With its highly collaborative, online/offline format — and its attractive price tag (free!) — many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools. The way that Google Apps is interactive and easy to share is powerful. My students can share ideas in real time with other…
Easily create QR Codes in Google Sheets with the QR Code Generator add-on. To use the add-on, put the data you want converted to QR Codes in cells in column A. The data can be text, email address, website addresses, etc. In column B, put a description of the QR code. This will be used to name…
Sometimes when you are researching for a project, you’ll come across web resources that you would like to save. Now, you can bookmark it, or use a bookmarking service, but there is still a chance that when you go back to the site it may be gone (and archive.org) may not have a copy. To…
If you are logged into multiple Google accounts in your browser, it can be cumbersome to get to a specific gmail account. The standard operating procedure is to navigate to gmail.com, then click on the accounts avatar and select the account you want to use. But there is a way to create a link directly…
More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal experience and talent) with numerical indicators…
After releasing my Google Voice Typing Cheat Sheet last week, I decided to put together a Chromebook Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet for the keyboard shortcuts on a Chromebook. How do you get it? By joining the Eduk8me mailing list. Why should I give you my email?