If you use Google Classroom there are some housekeeping tips every teacher should use to get ready for the next year. I scoured the internet to find the foremost authorities on Google Classroom clean up and I put together two lists. The first list consists of six things everyone agreed should be done with your Google Classroom at the end of the year. The second list consists of six unique ideas to help you stay organized and set up your Google Classroom for greater success in the years to come.

Eric Curts, from Control Alt Achieve, has a blog post with screenshots and a 23-minute video tutorial in which he discusses his seven tips for cleaning up Google Classroom. Kasey Bell, from Shake Up Learning, has a blog post with screenshots, GIFs, and a 31-minute podcast in which she shares her six tips for cleaning up Google Classroom. Alice Keeler, from Teacher Tech, works with OTIS for Educators, on-demand professional development, to provide a 52-minute video tutorial of Keeler’s eleven Google Classroom clean up tips. At the end of the video, you can take a short quiz to receive a certificate of continuing education time. Matt Miller, from Ditch that Textbook, has a blog post with 10 ways to clean up your Google Classroom. Finally, Shannon Moore, on the Google Workspace YouTube channel, has a 5-minute video that demonstrates her four tips to complete when you clean up your Google Classroom.

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This week I have three resources to help you get started digitally cleaning your personal and professional workspaces.

TCEA.org blog titled, “How to Spring Clean: Digitally.” In the article, Andrew Roush lays out 6 Principles to get started with digital cleaning and then looks at more specific examples and describes ways your can clean up your inbox, clean up your social media feeds, find out the access you have granted to your Google account, and how to take your digital cleaning deeper.

Monica Burns, from Class Tech Tips, has “7 Digital Spring Cleaning Tips for Every Educator.” On her website she also has “10 Quick Tips to Organize Your Google Drive” and a podcast titled, “Spring Cleaning Guide: 5 Tips To Upgrade Your Digital Workflow – Easy EdTech Podcast 157.”

The final article comes from UCLA’s Office of the Chief Information Security Officer and they provide eight tips to “Clear Out Your Cyber Clutter With a Digital Spring Cleaning.” UCLA has curated these resources from the Better Business Bureau, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, and the Center for Internet Security.

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A few weeks ago I put out my newsletter sharing resources to sign up for a Canva for Education account. Throughout the newsletter, I demonstrated how to set up your Canva classes, some of the classroom features within Canva, provided you with links to blogs and playlists to get you inspired, and gave step-by-step instructions you can follow to get started. Now that you’ve had a few weeks to digest that information I wanted to provide you with some TikTok tips and tricks videos that I found helpful and interesting.

In the newsletter, I have also linked to Canva’s design school. Canva believes that anyone can make beautiful designs with Canva. On the website, you will find courses that you can work through. These courses will help you with everything from design basics to supercharging your design skills. Each class has a different number of videos but I’m sure there is something impactful in each video.

In TikTok Tech, I don’t have a TikTok video because the entire newsletter is a bunch of TikTok videos. What I have is a website called Knoword. Knoword is a game-based website that will expand your vocabulary. The website has over 2,00 different vocabulary packs and can be played with or without an account. In Tech Refresh, I want to introduce Manga High. Manga High is a website that boasts over 700 different math activities covering numbers, algebra, geometry, measurement, statistics, and probability. The website is designed for ages 5 to 16 but I found the games more difficult than the age to which they were designed. You can also play games on this website with or without an account, but it is a little more limited.

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