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Tech Tip Tuesday Edition 29

MSD 25 Instructional Technology Team

Tech Tip TuesdayEdition 29 MSD 25 Instructional Technology Team
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Google Earth has many features to help you and your students leave the classroom and learn about exciting places with a virtual travel experience anywhere in the world. This is a great way to build community, honor other cultures and provide fun, interactive learning. It is the perfect addition to any curriculum to gain student attention and interest.

Build Your Own Virtual Field Trip With Ease

Help your students go on a historical journey, visit locations from a book, or even tour famous landmarks. You are in the driver's seat with Google Earth's sharable Project creation tool. Students can even create their own sharable projects saved directly to Google Drive.
Virtual Field Trips with Google Earth and Screencastify

Only Have 5 Minutes? Try A Google Earth Mini Lesson

With a virtual roll of the dice Google Earth takes students on a mystery journey complete with images and descriptive text. Try as a whole class brain break, warm up, or let students each see where their luck takes them!
I'm Feeling Lucky! - A Google Earth Discovery Activity

Google Earth Has Curated Guided Tours Too!

Google Earth's Voyager is a showcase of interactive guided tours, quizzes, and layers that aim to help educate everyone about the world, locations near and far. By clicking the ship's wheel icon on Google Earth, you’ll circumnavigate the globe with the Hōkūleʻa using stars, track hurricanes and tropical storms in real time, and find place-based stories authored by partners such as National Geographic and HHMI Biointeractive. Voyager’s curated stories weave in rich media, such as 360 videos and Street View, allowing us to learn about Earth from a new perspective.
Google Earth: Voyager
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View the May PD Calendar!

The Staff Professional Development Course offerings will now be available on the MSD website for planning purposes. Click on the link to view the full calendar and sign up for courses. Scroll to see all our final offerings for the year.

PD Calendar


** Please note that the End of the Year Digital Check Out training from 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM on May 17th is FULL **


Also see our Self-Paced page for more training opportunities to earn MSD Tech Hours.

Due NO LATER THAN MAY 31ST to the TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

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View our Digital Library on YouTube

Subscribe to our channel to see more instructional videos and tutorials about tools to use in your classroom.


MSD Instructional Support Channel

Our Instructional Technology Team

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Mary Elizabeth Pearson

Director of Technology


We are here when you need us! Don't hesitate to reach out for ideas or suggestions for how to invigorate your classroom through technology. Create a help desk ticket for instructional support and we will connect with you soon.

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Melissa Dilling

Instructional Technology TOSA


Melissa just joined MSD this summer, but previously taught elementary and middle school technology. Melissa is a Google Level 1 Certified Educator and holds a Master's degree in Learning and Technology. She loves learning how technology can work to engage and motivate learners.

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Amy Hooper

Instructional Technology TOSA


This is Amy's 8th year with MSD working in many secondary settings in the classroom, the library, as well as teaching summer school. Amy has always loved to learn more about tech and enjoys helping others integrate technology into their classrooms.