Google has used the .new top level domain to make it easier to create a Google Doc (docs.new), Google Sheet (sheets.new), and Google Slides (slides.new), and now they have added a bunch of other shortcuts.
Education related shortcuts include:
Everyone once in a while, you may need a timer for an activity in your classroom. I prefer to project a timer instead of setting a time because it’s more noticeable for the students. Here are three quick and dirty online timers. Google Timer In the Google search box or in the Chrome URL field…
I ran across this review of GIF Brewery 3 and was blown away at the app. When creating tutorials for posts, I prefer to use animated gifs since they will play right in the browser and are lighter then including video clips. Unfortunately, my workflow for creating them required me to record a screencast in Screenflow,…
Although Microsoft Word offers the ability to record a meeting while taking notes, this option is not available to Chromebooks or other platforms where Microsoft Word is not available. That’s where Mic Note comes in. Mic Note is available for macOS, Chrome, Windows, Linux, and Android. It allows you to take notes while simultaneously recording…
Source: Unpinterested! – Chrome Web Store There are times that you find out a thing exists that you didn’t know you needed. Unpinterested! is one of those things. Pinterest is fine for a lot of things, but it’s usage diminishes for me when I’m looking for something. Unpinterested! is a Google Chrome extension that will…
Notion, the sleek and sophisticated note-taking app, is going free for the education market. The company said today that teachers and students who sign up with an academic email address will get a free upgrade to the premium version of the software, which entitles them to unlimited uploads, storage, and version history features. The service has…
Google has added to big updates to Google Docs this week, epub export and outline mode. EPub export EPub is the file format used for eBooks and is readable on just about every system in use today. Basically everything except for Amazon’s Kindles. The advantages of the ePub file format is the ability to distribute…