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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Google as a Countdown Timer

2014-01-19-17.25.15-200x200 Eighty minutes is a long stretch of time for 9th grade students. So when I taught freshmen I always tried to break up the blocks with with short breaks and timed hands-on activities. To keep things on schedule I used a countdown timer that was displayed through my LCD projector. Google recently revived the countdown timer feature in search. you can now simply type into Google search “set timer” followed by an amount of time and a countdown timer is displayed. An alarm beeps when time is up. You can make the timer appear full screen without advertisements by clicking a little box icon to the right of the timer. You can see this feature in action in the video below.

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