The Chromebook Classroom Podcast

Your September Google Updates: AI updates, Classroom Groups, cool websites and more!

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Every month I try to summarize a few important updates and share some new tools and resources you can use in your classroom. Let's see what's happening for the month of September!

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Table of Contents:

  • 0:00 Intro 
  • 2:15 Manage your Chromebooks with VIZOR
  • 4:15 Data protections for Google Gemini
  • 7:00 AI training for teachers & students
  • 8:40 Enhance your Gemini experience with Gems
  • 13:17 NotbookLM adds audio summaries
  • 19:50 Google Docs has tabs 
  • 25:13 Google Classroom supports student groups
  • 28:40 First impressions of Google Vids
  • 33:30 Jamboard is going away
  • 35:50 GenType (via Jeremy Badiner)
  • 38:40 Gear Sketch (via Brad Dale)

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