Similar Posts
Introduction to Google Jamboard #YouTube
Google Jamboard is not quite the replacement for Explain Everything or SMARTNotebook, but it is a contender. Jamboard allows better collaboration between you and your students, and is especially beneficial for schools with touchscreen Chromebooks. I mention how to create graphic organizers in Google Slides, here’s my video on how to do it.
Two column layout in Google Docs
There are always layout issues in Google Docs which Google Docs can’t do… Yet. But there are sometimes ways to hack it to do what you want. One of those is two column layouts. Google Docs doesn’t have it as an option, but you can hack it with a table. To set up two columns,…
The Googlefication of the American classroom
In the space of just five years, Google has helped upend the sales methods companies use to place their products in classrooms. It has enlisted teachers and administrators to promote Google’s products to other schools. It has directly reached out to educators to test its products — effectively bypassing senior district officials. And it has…
Using slide titles in Google Slides
Along with a great tip on using Slides titles comes this nugget: I have coded an Add-on to automatically add a Google Slides Table of Contents to your Google Slides. You need to start with my template and then build the Slides. The table of contents creates a hyperlink to each of the slides in…
Easily notify Google Docs collaborators
Much like how the Email as attachment… menu item speeds up sending a specific file format to a person, Email collaborators… makes it easy to send an email to everyone collaborating on the current document. Once the menu item is selected a window pops up. On the right will be a list of collaborators on…
Less Apples for the teacher
Apple is losing its grip on American classrooms, which technology companies have long used to hook students on their brands for life.Over the last three years, Apple’s iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive…