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Thanks to Trident Academy for letting me be the photographer for their 2019 Field Day! Everyone had a blast! What a fantastic school!

What crazy things have you been looking up this year?

The Year in Search 2018 From weddings and championships to Fortnite dance moves, the trends have been tallied. Here are some of the searches that made 2018 stand out.

Google has just rolled out a slew of new games and features to its Santa's Village holiday page, including a location-based "Santa Tracker" that will follow Santa as he travels around the world delivering presents on Christmas Eve. You'll also find new holiday commands for Google Assistant and brand new educational games.

The search giant’s Santa’s Village is now in its 15th year and to celebrate, Google has a few new holiday updates to share. Santa’s Village boasts two dozen fun educational games, including ones that teach kids to code, as well as videos and other holiday activities. Unlike previous years, all of the Village’s interactive features are available starting today.

Google Santa Tracker Use Google Santa Tracker to follow Santa Claus on Google Maps as he makes his journey around the world.

Why Teachers Don't Use The Software The District Paid For Schools spend a great deal of money on software that is barely used, if at all. Why does that happen?

On November 16, 2018, a Soyuz-FG rocket launched from Kazakhstan, and perched atop it was a Progress resupply ship carrying two and a half tons of materials for the astronauts on ISS. The launch occurred at 18:14 UTC, or just after midnight local time. As it happens the ISS was over the Russian/Mongolian border at that time, far to the east of the launch but high enough above the Earth’s surface to still see it directly.

Riccardo Rossi, a 3D graphics designer and astronautics/photography enthusiast (and managing board member of the Italian Space and Astronautics Association), downloaded photographs taken by a camera onboard the ISS and stitched them together to create this phenomenally jaw-dropping time-lapse video of the launch as seen from space. Seriously, make this as high-res as your connection will allow, click the “full screen” button, sit back, and be blown away!

ISS Timelapse - Progress MS-10 launch (16 novembre 2018) Original timelapse by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License - Raw photos courtesy of http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov...

Tools that aim to reach all types of learners, wherever they are The story of one student who has inspired us to aim to build products and features that work for all types of learners, and meet them where they are.

New Zealand goes all in on Google for Education and Chromebooks

All Kiwi schools get the license to Chrome Thousands of schools across New Zealand will be able to easily manage their fleet of Chromebooks, with a new agreement between Google and the New Zealand Ministry of Education that provides schools with Ministry funded Chrome Education licenses.

Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Finding my way back to Antarctica with the help of Google Earth Conrad Anker and a team of the world’s finest explorers used Google Earth to plan an expedition to the Queen Maud Land territory in Antarctica - where they spent a month setting new climbing routes on the Wolf’s Jaw massif.

Forget the airports, the ticket lines, and the crowds. Now you can step right into the Vatican's most sacred spaces and inspect the wonders of Renaissance art and architecture with just a click of a mouse. The Vatican has posted a series of virtual tours created by students and faculty in the communication and computing science departments at Pennsylvania's Villanova University.

Virtual tour - Vatican Museums Virtual tour - Vatican Museums

This is a great article on the importance of educational based technology specialists staying in touch with the actual needs of the people they serve. A must read for teachers and school administrators, as well as those of us on the technology support side of things.

Why Edtech Executives Need to Go Back to School — as Teachers - EdSurge News When I was a middle school teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District, I looked longingly at the work of sales reps and trainers at edtech ...

https://www.blog.google/products/search/dog-day-search-trends-2018/

Dog days, always: the most fetching trends for National Dog Day In honor of National Dog Day, we looked at Google Trends to sniff out what people search for when it comes to canines.