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TLAH – Use +aliases and other filters in Gmail to sort student emails
For teachers with Google Apps for Education, an inbox full of sharing notifications and other emails from students can sometimes be overwhelming. Fortunately, there is a way to filter your incoming email and take back your inbox. One is automatic for your students, the second is not. First, we need to create an email filter…
The problem of email and disruptions
A subtler factor arose as an unexpected side effect of the introduction of “productivity-enhancing” networked personal computers to professional life. As the economist Peter G. Sassone observed in the early 1990s, personal computers made administrative tasks just easy enough to eliminate the need for dedicated support staff — you could now type your own memos using…
Another tab manager for Chrome – Too Many Tabs
Source: TooManyTabs for Chrome – Chrome Web Store Another day, and another way to manage Tabs in the Chrome browser. I’ve mentioned several tab managers in the past, and here’s another one. I currently don’t use a tab manager, except for relying on the built in capabilities of the browser. Vivaldi is nice in that…
Add-ons are now available for Google Workspace?
Source: Google Workspace Updates: Google Workspace Add-ons now generally available in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Android apps are coming to Chromebooks, and it’s going to be huge
Google announced at its I/O 2016 Developer Conference that Chromebooks will soon be able to run Android apps, opening up a library of 1.5 million apps for use on the Google Chromebooks. The implications are pretty big for education, and it’s happening this year. The numbers Chromebooks now make up over half of the devices…
Managing your email effectively – your inbox is not an organizational tool
Email is the technology that everyone loves to hate. They use it daily, and most hate every minute of it. I believe part of the problem is the difficulty in coming up with a workflow managing your email effectively. And by effectively, I mean that whether you are on your computer, a tablet, or smartphone, you…