With Presefy, your presentations can be played in sync, on the audience’s mobile devices. Once you have completed the sign up process, you can upload a presentation to Presefy and then present to an audience. The file format needs to be in PowerPoint or PDF format, which is unfortunate. It would be nice if they could…
Google Sheets Power Tools add-on adds some needed tools to Google Sheets. Once the add-on is installed, you can access it from the Add-ons menu. Puts the Power into Power Tools add-on The Power Tools add-on has many tools, here are just a few that I really like: Split – This tool splits a cell according to information in the cell….
The traditional higher-education system works great for lots of students. But it forces countless others, like my nephews, to choose between two bad options: either enter a four-year bachelor’s degree program for which they are not ready, academically or emotionally; or pursue some kind of job-focused training program that, while valuable, may effectively put a…
Lumio for Google Chrome helps you curate and share information. To get started, you’ll need to use Google Chrome and install the lumio extension. Google Accounts are supported for signup, so that’s one less username and password you’ll need to remember. Lumio works a lot like the Google Keep extension, with one difference. Information can be…
Grade 8 science teacher revolutionizes classroom by making it a year long RPG Another example of gamification in the classroom. Another Google Docs/Google Keep tip: Easily store standards A great way to use Google Keep along with Google Docs. Creative Commons Search helps you and your students find legal multimedia Help students find licensed media…
The Google Keep extension for Google Chrome provides one click saving for websites, links, and text. Once installed, the Google Keep Chrome Extension adds a Google Keep icon to your tool bar, . It’s dark when it hasn’t been used, but when you visit a web page that you have already saved, it turns yellow: . To use the extension, visit…
Google Classroom can now be used with personal Google accounts. Right now, personal Google accounts can join existing classes in Google Classroom. In the upcoming weeks they’ll also be able to create classes. I tested Google Classroom with my personal account, and could join classes but not create them. My G Suite for Work account…
Auto-playing videos have become the “punch the monkey” of today, read on to learn how to stop auto-playing videos in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari! We’ve all been there, browsing news.google.com and clicking on a news article when WHAM, a video starts playing. Not only is it annoying, you usually have your volume turned up, annoying everyone….
Sure, you can find pictures on Google Images, but unless you dig into the settings, a lot of those pictures are licensed to be used in school projects. Creative Commons Search fixes that. Creative Commons is a way to license works for use by others. It provides more rights than the all or nothing approach given by…
Once installed Peek-a-tab gives you fast and easy access to every open tab in Google Chrome. You can invoke Peek-a-tab from the toolbar icon or from they keyboard. Once it’s activated, it gives you a list of your tabs in all of your open windows. That’s pretty cool, but Peek-a-tab takes it a step farther and let’s you immediately start searching…