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Chrome OS has stalled out
We live in a world where the Chromebook, and Chrome OS, should be thriving. But increasingly, it looks like Google’s cloud-first laptop platform has hit a dead end, and I’m not sure there are many available detours that can get it back on track. Source: Chrome OS has stalled out
Teach digitial citizenship with Google’s “Be Internet Awesome”
With school out and summer break giving kids more time to spend on the Internet, it’s a great time to introduce Be Internet Awesome: a new way to encourage digital safety and citizenship. Developed in collaboration with online safety experts like the Family Online Safety Institute, the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and ConnectSafely, Be Internet…
Preview Google Docs/Slides/Sheets documents with this URL trick
Google offers all sorts of neat little tricks with the URL of a Google Drive document, and the /preview trick is one of the best. I’m going to demonstrate the /preview trick with Google Slides, since that’s when it’s most noticeable. For my classes, I have prepared lessons in Google Slides. This is a pretty…
20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools | Ditch That Textbook
With its highly collaborative, online/offline format — and its attractive price tag (free!) — many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools. The way that Google Apps is interactive and easy to share is powerful. My students can share ideas in real time with other…
A study in how Google affects search results, even in private mode and logged out of Google
Over the years, there has been considerable discussion of Google’s “filter bubble” problem. Put simply, it’s the manipulation of your search results based on your personal data. In practice this means links are moved up or down or added to your Google search results, necessitating the filtering of other search results altogether. These editorialized results…
Turbocharge Chrome with the Bookmarks Bar #YouTube
Are you tired of search Google every time you want to go to your Google Classroom or Gmail? Make use of Chrome’s bookmarks bar to save a link to each of these resources. Along with this video on using the bookmarks bar, be sure to check out Bookmark all the things in G Suite