I will be attending the Ohio Educational Technology Conference this week, and decided I needed to update my conference checklist. A very good friend of mine turned me onto checklists awhile ago, as in evident of my posts on the subject. This checklist works for me, and hopefully there are a couple of nuggets of…
Speed up Gmail emails and replies with Canned Responses Be a Gmail speed demon! Dropbox Paper is a collaborative word processor for Dropbox It won’t be replacing Google Docs, but could be useful in some situations. Demonstrating mastery, without worksheets Create content instead!
I try to automate as much as possible, and this last month I looked at speeding up my email use. There is a Gmail lab called Canned Responses that let’s you save several responses and then easily insert them into an email. To turn it on, once you are in Gmail, go to settings. Then click…
Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends. But they’re often clueless about evaluating the accuracy and trustworthiness of what they find. Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study…
Are you looking for a free version of GoAnimate? If so, then check out Animatron. Once you create an account (Animatron supports Google logins) you can start creating your animation. After clicking on the Start Creating button, Animatron walks you through a short tutorial on usage. There are two modes for creating an animation, Lite and Expert….
I’ve talked about using Google Drive to store videos for your class, and today I want to show you how you can form a link to a video so it starts playing at a specific time. It turns out that the Google Drive not only looks like the Youtube player, but also accepts some of…
Quick access to Google services? Bah, I’ve already set up bookmarks for that. But, quick access to documents? Sign me up! Black menu for Google is a customizable toolbar icon designed to give you quick access to Google services and documents. I stumbled across it in the Chrome Web Store, and almost went on by….
Dropbox first teased Dropbox Paper back in August, and it has now been released for public use. I fired up the Dropbox website to try it out. To get started, click on the Paper link that shows on the left sidewhen logged into Dropbox, or visit https://paper.dropbox.com/. Your Dropbox Paper files are separate from your…
Quickly create Google documents in a specific folder through these special links A simple bookmark can create a Google document in specific folder. Alice Keeler’s Chrome Extension – AnyoneCanView A great extension that takes the guesswork out of sharing documents in Google Drive. Quickly create Google documents in a specific folder with a specific account…
Sure, I’ve talked about forgetting about starring your favorite folders in Google Drive before, but there is a reason to star them anyway. Why would you want to star your favorite folders in Google Drive? To save time! Once starred, you can access the folders by clicking on the Starred link on the left side…