For the 3rd summer in a row, Google is teaming up with Make magazine to provide 30 days of Virtual Summer Maker Camp. Each week from July 7 to August 15, a new set of themed activities will be posted on the Google Maker Camp website http://makezine.com/maker-camp, and each weekday, a different maker project will be shared. Librarians and Summer Camp Directors, as well as individuals and families, are encouraged to integrate… Read More

ORVSD is excited to provide access to SketchUp Pro at no cost to Oregon school districts. We are a grantee under the Statewide License Grant Program. To access your license keys, please follow the steps below: Complete the request form on this page. (See below.) Download SketchUp Pro 2013. (Please select the correct version. There are several to choose from.) Install in your lab environment or on individual machines. Open SketchUp. Click the Add… Read More

Google recently launched a new series of mini-courses to support teaching and learning with technology. Each course has tutorial videos, supplementary links, periodic quizzes, and a final assessment. Topics include Internet 101, (Google) Apps for Education, Gmail, (Google) Drive, Chrome OS and Chromebooks. For schools and districts who have adopted Google Apps for Education as well as districts with mobile initiatives or those going BYOD, the GApps Tutorials could be a fabulous… Read More