Happy Thanksgiving!

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…
Continuing on the “tabs in Chrome” theme comes Toby. Toby is another way to organize, save, and sync your tabs in Google Chrome. As I played with it, I felt like I was working with my Chrome books, but Toby works better than that. By replacing the new tab window, Toby shows you your open and…
For a moment, let’s pretend. That everything you know about America’s public education system — the bitter politics and arcane funding policies, the rules and countless reasons our schools work (or don’t) the way they do — is suddenly negotiable. Pretend the obstacles to change have melted like butter on hot blacktop. Now ask yourself:…
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Google Docs has offered the ability to insert special characters, such as arrows and emoji, for awhile now. Under the Insert menu, select Special Characters. Google Docs opens the special characters palette. Mousing over the characters brings up a magnification of the characters the mouse pointer is hovering over. The listing of characters is broken up into…
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…