Tech Snacks (Archive)

A Byte-Sized Treat to Transform Learning

The FCPS Office of Instructional Technology puts out a Tech Snacks newsletter about twice a month during the school year.  Tech Snacks replaced our former monthly e-zine called Tech Tips.  The archive of Tech Tips can be found here.  Each tech snack is featured as a blog entry on the home page of our site, but you can find archived links by date listed below.

2022 – 2023

8.30.22 Area Schools, OIT Lending Library, Online Timers, Building Classroom Relationships, Flipgrid Live Events

2021 – 2022

5.25.22 OIT MASTERClass, Google Educators Group Summer Tips, Google Drive Spring Cleaning, Canvas End of Year Guide, Mission to Mars Challenge Winners, Highlight Hub Derby Winners

5.4.22 Teacher Appreciation, May the 4th, STLP State Results, TSA State Results

4.13.22 KSA Prep, Self-Checking Spelling Quiz, Pear Deck Flashcard Factory

3.16.22 KSTA Teacher of Year, Sora Comics, IFL

2.22.22 Digital Learning Day, Mission to Mars, EdTech Madness, Blended Learning Studios, Google Slides

2.2.22 Black History Month, Blast Off Bluegrass, Winter Olympics, Minecraft Challenge Winners, Wordle

1.14.22 MLK Day, Hour of Code and Highlight Hub Winners, STLP to State, KET Young Writers, Adobe Spark

12.1.21 Computer Science Ed Week, Canva, LEGO at Leestown, Mystery Science, Remote to Computer

11.10.21 Highlight Hub, Sora Magazines, Excel Flash Fill, SPIKE Prime at HCHS, Let Go and Launch at COE

10.20.21 DigCit Week, Flipgrid Live Events, Pumpkin Quiz, SoraFlix, Spheros at BCE

10.4.21 Minecraft District Challenge, #FlipgridFresh, New Screencastify Features, Build to Launch, Elem DLC Spotlight

9.16.21 Hispanic Heritage Month, Minecraft, Pear Deck, Sora, Google Forms, Google Slides Lesson Planner

8.21.21 IncidentIQ, Canvas Family Guide, Remaking Literacy Book Study, #FreeMusic

2020 – 2021

5.19.21 Canvas End of Course, IFL, Summer MASTERClass

4.27.21 May the 4th, AAPI Heritage Month, Canvas & Google Assignments, Mentimeter

4.6.21 Python & Poetry, KET Education, Scratch & Guess Jamboard, Google Form Sign Up Template, Chromebook Native Screen Recorder

3.10.21 Video Feedback in Google Classroom, Logos, Whiteboard.Chat, Check-in Form, Desmos for Standardized Testing

2.16.21 Minecraft, Blended Learning, MyViewBoard, Women in STEM

1.26.21 Black History Month, YouTube, Reading, Memes in Google Slides, Pear Deck

1.6.21 Google Classroom, Canvas, Zoom, Sora, STEAM Tic-Tac-Toe

12.13.20 Hour of Code: Covid Edition

Tech Snacks Hiatus

2019 – 2020

3.10.20 Online Classroom Presence, YouTube Studio, Omnibox, Google Slides Timer

2.19.20 PBS Learning Media, Teleprompt.me, Immersive Reader in Canvas

1.30.20 Book Summaries, Virtual Tour with Screencastify, Panoform, DL Day

1.7.20 Canvas Grades to IC, Reading Fluency, Voice Recordings, Shapegrams, Hour of Code

12.3.19: Hour of Code, Web Accessibility, Customize Classroom, Remove Background Images

11.13.19: Hour of Code, Turkey Fun, Offline With Chromebooks, & More!

10.22.19: Wheel of Names, Spooky STEM, Creator Studio

10.1.19 Sync Canvas, Where is Carmen Sandiego, Google Keep

9.10.19 Reading, Research, Presentation & More

8.20.19 Back to School: Silent Dismissal, Yellkey & EdPuzzle Updates

2018-2019

5.20.19 Summer Edition: Podcasting, CoSpaces, Group work in Google Classroom, Deck.Toys, Upcoming Canvas sessions

4.30.19: May the Force Be With You: Student Led Conferences, Jamboard, Interactive Timelines, End of Year Reviews, High Contrast Chrome

4.4.19: FCPS Help Desk, Audio in Slides, Google Translate Fun, Relay FAQ

3.12.19 Flashcard Factory, Google Tour Creator, Microsoft Editing on Chromebooks, Consuming Digital Content: Creating Students Who Are Media Literate

2.19.19: STEM Leprechaun Traps, Storyboard That, Google Canvas, Gale Resources in Canvas

1.28.19 Deserted Island Tech- Must Haves

1.9.19: Time to Put the “New” in the New Year

12.4.18: Hour of Code Resources

11.13.18: FCPS Hour of Code, Cool Tools & Terrific Tips, Minecraft in the Classroom

10.23.18: Tricks & Treats Edition: Monitoring Student Chromebooks, Language is a Virus, Tech Treats for Halloween

10.2.18: Adobe Spark, Digital Agendas, STEMulating Young Minds, Help Desk, Google Fonts

09.11.18: Classroom Updates, Canvas Support, Email Signatures, Bloomz

08.21.18:  Sites Challenge, Getting to Know You with Google, Forms Update

2017-2018

05-29-18: Google for Primary, OK Go, H5P for Canvas

05-03-18: IFL, Sharepoint, Google Voice Typing

04-10-18: Chromebook Challenge, Orchestrator, Sway, Canva

03-18-18: EdTechVIP, Classroom Tools and IFL

02-20-18:  Hooks, Docs and Cops

01-30-18: Digital Learning Day, Google Certification, Omnibox

01-9-18: New Year, New Ways

11-28-17: Hour of Code Special Edition

10-17-17: A “Not So Spooky” Tech Snacks

09-26-17: EDU in 90, Canvas From Drab to Fab, & More

09-05-17: Spice Up Your Bellringers & Share Student Work

08-18-17: Welcome Back & Eclipse Edition

2016-2017

07-05-17:  ISTE 2017 Inspiration, Flipgrid, Formative Assessment and Formatting Sheets

06-02-17:  IFL Reflections, Earth and More!

05-08-17:  Latest Trends, Canvas Assignments, Digital Scrapbooks and Bugs

04-24-17:  Ed-Tech Must Read Blog, Google Keep, Google Forms Lockdown

04-10-17:  IFL Registration, Get Connected, Story Builder, Chrome Extensions

02-23-17:  Digital Learning Day Playground using Thinglink

01-31-17:  Snow Day Edition

01-10-17:  #justtrytech, Top 10 Tech Tools, Sway, Canvas Chat

12-13-16:  Holiday Edition – Padlet, Wonderopolis, Scratch, Smarty Pins

11-29-16:  Smore, Hour of Code

11-09-16:  Adobe Spark, Google Classroom vs Canvas