I don’t know how I missed it, but Chrome OS version 52 came out back in July. That might now mean much too you, except that it means Chromebooks can now use Google Cast for Education without having to be running beta software. Google Cast for Education allows student Chromebooks to be able to broadcast…
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,…
For the past three months I’ve been using the Asus Flip Chromebook as my main mobile device, and you know what? It works pretty well. I bought the Flip on a whim back in May when Google announced that Android apps were coming to Chrome OS. Since then, Google has released Android apps on a…
Send from Gmail (by Google) is an extension for Google Chrome that lets you send the current page as a link through Gmail. It adds an icon to the Chrome toolbar that, when clicked, will open a compose email window. Here’s what the compose window looks like when the icon is clicked from the https://eduk8.me home…
Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting Use conditional formatting to highlight entire rows based on the results of one cell. 13 Gmail hacks for teachers 13 of some of my best tips for Gmail. Google Forms in My Classroom Good examples of Google Forms in the classroom.
This is part 13 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. Writing this turned out to be more difficult than I thought it would be. The problem is the iPhone, it’s pretty locked down when it comes to wanting to put icons on the home screen. iOS makes it easy enough to put website bookmarks on…
When I’m on my Mac desktop or laptop, I like using a replacement clock in the upper right that also gives me a calendar. It’s free and called Day-O. I’m also on Chromebooks a lot, so I started looking for a replacement and found Clock for Google Chrome™. Once installed, I get a microsized clock in…
This is part 12 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. We can take the same idea of journaling with Gmail and use it to save almost anything in our Gmail account. The advantage to using Gmail for data storage is the fact that email is ubiquitous and Google makes it really easy to search. Setup…
This is part 11 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. I’ll be the first one to tell you my memory is terrible, especially with interactions during the day. Of course at the moment I believe I’ll remember it, but a day later and it’s already gone. This is my reason for setting up a journal…
This is part 10 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. The searches I covered before come in handy, but what do you do when you find yourself using the same search all the time? That’s where the Quick Links Gmail lab comes in. Quick Links gmQuick Links is another Gmail labs option, which allows you to…