What's New in PfISD Instructional Technology

We had a great 2016-17 school year. The district rolled out almost 8,000 laptops and ipads to elementary and secondary campuses. Teachers embraced the opportunity to engage with students in new ways. To close the school year we asked teachers and administrators to share some of their successes in our TechKnowledgements campaign (see our list below). We know many more amazing integrations happened in classrooms and look forward to recognizing more teachers and campuses.

16-17 Elementary TechKnowledgements
16-17 Secondary TechKnowledgements

We are closing out the first nine-weeks of this new school year and want to encourage you to share what you see happening with technology integration and the talented students of Pflugerville ISD. Please submit TechKnowledgements using the online form. Together we have #NoLimits to the possibilities we create.

The Instructional Technology team now has a 2 small sets of 5 Google Expedition viewers and tablet! We would love to help you bring the world to right in to your classroom. Use this form to request dates for the viewers. The form also includes links to the reservation calendar and a list of currently available Google Expeditions.

Add Videos to Google Slides right from Google Drive

Google now allows you to insert and play your Google Drive videos in your Google Slides. You no longer have to add them using YouTube.
When adding it from Drive, you can choose when to start and end the video and whether you want it to autoplay. You can even decide whether it should be muted or played with audio. Check out this G Suite Update.