✨ Exciting things are happening in this month's newsletter! 🌟 We're sharing some amazing tips for your Open House, creative end-of-year project ideas complete with ready-to-use templates, and a fantastic SEL check-in activity featuring generative AI!

📽Are you looking for a fun end-of-year video project? In this month's episode of The Connected Educator we share some fun video ideas, as well as have a showdown between 2 of our favorite free video creation tools: #AdobeExpress and #GoogleVids!💪🏻🤩

This month on The Connected Educator, join us for a lively chat about our favorite sessions from the Spring CUE conference! 🎉 Special guests Jackson Shaad from #Adobe & Stephanie Sumarna from Santa Cruz COE will share tips on using AI in education.

✨ This month in Tech Updates, we're diving into some amazing tools! Create a stunning email signature, send audio messages with Parent Square, generate music for your classroom in Suno, and easily record video in Google Drive!

😃Come join us at the Fairgrounds Interactive Exhibition this Saturday, March 8th, 10:30-3:00! We'll show you have to program Dash Robots.🤖

✨Our March newsletter has arrived!🎉 We highlight some tools for student video responses📽, the new Grade All feature in Classroom, and the Ask For Items feature in ParentSquare where parents can easily sign up to donate items to school events.

Dive into this episode of The Connected Educator podcast to learn about our absolute favorite, fun tech tools that can totally lighten your load, ease that stress, and sprinkle a little joy into your everyday routine!

🎥 Did you know students can now create videos in Google Drive? Plus, teachers can add Read Along passages in Google Classroom for real-time feedback! 🚀 Check out this month's newsletter for more updates and our latest design challenge!

🎤This month on The Connected Educator podcast, we discuss how to amplify student voice through podcasting! We share our tips, experiences, and even some inspiring clips from PVUSD student podcasts.🌟

🌟 Highlights from our Winter Technology Institute! 🌟. Teachers explored innovative tools and strategies to enhance their classrooms, including Stop Motion Animation (check out the reel 📽️!). Stay tuned for details about our Spring Tech Institute!. #EdTech #PVUSDInnovates

✨Thanks to everyone that joined us at our CS Playground last night at WHS! It was so fun! In case you missed it, stop by the Santa Cruz MAH tomorrow night, 12/12, 4:30-6:30pm for more CS activities. 🤖

✨ ¿Listo para una noche de diversión? Mañana en Watsonville HS, trae a la familia para disfrutar de actividades de informática, bocadillos y la oportunidad de ganar increíbles premios como una laptop. 🎮✨ ¡No olvides visitar la nueva sala de Esports! 🔥

✨ Ready for a night of fun? Tomorrow at Watsonville HS, bring the family for some computer science activities, snacks, and a chance to win amazing prizes like a gaming laptop! 🎮✨ Don't forget to check out the new Esports room! 🔥

🎉We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Digital Citizenship Poster Design challenge! It was inspiring to see such amazing creative content from hundreds of talented student designers.🖌️✨ Click the link to view the winning posters.

🎤In this episode of The Connected Educator, join us for an exciting trivia game about digital citizenship! Learn how it affects our lives and how you can engage your students in this crucial topic. Ready to test your knowledge? Let’s play! 🎉

✨Did you know you can easily sign up parents for Parent/Teacher Conferences via ParentSquare? 🤯 Check out our October newsletter for details, as well as info about our Adobe Digital Citizenship design challenge, new Slides features, and more!

🚀 Watch out, world! These 2nd grade students planned, tested, and refined their code to get Colby 🐭through various mazes!. 💪✨ Who knew learning could be this much fun? @AME_Eagles

Fifth graders at Amesti Elementary cracked codes and solved clues in their Breakout Edu challenges! 🧩🔍 Who else loves a good team challenge? #BreakoutEdu #Teamwork

🎉 Exciting news! The latest episode of The Connected Educator podcast is live! 🎧 Join us as we share time-saving tips and our favorite AI tools. 💡 Have a question or idea? Email us! Let's innovate together! #ConnectedEducator #TeachingTips.theconnectededucatorpodcast@gmail.com

📚🎨Calling all student artists! Our Bookmark Design Challenge with Adobe is ON! 🚀 Design a bookmark by 9/27 for a chance to have your bookmark printed for your school library & win Adobe beanies for your class! 🎉 Who's ready to get creative?