Justin
@cowenrocks.bsky.social
Helping educators integrate technology in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
🚀 TEACHER HACK! 🚀
Generate questions from YouTube videos for FREE with Google's NotebookLM. It even integrates with Google Classroom!
Watch my quick demo to see how: youtu.be/VvoGrTc3AAc
#GoogleEDU
Generate questions from YouTube videos for FREE with Google's NotebookLM. It even integrates with Google Classroom!
Watch my quick demo to see how: youtu.be/VvoGrTc3AAc
#GoogleEDU
NotebookLM and Creating Questions From YouTube
YouTube video by Justin Cowen
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October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚀 TEACHER HACK! 🚀
Generate questions from YouTube videos for FREE with Google's NotebookLM. It even integrates with Google Classroom!
Watch my quick demo to see how: youtu.be/VvoGrTc3AAc
#GoogleEDU
Generate questions from YouTube videos for FREE with Google's NotebookLM. It even integrates with Google Classroom!
Watch my quick demo to see how: youtu.be/VvoGrTc3AAc
#GoogleEDU
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🎬 Say hello to TeachFlix Junior — your new favorite free resource for K-2! 📚✨
Packed with age-appropriate videos that make learning fun and easy. Perfect for lessons, brain breaks, or transitions! 🍎🎉
➡️ https://teachflix.org/junior/
Packed with age-appropriate videos that make learning fun and easy. Perfect for lessons, brain breaks, or transitions! 🍎🎉
➡️ https://teachflix.org/junior/
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎬 Say hello to TeachFlix Junior — your new favorite free resource for K-2! 📚✨
Packed with age-appropriate videos that make learning fun and easy. Perfect for lessons, brain breaks, or transitions! 🍎🎉
➡️ https://teachflix.org/junior/
Packed with age-appropriate videos that make learning fun and easy. Perfect for lessons, brain breaks, or transitions! 🍎🎉
➡️ https://teachflix.org/junior/
Can’t wait to be at the REMC Directors and RITS members Summer Inservice!
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Can’t wait to be at the REMC Directors and RITS members Summer Inservice!
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Canva Just Dropped Spreadsheets… But with Design Superpowers
#edusky
#edusky
Canva Just Dropped Spreadsheets… But with Design Superpowers
Spreadsheets, but make them aesthetic. ✨
Canva Sheets are here built for creativity, not crunching.
Charts, images, videos, AI magic… all in one place. 🎨📊
How do you see this showing up in your classroom? 👇
#EdTech #EduCoach #ETCoaches #EduTech #21stCenturySkills
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May 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Canva Just Dropped Spreadsheets… But with Design Superpowers
#edusky
#edusky
Looking for some fun activities for your computer science class? Check out my slide deck I shared at UP MACUL -> cowen.fyi/beyond25
Beyond the Computer Science Curriculum - UP MACUL 2025
Beyond the Computer Science Curriculum Justin Cowen www.cowen.rocks Bluesky: cowenrocks.bsky.social Slide Deck: cowen.fyi/beyond25 cowen.fyi/beyond25 Slide Deck
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May 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Looking for some fun activities for your computer science class? Check out my slide deck I shared at UP MACUL -> cowen.fyi/beyond25
It is UP MACUL tomorrow in Ironwood, MI! One of my sessions is Justin’s Favorite Things where I highlight the tools & resources I use everyday. What are your favorite things? #edtech #upmacul25
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Justin’s Favorite Things: EdTech Edition Friday, May 16, 2025 UP MACUL, Ironwood, MI LINKS How you get to this document EQUIPMENT Stuff Justin hauls around USB-C mic for phones & computers (...
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May 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It is UP MACUL tomorrow in Ironwood, MI! One of my sessions is Justin’s Favorite Things where I highlight the tools & resources I use everyday. What are your favorite things? #edtech #upmacul25
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EDT124 Bryon Carpenter, Tools for Visuals like Adobe Express, Canva, Google Drawings, and Google...
#edusky
#edusky
EDT124 Bryon Carpenter, Tools for Visuals like Adobe Express, Canva, Google Drawings, and Google...
What’s your favorite tool for having students create visuals like infographics and diagrams? Bryon Carpenter from Fresh Air At Five joins me to answer that very question. We discuss Adobe Express, Canva, Google Drawings, and Google Slides. Also, I share about Brisk’s new Podcast Generator, a Chromebook monitoring feature coming soon to Google, SchoolAI’s response to some ethical concerns, and a documentary recommendation.
#EduDuctTape Episode 124
0:00:00 INTRO
0:02:09 Today's Guest: Bryon Carpenter
0:06:48 Which of the Following is Less Torturous
0:10:22 Today's #EduDuctTape Question
0:12:00 Adobe Expresshttps://www.adobe.com/express/
0:12:44 1. Picking the Right Tool
0:14:14 2. Google Drawingsdrawings.google.com
0:15:56 How Does Google Drawings Relate to Google Slides
0:18:28 Object-Based, Drawing-Based, and Procreate
0:20:19 Shapegramshttps://shapegrams.com/
0:21:06 3. Layers in Adobe Express
0:21:37 Ages for Adobe Express
0:23:20 What Can You Do in Adobe Express?
0:26:00 Adobe Express Pricinghttps://www.adobe.com/education/express/
0:28:19 Adobe Creative Cloudhttps://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
0:36:56 AI in Adobe Express
0:37:54 Adobe Voice to Animatehttps://www.adobe.com/express/create/animation
0:40:09 Adobe Text Effectshttps://www.adobe.com/express/create/ai/text-effects
Today’s EdTech and Edu News:
0:42:48 Brisk’s New Podcast Generatorbriskteaching.com/podcast
0:47:44 Google’s New ‘Class Tools’ for Chromebookshttps://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/class-tools-chromebook/
0:49:37 SchoolAI Responds to Ethical Concernshttps://schoolai.com/blog/strengthening-ethical-ai-in-classrooms-improvements-to-historical-figure-spaces
0:52:20 The First Class documentaryhttps://www.thefirstclass.org/
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May 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
EDT124 Bryon Carpenter, Tools for Visuals like Adobe Express, Canva, Google Drawings, and Google...
#edusky
#edusky
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When Grace Clements walked across the stage at her university’s commencement ceremony this week, she leaped onto the school president and gave him a giant bear hug — bringing him straight to the ground.
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
May 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When Grace Clements walked across the stage at her university’s commencement ceremony this week, she leaped onto the school president and gave him a giant bear hug — bringing him straight to the ground.
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
Jim Clements, the president of Clemson University, is Grace Clements’s father. wapo.st/4d9Md42
ChatGPT today figured out I enjoy 80s/90s cartoons and asked if I wanted it to make a Transformers based on the profile it made of me. Here is what it created!
April 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
ChatGPT today figured out I enjoy 80s/90s cartoons and asked if I wanted it to make a Transformers based on the profile it made of me. Here is what it created!
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🖼 Have you ever tried to download images out of a Google Doc?
You can't. Right? Right?!?!?
Actually, you can ... you just have to know where to look. 👀
#googleedu #edtech #teachertip
You can't. Right? Right?!?!?
Actually, you can ... you just have to know where to look. 👀
#googleedu #edtech #teachertip
April 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
🖼 Have you ever tried to download images out of a Google Doc?
You can't. Right? Right?!?!?
Actually, you can ... you just have to know where to look. 👀
#googleedu #edtech #teachertip
You can't. Right? Right?!?!?
Actually, you can ... you just have to know where to look. 👀
#googleedu #edtech #teachertip
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After bolding text in your Google Doc
Use the Document Outline Add-on (buff.ly/vcdKQZK ) for "Bold Text Export."
Send to another Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms.
#GoogleEDU #GoogleCloudNEXT
Use the Document Outline Add-on (buff.ly/vcdKQZK ) for "Bold Text Export."
Send to another Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms.
#GoogleEDU #GoogleCloudNEXT
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
After bolding text in your Google Doc
Use the Document Outline Add-on (buff.ly/vcdKQZK ) for "Bold Text Export."
Send to another Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms.
#GoogleEDU #GoogleCloudNEXT
Use the Document Outline Add-on (buff.ly/vcdKQZK ) for "Bold Text Export."
Send to another Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms.
#GoogleEDU #GoogleCloudNEXT
It is state testing season in Michigan—the time when students' brains are working overtime and No. 2 pencils, or now-a-days QWERTY keyboards, are worn to nubs. Recharge your students minds with a brain break from @edutopia.org: www.cowen.rocks/the-web/rech... #education
Recharge Your Students' Minds: Embracing Brain Breaks During Testing Season
This blog contains resources available through the web and accessible through a variety of programs.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is state testing season in Michigan—the time when students' brains are working overtime and No. 2 pencils, or now-a-days QWERTY keyboards, are worn to nubs. Recharge your students minds with a brain break from @edutopia.org: www.cowen.rocks/the-web/rech... #education
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Have to say, I use this image so often with my middle schoolers...so helpful for frame of reference. It opens up a lot of curiosities and connections! infographicsite.com/infographic/...
#HyperDocs #EduSky
#HyperDocs #EduSky
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Have to say, I use this image so often with my middle schoolers...so helpful for frame of reference. It opens up a lot of curiosities and connections! infographicsite.com/infographic/...
#HyperDocs #EduSky
#HyperDocs #EduSky
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In Gmail
Click on the checkbox next to an email
Use the 3 dots in the toolbar to
"Filter messages like these"
Then click on "Create Filter" (NOT the default Search)
#GoogleEDU #EduSky
Click on the checkbox next to an email
Use the 3 dots in the toolbar to
"Filter messages like these"
Then click on "Create Filter" (NOT the default Search)
#GoogleEDU #EduSky
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
In Gmail
Click on the checkbox next to an email
Use the 3 dots in the toolbar to
"Filter messages like these"
Then click on "Create Filter" (NOT the default Search)
#GoogleEDU #EduSky
Click on the checkbox next to an email
Use the 3 dots in the toolbar to
"Filter messages like these"
Then click on "Create Filter" (NOT the default Search)
#GoogleEDU #EduSky
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Brain breaks are effective *and* popular! 🧠 Check out our collection of brain break resources here: edut.to/4iTxUTq
#EduSky #BrainBreaks
#EduSky #BrainBreaks
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Brain breaks are effective *and* popular! 🧠 Check out our collection of brain break resources here: edut.to/4iTxUTq
#EduSky #BrainBreaks
#EduSky #BrainBreaks
I send the notifications out for one of our local school districts about cancellations. Apparently Apple had a hard time figuring out tonight’s message. #k12sysadmin #edtech
March 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I send the notifications out for one of our local school districts about cancellations. Apparently Apple had a hard time figuring out tonight’s message. #k12sysadmin #edtech
TeacherServer is a new AI tool for educators. Similar to MagicSchool, but organized by subject area for curriculum-specific help. Explore it here: teacherserver.com #edtech
March 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
TeacherServer is a new AI tool for educators. Similar to MagicSchool, but organized by subject area for curriculum-specific help. Explore it here: teacherserver.com #edtech
Increasing my AI knowledge with some REMC RITS friends!
February 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Increasing my AI knowledge with some REMC RITS friends!
Broken headphone jack removal day 🎉
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Broken headphone jack removal day 🎉
Checking out the GoGuardian Smart Alerts today…
a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him
ALT: a man sitting at a desk using a computer with a woman standing behind him
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January 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Checking out the GoGuardian Smart Alerts today…
Prepping some old #chromebooks to live again as kiosk machines for youth wrestling. What are some creative ways you use kiosk mode in your schools? #k12sysadmin #edtech
January 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Prepping some old #chromebooks to live again as kiosk machines for youth wrestling. What are some creative ways you use kiosk mode in your schools? #k12sysadmin #edtech
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Chrome has added some cool shortcuts to the Extension Bar. These are tools, not websites, that you may often use. You should add some so it is easier to access these tools. My favorites are the QR Code maker and Copy Link. Check them out!
badinerbytes.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-...
badinerbytes.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-...
January 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Chrome has added some cool shortcuts to the Extension Bar. These are tools, not websites, that you may often use. You should add some so it is easier to access these tools. My favorites are the QR Code maker and Copy Link. Check them out!
badinerbytes.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-...
badinerbytes.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-...
Each department at one of our schools was asked to create a “Awkward Family Photo Christmas Card.” Here is our submission 🎄
December 12, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Each department at one of our schools was asked to create a “Awkward Family Photo Christmas Card.” Here is our submission 🎄