it’s origins stem back to the early 1940’s (Bolter, 1978) when Borges wrote a short story inspiring the concept. Fast forward to today and is it reasonable that we all know how create and responsibly consume hypertext. If you need a little refresher check out Alice Keeler’s post.
Voice tools are expanding and transforming access to learning in the auditory realm like never before.
The speech to text tool within Google Drive has dramatically improved. Below are a few ways you might want to consider using it to enhance the ways you give students feedback, or student learning. Speech to text is also useful for students that are auditory learners.
*Screencastify is a solid screencast tool that saves straight to Google drive.
Extending/Duplicating to a projector or 2nd screen (thx Keith)!
Occasionally there might not be any display on the smartboard from the desktop. Of course there could be an issue with the video cable between the projector and desktop but sometimes the issue may be caused by the display settings in the control panel. The quickest way to fix this is documented here .
Below are three of many ways your calendar can be in some of the places you need it most:
*Google labs are cool and sometimes very helpful, just remember they are beta and can change/go away at anytime.
Please continue to reference the GYST badge for yourself and the Reboot section of the advisory site for your students (especially our new to ZIS students) as a means to have consistent informed conversations about digital organization.
Tech Tuesday 