Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting This is probably the most popular post on Eduk8me. It shows how to highlight an entire row using conditional formatting. Adding a timer to a Google Slides A neat hack on adding a timer to a Google Slides slide. ⓔ Use Google Photos for managing your classroom…
Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting Highlight entire rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting. Adding a timer to a Google Slides Use Youtube to add a timer to a Google Slide. Search Google by Image (no, not the way you’re thinking) An extension for Google Chrome to let you use Google Image…
When you use Google Image Search, you’ve always been able to search with an image by clicking on the camera icon. That works fine and dandy, but what if you want to search with an image you find when browsing? You could right-click on the image, save it, then use the Google Image Search, but…
YouiDraw is advertised as “Adobe Illustrator in the cloud”. The website works with vectors, which means the drawings consist of mathematical representations of objects. This is different from raster pictures, such as jpeg, gif, and png. Vector graphics can be resized smaller or bigger, without any loss of fidelity. There are three parts to YouiDraw, Drawing, Logo…
Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting This is one of the most popular posts on Eduk8me, showing how to highlight a row based on conditional formatting. Twitter tips for new users A checklist for new Twitter users. Adding a timer to a Google Slides A nice little hack for adding a timer to…
MindMeister is a “collaborative mind mapping” app, that could be a nice tool for classroom use. The software supports all of the mind mapping tools that you are used to and also offers iOS and Android apps. As for pricing, there is a free plan which is limited to 3 mind maps and also paid educational…
Sticky Notes, an app for Chrome, brings sticky notes to your desktop. Once installed and then opened, you are greeted with the with the launcher screen. Clicking on the plus at the bottom left creates your first sticky note. From there, you can create new notes with the plus, or delete notes with the trashcan. The…
Readability, a bookmarking service that also cleaned up web pages, is shutting down September 30th. I’m going to miss the website, I used their Chrome add-on to clean up webpages to read. Readability was a great way to focus on the content of the page, and I recommended the site for students that might be…
I don’t like to write anything, so when I have to mail something, I want to print out the envelope. Unfortunately, Google Docs doesn’t have the venerable #10 envelope as a paper size. Never fear, the Envelopes add-on for Google Docs will save the day. To get started, open up a new Google Docs document,…
Tackk is a web app that I learned about last year, but never posted about it! A tackk can be thought of as a list of different types of media. In the above shot, this tackk starts with a headline block, then a picture block, and finally, a text block. Tackk makes it really easy to…