As part of my daily routine, I scan dozens of blogs, visit a handful of Facebook groups, and skim through Twitter.
The goal: find the most helpful resources, tools, and articles that I can share with my teacher friends (that’s you!).Here are my favorite links for December 2025!
December Google EDU Updates
1. Improved Google Docs PDF Viewer – Google is making some nice enhancements to the viewer for PDFs, images, and videos uploaded to Google Drive. The new viewer will make it much easier to navigate large files and long videos.
2. NEW: Google Workspace Studio – Create custom actions between your favorite Google tools, powered by AI. For example, I created an automation that sends me a chat notification any time a new response is submitted to a Google Form.
3. Five advanced NotebookLM features – If you haven’t taken a look at NotebookLM, a LOT has changed! NotebookLM is a tremendous learning resource for your classroom!
4. Using AI to evaluate privacy policies – I recently started using a custom Gem to evaluate privacy policies for various technology tools that are requested by teachers. This custom Gem is trained with our specific requirements and it does the hard work for me!
5. Year in search 2025 – Google’s annual search trends video is out! Take a look at the viral moments from the past 12 months. This is a great source for easy topics or data analysis projects. Google for Education also posted an overview of EDU updates from the past year.
6. The Game Show Advent – Ryan O’Donnel is an incredibly creative educator. This month he is sharing daily classroom game recommendations over on TikTok. If you need a fun review game or end of semester activity, check it out!
7. TextFX – Explore the relationship between words and ideas with this simple tool that demonstrates how AI uses word prediction to generate human-like responses. H/T to Jeremy Badiner for this discovery!
8. Top FB Post: Google’s Gemini certification is FREE until January 2026. Download my study guide and become Gemini certified (It’s pretty easy)!
9. Gemini Vibe Coding Showcase – this thread on X has some fantastic examples of what you can code using Gemini, even if you have zero coding experience!
10. Lock up the Christmas gifts! – one of our family Christmas traditions is kicking off Christmas morning with a “breakout” activity to sort Christmas presents.
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