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Quickly zoom in on content on the Mac #YouTube
There are times when you would like to draw your student’s attention to particular part of your screen. By using the screen magnifier built in to macOS, you can quickly zoom in and out on a particular area.
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…
AutoDraw is a Google AI experiment that figures out what you are drawing
Google’s latest AI toy may be its most clever: an automated drawing bot that analyzes what you’re doodling in real time to suggest a more polished piece of clip art to replace it. Called AutoDraw, the software is another of Google’s ongoing creative machine learning demonstrations that it releases as part of its AI Experiments series. It uses…
Adding a progress bar to your Google Slides
I was sitting through a presentation at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference when on one of the slides I thought I saw a progress bar for the number of slides in the presentation at the bottom of the slide. The bar was a mirage, but that started me on the trek to add progress bars…
Google has updated the look of adding links to a Google Doc
Google continuously iterates versions of Google Docs, but as it does, there are sometimes parts of Google Docs that aren’t update. The appearance of adding links in Google Docs hasn’t been updated with the rest of the app, but this is now changed. Although it is strictly a cosmetic change, it does help students use…
Autoslides – Automatically refresh Google Slides without reloading
Google presentations have a publishing function that makes it easy to spread. In this way they can easily be linked or embedded in web media. However, if the presentation slides are modified, it is necessary to reload the page that contains their published versions in the browser so that these changes are manifested. AutoSlides is capable of generating…