Paste or drop images into Gmail
Inserting an image from the toolbar into a Gmail email takes four steps. Reduce those steps by pasting or dropping an image into an email.
Forget Google Drive Stars, use bookmarks
Google Drive navigation can sometimes become an exercise in tedious clicking and waiting. Google Drive isn’t always the fastest interface, and you may have folders 3 or 4 levels deep that you need to access quickly. For example, I create a folder for each school year, such as 15-16, inside of my Documents folder. You…
Inserting special characters and emoji into Google Docs
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…
Three hot posts for the week of March 6, 2016
The implications of Lee Sedol’s defeat by Google’s AlphaGo Lee Sedol has won game 4, so humanity is safe… For now. Sharing videos without Youtube by using Google Drive Google Drive is pretty amazing. Two big updates for Google Docs – epub export and outline mode ePub publishing is something I’ve been wanting for years!
The implications of Lee Sedol’s defeat by Google’s AlphaGo
The game of Go has been played for over 2,500 years, and it was believed at one time that the computer would never be able to play it competitively. Chess fell to the computer against strong human players in the 1980s, culminating with IBM’s Deep Blue win over world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997….
Resources for getting started with Google Apps for Education (GAFE)
I spent an hour and a half yesterday helping a user get started with Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and thought to myself, “boy, it would be nice to collect some resources for this so I don’t have to repeat myself”. So here it is, a few resources to help you get started with GAFE….
Sharing videos without Youtube by using Google Drive
When it comes to sharing videos, Youtube is one of the best solutions. You don’t have to worry about video codecs or audio encoding, if Youtube can understand the video it will be converted to a format that can be viewed on just about everything. But, what about when Youtube is not an option? There…
Two big updates for Google Docs – epub export and outline mode
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…
Create form emails in Google Sheets with the Form-Mule addon
There have been several times that I needed to send out a customized email to students. I could create the email, and make my changes for each student, but there’s a better way, Form-Mule! For this example, I created a spreadsheet with the student’s name, email address, and when they have a meeting scheduled. Under…
500 more Apple II titles now available at archive.org
Thanks to anonymous hackers, 500 more Apple II titles are now available on Archive.org. These games are fully playable in the browser, even on Chromebooks. There are a bunch of educational software for the Apple II software, so if you’re looking for an alternative ABCya, check it out.