Bits & Bytes
Technology Tips, Tricks, & Fabulous Finds

Discovery Education has gotten several new updates and is now the NEW Discovery Education Experience. We have several one-hour webinar sessions (via ZOOM) scheduled for you to get more information about all the new and improved resources DEX has to offer. These sessions are listed in our ESC Works workshop catalog, as well as the flyer linked below. There are multiple LIVE sessions on each topic over the course of the next month. If you cannot attend the live session at the scheduled times, feel free to register for one of the sessions anyway. We will send out a recording link from the live session so that you may watch at your convenience. Click the image to open the virtual flyer. Sessions are linked to the registration page by the Session #.
Also, included in your DEX subscription is Mystery Science. Discovery is working on getting all of those accounts activated, so please be patient as they are working hard to get that information to you.

If you use Google Chrome, then you probably have a few extensions that you use. Here are a few of my favorites!
Loom Record your screen, voice, & face to create a video that is shareable by a link in seconds. Great for mini-tutorials! **Loom Pro is free for Educators!** | Tab Resize Are you working on one device but need to view two screens simultaneously? Tab resize is split screen made easy! | Confetti Cannon Here's a fun way to celebrate all the things in your classroom! This extension fires confetti all over your screen at the touch of a button, with no actual clean-up required! |
Loom
Record your screen, voice, & face to create a video that is shareable by a link in seconds. Great for mini-tutorials!
**Loom Pro is free for Educators!**
Tab Resize
Are you working on one device but need to view two screens simultaneously? Tab resize is split screen made easy!
Confetti Cannon
Here's a fun way to celebrate all the things in your classroom! This extension fires confetti all over your screen at the touch of a button, with no actual clean-up required!
Immersive Reader | Mote Easily add voice comments & audio content to shared documents, assignments, emails and forms. Mote is integrated into Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Classroom, & Gmail - for easy recording and playback. Click here for Mote. | Unsplash Quickly search and insert beautiful photos. |
Immersive Reader
Mote
Easily add voice comments & audio content to shared documents, assignments, emails and forms. Mote is integrated into Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Classroom, & Gmail - for easy recording and playback.
Click here for Mote.
Click here for Mote.

FREE - Canva for Education
Canva is an online application that allows you to design presentations, flyers, headers, social media graphics, invitations, and so much more. With tons of pre-made layouts and fonts, Canva can help level up your design game & give students another option for creative expression! And, IT'S FREE for educators! Click the image to sign up!
(Everything in my newsletter, from the background to the header images was created in Canva for free! Go check it out!)

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Misty Castro, M.Ed.
Instructional Technology