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Data tracking for schools
A group of seventh- and eighth-grade girls sat around a lunch table discussing a new game-like app they use in school. Danna Rodriguez somewhat sullenly said she didn’t want to care about Strides, which tracks points students can earn for attendance, grade-point average and engagement with the app itself, among other things. But she can’t…
Spice up your Google Slides with animated gifs
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…
How you are tracked online and what you can do about it #YouTube
What’s the harm? Your browsing habits can give up all sorts of information about you that you may have wanted to keep private, such as who you interact with, what are you interests, when and where you travel, and what you buy. Online companies can build a profile of you that is more accurate than…
Use FormRedirector in Google Forms to change the destination of the form responses
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…
Instead of wirelessly projecting your mobile device, use Chrome Remote Desktop to control your computer
Source: Chrome Remote Desktop Hat tip to Lance Yoder over at Edgaged.net for this tip. In his district, instead of trying to wirelessly display a mobile teacher device, he flipped it. Instead, the teacher uses Chrome Remote Desktop to control a PC hooked up to the TV. This set up bypasses most of the issues…