How many times have you been given a username and password, and have to go back and ask “is this a 1 or an l” or “is this a 0 or an O”? Selecting a proper font for usernames, passwords, urls, commands, etc. can save you time and make the experience less frustrating for your…
New Visions for Public Schools has published some great addons in the past (such as Doctopus and autoCrat) and they have another winner with FormRedirector. This addon allows you to redirect Google Form responses to different spreadsheets. There are two modes, Multi Destination Mode and Single Destination Mode. Multi Destination Mode Multi Destination Mode allows you to collect responses to additional…
There are numerous tools to help a teacher assess a Google Doc, but how about a tablet or phone based solution? One that mimics using a pen on paper to provide feedback? Well, good news, you can with GoodReader ($.99)! Now, it might be absurd to use tech to mimic pen and paper, but try it first,…
While Google Slides can be viewed as limited in reference to animations, it seems to support one cool feature, animated gifs. Animated gifs are images that usually loop over a few frames, such as this volcano: It’s a pretty spiffy way to spruce up a presentation! To find animated gifs, you can go to Google…
The onscreen keyboard is pretty amazing in iOS. As long as you let go, it does a really good job of autocorrecting your typing. It also learns the words you type and how you type them. I have a nephew named Keaton and I live in Kenton, and my iPhone always corrects then correctly. You…
Most presentations are linear in format, one slide after another. What if you wanted to make it more interactive, allowing your students to choose the path they take? Well, you can with Google Slides. I’ve made the sample presentation public so you can see how the final product works. The following video shows how you…
One underutilized feature of word processors is the ability to apply styles to text. I’ve mentioned styles in Google Docs before, but today I want to look into why you would use styles. In simplest terms, styles allow you to consistently format your document while also allowing you to change the look of an entire…
If this then that (IFTTT) is a web service that allows you to automate aspects of your life. As I mentioned in 4 ways to understand coding, IFTTT is a neat way to get started with coding. Sign up Head on over to the IFTTT website and click the Sign Up button to get started….
If you’ve used Google Docs, you’ve probably notice that each and every document you create is in the Arial font at 11 points. Now, sometimes you may change the font, and marvel at how your Google Doc no longer looks like every other Google Doc. Unfortunately, this is tedious to do every time, so what if…
Programming is a brand new literacy that is quickly becoming a necessity to using technology. When the subject of learning how to code comes up, some people mistake that for teaching everyone how to become programmers. That is not the reason to learn to code. The main reason for coding is to understand why technology is behaving how it…