Brian Briggs
5 followersBrian Briggs is the Director of Technology for the Washington Unified School District in West Sacramento, CA. A CITE Certified Chief Technology Officer with almost 30 years of experience in education, Brian specializes in bridging the gap between infrastructure and instruction. As a Google Certified Innovator and LEGO Education Ambassador, he is dedicated to helping districts move beyond technology consumption toward meaningful student creation. Brian is also the co-host of the long-running Check This Out podcast, where he explores the intersection of pedagogy and emerging tech.
Interactive Teacher Hive builder guide with tutorials, classroom examples, Superpower walkthroughs, API safety, prompt generators, privacy tips, and app planning tools.
AI-generated Would You Rather dilemmas for classrooms and staff meetings! Timer, live anonymous voting via QR code, and a discussion prompt every round.
Build complete Gold Standard PBL units with driving questions, timelines, rubrics, public products, and export-ready classroom materials.
A classroom sports venue guessing game where students use images, clues, and maps to identify famous stadiums and athletic venues.
A classroom landmark guessing game where students use images, clues, and maps to identify UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world.
AI WebQuest generator aligned to California, Common Core, NGSS, C3, ISTE, and more. Choose a grade, subject, and standard — get a complete inquiry lesson with rubric and LMS-ready exports.
Flip through challenge cards to spark your next AI masterpiece! Pick a category, copy a prompt, and use Google Gemini to build original music, videos, games, digital art, and stories.
Badly explained lyrics. Legendary songs. Step into the spotlight and see if you can guess the hit before the crowd beats you to it!
Can you guess the movie from the world's worst plot summary? 10 rounds of gloriously terrible descriptions. Popcorn not included.
A high school learning experience where students test AI as a text, challenge its answers, protect their voice, and decide when help becomes surrender. Human Thinking Required
Place historical events in order, bluff your opponents, and call out timeline mistakes in this fast-paced classroom strategy game of history, reasoning, and tactical deception.
Create complete asynchronous Google Classroom PD courses in minutes. Paste an EdTech tool link and instantly generate ready-to-use modules, assignments, discussions, and certification content.
Train staff to spot PII, avoid risky AI prompts, and uncover hidden privacy threats through fast-paced, department-based challenges across real school district scenarios.
Interactive K–2 sight word wall with read-aloud sentences, word highlighting, hand-drawn cartoon illustrations, and a magnetic drag-and-drop spelling activity.
Interactive periodic table for K–12 classrooms. Click any element to explore atomic structure, periodic trends, electronegativity, ionization energy, and chemical bonding.
Paste your class roster → get funny, meaningful awards for every student → print certificates. One click. Maximum chaos. Total joy.
Spin the retro TV dial and instantly generate fun, random names with classic CRT vibes. Perfect for classrooms, games, icebreakers, and student engagement!
Blast off with SBAC Quest! Conquer 6 cosmic mini-games to master the mouse, keyboard, and scrolling skills you need for test day. Turn prep into play and become a Tech Explorer!
Darth Vader delivers groan-worthy Star Wars dad jokes for May the 4th. Press the button, brave the punchline, and rate if the Force of cringe is strong with this one.
Before you hit "Sign Up with Google," check if that app is actually safe for students. Instant privacy report card for any EdTech tool.
A complete K-12 Digital & AI Literacy curriculum: 78 inquiry-based lessons across 6 strands. Built on Common Sense Media and AI4K12 frameworks. Includes AI-powered lesson adaptation.
Graph paper meets barnyard brawl! Hide 5 cows, then fire a 5-shot volley of coordinates at your rival's pasture. First to stomp in all the poo wins.
It's 1849 and gold fever is spreading! Choose a miner, merchant, or farmer and brave the 2000-mile trail to Sutter's Fort. Ration food, survive storms, strike it rich!
A customizable meeting app for K-12 tech teams. Set up your district, roster, and guiding principles once — then run every meeting with built-in recognition, action tracking, and team closure.
Pick a grade, subject & standard — instantly get a student product choice board (debate, podcast, app & more) with a full lesson plan. Free. No login.
An interactive choose-your-own-adventure storybook for kids — personalized with their name & friends, featuring stories on kindness, courage & more. Reads aloud too!
Unconference Session Board — a free, no-login alternative to Padlet. Propose topics, drag them onto a live schedule grid, and upvote favorites together as a group.
Manage your classroom with ease! Set noise levels, randomize groups, track homework, spin for brain breaks & display your daily schedule.
Step into Giovanni's Pizza Shop! Help fulfill orders by dividing toppings equally. It’s a delicious, interactive way for kids to master multiplication and fact families!
You know exactly what would make your job easier. Now you can build it. Describe your need, get a complete AI prompt, and have a working app by the end of your prep period.
Blast off into Digital Citizenship! Learn about digital footprints through space-themed challenges, timed quizzes, drag-and-drop sorting, and earn badges. Grades 6–8.
The only machine that runs on bad puns and dad pride. Warning: side effects may include eye rolls, reluctant laughter, and an uncontrollable urge to tell your kids.
Step right up! Type your name and let AI turn you into something completely unexpected. Pixar hero? Disco legend? Newspaper scandal? It's different every time — and it all starts with your lunch.
Students crack a vault by building stronger passwords level by level. No login, no setup — just open and play. Perfect for Digital Citizenship day.
What if a game show ran your Socratic seminar? PerspectivePlink gives every student a random thinking lens — and the AI does the rest. Free, no login, works on any device.
Vibe Jackpot is a program that helps create vibe code prompts to create classroom resources. Have fun randomly creating the VIbe prompt or get more specific for you grade level. Go for the Jackpot!
Deal the cards, flip the challenge — then race to build it! A game show-style classroom activity where every round generates a unique AI coding prompt.